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This article explains how the Ferreira Raid in November 1906 reflected tensions between the British, Boers and Germans after the South African War. It describes the raid, the Cape Mounted Police response, the trial, and the claim that the episode was a quixotic rehearsal for the 1914 Afrikaner rebellion.
This brief note refers to a 1974 Rand Daily Mail report in which Dr Eschel Rhoodie denied allegations that he or his department had any dealings with a suspected spy. The piece highlights the political sensitivity of the period and reflects the broader climate of suspicion surrounding intelligence activities in South Africa during the mid-1970s.
War in Peace: The Truth About the South African Police’s East Rand Riot Unit, 1986–1994 is a firsthand account of policing during one of the most volatile periods in South African history. It describes the experiences of the East Rand Riot Unit and the Internal Stability Division during the final years of apartheid and the transition to democracy.
This foreword introduces a comprehensive eBook by Dr Willem Steenkamp on South Africa’s negotiated transition to a non-racial democracy. It argues that the outcome was shaped less by individual weakness than by systemic dysfunction in national security decision-making, the conflict between military and political strategies, and the eventual necessity of negotiation.
How and why STARLINK has become a buzz word not only in the age of Strategic Infrastructure and Interconnectivity...
How and why observers, policymakers, and analysts interpret the same events in sharply divergent ways...
This article examines the political tension and population movements that followed the failed Jameson…
This biographical narrative traces the 38‑year career of Colonel Riana Nel in the South…
Kenya: A fascinating article on the threatened settler insurrection of 1923 - and its…
