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This tribute remembers Warrant Officer Lawrence Govender as a dedicated Police Reservist who served the South African Police, his community, and SAPS Mountain Rise for many years. It says his service, sacrifice, medals, and example will be remembered with pride, respect and gratitude.
A police force’s greatest danger is not the criminal outside the gate, but the policeman who opens it from within.
From typist to Deputy National Commissioner
The attachment is an Afrikaans article titled "Hommeltuie toegerus met GPS Tegnologie" about Ukraine’s Brave 1 drone mine-detection technology and related battlefield software systems. It also includes a short local news example about a drone helping rescue a stranded hiker on Table Mountain.
Jack the Baboon was a Chacma baboon who worked as a railway signalman at Uitenhage station in the Eastern Cape during the 1880s. The article says he was trained by James "Jumper" Wide and worked for about nine years without a mistake.
A British-Azerbaijani man was arrested in Cyprus over alleged spying on RAF Akrotiri for Iran. The attachment says this is the first overseas investigation under the UK National Security Act and includes both an English and Afrikaans version of the report.
This article describes the South West Africa Territorial Force’s 1 SWA Specialist Unit (1 SWASpes), a unique counter-insurgency unit during the Border War. It says the unit combined horse-mounted infantry, motorcycles, trackers and specialized dogs, and was formed in 1977 at Oshivelo.
Hierdie artikel bied 'n besinnende weergawe van 'n leeftyd gewy aan die versameling, bewaring en dokumentering van polisie-, militêre en kulturele memorabilia. Die outeur beskryf sy versamelings, sy argiefwerk en praktiese leiding vir die wegdoen van historiese items sodat dit vir toekomstige geslagte bewaar kan word.
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.
This biographical narrative traces the 38‑year career of Colonel Riana Nel in the South…
