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DIE e-NONGQAI
Nie-amptelike Polisiekoerant vir VETERANE van die ou Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiemag
en vir diegene wat belangstel in die geskiedenis van ons polisie, verdediging en
nasionale veiligheid
Oktober 2011; Vol 2 Nr 10
Contents / Inhoud
1. WELCOME / WELKOM ................................................................................................. 6
1.1 A quiet moment - Understand Righteousness - Hosea 10:12, 13 ................................... 6
1.2 Redaksioneel Generaal Johan van der Merwe............................................................ 8
2. PERSONALIA .................................................................................................................. 8
2.1 Deaths / Afsterwe ........................................................................................................ 8
2.1.1 Afsterwe: No. 4097769 senior-superintendent: Johan Heinrich Wilhelm Cowley ...... 8
2.1.2 n CV van my gestremde broer, Pieter Wentzel - Brig. Willie Wentzel ..................... 9
2.1.3 Kolonel Fanie Marais .............................................................................................. 13
2.1.4 Col Peter Mollison .................................................................................................. 13
3.2 Birthdays / Verjaarsdagwense .................................................................................... 13
3.3 In Memoriam ............................................................................................................. 13
3.4 Honours & Awards / Eerbewyse & Toekennings ....................................................... 13
3.4.1 Cav. Andre Martinaglia retired member of the SA Police ..................................... 13
3.5 Roll of Honour / Ererol .............................................................................................. 14
3. FRIENDS MISSING AND FOUND! / SAP 55 VERMISTE PERSONE ........................ 14
4. REUNIONS / REUNIES / EVENTS / GEBEURE .......................................................... 14
4.1. Oud SAP-Liefdadigheidstrust ................................................................................... 14
4.2 Re-unie SA Spoorwegpolisie 24 September 2011 - Ronnie Beyl ................................ 15
4.2.1 Louis Jordaan, n oud-soldaat (VKR) se verslag oor die SASP-re-unie.................... 15
4.2.2 Fotos van die SASP-re-unie ................................................................................... 18
4.3 Re-Unie SAP Jan Smutslughawe - Koot Van Schalkwyk ........................................... 19
4.4 Die Brigadiersklub van die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie in Pretoria .................................. 21
4.4.1 Brigadiers buite Pretoria ......................................................................................... 24
4.5 Die Generaalsklub van die SA Polisie in Pretoria ....................................................... 24
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11.1 The poor state of public order policing - Kohler Barnard ................................. 82
11.2 Police on Parliamentary carpet regarding ICT .......................................................... 84
11.3 Generaal se lyk l op vullishoop............................................................................... 87
11.4 257 deaths in police custody in 2010/11 - Francois Beukman ................................. 87
11.5 Israel Mounted Police: Lital Eizenboim ................................................................... 90
11.6 South Africa - Mounted Police Mail & Gaurdian .................................................. 91
12. THE LIBRARY / DIE BOEKRAK .............................................................................. 91
12.1 Ongulumbashe: A review by Lt Col (Prof) Deon Visser - Ongulumbashe:
Where the bush war began - Paul J. Els, ..................................................................... 91
12.2 Genl CP Crafford Van die Depot tot Duitswes ...................................................... 93
12.2.1 Van die Depot tot Duitswes genl CP Crafford .................................................... 94
12.3 My veertig jaar in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie Johan Ferreira ............................... 95
12.4 Voorwaarts mars Hanlie van Straaten.................................................................... 96
12.5 Koevoet: The Men Speak Jonathan Pittaway ......................................................... 97
13. SPORT .......................................................................................................................... 98
14. HUMOUR IN UNIFORM ............................................................................................ 98
Psychological Operations US Army Style ................................................................... 100
15. ANECDOTES, A POINT TO PONDER: PARAPROSDOKIANS .............................. 101
15.1 A police- and true-life story with a difference .... You reap what you sow
Hanlie van Straaten .................................................................................................... 101
15.2 Wisdom Jeff Manning ......................................................................................... 104
15.4 Top Five Regrets.................................................................................................... 104
16. OOR DIE NONGQAI SE DRUMPEL ........................................................................ 107
17. NEWS FROM ALL OVER - THE POLICE POST BAG / NUUS VAN HEINDE EN
VERRE - POLISIE-POSSAK ........................................................................................... 107
1. WELCOME / WELKOM
Hartlik welkom by hierdie Oktober-maand uitgawe van ons Veterane se eie tydskrif. Baie
dankie vir al die oproepe, eposse, fotos, besoeke en uitnodigings. Met baie vriende is die
wreld so n lekker plek! Piet Steyn van Vryheid skakel en hy noem dat goeie gesondheid
alles beteken! Goeie gesondheid beteken n goeie pensioen! Dit het een maal geren en die
Stad begin stadig so n pers skynsel te kry!
Loving Kindness is another fifty pages of preaching, but Divinely speaking it is Grace
and Grace as a Person is what you need when all else fails. No, leave the Woordelys van
die Afrikaanse Taal the Oxford the Concise English Dictionary even the Webster
Dictionary to find a meaning of Righteousness, they all dwell between the words morally,
-holy and acceptable.
To grasp the meaning one has to start at the place of repentance, repent enables God to
remove you from darkness, from sin and condemnation and He does that by washing you
with His Blood and place you back into light, but He can only do this if you repent.
Repent doesnt mean to say you are sorry, to say you are sorry is talking to people, to repent
is to make a 180 turn back to God with your thoughts, your mind, it is thinking differently
and applying what you think in your life, it is imperative that the question always persist;
What pleases God?
What in my performance will manifest His pleasure?
In the Spiritual realm nobody can stand upright if one is not cleansed and purged and
purified by the blood of Christ.
To be in a righteous position before God, is what you need when God faces you, when you
faces God in the perception that God will answer and bless what you are asking, it is to be
morally erect and sound in the Divine presence of God, then and only, one will be able to
discern what God is saying in Hebrew 5:14, those whose senses and mental faculties are
trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble
and what is evil and contrary either to divine law.
Yes it is possible in this life, Philippians Chapter One explains that we can ask God to grand
us the ability of moral discernment, intelligent love and absolute precise knowledge to
discriminate between right and wrong in the correct sense of values.
Herman Le Roux
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2. PERSONALIA
2.1 Deaths / Afsterwe
Met leedwese word die afsterwe van die volgende kollegas bekend gemaak:
Skoolopleiding en werk
My lekker vakansiedae het tot n einde gekom toe daar besluit is ek moet wel skoolopleiding
ontvang. Ek het elke oggend saam met my suster Annette met die bus na die klein
plaasskool op Rooigrond gery. Ek onthou nog goed hoe die kinders my gespot het. Dan het
Annette onder hul ingevlieg en hul geslaan. Die einde van daardie jaar is besluit dat ek nie
na wense vorder nie en na n ander opleidingskool moet gaan.
So beland ek by Gen. Kockskool in Potchshefstroom. Die lewe daar was nie maklik nie. Vir
die eerste keer in my lewe was ek weg van die huis en het hulle my ook niks geleer nie.
Gelukkig kom daar n uitkoms toe ek plek kry by die Beskutte Arbeidsfabriek in Daspoort,
Pretoria. Ek is geleer om meubels te herstel. Gedurende die week het ek het by n dierbare
tannie regoor die fabriek gebly en vir die eerste keer n geldjie ontvang. Elke Vrydagmiddag
het my broer Willie & sy vrou Beulah my kom haal. Dit was gelukkige jare .
Ongelukkig besluit die Staat om die fabriek te sluit en terselfdertyd verkoop my Ma die
plaas en verhuis na Randfontein.
Connie Mulder Sentrum vir Gestremdes
Baie teensinnig word ek geplaas by die Connie Mulder Sentrum vir Gestremdes waar ek die
volgende 17 jaar sou bly. Het by al die verskillende afdelings daar gewerk. Veral die
sementafdeling waar betonpale gemaak is, was harde werk. Ek was nou weer naby my Ma.
My broers en susters het my kom besoek, my geskakel en my kom haal vir vakansies. Maar
ek was baie ongelukkig en kon nie daar aangepas nie. Daarom het ek talle kere weggeloop.
Die meeste kere was na Willie & Beulah in Pretoria. Ek het baie gesukkel met lifts. Soms is
ek afgelaai by die Pretoriaingang en moes ek 20 km verder stap.
Was baie in die moeilikheid by die base van die Sentrum. Op n dag het ek die groot trok
van die Sentrum geneem en die kinders opgelaai. Ek het met hul al om die rugbyveld gery.
Toe hul my daarna straf het ek weggeloop na Sally & Toy in Biesiesvlei. Nie mooi geweet
hoe om daar uit te kom nie maar in die oggendure op die plaas aangekom met stukkende
voete. Ek was so vuil en het sommer op die mat gaan slaap.
Die Connie Mulder-sentrum het streng toegangsbeheer gehad en jy mag nooit die plek
sonder toestemming verlaat het nie. Gelukkig het ek spesiale toestemming gekry om elke
naweek vir my Ma in die Ouetehuis te gaan kuier met my fiets. Het dan die geleentheid
gebruik om n draai te maak by ander familielede en vriende wat my welkom laat voel het.
Ek kan nie nalaat om te spog met my atletiekprestasie nie. Tydens die SA
Atletiekbyeenkoms vir Gestremdes het die Sentrum my ingeskryf vir die mylwedloop.
Sonder enige vorige oefening het ek tweede gekom. Sou ek gewen het, het ek oorsee gegaan.
Maar ek het geleer almal kan nie altyd wenners wees nie.
My Ma se siekte in die begin van 2007 het n groot verandering in my lewe te weeg gebring.
Ek weet my Ma was baie lief vir my en was baie bekommerd wat met my sou gebeur as sy
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die dag nie meer daar sou wees nie. Toe kry ek die beste nuus van my lewe. Ek hoef nie
langer by die Sentrum te bly nie.
Dankie vir Omgee
My twee broers Jannie & Willie en my twee susters Sally & Annette het besluit dat ek by hul
kan kom bly. Ek sou drie maande van elke jaar by elkeen van hul families wees. My moeder
was ook so bly dat sy nie verder teen haar siekte gestry het nie. Sy is kort daarna oorlede.
Die nuwe reling het gewerk soos n bom. Dit was lekker om saam met my broers en susters
te wees . Hul kinders het ook soos n kleinood na my omgesien. Almal het uit hul pad
gegaan om my gelukkig te hou. Omdat hulle geweet het dat ek daarvan gehou het om
netjies te wees, is ek goed versorg en het hul gereeld nuwe klere vir my gekoop.
Tjaart & Annette het my altyd saam met hul geneem op hul kampvakansies. Ek het selfs my
eie tent gehad en altyd gehelp met die kosmaak. Tjaart is beslis die beste vleisbraaier van
ons familie en Annette het my Ma se voorbeeld gevolg deur altyd twee borde van haar
lekker kos vir my in te skep.
By elke een van hulle het ek my eie kamer met badkamer gehad en hul spense was oop as ek
wou peusel. By Jannie het sy seun Johan spesiaal n buitegebou omskep in n woonstel met
my eie TV.
My fiets was my vlerke. Bo in Pretoria en Bronkhorstspruit was daar n fiets vir my asook n
ander fiets hieronder by Outeniquastrand. Daarmee het ek kilos gery na vriende en plekke
waar ek wou wees.
Maar my lewe het nie net uit vakansie bestaan nie. Ek het my kant gebring. By almal het ek
die gras gesny, in die tuine gewerk , hul motors gewas en skottelgoed gedoen. Tydens my
laaste verblyf by Tjaart & Annette in Bronkhorstspruit het ek selfs n permanente werk as
karwasser gekry. Ek moes soos die ander werkers vaste tye werk. Dit het my so goed laat
voel as ek die einde van elke week n salaris ontvang het.
En natuurlik het ek orals gehelp om die braaivleisvure te pak en te sorg dat die biere in die
yskaste kom. Ook slim begin word en daarop aangedring dat daar met n braai van my
afskeid geneem moet word as ek na my volgende blyplek moes gaan.
Een van my hoogtepunte was die Interkaap busritte met die kospakke en drinkgoed wat
altyd saam gegee is. Ongelukkig het dinge eenkeer lelik verkeerd geloop. Op n dag het ek
vir tannie Hester van Jaarsveldt in die Kaap gaan kuier. Sy was my ma se suster en het al die
jare baie vir my omgegee. Sy het elke verjaarsdag en Kersfees vir my n geskenkpakkie
gestuur. Wel, hul moes my by Bellville kry maar die bus was te vroeg en daar was niemand
nie. Ek is toe by Kaapstad se stasie afgelaai waar ek ure moes wag voordat ek opgespoor is.
Dit was donker en ek was baie bang.
Wierda Park-polisiestasie
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Alhoewel ek nie geleerd was nie het ek my regte geken as ek te na gekom is. Terwyl ek by
Jannie gebly het, het hy my eendag kwaad gemaak. Ek kan nie nou onthou presies waaroor
dit gegaan het nie, maar ek het na Wierda Park-polisiestasie gery en die sersant daarvan
gaan vertel. Jannie het hom boeglam geskrik toe die sersant met die polisievangwa by hom
stilhou en wou weet waarom hy lelik met my is. Nietemin, ek het lekker by hom gebly.
Dans en vriende
Ek het baie vriende gehad en daarvan gehou om met almal n geselsie aan te knoop. Diegene
wat snaaks met my was en my nie wou aanvaar soos ek was nie, het ek maar vermy.
Gelukkig was daar dierbare mense wat vir my omgegee het. So was ek welkom by al die
bure. Ek was dan ook gereeld genooi na hul straatbraaie. Het selfs n paar danse ingekry.
So van dans gepraat. Ek was baie lief vir dans en my groot dansmaat was Marieta. Ons het
dit geniet om by die Dekke by Groot Brakrivier uit te hang. Marieta, ek weet jy gaan my
baie mis.
Bond van Oud-polisiemanne by Glentana
Vir baie jare het ek vir Willie gehelp met die potjiekos wat hy vir die Bond van Oudpolisiemanne by Glentana maak. Dit was my werk om die swaar driepootpotte skoon te
maak en die vuur aan te steek. Ek kon goed vuurmaak want nie een keer het dit gebeur dat
die potjies aangebrand het nie.
Al Willie se tennisvriende was ook my vriende. Ek het dit geniet om Saterdae saam na die
tennisbane te gaan en met almal daar te gesels. Willie het natuurlik altyd vir my n bier of
twee gekoop.
In teenstelling met die dokters se aanvanklike bevinding was ek fisies baie gesond en nooit
in n hospitaal nie. As iemand van jul my toevallig by George se Lughawe gesien het waar
hul my in n rystoel ingestoot het, moet jul nie dink dat ek siek was of iets makeer het nie.
Dit was slegs n plan van my suster Annette by Oliver Tambo Lughawe om seker te maak
dat die lughawe se personeel my op die regte vlug sit. Ek kon goed siek speel.
Kerk - Friemersheim
Ek het daarvan gehou om kerk toe te gaan . Ek het dit veral geniet om saam met Willie na
die klein kerkie van Ds Pieter van Niekerk by Friemersheim te gaan. Ek het so vernaam
gevoel as ek elke keer byname vanaf die kansel verwelkom is. Wie van julle het al so n eer te
beurt geval ?
Alhoewel ek nie altyd die preke kon verstaan nie, het ek geweet dat Jesus vir my lief is. Jul
moet nie hartseer wees nie, ek is na my vyfde en finale verblyfplek. My ma het so na my
verlang dat sy Jesus gevra het dat ek asseblief na haar toe moet kom.
Dankie vir almal wat vir my omgegee het .
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Speurder/Kolonel
Fanie
Marais
Ouderdom
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Jaar
is
gister
oorlede
8:43am Sep 20
08:42:40 Col Peter Mollison of Durban funeral: 2pm Friday 23 September, at the
Presbyterian Church, Frere Rd, Umbilo. (New street name is Ester Roberts road).
Notices will also be in today and tomorrow's paper.
3.3 In Memoriam
Niks om te rapporteer.
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We are glad to inform you that Cav. Andre Martinaglia was appointed as the Regional
Director for the Republic of South Africa. Please visit our Patrons & Officers page for his
brief profile: http://www.nobility-association.com/patronsofficers.htm
Lets welcome him aboard.
Sincerely,
Salvatore Caputo.
Rank
1/Sgt
1/Sgt
2/Sgt
1/D/Sgt
Name
CFC Lange
R Mansfield
N McLeod
CA Mynot
Date
28 Jul 1914
13 Sept 1914
13 Sept 1914
15 Sept 1914
Niks te rapporteer
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Dit was n Woensdag oggend in Januarie 1977 toe ek aangemeld het vir Basies in die
Weermag die Troeptrein het op die Johannesburg stasie gestop en ons het op en
aanmerkings gemaak oor die Stasie-blompotte wat daar gestaan het. Vir ons klomp op die
trein was dit n klomp ouens wat die weermag wou vryspring en ons het hulle gekoggel en
allerhande byname toegesnou. Ons is army toe en daar het dit gebly of altans so sou ek
dink vir 34 jaar en 10 maande. Nou 34 jaar en 10 maande later word ek deur my werkgewer
Mnr Stears genooi om saam met hom na die Stasie Blompotte se re-unie te gaan! Min het
ek geweet watse ontnugtering daar op my sou wag. By Brig. Beyl aangekom die Donderdag
aand (22/09) het u en u vrou ons dadelik welkom laat voel en so oor n koppie koffie het die
stories en staaltjies begin. (Ek was maar baie skepties toe Brig. noem dat daar by die 200
mense verwag word baie optimisties het ek gedink, ons kon skaars 23 ouens bymekaarkry
vir n re-unie). Vrydag (23/09) is ons gejoin in die lapa deur van die Durban manne.
Weereens het ons laat gekuier die aand en die stories, staaltjies en die manne se
wetveranderings het my laat skater van die lag of met nuwe insig laat kyk na die spreker, ek
is in afwagting gelaat vir Saterdag om van die ander manne en legendes soos Generaal JJJ te
ontmoet. Ek het begin besef dat ek my laaste 34 jaar onder n wanpersepsie was want dinge
wat ek gehoor het oor opleiding, dissipline ensovoorts het nie gestrook met wat ek gedink
het dit sou wees vir n stasie-blompot nie. My proses van ontnugtering het begin! Ek het
my vergaap aan die wyse waarop u die manne se voorletters onthou het na soveel jare
elkeen het kans gekry en die een storie of wedervaring wat die manne gedeel het was net
beter as die vorige een. (Gelukkig was Phyllis daar met haar tissues toe u my die storie op bladsy 30
van u boek laat lees ek het lanklaas in my lewe so lekker gelag en die trane het letterlik gerol soos ek
gelag het dankie vir die tissues Phyllis)
Later die aand was daar opeens n eerbiedige atmosfeer, n stilte so vir n paar oomblikke,
sommerso, sonder dat dit beplan was of n oorsaak gehad het toe begin julle gesels oor die
vriende en kollegas wat op die grens dood is, gewond is of wat intussen gesterf het. Elkeen
is onthou en oor elkeen was daar ook n storie of staaltjie te vertel. Die hoeveelheid respek
en admirasie wat ek by julle opgemerk het, het my met n knop in die keel gelaat as
iemand eendag so oor my sou gesels as ek dood is, sou ek gelukkig en tevrede in my graf l.
Die aand in die bed het ek nog lank gel en dink en met n skok tot die besef gekom dat ek
jaloers voel omdat ek nie deel is van hierdie klomp manne wat ek die afgelope paar uur leer
ken het nie, al het julle my tuis laat voel was ek, en is ek n buitestander wat bevoorreg
genoeg was om n blik te kon kry van iets baie spesiaals wat besig was om te gebeur. Ek het
uiteindelik later in afwagting op Saterdag aan die slaap geraak. Met ons aankoms by die saal
Saterdag oggend was daar reeds n klomp mense - al was ons vroeg. Soos ek begin fotos
neem het kon ek nie help om myself te verwonder aan die manier hoe ou kamerade en
vriende mekaar omhels het nie twee keer moes ek omdraai en wegstap van n potensile
goeie foto omdat die trane in my o baie naby was toe ek sien hoe groot mans mekaar
omhels en die trane van blydskap vrylik en skaamteloos teen hul wange afrol. Die res van
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die dag het ek soos n skaduwee probeer wees en van groepie na groepie manne en vroue
beweeg om na die stories te staan en luister.
Brig. in my 4 jaar 8 maande eers as operateur en later offisier by die Verkennings
Kommando het ek my fair share van die oorlog gesien, maar ek kan jou vandag
onomwonde verseker dat ek enige tyd saam met enige van julle oorlog toe sal gaan, want
om na 25 jaar nog die kameradie en respek tussen die manne te sien het my laat besef watse
spesiale klomp manne en vroue die SASP was en is want ek weet vandag dat as jy eenmaal
n Sporie was jy altyd een sal wees maak nie saak waar jy vandag is nie. Ter afsluiting wil
ek julle almal baie graag bedank vir die wonderlike voorreg om by julle re-unie toegelaat te
kon word, vir my was en sal dit altyd n onvergeetlike ervaring bly en ek beskou myself
vandag as baie bevoorreg om dit saam met julle te kon deel. Behalwe die nostalgie,
kameradie, respek en vriendskap wat ek by julle gesien het was die een ding wat my
opgeval het seker een van die belangrikste dinge van die hele re-unie die feit dat ek nie
een keer van Donderdag tot Sondag iemand iets negatiefs van enige iemand anders hoor s
het nie nooit was daar n negatiewe opmerking of aanmerking gemaak oor n voormalige
kollega of sleg gepraat of iets ges nie en dit is iets wat my altyd sal bybly van die Sporie
re-unie 2011 wat ek bygewoon het.
Baie dankie aan julle almal.
Louis Jordaan, 072 167 0334, lhjordaan@vodamail.co.za
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Ronnie Beyl (regs) met swart trui. Onder genls Van Vuuren en Horak.
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jare. Van ons lede het mekaar 40 jaar laas gesien. Almal het lekker gekuier en die dag
geniet. Ons s dankie aan ons Hemelse Vader vir die voorreg om mekaar weer te kon sien,
en bid vir goeie gesondheid en om mekaar weer in die toekoms te kan sien.
Op die foto verskyn sittende voor Koot Van Schalwyk. 1ste Ry sittende van links na regs
Sampie Cronje, Tinnie (sic) van Staden, Koos Mostert, Kapt George Franke, en Hans
Jooste. Agter staan van links na regs Paul Vorster, Koos Kotze, Dries Le Roux, brigadier
Jorrie Jordaan, Des Flewin, Chris Maritz, generaal Jac Olivier en kapt Kallie Calitz.
Op die hierdie foto verskyn die Pantoffel regering. Ek noem geen name nie - dit is te
gevaarlik. Groete Koot Van Schalkwyk.
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Beste Koot. Dankie, u bring baie herinneringe terug. Van die dames herken ek net
Jeanette Jordaan, sy was die sekretaresse van genl Bert Wandrag. Brig Jordaan was
op n stadium my seksiehoof. Genl Olivier is n ou bekende by John Vorsterplein.
HBH
Valie Viljoen
Magnus Wessels
Johnnie Zinzerling
Hester Wernich
Zelda Bothma
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Mev TP
Zinzerling
van
der
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Katrina en brig A Steyn Sien ook foto van sers Steyn van Cleveland hier onder. Lyk nog
net dieselfde soos gedurende 1962! Onder mev Oil Olivier.
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Onder: Ans en Theuns Botha Arlow. Barrie Badenhorst is besig om te praat en Valie luister
aandagtig.
Lollo en Marianne van Vuuren. (Ek voel sommer lus om julle te laat aan tree!!)
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Daantjie vertel dat hy ook papiere het om te braai hy was, ook soos sy Vader, n
speurder voor hy DK van Eshowe en BO van die SAP Kollege geword het! Hy ken van
braai!
Genls Ben Groenewald en Herklaas Meyer braai en Suiker hard aan die toets in die
agtergrond! Herklaas vertel die braaier waarop hy braai dateer van 1969 en kom van SAP
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n Historiese foto: In omgekeerde volgorde, die drie laaste BOs van die SAP Kollege:
Daantjie Huggett, Johan Fourie en Ben Groenewald. Almal was dit eens die braaivleis is
professioneel gebraai.
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5.2 A/o Ockert Johannes Fourie - Op pad na die Noord Afrika Oorlogsfront,
Junie 1941.
The following are excerpt from the official military service records of Pte. O.J. Fourie:
20 June, 1942 - Reported missing at Tobruk believed P.O.W. (2 SAP) Posted to X3 List
20 June 1942.
20 December, 1942 Confirmed a P.O.W. POW Camp Location: P.G. 129
Montelupone, Macerata, Italy.
13 August, 1943, Friday - Escaped before the Italian Armistice (He always considered
Friday 13th a lucky day).
3 September, 1943 Released P.O.W. Struck off X3 List.
1 November, 1943 In Allied hands, Italy.
12 November, 1943 Arrived in Egypt.
4 December, 1943 - Left UDF (Union Defence Force) Transit Camp, Ataka.
17 December 1943 - Emplaned for Union of South Africa.
4 April, 1944 - Date of Discharge.
9 Augustus, 1946:- Receives 1939/45 Star; Africa Star; Africa Service Medal; and The
War Medal (1939-45).
Dagboek Notas wat Manskap O.J. Fourie gehou het van sy vertrek en reis aan boord die S.S.
Mauretania, en aankoms in Noord Afrika tydens die Tweede Wreld Oorlog.
Op die oggend van die 10de Julie 1941 voordat die voordag nog sy vertoning kan maak
was ons kamp in Pietermaritzburg al reeds aan die lewe. Almal gaan val in by hulle
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verskillende Kompanies, en ons is reg om te vertrek na die stasie waar die trein toe al reeds
vir ons wag toe ons daar papnat gesweet aankom want ons moes ons hele uitrusting saam
karwei, en dit was n stywe ent na die stasie. By die stasie is ons toe ordelik in die trein. Na
n lang wag is ons uiteindelik op pad na Durban waar ons toe sommer tot reg in die dokke
geneem word want die bote wat ons moes vervoer na die Noorde wag toe alreeds lankal vir
ons.
Ons val toe eers in op die dokke waar ons orkes toe op en af marsjeer en speel. Na n ruk is
ons op die boot in n enkel lyn en maak toe kennis met ons onmiddellike omgewing. Nadat
ons van al ons uitrusting ontlas is, is ons op na die boonste dek want na n uur sou ons
vertrek. Ongeveer n uur later was die twee sleepbote weg en vertrek ons uit die dokke en
die boot begin beweeg op haar eie stoom. Ek wil liewer nie probeer die gevoel beskryf wat
daar in my opgekom het nie, behalwe dat daar n knop in my keel opgekom het wat net met
geweld gedwing het om my te wurg toe die verskillende bootjies en skuitjies se skerp
fluitjies van vaarwel die lug vul en geantwoord word deur ons boot met haar diep basuin
fluit, en die land so stadig agterlaat totdat dit naderhand net so vaagweg op die horison was
en naderhand heeltemal verdwyn het.
Toe word die honderd-en-een instruksies aan ons uitgel, onder ander geen lig van enige
aard moet wys na sononder, daar mag selfs nie eers gerook word buite op die dek na
sononder en verder moet daar ook nooit sonder die reddingsgordel en waterbottel
rondgeloop word nie - die moet altyd byderhand wees. Die boot word dan ook nou goed
deur ons deurgekyk, en selfs op die verbode plekke ingeloer. Dit moet seker aangenaam
wees om op so n boot te reis in vredestyd. Alles is so netjies en agtermekaar want ons 35
duisend ton boot was die vinnigste in ons konvooi van drie bote en het selfs n pragtige
swembad gehad. Daar was ook maar min slaap gewees die eerste nag aan boord seker die
vreemde atmosfeer en die opgewondenheid. Die volgende dag is daar meer orders nadat
ons ontbyt geniet het. Die ontbyt was nogal eersteklas, alhoewel ons so n groot klomp was
wat voor verskaf moes word. Ons was bedien deur ons eie krels wat as tafelbediendes
moes dien.
Gelukkig het ek nooit n beurt gehad nie want ons Kompanie was verantwoordelik vir die
lugafweer veiligheid. Ook maar baie dankbaar dat ek nooit n beurt gekry het nie want dit
was nou omtrent bedompig en warm in die eetsaal. Dit was goed om die etes oor te kry om
weer in die vars lug te kom. Daar was drie eetkamers, en elke eetkamer het twee sittings
gehad behalwe nog die van die Offisiere en Sersante. Praat van eet, die Skeepsbemanning
was selfs verbaas deur ons aptyt. Die vorige soldate wat hul op gehad het was die eerste
paar dae van hulle kos af, en daar is ook n groter gedeelte van hulle seesiek as toe ons daar
was. Ek het net drie tegekom wat regtig seesiek was. Hul was ook al omtrent groen in die
gesig, en moes seker gewens het om maar lepel in die dak te steek om van hulle leiding
ontslae te wees want hul het regtig sleg gelyk. Daar was ook twee kantiene waar n mens
kan koop net wat jy wou h, daar was ook gewoonlik so n gedrang dat n mens papnat
gesweet was, en by papnat bedoel ek papnat dat die sweet van jou af drup, van die
bedompigheid, want al die vensters moes toe in die aand.
Ons het toe ook al naderhand geleer om saans rond te loop in die donker sonder om oor
iemand te val of jou skeen velaf te stamp teen een of ander ding, en soms, sit daar nog een of
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ander kwajong reg met sy Mae West (reddingsgordel) en slaan jou half katswink as jy skielik
uit die lig in die donker kom, en nog allerhande ander kwajong streke.
Na n paar dae is ons oor die ewenaar. Praat van warm, n mens kan amper nie klere
aantrek nie, en die meerderheid het omtrent dan ook niks aan nie. En in sulke hitte hou hul
dan ook nog bokswedstryde. Gelukkig breek die aand aan en dan is daar gewoonlik n koel
luggie wat trek en die word dan ook ten volle gebruik gemaak deur die relings toe te staan
en te kyk na die wit fosfor pad wat die boot agterlaat.
Die kleur van die see verander ook soos ons vaar, partykeer is dit inkblou, dan weer
donkergroen, ligblou, en partykeer n pers kleur. Op die 8ste dag op see het ons boot n
skyfskiet oefening gehad met haar 6 duim kanon waarmee sy bewapen was. Die skuif was
iets wat gesleep was deur ons kruiser. Ek het niks van die besigheid af geweet nie met die
gevolg dat toe die eerste skoot bulder val ek amper reg agteroor soos ek skrik want die
kanon was sommer by my. Gedurende die hele reis het ons geen land gesien tot ons by die
Golf van Aden deur is, en toe al met die Rooi See op, wat so n rooibruin skynsel op gehad
het, wat amper na olie lyk. Op die 10de dag het ons by ons bestemming aangekom by Port
Taufiq.
Nadat die Egiptiese owerhede die skeepspapiere deurgekyk het, het hul ook sommer
dadelik begin om ons krels te land, maar dit was maar n lang proses, want ons word
vervoer van die boot na die strand met sleepbote met die gevolg dat ons nog n nag op die
boot moes deurbring.
Die volgende oggend het ons nog n vroe ontbyt geniet, maar na n ewige gedrentel het ons
toe ook uiteindelik daarin geslaag om die middag omtrent 3 uur te vertrek van die boot, en
na n halfuur het ons toe weer eindelik die eer gehad om ons voete op moeder aarde te sit.
Na n tyd val ons toe weer in vir tee en koek, ek voel toe ook net al baie skraal, want ons het
toe nog niks geet van die oggend af nie. So was dit glad nie in te n goeie bui wat ek na
Egipte gekyk het nie, want die tee was yskoud en kon nie juis s of dit tee was of koffie nie,
want dit het nie na een van die twee gesmaak nie, en die koekie was nie eers genoeg vir my
kiestand nie.
En praat van vlie, die goed dra n mens amper weg. Die jong Egiptenare is nog lastiger as
die vlie, hulle val om n mens rond vir baksheesh. Skop en klap help niks, hulle bly hang
maar hier om jou rond. Ons is toe op lorries gelaai en op pad na Karo. Die aand ses uur
kom ons toe eers in Karo aan waar ons toe moes oornag na n skraal ete want daar was
maar baie swak voorbereidings gemaak soos gewoonlik.
Vroeg die volgende oggend is ons toe weer op pad, en het toe darem die Piramides so op n
distansie gesien voordat ons vertrek het. Vroeg die volgende oggend is ons toe weer verder
na ons kamp wat n paar myl van Alexandri gele was. Die dag nadat ons daar aangekom
het moes ons ook sommer begin deur regtig kennis te maak met die pik en graaf deur ons
tente in te grawe en loopgrawe langs aan die tente te grawe. Dit het ook nie lank geduur nie
of ons hande was vol blase, maar dit kon nou nie hor of laer nie ons moes die tente klaar
kry.
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Die kos was ook maar taamlik skraal vir ons Suid Afrikaners wat n groot eetlus het want
ons moes van Engelse rantsoene oorleef totdat alles in order gesit is. Praat van vlie, ek het
nooit geweet die goed kan so n pestilensie wees nie, is seker die dooilikste vlie wat ek nog
gesien het. n Mens moet die goed van jou gesig afvee want waai help niks.
Nadat ons so n paar dae daar was word ons een nag wakker met die geluid van die alarm.
Die een krel skrik so groot dat hy sommer bo oor ons spring en byna n half dosyn uit aksie
trap. Ons is ook toe uit om die vuurwerk te aanskou, en na n ruk het die besigheid vervelig
geword en dit was koud en toe het ons maar weer gaan inkruip.
Party krels het met die alarm so ver gehardloop met die gevolg dat hulle eers die volgende
oggend met sonop daar aankom uit alle rigtings. Die volgende lugaanval alarm was ons
darem baie makker en baie min het opgestaan want die lugaanval was in Alexandri.
SAP Depot
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n Artikel in die Diamond Fields Advertiser (Kimberley Koerant) van 1944 oor die
ontsnapping van OJ Fourie uit die Italiaanse Gevangenekamp
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Troep 91: O.J. Fourie 2de Ry, 2de van Regs - By sy aankoms as een van die boys at a Great
Character Developing Institution vir Polisieopleiding in 1935
Staff & Recruits Pretoria Show, August 1935. O.J. Fourie, voor 2de van links.
Vyfde van links in die voorste ry: hoofkonstabel Claude Balfour Sterley, 7de mnr Roothman
ek sal nie verbaas wees indien Robey Leibbrandt en/of sy broer ook op die foto is nie HBH
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Nota op foto spreek van self. Ek stuur dit aan jou as n interessante foto van n berede
polisieman se begrafnis wat tussen my Pa se fotos was. Ek weet ongelukkig niks van die
sers WJ Rheeder1 nie en moontlik kan jy of een van jou lesers meer lig op die saak werp.
Let op die seremonile drag van die offisiere swart tunieks, wit helms sabels maar geen
Sam Browne. Party offisiere het ook wit vere op die helm gedra. Ek kan nie die plek uitmaak
nie. Miskien in Pretoria voor ou Sentraal? - HBH
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6.
PERSONALITIES
&
BIOGRAFICAL
DICTIONARY/
PERSOONLIKHEDE / BIOGRAFIESE WOORDEBOEK
6.1 S/a/o JHGCL du Toit
Uittreksel uit n berig in SARP Nov. 1964 en aanvullende inligting:
Ons neem voorwaar swaar afskeid van n legendariese figuur, t.w. s/a.-o. J.H.G.C.L. du
Toit, tevore van die verdenkpersoneel en tans van die Veiligheidspolisie, Afdeling NoordTransvaal, wat aan die einde van November 1964 die tuig neerl. (Tussen hakkies ons is
maar bly hy gaan, want hy het tog so baie voorletters!)
Hierdie gewilde lid van die Mag het op 2/1/1931 by die Mag aangesluit. Na sy opleiding in
die toendertydse depot is hy na Kroonstad, toe na Bloemfontein vanwaar hy na die
speurdiens oorgeplaas is. Terwyl hy in Bloemfontein diens gedoen het, het hy die Polisie se
Weltergewig kampioenskap in boks verower. Hy het toe vir n paar jaar op Kroonstad
misdaad bekamp en gedurende die tydperk 2/9/1940 tot 24/8/1942 was hy met aktiewe
diens, waar hy n eervolle ontslag ontvang het.
Na n rukkie op Kroonstad (1945) is hy na Zastron en vandaar (1949) na Harrismith.
Gedurende 1957 is hy na Pretoria en aan die begin van 1958 word hy seksiehoof van die
speurdiens by Brooklyn waar hy vir byna twee jaar aan die spits gestaan het. Hy het
Brooklyn se stof afgeskud en is toe na Pretoria-Sentraal waar hy op verskillende seksies sy
beste gelewer het. So n paar maande gelede is hy na die Veiligheidstak, Afdeling NoordTransvaal.
Gedurende 1959 onder leiding van kapt. Fred van Niekerk het hy sake ondersoek teen sers.
N.J.J. Arlow en sers. J.L. Hattingh, was gemoeid met die Pangasaak en die van Eedenmoordsaak.
In Junie 1960 en gedurende die ongesteldheid van maj. Richter, toe kapt. Van Niekerk in
bevel was van die veligheidsmaatrels met dr. Verwoerd se verblyf in die Pretoriase
Algemene Hospitaal na die poging om hom te vermoor, het mnr. du Toit gereeld daar diens
gedoen.
In 1961 was hy deel van Maj. Fred van Niekerk se span wat n groot Volkskas bankroofsaak
binne 36 uur opgelos het! In 1962 het hy die ondersoek gelei teen Johannes Buchling wat sy
tante en haar twee kinders wreed vermoor het.
S./a.-o. Du Toit is n beminlike figuur en n man van min woorde. Hy is baie gewild onder
sy makkers en hy sal baie gemis word. Hy is n veteraan op die gebied van atletiek en het
gereeld sy gewig ingegooi om die jongere hande aan te moedig en aan die sportsoort deel te
neem. Selfs gedurende die huidige jaar het hy n span atlete na Bethlehem as assistantbestuurder vergesel, n taak wat hy met sukses uitgevoer het.
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Afrika Ster,
Polisie Trouediens,
Polisie Ster en
Naskrif: Na net n paar jaar by die Raad op Atoomkrag, kon hy nie langer wegbly van die
Mag nie en het weer aangesluit en totdat kanker hom neergetrek het, by Sunnyside en
Brooklyn Polisiestasies as speurder gewerk. Hy is op 8 Maart 1974 op die ouderdom van 65
oorlede na n baie lang siekbed.
Andr het die volgende fotos van sy Vader gestuur:
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6.2 Verskeie lede van die Veiligheidstak, Kompol x302 Tubby Myburg
Johnnie Theron, Alf Heuer, Pepe van der Westhuisen en ?? Foto Tubby Myburgh
Drukker Jacques Hamman en Koos Benade. Heel regs mev Koos Moolman.
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Daars water! Links Louis Koekemoer en regs Tubby Myburg. Lyk soos Daisy.
6.3 Gesoek biografiese besonderhede oor alle generaals van die SA Polisie
Die eerste generaals is na die tweede wreldoorlog aangestel. Genl-maj IP de Villiers en
genl-maj Bobby Palmer was ons eerste twee generaals. Indien u weet van n generaal van
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oudsher af, verstrek asb die besonderhede. Ons beoog om n biografie van al ons generaals
in die polisie op te stel.
Fred Belcher served during WW2 in 8 Wing, 2nd Squadron, SAAF and still proud of the
SAAF!!!
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Aangeheg is 'n ou foto van die Germiston en Germiston distrik speurtak geneem in 1959. Ek
was daardie jaar verplaas vanaf Durban na Germiston en was nog in die uniformtak. Ek het
die voorreg gehad om al die speurders op die foto te ken. Daar is 34 lede op die foto
waarvan 29 alreeds oorlede is. In die agterste ry 10de van links staan Jumbo v.d. Wall toe
nog proef-speurder-konstabel. Hy het later rugby vir Pretoria Polisie gespeel en vir die
gekombineerde magte. Hy was ook die afrigter van die Pretoria Polisiespan vir jare. Hy het
tot die rang van brigadier gevorder en is ook intussen oorlede. Vier van die oorlewendes
woon in Germiston-distrik waarvan die oudste lid al 83 jaar oud is.
Ek het ook die voorreg gehad om saam met hulle te werk toe ek oorgeplaas was na die
Speurtak. Sandy Evans Hayes wat tans in Engeland woon se skoonpa sp/konst J.J. Van Eden
staan 3de van links in die agterste ry. Ek het laas week vir Sandy 'n afskrif van die foto
gestuur hy het dit baie waardeer. Die name van die lede verskyn onder aan die
foto.
Groete Koot Van Schalkwyk.
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1928 - Die speurder links voor is een van oorlogtydse Special Branch manne hy het later
die KPM verwerf. Hy het adv John Vorster aanghou later maj Diedericks.
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Cleveland 1979 Staande van links na regs: s/sers. Nico Baard (afgetree as kapt.) S/konst At
Van Tonder (afgetree as a/off.) S/sers. George Barnes af as majoor ontslag geneem. S/sers.
Tim Gildenhuys (Afgetree as a/off.) S/a/off. Koot Van Schalkwyk. (afgetree as a/off. te John
Vorsterplein.) Groete Koot Van Schalkwyk.
Papierwerk ivm Cleveland No job is finished until the paperwork is done!
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Baie mense vergeet ons was ook maar gewone mense met gevoelens! Ons het ook n
innerlike stryd tussen plig en gewete gehad! Ons het ook kerk toe gegaan en ook
gebraai, gedrink en rugby gekyk soos gewone mense. Ons was ook beskaafde mense
met goeie Christelike opvoeding en waardes maar oorlog is oorlog! ... En
hoofkantoor is nooit verkeerd nie! HBH
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Sers Heymans
Sers AF Heymans van SAP Somtsue-weg het my sakboek volgens voorskrifte geinspekteer
en bekrap, ek was so vies ek het maar onwettig n nuwe sakboek begin. Maar op daardie
tydstip was daar bevel en beheer. Kol Anoniem
Baie dankie Kolonel! Ja dit was ander dae daardie. Ek word platgetrek met pampoentjies
toe skryf sers Chris Keulder in my sakboek: This detail is off sick! Was baie goed genoem
in die polisie, maar dis eerste keer dat ek n detail genoem is! Dankie vir die sakboek, dis
darem iets van my Vader! - HBH
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Names to index: Sgt Clem Mould, Sgt A Lane and Const R Knoesen.
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8.3. Medaljes
Afgehandel.
9.
NATIONAL
SECURITY
VEILIGHEIDSGESKIEDENIS
HISTORY
NASIONALE
9.1 Uittreksels uit die dagboek van Luitenant Igor Anatolevich Zhdarkin2:
n Russiese Adviseur vir FAPLA in Angola - Vrylik vertaal deur Johan Jacobs
25 Oktober, 1987
07h40 tot 10h20 - op hierdie pragtige more het ons die vorige dag se mars voortgesit.
Dit het gepaard gegaan met hewige en aanhoudende bombardement vanaf die Suid
Afrikaners met 81mm mortiere. Verskeie kere moes ons stop aangesien groepe van
die vyand ons kolom aangeval en hewige gevegte uitgebreek het.
15h00 - het ons met n subdivisie van die Eerste Taktiese Groep kontak gemaak. Het
hulle met brandstof en olie voorsien. So n paar kilometers weg het ons 59 Brigade
opgespoor.
17h00- die Brigade is deur vegvliegtuie van die vyand gebombardeer. Die Suid
Afrikaners het n nuwe taktiese plan uitgewerk. Eerstens het hulle n artillerie
bombardement geloods en al die Angolese het vir skuiling gehardloop, insluitend
die lugafweer bemanning. En dan het hulle vliegtuie onverwags verskyn en die
stellings gebombardeer en vinnig weer verdwyn voordat die lugafweer bemanning
uit die skuiling kon kom.
18h00 - ons het net begin aandete geniet toe ons die rammelende klank van die
Kentron (SA vervaardigde Valkiri multi-vuurpyllanseerder) vuurpyle hoor. Dit is n
Suid-Afrikaanse anti-personeel vuurpyl stelsel met n reik afstand van 17 kilometers
en sy projektiele is gevul met klein balletjies wat n verwoestende krag het. Ons het
reeds die norm van hulle bombardement uitgewerk: in n fraksie van n sekonde
was niemand meer aan tafel nie. Die Suid Afrikaners het net n kort rukkie met die
Later Luitenant-Kolonel
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Kentrons geskiet en toe oorgeskakel na 120mm mortiere en later stil geraak - die
misbaksels!
Valkiri
G5 Kanon
26 Oktober, 1987
07h30 - vanoggend vroeg het ons, ons Taktiese Groep verlaat en vorentoe beweeg.
Die Suid Afrikaners was weereens laat met hulle bombardering en het eers begin
vuur op ons posisies nadat ons dit verlaat het. Na twee dae van bombardering het
ons Brigade vier manskappe verloor en twee en twintig is gewond. Vandag teen die
aand sal ons uiteindelik ons bestemming bereik.
18h00 - ons het kamp opgeslaan en onsself in die grond ingegrawe. Wie weet hoe
lank sal ons hier vertoef?
27 Oktober, 1987
17h00 - verlede nag en die hele dag vandag was ons onder n mantel van
aanhoudende kanon vuur. Die Suid Afrikaners het die 59ste Brigade, die kruising
oor die Shambinga rivier en die Taktiese Groep gebombardeer. Tot nou het hulle ons
nie lastig geval nie, miskien omdat hulle nie geweet het waar ons is nie.
18h00 - die middag het die Angolese n boerbok gevang en as geskenk vir ons n
boud gebring. Ons kok het dit vir aandete saam met aartappels gekook. Dit was so
smaaklik ons het die pot uitgelek.
19h30 - ek het begin om liedjies te komponeer oor hoe ons in Angola lewe. Ons
Russiese manne het geluister en met almal se goedkeuring ook liedjies begin
komponeer en natuurlik, met respek oor ons styl van liedere...kan ons dit nie met ons
eie kultuur en soetvloeiende taal sing nie, die liedere is vol swak taal, spesiaal as ons
aan die Suid Afrikaners en aan UNITA dink. Hulle het op ons senuwees gewerk met
hulle bombardering en het ons nie eers rus gelaat om te eet nie.
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29 Oktober, 1987
04h00 - dit word lig op die horison, die vyand bestook die 59ste Brigade naby ons
kampplek met artillerievuur. Vanoggend na die aanval, vind ons as gevolg daarvan
dat een offisier, een sersant en vier soldate gedood is. Heelwat soldate is ook gewond
en een offisier en een soldaat is vermis. Wonder waar kan hulle wees?
06h00 - terwyl ons ontbyt geniet, was daar n skielike skoot vanaf die vyand se
rigting, soos gewoonlik nie vr weg nie, om ons n "goeie mre" en n "goeie ontbyt
toe te wens. Deur gewoonte het ek my ore gespits om waar te neem waar die
projektiel vanaf kom. Skielik skreeu ons Lugverdediging-spesialis, Slava: "val plat"!
n Geweldige ontploffing volg naby ons, ek het van my stoel afgeval en die grond
getref. Ek het dadelik n skerp pyn in my linker skouer gevoel, dit was gelukkig net
geskaaf. Ek het dadelik opgespring en vinnig skuiling onder ons gepanserde
troepewa gaan soek. Almal het in verskeie rigtings gehardloop om skuiling te soek.
Die vyand het ons met 120mm mortiere bestook en een projektiel het 20 meters van
ons ontplof. Dit is al laat in die middag en my skouer pyn nou nog en ek kan dt
skaars lig.
14h00 - na die oggend se bedrywighede ontvang ek ontstellende nuus, om 13h10 het
die vyand weer die 59ste Brigade gebombardeer met chemiese wapens gevul met
giftige gas. As gevolg hiervan was verskeie soldate vergiftig, vier soldate het hulle
bewussyn verloor en die Brigade bevelvoerder het bloed gehoes. Van die Sowjet
raadgewers was ook besmet. Die wind het na ons rigting gewaai en almal het gekla
van kopseer en naarheid. Hierdie nuus het ons geweldig gepla, want sien, ons het
geen gasmaskers gehad nie.
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16h00 - geen verdere gebeure het tot dusvr die dag gevul nie. En so eindig vandag
se gebeure.
3 November, 1987
05h00 - die dag het begin met twee lugaanvalle vanaf die Suid-Afrikaners, daar was
sewe vliegtuie wat ons laat skarrel het vir skuiling.
13h20 - ons brigade se 1ste bataljon het n UNITA basis ontdek. As gevolg van die
skermutseling is 7 UNITA soldate gedood. Een radiostasie, 13 outomatiese aanvals
gewere en een anti-tenk vuurpyl is gekonfiskeer. Van ons kant is daar geen verliese
gely nie.
17h00 - my skouer gee my nog las. Ek eindig die dag met n glimlag.
4 November, 1987
07h00 - verlede nag om 21h00, het die vyand ons Brigade se derde bataljon onder
hewige bombardering geplaas vanaf hulle Kentrons en 106mm kanonne. Die
nagevolge daarvan was: ons Bataljon bevelvoerder en hoof van staf is swaar
gewond, die hoof logistieke offisier en hoof van die spesiale seksie was gedood asook
twee ander soldate en sewe gewondes. Later het ek radiokontak gehad met van ons
adviseurs in Cuito-Cuanavale. Hulle het my ingelig dat hulle ook gebombardeer is
maar dat alles wel was. Op 2 November, by die UNITA basis, het ons troepe
afskrifte van die Quacha die offisile tydskrif van UNITA bekom. In die tydskrif
was daar n foto van die voormalige hoof van staf van 16de Brigade, kaptein Luis
Antonio Mango wat in April van hierdie jaar oor geloop het na UNITA. Ons span
leier, Anatoly Mikhailovich, het hom goed geken en het verlede jaar nog saam met
hom gewerk toe hy nog een van ons was. Van alle dinge was hierdie baie erg!
14h00-16h00 - die vyand het n intensiewe bombardering geloods vanaf twee
Kentrons en 6-7 sarsies was gevuur teen die verdedigende areas van ons brigade
asook die 59ste Brigade. Teen 14h00 het die 1ste Infantrie Bataljon ook van ons
Brigade UNITA, suid van Lemba, aangeval. Die uitslag was: ons het beslag geneem
van 6 granate, 1 ligfakkel, 1 anti-tenk missiel en 1 operasionele kaart .
17h00 - die eerste Taktiese Groep bereik ons brigade. Hulle ontvang 200 liters diesel
brandstof en bensien van ons en voer die gewondes weg.
01/10/2011JohanJacobs
Erkenning:
War in Angola-www.warinangola.com
Fotos JohanJ versameling
Redigering- Jeanette Jacobs
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World War was declared, was because of their subversive activities. A few friends are
interested in the local activities of the Nazi Party.
What happened to the Southern Africa Nazis? To answer that question would be to enter
into the realm of politics. However some members did end up in the National Party. Here
are some SA Nazi photographs and emblems:
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te vertel. En hy laat hulle self praat. Hy het nie hang-ups daaroor nie, net n innige
teleurstelling in die wyse waarop die oorlog en hul rol daarin in die modegier van
terugskouing gekleineer word.
Die troepe kry nie die nodige erkenning wat hulle verdien nie, en dit maak my die moer
in. In die vooraf-eksemplaar van Ons Was Daar, vertel hy en sy soldate hl Oorlog-storie
sonder brieke.
Jy moet onthou, s die generaal, soos in rugby het die heelagter en haker nie dieselfde
ervaring van n wedstryd nie. Dieselfde geld politici, bevelvoerders en troepe in oorlog.
Die boek is geskryf deur soldate, nie spookskrywers nie. Die uitgewers het al hul dae gehad
om die taal (en soms ook die feite) te probeer op-polish. Ek het dit nie toegelaat nie, dis
ns boek di, s Geldenhuys, sigbaar gerriteerd. En skryf, skrf hulle. Een voorbeeld wat
Geldenhuys self uitwys, is die bydrae van Jock Harris, eens n bevelvoerder van die SAW se
grondmagte in Angola. Harris vertel met n sweem van bitterheid van n ministerile besoek
aan sy hoofkwartier. N die totstandkoming van 20 SA Brigade het n aantal politici by ons
kom besoek afl. Die gebruik was om n donker in te vlieg en weer die volgende nag te
vertrek.
Deon Ferreira was van plan om in vroeg-September drie van sy veg- groepe teen 47
Brigade te ontplooi. Genl. Geldenhuys, wat voor die tyd aangekom het, was reeds in ons HK
met die taak om vir genl. Magnus Malan, min. Pik Botha en ander hoog-geplaastes oor die
komende operasies voor te lig. Na donker het die geselskap per helikopter by ons HK
aangekom. Die paadjie van die landingsplek deur die bos af na ons HK was met
verligtingstokkies gemerk om te verseker dat hulle veilig by die regte plek vir die
voorligting sou uitkom. Party van die geselskap het duidelik n paar doppe gesteek voor
hulle vertrek uit Rundu. Min. Botha, so dronk soos n spook, het dit moeilik gevind om op
die gemerkte paadjie te bly en het soos n troep geswets. Wat daarna tydens die voorligting
gevolg het, was n groot verleentheid met min. Botha se gereelde tussenwerpsels en
opmerkings en vrae of die klein generaaltjie van sy feite seker was. Ek en Deon het met
ongeloof na mekaar gekyk. Genl. Geldenhuys het die man gegnoreer en rustig met sy
voorligting voortgegaan.
Die klein generaaltjie het ook nie veel ooghare vir min. Botha se manewales nie.
Pik Botha het gesoek daarna, s Geldenhuys met verwysing na Harris se ontnugterde
ervaring van n regeringslid wat na sy oordeel nie die soldate se rol en opofferings op
slagvelde in Angola na behore waardeer het nie. Vir Geldenhuys bly Botha onmoontlik en
n grootkokkedoor wat weermagsuksesse vir sy politieke opportunisme uitgebuit het.
Soos dit n professionele soldaat betaam, laat hy die politiek en politici aan mekaar en aan
die openbare mening oor.
Geldenhuys se uitgesproke liefde en waardering vir sy soldate en respek vir die vyand is die
goue draad in ons restaurantgesprek n deur die boek. Hulle verdien nie die blatante
geknoei met die geskiedenis nie. Hy gebruik vyand en opponente (die Russe en die
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Kubane in Angola) as wissel- vorme, en met die respek van een soldaat vir n ander, s hy:
Hulle was in dieselfde oorlog as ons. As ek hulle nie gerespekteer het nie, het ek hulle nie
met die nodige respek behandel nie. As ons emosioneel oor hulle moes wees, sou dit ons
gesonde denke en ons goeie oordeel aangetas het.
Dit het nie gebeur nie. Ons het sonder haat teen die Sowjet-soldate geveg.
Daar was n wedersydse agting tussen professionele, vegtende soldate in n oorlog wat deur
politici begin en oor dekades gehandhaaf is.
Geldenhuys onthou en skryf hoe genl. Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, daardie held van die
Republiek van Kuba vir hom n karton vol dro rantsoene gestuur het. Sanchez is kort
daarna in opdrag van pres. Fidel Castro deur n vuurpeloton gefusilleer.
Oor sy eie rol, s Geldenhuys, en wyk ietwat af van sy kenmerkende self-gereserveerdheid:
Ek wil glo ek het goed gedoen. Ek weet nie of iemand anders daardie rol (diplomaatsoldaat) sou kon speel nie. Ek het my job gedoen.
Van Angola s hy dit was nie hulle oorlog nie dit was net hulle land.
In 2011 glo Jannie Geldenhuys nee, hy weet dat as Suid- Afrika die oorlog in Angola
verloor het, sou di land vandag n ander plek gewees het.
Wat hom betref, het sy weermag, die skutters, die kolonels en die generaals die Sowjet/
Kubaanse magte verslaan.
Hulle het Afrika met le hande verlaat, wat van oorbly is hul oorlogskroot in Angola, s
Geldenhuys.
Daarteenoor, s hy, deel Suid-Afrikaners en Namibirs vandag self-ontwerpte,
onafhanklike, nie-kommunistiese, nie-Sowjetiese en nie-Kubaanse model-demokrasie.
In sy groetwoord, sluit hy af: Ek salueer almal aan ons kant gesneuwel, gewond en nog
lewend en al hul geliefdes.
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She argued that when MK cadres sung "awudubula ibhunu" ("shoot the boer") the "ibhunu"
being referred to were the military enemy, not Afrikaners in general. Dlodlo stated:
"In MK military language and I dare say struggle colloquium, ibhunu' is the enemy'. And
contrary to Judge Lamont's view, a hausfrau who supported apartheid did not necessarily
constitute, the enemy' or ibhunu' and neither did a farmer who was not an extension of the
South African Defence Force (SADF) brigade as a member of the Commandos. By extension
it is not everyone who supported the apartheid system that was the enemy' in a military
sense." (For Dlodlo this definition of the ibhunu' as the specific enemy "was one that was
destroyed when we found liberation. Today ibhunu' is no more. Ibhunu' died when
apartheid died.")
As Dlodlo implicitly acknowledges white farmers who were members of the commando
system were regarded as ibhunu' i.e. as legitimate targets of attack. Indeed, farmers were
openly targeted by MK cadres in the mid-to-late 1980s most notably in the landmine
campaign in the Northern border areas that ran between 1985 and 1987. It is instructive
returning to that period for it casts considerable light on the ANC's conception of the
"enemy."
On November 26 1985 two people were injured in two separate land mine blasts on roads
near Messina in the then Northern Transvaal. A Pretoria News report the same day
proclaimed that this was "the first time that mines have been planted on South African
roads." (Edward Meluba, a passenger in one of the vehicles, died sometime later of his
wounds). Four South African Defence Force (SADF) members, sweeping the area for other
mines, were slightly injured the following day after their troop carrier detonated a mine.
In a Radio Freedom broadcast from Addis Ababa on November 28 1985 the ANC took credit
for these attacks. It said the landmines in Messina were a "sign of the intensification of the
struggle that is seen inside our country by our people." It warned white South Africans that
this and other such activities would soon "become the order of the day" and advised that
"they must also keep it in mind that such activities will not only intensify but will also
spread and engulf the entire country including their residential areas."
The first person to die in these attacks was Jas Balie, 25, a black tractor driver. His vehicle
had struck a landmine on a farm road on November 27 and he died the following day. A
day or two later another black farm worker, Philemon Ngcobo, was killed when his tractor
was blown up on a farm in the area. On 16 December six people were killed when their
bakkie detonated a landmine on a game farm near Messina. Mrs Kobie van Eck, 34, her
children Ignatius,2, and Nellmarie,8, Marie Denyschen, 59, and her grandchildren Kobus, 3,
and Karna, 9, were all killed in the blast.
In a Radio Freedom broadcast on January 6 1986 the ANC effectively accepted responsibility
for these deaths. It described the victims of the blasts as "six white Boer farmers and one
black." It stated that "The ANC HQ in Lusaka has not admitted responsibility for the recent
blasts while it awaits reports from our combatants operating inside the country" but "really
it is not even important whether the ANC HQ does finally admit the action or not because it
is, after all, one of the actions that are part of the on-going and intensifying armed struggle
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inside South Africa. Whoever carried out the attack or planted the mine is most certainly a
South Africa patriot..."
In early January 1986 Elize de Beer, 32, and her father-in-law Hubert de Beer, 63, died after
their vehicle struck a landmine on a farm close to the Botswana border near Ellisras in the
Northern Transvaal.
In a Radio Freedom broadcast on February 26 1986 Chris Hani, then army political commissar
and deputy commander of MK, made clear that although MK was not targeting white
civilians willy-nilly white farmers were regarded as legitimate targets:
"Umkhonto we Sizwe is a revolutionary army and it is not about to embark on mayhem
against whites, civilians, against children, but we are going to step up our attacks against
enemy personnel we are referring to the members of the police forces, to the members of the
SADF, to those in the administrations terrorising and harassing our people to those farmers
and other civilians who are part of the defence force in our country, of the military,
paramilitary and reserves. But comrades we are realists. The theatre of these actions are
going to be in the white residential areas, and it is inevitable that white civilians will die."
(According to a contemporaneous press report in mid May 1986 two MK cadres were killed
when the landmine they were priming on a farm near Hectorspruit exploded. A farm
worker, Mzanzi Mabone, was also killed in the blast.)
In May 1986 Biza Mahlangu, 25, and Daniel Sindane, 40, were killed after the minibus they
were travelling in hit a landmine on a farm in the then Eastern Transvaal near Davel. On
August 17 1986 three woman and two children were killed after the BMW they were
travelling in struck a landmine on a road near Nelspruit. Ernelena Sebiti, 28, Lindiwe
Mdluli, 20, Katie Sambo, 23, died in the blast as did Joyce Nkowayne and Regina
Nkowayne, both whom were less than one year old.
On October 28 1986 the ANC defended these attacks in a long broadcast on Radio Freedom
(see full transcript here). It stated:
"For some time now, areas around the northern borders of our country have experienced a
spate of landmine explosions in which quite a number of racist farmers have either been
killed or seriously injured...The vanguard liberation movement of our people, the ANC, has
long declared these areas war zones. This is because the farmers in these areas have been
fully integrated in the enemy's so-called security and defence network. White men, women
and youths are part and parcel of the military and paramilitary units of the SADF."
The ANC's justification for the targeting of white farmers extended beyond just their
participation in the structures of the SADF however. It stated that "This white farmer
community is [made up of] exploiters with a slave-owner mentality... they monopolise the
land claiming it as their own... the Boers impose their presence and their rule with coldblooded brutality. They do not think twice before beating a farm worker to death. They see
nothing wrong in taking our children on nightmare joyrides or sexually assaulting black
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women farm workers: And this is all in the name of white civilisation, white power, super
profits and free enterprise."
Apart from promising to escalate MK actions in farming areas the ANC incited black farm
workers - who it said were not targets of its actions - to go after white farmers. "You owe the
Boers nothing. In fact it is they that owe you everything because they have grown fat and
wealthy on your poverty and labour. Sabotage his farming operations. Destroy his crops.
Sabotage his implements and machinery. Daring actions of Umkhonto we Sizwe are not the
only way of confronting the enemy. Sabotage operations are part of the people's war. And
actions of the people are: Do not allow the Boers to arm you against the people. Take the
guns and communication equipment ...and everything you can lay your hands on and turn
them on the exploitative farmers."
On November 2 1986 Lance Corporal Albert Marthinus Le Roux was killed after his horse
detonated a landmine near Barberton. In a landmine attack on March 29 1986 two Motha
brothers, a Mrs Phikhiti and an unnamed black female were killed when their vehicle
detonated a landmine. (Siphiwe Nyanda, Solly Shoke, and Dick Mkhonto were granted
amnesty in 2000 for these latter two attacks.)
In early May 1987 Karel Thou was killed after the truck he was transporting ten others in hit
a landmine near Messina. These operations were finally called off by the ANC in late 1987.
Between November 1985 and May 1987 at least 24 individuals were killed in the ANC's
landmine campaign (excluding the three who died in the Hectorspruit incident). Of these, 15
were black and 9 were white. Of the white South Africans killed three were women, four
were children and two were men. Lance Corporal Le Roux was the only soldier, and only
white male of army going age, killed in these operations.
Despite its overt ANC sympathies the Truth and Reconciliation Commission nonetheless
found that "the ANC's landmine campaigns in the period 1985 -1987 in the rural areas of the
Northern and Eastern Transvaal cannot be condoned, in that it resulted in gross violations of
the human rights of civilians including farm labourers and children, who were killed or
injured, The ANC is held accountable for such gross human rights violations."
As the Radio Freedom transcripts indicate the targets of this campaign were farmers and
their families. The concept of "ibhunu" - as defined by Dlodlo - was an elastic one which
could be extended, if need be, from white male farmers to their wives and children (not to
mention black collaborators'). The October 28 1986 broadcast further suggests that farmers
were not simply being targeted for their involvement in SADF structures but for racial and
ideological reasons as well. Furthermore the ANC persisted with these attacks despite the
consistently high fatality rate among black civilians from the beginning to the end of the
campaign.
In 1957 C.W. de Kiewiet observed that the "Afrikaners with the strongest sense of grievance
developed a special feeling of innocence and rectitude, which blocked their ability to
envisage a society, hospitable to all men, or to discern error in themselves."
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Something of the same spirit seems to be at work among the ANC, and its supporters, in
their strident defence of their right to go around singing "awudubula ibhunu" wherever they
please and regardless of the consequences.
Such is the ANC's feeling of "innocence and rectitude" that it seems incapable of taking
meaningful responsibility for the crimes it committed during the armed struggle and for its
complete failure, once in power, to protect farmers from the most horrendous criminal
violence.
Ref:
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Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389
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In that period it was generally accepted that the top rung of the ANC was a coalition of
nationalists and communists, all strongly inspired by the writings of Karl Marx. Cosatu was
also seen as an organisation relying upon Marx rather than Mao. But Malan did not think
that it was, in the first instance, a class struggle that was being fought in South Africa in the
1970s and 1980s. Rather it was a case of a revolutionary elite using poor people, living in
dreadful circumstances, to take to the streets on their behalf against a state authority. In
South East Asia it is still Mao rather than Marx on whom revolutionaries rely upon for
guidance in trying to mobilise the poorest of the poor.
Magnus Malan was a member of the first white military generation that received an
academic training in military studies He went to university during the 1950s when
revolutionary war increasingly displacing the conventional kind. In the thirty years after
receiving his BSc Mil in 1953 at the University of Pretoria, one revolutionary war followed
another: Malaya, Algeria, Vietnam, the Portuguese colonies in Africa, Namibia and
Zimbabwe.
In his interview Malan underlined one point in particular: "You never lose this sort of fight
militarily. You lose it diplomatically, politically, economically and on similar terrain. The
military or security aspect is only a small component." At the same time Malan believed that
the black masses were more concerned with the betterment of their living conditions than in
full democratic rights. He clearly did not believe that a liberal democracy was appropriate
for South Africa.
It is a bit silly, as was done in many articles on his death, to present Magnus Malan as a
sinister figure responsible for the militarisation' of society through the framework of the
total onslaught, total strategy and the State Security Council. In the first place South Africa
was never really militarised and, in any case, military conscription for white males was
introduced in 1967, well before Malan became head of army and of the defence force.
Secondly, in the 1970s South Africa was under increasing diplomatic, economic and political
pressure. Coordination and coherence in decision making was urgently needed, particularly
as the Vorster government managed the country a bit like an outmoded family shop. South
Africa became militarily involved in Angola in 1975 without clear goals being identified or
followed. It could easily have ended in catastrophe. If a properly functioning state security
council had been in place, such a situation would probably have been avoided.
General Malan became head of the army in 1973 and in 1976, at the age of only 46, head of
the defence force. Four years later, in 1980, he became minister of defence in PW Botha's
cabinet. After PW Botha he can be credited with building up of the armed forces into one of
the most formidable in Africa.
On the State Security Council PW Botha and the politicians still had much more say than the
generals. General Jannie Geldenhuys, head of the army in the second half of the 1980s,
estimated that he spoke for a total of twenty minutes during his time on the council. General
Malan and his successors always insisted that the defence force was, as in the British
tradition, required to loyally serve the civilian authorities. There was never in talk within the
officer corps of a possible coup d'tat. To emphasise the distinction between the military and
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the civilian roles Malan, on being appointed Minister of Defence in 1980, refused to be
nominated to Parliament but insisted on fighting a parliamentary seat.
Malan was one of the architects of National Security Management System which reported
the State Security Council. Below the NSMS there Joint Management Centres for twelve
national regions, sub-JMCs for metropolitan centres and mini-JMCs for each town, where
officials and businessmen met under the chairmanship of a military or police officer. The
JMCs provided information on local security issues and acted as an early warning system by
spotting areas of friction and identifying bureaucratic obstacles to improvements in living
conditions in the townships.
Malan wished to launch a large scale housing programme in the most turbulent townships
to win the hearts and minds' of the oppressed people and thwart the efforts of radical to
establish control over them. He and the military officers quickly ran into the turf battles,
particular the Department of Constitutional Development and Planning under whom
housing construction in the townships fell. "South Africa" is one of the most difficult
countries in the world to govern", Malan told Harvard's Samuel Huntington in 1986. It is a
sentiment many ministers today would echo.
Malan never contemplated seizing power. He told me in the 1986 interview:
"A military regime is never a solution, just a deferral of the problem. South Africans were
the very last people who would have accepted a military coup." This principle of a nonpolitical military, from which Malan did not deviate, was one of the most important reasons
for the peaceful transition to democracy in 1994.
Malan went along when the cabinet in December 1989 decided to lift the ban on the ANC
and some other extra-parliamentary organisation, but he remained deeply sceptical of the
wisdom of negotiating with a that section of the ANC committed to the ANC's National
Democratic Revolution, that had been drafted by members of the South African Communist
Party in the early 1960s.
Malan was a proponent of the cross-border operations aimed at attacking the "terrorists" - as
they were called - before they infiltrated the country. I asked him what he thought of the
view, expressed by the National Intelligence Service that the security forces should have
limited their operations to within South Africa's borders. His answer was: "Such people do
not understand war. If we had allowed the ANC insurgents to cross the border in great
numbers we would have ended up in a full scale and bitter war, which would have had ten
times more fatalities and which would have made a settlement impossible."
As a proportion of the total population South Africa's political deaths were - along with
Northern Ireland and Israel - the lowest of all major ethnic conflicts of the second half of the
Twentieth Century. The reasons are complex but the cross border operations were probably
one contributing factor.
A huge blot on the name of the defence force was the existence of a Civil Cooperation
Bureau whose internal section was guilty of murders on ANC cadres and other gruesome
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deeds. General Malan's claim that he was unaware of what was going on in the unit is
generally not accepted. It could be said, on reflection, that it would be much better if a
person with a civilian background had been the political head of the defence force in the
1980s. There is a good reason why this is the situation in Western countries.
In my 2008 interview with him I asked him why the hearts and minds strategy did not work
so well in the 1980s. He said: "The big problem was the poverty of so many black people. We
had to build houses for them on a huge scale." But he ran into bureaucratic turf battles and
inertia. He dismissively referred to "ministers who were gods on their own territory" Chris
Heunis would warned him "Keep your paws out of my departments area."
In the interview he was also highly critical of the way in which a political settlement was
reached. "We won militarily but lost politically." FW de Klerk had the personality of a
negotiator but was not actually a negotiator. He was unbelievably bad in his choices of
negotiators. From this point Nelson Mandela had the upper hand over FW de Klerk and De
Klerk simply retreated.
Until the end Malan did not believe South Africa was fit for a majoritarian form of
democracy in which a single party drawing almost all its votes from blacks dominated the
political process. He remained convinced that a system in which the minorities enjoyed a
significant share of the power was the only way in which the country would be governed
well and would prosper.
This an expanded version of an article that first appeared in Rapport
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=248514&sn=
Marketingweb+detail&pid=74709
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Barron eulogises and juxtaposes Gen Constand Viljoen, intellectually superior and
wonderful soldier and human being that he is, to Malan, while omitting to mention that
Viljoen had for the same reason not "faced fire" before he reached high command level.
His only combat experience was when, already a commanding general in South West Africa,
he parachuted with his troops into the Swapo base at Cassinga in Angola in the airborne
assault phase of Operation Reindeer in 1978, which spoke eloquently of his bravery, but was
otherwise ill-considered and highly imprudent. Barron praises the one general for no other
reason than to nail the other.
Barron seems in principle to be a pacifist as far as the war against the communist forces in
Angola are concerned, but would he also argue that the armed resistance to Hitler's Nazi
forces was wrong? If South Africa hadn't disabused the Soviet Union of their notion that the
SADF would be a cheap walk-over for its surrogate Cuban and other forces in Angola, what
would have been the end result? If the communist forces had prevailed militarily, why
would they have negotiated at all?
Surely not to establish the liberal-democratic constitutions and systems of governance now
evident in Namibia and South Africa - with their attendant free-market economies,
entrenched private property and all the individual freedoms of Western-style liberalism?
Stalinist systems of subjugation of the individual and command economies eventually
imploding into oblivion would have been the result.
Under Malan's command the SADF, through the generally effective State Security
Management System, and in the face of the infuriating indolence of some civilian state
departments represented in the forums of that system, identified real needs and as a start
undertook the huge task of upgrading Alexandra township by for instance tarring roads and
installing street lighting.
When mobs destroyed what was being achieved there, Barron surely can't be serious in
suggesting that the appropriate response would have been to go in with "spades and
trowels" when that township "went up in flames?" How naive can one be! Malan was not
"supposedly" in favour of a hearts and minds approach; he constantly preached this in and
outside of the SADF and did his best to put action to the words. And, incongruously, Barron
deplores Malan's use of his "secret funds" (again the innuendo), a facility of the security
establishments of every serious country on earth to hide strategic expenditure from enemy
eyes, to not only make the SADF self-sufficient but to make Armscor "South Africa's largest
exporter of manufactured goods".
And how, pray may I ask, does Barron know to be able to factually report about Malan's
state of mind in that "(It is ) known that he regarded the resources of the SADF as his to
dispose of as and when he liked"!
The ANC at its Morogoro, Tanzania conference in 1969 declared all-out war with its
"strategy and tactics" of the "four pillars of struggle" heralding the "total onslaught" in the
defined areas of armed struggle, mass protest action to make the country ungovernable,
underground organisation and international isolation of South Africa.
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Would the South African government and Malan not have been seriously derelict in their
duty if they hadn't devised a sound "total national strategy" to counter this "total
onslaught"? Unfortunately, South Africa's, including Malan's, efforts at explaining this to the
populace was so woefully inadequate that the impression remains in the minds of many to
this day that the "total onslaught" was a figment of Malan's and others' imagination.
Barron decries the pre-emptive raids on terrorist bases in neighbouring countries, but seems
to have forgotten the shocking images of people being burned, hacked and stoned to death
in townships under the direction and leadership of elements in those neighbouring
countries, or the sickening sight of aged black women being force-fed washing powder
because they dared to defy violently imposed consumer boycotts, or the shredded civilian
bodies strewn across Church Street in Pretoria after a bomb planted by elements infiltrating
directly from those neighbouring countries?
International law acknowledges the right of states to pre-emptive strike when facing an
imminent armed assault from across its borders, in this case the assault already having
commenced and war formally declared by the ANC.
Atrocities that Barron refers to happen on all sides in all wars. The recognition of this fact
does not make such actions any less deplorable, but to single out only one side is
disingenuous. Even worse, it boils down to the journalistic dissemination of propaganda,
surely not the intended purpose of a newspaper such as yours?
Magnus Malan was a highly intelligent, thoughtful, reformist soldier, and a highly effective
commander. I did not know him well enough personally to judge whether he was a nice guy
or not. What seems clear to me is that his enormous achievements, together with P.W. Botha
and Piet Marais of Armscor, over a relatively short span of time in making of the SADF a
self-sufficient, balanced and effective fighting force able to operate without any external
support, are unlikely to have been the result only of his being a nice guy.
I would never have thought that Chris Barron, whose incisive interviews in your newspaper
I try never to miss, would be capable of producing such an ill-considered, dishonest and
vindictive article, for whatever reason overflowing with his personal resentment and vitriol,
and that in an apparent obituary.
The most unspeakable of Barron's innuendo is to my mind his scandalously gratuitous
attempt to associate Malan with the alleged paedophilia of John Wiley and Dave Allen. Is
dubious journalistic ethics the sole prerogative of News of the World reporters? I and many
other life-long readers of the Sunday Times will find you seriously amiss if you do not
publish an apology or preferably a retraction of Barron's truly despicable article.
Maritz Spaarwater, Col (retd) SADF
At 43, [Magnus Malan] was chief of the army, at 46, chief of the whole defence force and,
at 50, minister of defence. All this without any operational experience, without ever
leading soldiers in combat. Full of bluster and tough talk, he himself never knew what it
was like to be under fire. This didn't stop him sending his soldiers into combat. In 1975,
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he sent them into Angola to fight with Unita against the MPLA. This turned into a fullblown war against Cuban soldiers, but, until 1987, Malan consistently denied to the
South African public that his men were in Angola. He also consistently lied about the
extent of casualties."
Chris Barron
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10 November 2011: FOR KAISER AND HITLER: FROM MILITARY AVIATOR TO HIGH
COMMAND - The Memoirs of Luftwaffe General Alfred Mahncke 1910-1945 by Jochen
(John) Mancke
Life-member John (Jochen) Mahncke is no stranger to society members; having been
Chairman of the Gauteng Branch before moving to Cape Town where he subsequently acted
as Vice-Chairman and Scribe of the Cape Town Branch for many years, he has been a highly
popular and respected member with members of both branches throughout the years of his
tireless involvement. Well-known for his articles in the SAMHS Journal and his numerous
talks relating to early German aviation as well as aspects of his fathers life, it is as
translator/compiler of his late fathers memoirs of the same title as in the subject heading,
that Mr Mahncke has risen to new prominence as author of a book that was published to
international acclaim and recognition. As is the case with many non-fiction books, especially
on historical topics, a lot of information invariably is left unsaid, for brevitys sake. Such is
the case with his fathers memoirs. His lecture will be structured so as to elucidate his
fathers military career from pre-WWI up and to WWII, as told in his book. For members
that have had the foresight to purchase a copy in the recent past few months and have
read it the lecture will surely prove to be as informative and enjoyable as the book has
been.
There will be no meeting in December as the Cape Town Branch will be in recess.
Please note details of the forthcoming tour of the Simons Town Naval and public museums
planned for Saturday, 22nd October. ALL members and non-members are welcome to join us
PLEASE LET US KNOW WELL IN ADVANCE IF YOU WANT TO COME ALONG SO AS
TO ENABLE THE ORGANISERS TO FINALISE THE ARRANGEMENTS.
Contact: Johan van den Berg: W <warbooks@mweb.co.za>
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HERALDRY, UNIFORMS, COLOURS, FLAGS, MEDALS,
MEMORIALS / HERALDIEK, UNIFORMS, VAANDEELS, VLAE,
MEDALJES, GEDENKTEKENS
10.1 The Air force Structure Rank Insignia
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line with international forms of rank and to incorporate the new South African Coat of
Arms. Subsequently the ranks of General Officers changed again in September 2003 to be
more in line with the rest of the SANDF. The previous rank insignia can be viewed here.
Shoulder Insignia
General
General
Lieutenant General
General
Major General
General
Brigadier General
General
Colonel
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Colonel
Major
Major
Captain
Captain
Lieutenant
Lieutenant
2nd Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Candidate Officer
CO
Chaplain
Dependant on religion
Rank
Master Chief WO
Sergeant Major
Senior Chief WO
Sergeant Major
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Chief WO
Sergeant Major
Master WO
Sergeant Major
Senior WO
Sergeant Major
WO Class 1
Sergeant Major
WO Class 2
Sergeant Major
Rank Insignia
Chest Insignia
Form
Address
Flight
Sergeant
Flight
Sergeant
Sergeant
Corporal
Corporal
Lance
Corporal
Corporal
of
Airman
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From 1920 the emblem consisted of a single bronze oak leaf. Even if the soldier is mentioned
in despatches more than once, only a single such decoration is worn.
An emblem for being Mentioned in Dispatches for service during World War 2 is worn on
the ribbon of the War Medal. Only one emblem is worn no matter how many times a
member may have been 'mentioned'.
Mention varied from a list of names to a description of the individual services performed. In
1902 it was decided that publication in the London Gazette was essential to constitute a
mention.
NOTE. A note which shows the numbers of South African MID in the 1939-1946 War.
CB = 14
CBE = 41
OBE = 147
MBE = 363
Kings
Commendation
MiD =
3 800
= 818
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Army - awarded for six months service in an operational command during the
period 3
5. Military Merit Medal - Militre Meriete Medalje. (MMM) Was awarded for
services of a high order. It was instituted on 9 October 1974, to replace the Commendation
by the Chief of the SADF emblem, and was originally called the "CSADF Commendation
Medal". The name was changed to "Military Merit Medal" in 1993.
6. The John Chard Decoration - John Chard-dekorasie) (JCD) was a silver South
African military decoration that was in use from 1952 to 2003. It was awarded to members of
the Citizen Force who completed twenty years qualifying service, provided they had already
earned the John Chard Medal (for ten or twelve years service).
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7. The John Chard Medal - John Chard-medalje was instituted with effect from 6
April 1952 to replace the Efficiency Medal and the Air Efficiency Award which was
previously awarded to members of the Active Citizen Force between 1939 and 1952. This
bronze medal was awarded to members of the Citizen Force, irrespective of rank, who had
completed twelve years' long and efficient service. The qualifying service did not need
necessarily be continuous.
The medal is of bronze and the designation and significance is the same as that of the John
Chard Decoration.
Distinguishing insignia in silver are worn on the ribbon. A miniature anchor denotes that
qualifying service was in the SA Navy, crossed swords in the SA Army and an eagle in the
SA Air Force.
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rise to some confusion, to the extent that the SAPS is referred to as the South African Police
Force in some quarters.
The Public Order Policing (POP) unit is a crime-preventing and crime-fighting entity that
has some harsh realities to face. We have entered an age of international crime, where
syndicates know no boundaries and where the deck is stacked against those on the side of
law and order.
It should then surely be of immense concern that the SAPS has not yet finalised its planning
in terms of Public Order Policing. The standing orders for policing public gatherings, for
example, have not even been compiled into a manual for those involved in the management
of protest gatherings and events.
Research literature overwhelmingly supports the contention that collective conflict can
emerge during crowd events as a consequence of the indiscriminate and disproportionate
use of police force.
It has become increasingly apparent that the SAPS has fallen behind in the crucial area of
public order policing, which has been the focus of national training in many parts of the
world. Operational members here are time and again either being put into or finding
themselves inadvertently in situations where they feel threatened, and where the
subsequent retaliation is deadly. Their role, which is to facilitate peaceful protests, allowing
protestors to have their voices heard, whilst still protecting the safety and rights of others,
has in the past two years been shifting towards one of aggression.
Whether crowds are inherently irrational and dangerous is a question that is being debated
globally. I believe our SAPS members at grassroots level think this is the case. This results in
increased police interventions, which add fuel to the fire of those individuals in the crowds
who are advocating violence.
A more progressive school of thought holds that conflict frequently emerges or is
exacerbated in a crowd from the moment there is interaction between the police and the
protestors.
As a nation we have to ask if our SAPS POP units are ready to deal with a situation like the
one experienced in the UK recently, where rioters shared information, best looting sites and
their experiences on Twitter. Are our POP members ready for this? Would they operate as
an intelligence-led unit, open to the monitoring of new media - or even explore innovative
new ways to engage with protestors through Twitter, Facebook or any of a dozen new social
media options to ensure that protests run smoothly?
Public Order Policing management ignore at their peril the capacity of technologically
empowered citizens to produce evidence that may well challenge the official version of
events; they ignore at their peril the probability that the visual evidence may well be aired
on television, and ignore at their peril the fact that the communication highway circles the
earth in a heartbeat. The world will know of any police abuses that take place during public
protests.
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This is what happened when protestor Andries Tatane was killed in the Free State by South
African Police on the 13th of April this year. The fear is that we're possibly ignoring the
lessons of the past - ignoring the possibility that police actions may well contribute to, or
even act as the spark that sets off conflict. And if we ignore this reality, then SAPS
management may well in turn ignore the need to develop strategies, tactics and technologies
to deal with these situations.
I believe that so much emphasis is placed on the need to contain crowds and to prevent
damage, that the crowds are automatically identified as hostile, or at least potentially so. If
treated with hostility, they will, inevitably, respond with hostility.
Naturally, the converse applies, and if the police interact in a positive manner - in ways that
improve the relationship between the police and the crowd, then conflict may be reduced.
The jury is still out on the Shoot to Kill' dictum initiated by former Deputy Minister of
Police, Susan Shabangu, but the reality is that we are regularly seeing footage of our police
shooting demonstrators, sometimes in the back.
The questions that must be asked relate to information and intelligence, and why it is that
the police aren't better prepared for protest gatherings, especially when events are well
publicised days in advance.
Successful public order policing requires consistent command-and-control, training, tactics
and equipment. I look forward to an analytical interrogation of the myriad challenges
created by new media, increased crowd violence in South Africa, and how public order
policing can best meet those challenges.
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The SAPS also presented its progress in terms of the more than 20 IT-related projects it is
currently working on. It intends to establish its digital capacity to detect fingerprints at
crime scenes through technology to photograph and enhance fingerprints lifted from crime
scenes.
The project is 100% complete in terms of hardware deployment, but the service is 0%
complete in terms of training and rollout. It says there is a target to implement the integrated
case docket management system (ICDMS) to 20 priority police stations by 2012 and 40
priority police stations by 2014. This entails the management and administration of criminal
cases, inquests and enquiries throughout the lifecycle of a case from its inception to its
disposal.
The SAPS also said it is 10% complete in terms of software deployment and it is seeking to
establish a mobile operational vehicles project. A target was set of having 450 vehicles and
18 buses by 2013 equipped with mobile communication technology. The operational
requirement for mobile communication vehicles was to ensure effective command and
control communications.
The automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) is 70% complete in terms of user
requirements, and technical specification is also 70% complete. However, the SAPS said it is
0% complete in terms of publishing tenders for the procurement of the new AFIS, which it
said will be done this year.
There is also a programme aimed at the modernisation and expansion of hardware and
software.
The SAPS set a target of replacing 5052 PCs, 395 notebooks and tablets, 2740 colour printers,
9593 mono printers and 1011 fax machines. To date, it has replaced 287 PCs (6% progress),
168 notebooks (43%), 219 mono printers (2%), 211 colour printers (8%) and 68 fax machines
(7%).
Concerns from committee members were that no improvement is being made within the
SAPS, which buys equipment but doesn't roll it out. They said the progress report is not
impressive. The SAPS said in some cases hardware was rolled out, but no progress was
made on implementation, because officials still have to be trained to use the equipment.
Members also noted tension between SITA and its contractors who worked for SAPS,
because SITA is not renewing their contracts and, at the same time, contractors are not
receiving their salary increases in full. They questioned why SITA is keeping increases that
are aimed for contractors for itself. It would take decades to fully implement the e-docket
systems at police stations across the country, said members.
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An example was given of the Pretoria police station in which the scanner, printer and
computer are all on different floors. In addition, there is no quality control with regards to
the e-docket.
Committee chairperson Lydia Chikunga asked what the budget is for each project that SAPS
has undertaken in conjunction with SITA, how much money has been spent to date on each
project, and how each project would improve on service delivery. She expects the responses
by mid-October.
Chikunga also noted that there are companies providing IT work that had been contracted
by SAPS.
She asked what role SITA is playing in this regard, how much money is being wasted on the
contract process models, and whether there is absolutely no coordination between what
SAPS contractors are doing and SITA.
In April committee members called on SITA to create a turnaround strategy specific to
SAPS, and acting chairperson of the board Febe Potgieter-Gqubule said there was a joint
strategic planning session between the agency and the service. The outcomes include that
negotiated business agreements and SLA negotiations will be completed by the end of
September, and that SITA will provide proposals for VOIP.
She added that business agreement discussions have commenced and are due to be
completed as planned by the end of this month. Five SLAs have been negotiated and
concluded at a functional level and two new SLAs requested by the SAPS are being drafted
for negotiations. These SLAs relate to supply chain management (SCM) and IT security. The
acting chairperson added that the ICDMS demo was presented to SAPS and the backbone
for the system will be completed in December.
The scanning solution was also developed and deployed at 320 police stations in all
provinces, except for the Eastern Cape. Approximately 1 650 million dockets had been
scanned by 5 September. The e-docket system will replace this one when it is implemented.
SITA said by the end of 2012 it will have established a supply chain management committee
system and a bid evaluation committee with subject matter and technical expertise. The
SAPS-specific ICT SCM benefits are the lowering of prices for the war room installation,
lower costs for the national network upgrade, more bandwidth, and reduced cost of voice
communication through VOIP.
SITA will also significantly reduce the pricing of its services. The lower costs will be as a
result of industry partnership.
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Address by the Executive Director, Mr Francois Beukman to the National Press Club on the
tabling of the Independent Complaints Directorate Annual Report for 2010/11 and the
release of its statistics
29 Sep 2011
Honourable Deputy Minister of Police, Ms Maggie Sotyu
Executive member of the National Press Club, Ms Doreen Guff
Senior Management of the ICD
Members of the National Press Club
Ladies and gentlemen
Thank you for this opportunity to once again brief you on the work of the Independent
Complaints Directorate (ICD) as set out in the ICD's Annual Report 2010/11 that was tabled
in Parliament this morning. We are especially honoured to have the Deputy Minister among
us.
Since the Deputy Minister has already spoken about other matters relating to the work of the
ICD, my presentation will focus mainly on the statistics relevant to the period 1 April 2010 to
31 March 2011.
The ICD received five thousand eight hundred and sixty nine (5 869) cases during the period
under review. Of these, seven hundred and ninety seven (797) were notifications of deaths
in police custody and deaths as a result of police action.
One hundred and two (102) were domestic violence non-compliance matters, whereas two
thousand four hundred and ninety three (2 493) were allegations of criminal offences and
two thousand four hundred and seventy seven (2 477) were allegations of misconduct
alleging contravention of police standing orders and regulations. If you add all that up it
gives you five thousand eight hundred and sixty nine (5 869).
In percentage terms, deaths amounted to 14 per cent, domestic violence non-compliance to
two per cent, whereas criminal offences and misconduct amounted to 42 per cent each. That
gives you an indication of the proportion of cases that we dealt with per class.
If you compare how these numbers have changed relative to the year before, you will note
that deaths decreased by seven per cent, from 860 to 797. Domestic violence non-compliance
matters decreased by 19 per cent from, 126 to 102 cases. Criminal offences increased slightly
by one percentage point, from 2 462 to 2 493. Misconduct complaints decreased by 15 per
cent, from 2 929 to 2 477. Overall there was an 8 per cent decrease across the board. From a
provincial perspective, all provinces except for Gauteng and Limpopo experienced
decreases ranging from 7% to 23%.
I'm now going to focus on the seven hundred and ninety seven (797) deaths in police
custody and deaths as a result of police action. In percentage terms, deaths in police custody
amounted to 32 per cent of all deaths, whereas deaths as a result of police action accounted
for 68 per cent.
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Thirty one per cent of all deaths occurred in KwaZulu-Natal. Gauteng experienced the
second highest proportion at 23 per cent. Is it important to note that the numbers of deaths
in custody and deaths as a result of police action decreased in six provinces, except for the
Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Northern Cape which experienced increases ranging from four
to 28 per cent.
When we break down the deaths further, you will note that deaths in police custody
amounted to two hundred and fifty seven (257) and deaths as a result of police action
amounted to five hundred and forty (540). Forty four per cent of deaths in police custody
were due to natural causes, 25 per cent were as a result of injuries sustained in police
custody and 31 per cent of the deaths were from injuries sustained prior to custody. The role
of the police in these deaths is limited or negligible.
Of the five hundred and forty (540) deaths as a result of police action, eighty per cent
occurred during the commission of a crime, during an escape (or attempt), during arrest or
during investigation. Most of the deaths as a result of police action occurred during arrest,
this is especially the case in KwaZulu-Natal, where eighty seven (87) deaths occurred under
such circumstances. In Gauteng, forty eight (48) deaths occurred during arrest. The five
metro police services accounted for 13 deaths as a result of police action.
Let me briefly touch on the places where the deaths occurred. Fifty three (53) per cent of the
deaths took place at the scene, 29 per cent occurred at a hospital/clinic, 2 per cent in a police
vehicle and 14 per cent took place in police holding cells.
I will now talk about allegations of criminal offences dealt with by the ICD. The ICD
investigates allegations of criminal offences against members of the South African Police
Service (SAPS) by the public.
Some complaints were reported by other SAPS members. Since the police are under no
obligation to report such offences, these statistics are by no means a true reflection of the
extent of police criminality. Under the new Independent Police Investigative Directorate,
some of these offences will be notifiable which means that an accurate record will be kept
and we will then be in a position to know their prevalence.
There were two thousand four hundred and ninety three (2 493) complaints alleging
criminal conduct by members of the SAPS. Seventy per cent of these were related to what is
termed police brutality, namely assault common, assault GBH and attempted murder.
Allegations of torture accounted for 4 per cent of allegations of criminal offences, whereas
rape cases accounted for 2 per cent.
When comparing the period under review to the preceding period, we have noted an
increase of 5 per cent in assault (grievous bodily harm) GBH complaints and a 9 per cent
increase in attempted murder complaints. Complaints of rape increased by 92 per cent, from
24 to 46 cases. Allegations of torture increased from five cases to forty one (41).
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It is important to note that not all complaints made against police officers can be
substantiated. Of those that are substantiated, five hundred and one (501) recommendations
for prosecution were made to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Our investigators spent more than a thousand days in courts or disciplinary tribunals. We
also made two thousand two hundred and sixty one (2 261) recommendations to SAPS
management in respect of disciplinary action. In the process, we managed to obtain about
ninety (90) convictions emanating from disciplinary processes and about sixty (60)
convictions in the courts, with sentences ranging from fines to 20 year jail terms. Other cases
are still pending finalization in the courts and disciplinary tribunals.
Clearly it's been a busy year for the ICD and I want to thank the media as our partners in
reporting some of the matters we have dealt with. I hope that this partnership continues into
the future.
Thank you for your attention.
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Lital writes: THE BEST 50 PHOTOS OF 2011 IPA WORLD PHOTO CONTEST- This
are the best Photos in Police category.
None shall pass Mounted police patrol the streets around the Klipriviersberg Recreation
Centre in Kibler Park in southern Johannesburg, 13 September 2011 where disciplinary
hearings of ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, spokesperson Floyd Shivambu and
four other office bearers continued on Tuesday. (Werner Beukes/SAPA)
Ongulumbashe: Where the bush war began - Paul J. Els, Wandsbeck, South Africa:
Reach Publishers, 2007. 290 pages. Index, list of abbreviations, 200 photographs, maps
and illustrations. Prologue by Gen. J.V. van der Merwe, former Commissioner of the South
African Police and Epilogue by Gen. J.J. Geldenhuys, former Chief of the South African
Defence Force. ISBN 9781920084813 - R180,00
Retired Warrant Officer First Class, Paul J. Els, South African Corps of Signals, is a veteran
of the so-called Bush War. He did his first stint on the Border (p. v) in 1968, participated in
Operation Savannah during South Africas intervention in the Angolan civil war in 1975/76
and subsequently served in the South African Special Forces as long-distance radio operator
for 5 Reconnaissance Commando. His first book, We Fear Naught But God: The Story of the
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Die buiteblad: Die boek is nog in manuskrip-vorm, sekere finale insette moet nog
verkry word
sal laat weet wanneer dit gepubliseer word. Ons soek
ongepubliseerde fotos van Cato Manor, Sharpeville, Rivonia en ander Koevoet- en
polisiefotos en miskien SALM-fotos tydens gesamentlike operasies met Koevoet? HBH
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13. SPORT
Diecks Dietrichsen stuur die volgende foto:
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"What are you doing, lady?" the man asked angrily. "I said to leave me alone.
Just then a policeman came up. "Is there any problem, ma'am?" he asked.
"No problem here, officer," the woman answered. "I'm just trying to get this man to his
feet. Will you help me?" The officer scratched his head. "That's old Jack. He's been a
fixture around here for a couple of years. What do you want with him?"
"See that cafeteria over there?" she asked. "I'm going to get him something to eat and get
him out of the cold for awhile."
"Are you crazy, lady?" the homeless man resisted. "I don't want to go in there!" Then he
felt strong hands grab his other arm and lift him up. "Let me go, officer. I didn't do
anything."
This is a good deal for you, Jack" the officer answered. "Don't blow it.
Finally, and with some difficulty, the woman and the police officer got Jack into the cafeteria
and sat him at a table in a remote corner. It was the middle of the morning, so most of the
breakfast crowd had already left and the lunch bunch had not yet arrived.
The manager strode across the cafeteria and stood by his table. "What's going on here,
officer?" he asked. "What is all this, is this man in trouble?"
"This lady brought this man in here to be fed," the policeman answered.
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"Not in here!" the manager replied angrily. "Having a person like that here is bad for
business."
Old Jack smiled a toothless grin. "See, lady. I told you so. Now if you'll let me go. I didn't
want to come here in the first place."
The woman turned to the cafeteria manager and smiled....... "Sir, are you familiar with Eddy
and Associates, the banking firm down the street?"
"Of course I am," the manager answered impatiently. "They hold their weekly meetings in
one of my banquet rooms."
"And do you make a godly amount of money providing food at these weekly meetings?"
"What business is that of yours?"
I, sir, am Penelope Eddy, president and CEO of the company."
"Oh."
The woman smiled again. "I thought that might make a difference." She glanced at the cop
who was busy stifling a giggle. "Would you like to join us in a cup of coffee and a meal,
officer?"
"No thanks, ma'am," the officer replied. "I'm on duty."
"Then, perhaps, a cup of coffee to go?"
"Yes, maam. That would be very nice."
The cafeteria manager turned on his heel, "I'll get your coffee for you right away, officer."
The officer watched him walk away. "You certainly put him in his place," he said.
"That was not my intent. Believe it or not, I have a reason for all this."
She sat down at the table across from her amazed dinner guest. She stared at him intently.
"Jack, do you remember me?"
Old Jack searched her face with his old, rheumy eyes. "I think so - I mean you do look
familiar."
"I'm a little older perhaps," she said. "Maybe I've even filled out more than in my younger
days when you worked here, and I came through that very door, cold and hungry."
"Ma'am?" the officer said questioningly. He couldn't believe that such a magnificently
turned out woman could ever have been hungry.
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"I was just out of college," the woman began. "I had come to the city looking for a job, but I
couldn't find anything. Finally I was down to my last few cents and had been kicked out of
my apartment. I walked the streets for days. It was February and I was cold and nearly
starving. I saw this place and walked in on the off chance that I could get something to eat."
Jack lit up with a smile. "Now I remember," he said. "I was behind the serving counter. You
came up and asked me if you could work for something to eat. I said that it was against
company policy."
"I know," the woman continued. "Then you made me the biggest roast beef sandwich that I
had ever seen, gave me a cup of coffee, and told me to go over to a corner table and enjoy it.
I was afraid that you would get into trouble... Then, when I looked over and saw you put the
price of my food in the cash register, I knew then that everything would be all right."
"So you started your own business?" Old Jack said.
"I got a job that very afternoon. I worked my way up. Eventually I started my own business
that, with the help of God, prospered." She opened her purse and pulled out a business card.
"When you are finished here, I want you to pay a visit to a Mr. Lyons...He's the personnel
director of my company. I'll go talk to him now and I'm certain he'll find something for you
to do around the office." She smiled. "I think he might even find the funds to give you a little
advance so that you can buy some clothes and get a place to live until you get on your feet...
If you ever need anything, my door is always opened to you."
There were tears in the old man's eyes. "How can I ever thank you?" he said.
"Don't thank me," the woman answered. "To God goes the glory. Thank Jesus...... He led me
to you."
Outside the cafeteria, the officer and the woman paused at the entrance before going their
separate ways....
"Thank you for all your help, officer," she said.
"On the contrary, Ms. Eddy," he answered. "Thank you. I saw a miracle today, something
that I will never forget. And. And thank you for the coffee."
God is going to shift things around for you today and let things work in your favour.
If you believe, send it.
If you don't believe, delete it.
God closes doors no man can open & God opens doors no man can close.
If you need God to open some doors for you ... send this on.
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1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others
expected of me
This was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life is almost
over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone
unfulfilled. Most people have had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had
to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.
It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way.
From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom
very few realize, until they no longer have it.
It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip. But when you are
faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do
want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status
that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for
the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever
manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all
that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.
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Die manne word ook nie oud nie! Derek Brune en Johan Ferreira.
17. NEWS FROM ALL OVER - THE POLICE POST BAG / NUUS
VAN HEINDE EN VERRE - POLISIE-POSSAK
17.1 Toffie Risk
NS: 'n Uitstekende uitgawe oor die Poisiehondeskool, Bevelvoerders ens.
Hier, soos per aanhangesel is een van die min foto's beskikbaar waar die polisiehond
ook gebruik is om terrorisme op die grens te bekamp. Ek het die negatief
van die foto gekry van wyle luitenant J Brummer toe ek nog verbonde was aan
Tineenhed in 1974.
Nog altyd gehad, maar vir die eerste keer in 2010 laat ontwikkel.
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Vriende
Soos u almal bewus is, sou die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiemag indien dit voortbestaan
het volgende jaar n eeu oud gewees het. Die Oud-SAP-lede Liefdadigheidstrust
beoog om volgende jaar n gedenkalbum uit te gee om oudlede se herinneringe aan
hoogtepunte of besondere gebeurtenisse tydens hulle loopbane te boekstaaf.
Oudlede beskik oor kosbare kennis wat tensy dit geboekstaaf saam met hulle na die
graf gaan.
Ons is dit aan die S A Polisiemag, ons makkers wat saam met ons gedien het en die
nageslag verskuldig om daardie kosbare inligting te boek te stel.
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Celt 54mm, Gunner RFC 75mm and Italian soldier in North Africa during WW2.
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Brig TB Arlow en brig Stan Gillham spog met hulle voorskote kontak eNONGQAI
indien u belangstel.
Greetings
Salute!
Your Van Driver and Section Sergeant: No 43630 (M) Hennie Heymans. 2011
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