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Contents WIE IS ONS? / WHO ARE WE? ................................................................................ 5

LEGALITIES ............................................................................................................... 6

Opinions .................................................................................................................. 6

To all future correspondents ................................................................................ 6

DEVOTION: Bob Smith .............................................................................................. 6

POLICE / POLISIE ..................................................................................................... 8

1908: Sersant Louis Abraham Francois Slabbert [Spesiale Politie, Transvaal Politie

/ SA Politie: Prof Francois G. Du Toit ...................................................................... 8

Special Burger Police ............................................................................................ 13

Stewels: Lt-genl Hennie Westraat ......................................................................... 17

Sgt Louis James Kirby: Capt Patrick Coetzee....................................................... 19

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE HALL OF FAME: SAP HELDESAAL ............................ 30

Kol Lesch Word 85 Jaar: Kol Andrew Lesch ......................................................... 30

Ds Kritzinger: SAP Kapelaan: N-Kaap: Kapt Patrick Coetzee............................... 35

New Police Cross For Bravery [Silver]: Arno Arrie Coetzee .................................. 38

Johnnie Els: Toffie Risk ........................................................................................ 39

Serve, Protect (And Shoot): Facebook page offers glimpse into SAPS Culture:

Rebecca Davis ...................................................................................................... 41

PLAASVEILIGHEID.................................................................................................. 42

Hou boere veilig – Cele: Rapport .......................................................................... 42

KOL EUGENE A DE KOCK ..................................................................................... 43

Op-Ed: De Kock ordered my sister’s killing – and no, his debt is not paid ............ 43

Sal De Kock vrygelaat word? Vryburger ............................................................... 48

POLICE HISTORY: SOUTH AFRICA / POLISIEGESKIEDENIS: SUID-AFRIKA ..... 49

Babsfontein – Die Boere Memphis: Eduan Liebenberg Naude ............................. 49

Rebellion at Slagtersnek / Slachtersnek-Rebellie: Dr JC van der Walt ................. 53

CAPE CORPS .......................................................................................................... 54

1781–1878 ......................................................................................................... 55

1915–1991 ......................................................................................................... 56

Corps symbols ................................................................................................... 56

Battle honours.................................................................................................... 57

Cape Mounted Rifles ................................................................................................ 57

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Cape Mounted Riflemen ........................................................................................... 57

Cape Mounted Riflemen (1) .................................................................................. 58

Cape Regiment (1795–1827) ................................................................................ 58

Cape Mounted Riflemen (1827–1870) .................................................................. 58

Cape Mounted Riflemen (2) .................................................................................. 59

Frontier Armed and Mounted Police (1855–78) .................................................... 59

Cape Mounted Riflemen (1878–1913) .................................................................. 59

1st South African Mounted Riflemen (1913–26) ................................................... 60

MOORD: ATTAQUASKLOOF .................................................................................. 60

‘n Stukkie Aarde Geskilder Met Bloed: Past Danie van Tonder ............................ 60

Cape Mounted Police: Colin Jones: G McGregor (Namibia) .................................... 67

German Medal “Kalahari 1907” ............................................................................. 67

Medal: Marengo Raid 1907(HBH) ......................................................................... 67

HOE ONTHOU ONS DIE SAP? ............................................................................... 68

National: Radio station tries to repair a past where flowers could get you beaten 68

POLICE MEMORABILIA .......................................................................................... 72

SAPS: Squad Cars: Highway Patrol & Flying Squad: Neil Thomas Anderson ...... 72

Models ............................................................................................................... 73

SAP Dog tags: Rhodesia: Maj HC du Preez ......................................................... 74

NATIONAL SECURITY: INTELLIGENCE / NASIONALE VEILIGHEID: INLIGTING 76

Spioenasie ............................................................................................................ 76

WW1: The German Spy who was Shot in the Tower of London ........................... 76

History: International Co-Operation with ANC ....................................................... 82

Kenya and South Africa’s mutually destructive visa race ...................................... 84

1941: Last Spy Execution ..................................................................................... 87

SECRET FUND / GEHEIME FONDS ....................................................................... 88

Official spends R17 000 a month on 'entertainment' ............................................. 88

DEFENCE ................................................................................................................ 89

FA-22: USAF ......................................................................................................... 89

First FA-22 Fighters Delivered To Langley Air Force Base ................................ 89

FIGHTING SPIRIT, ATTITUDES & MYTHS /VEGLUS & GESINDHEID & MITES... 91

British Tommy would only fight after frequent cuppa breaks and the SS were

sadistic fanatics: Britain's leading war historian tackles greatest myths of WW2 .. 91

UK Military & Jihad ................................................................................................ 97

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Former Head of the Military Lord Richards warns Armed Forces 'Not Good

Enough' to tackle militant Jihadism .................................................................... 97

Twee spesialiste het SANW in knyptang .............................................................. 99

SANW: Tenk-ongeluk: Van Reenenspas ............................................................ 101

Admiraal nou Politikus via adv Len Els ............................................................... 103

Siege of the Israeli Consulate in Johannesburg .................................................. 104

Anglo Boer War: Phil Beck .................................................................................. 105

SANDF granted stay of execution ....................................................................... 105

Gedig: Lt-kol MJJ van Rensburg (SALM) ............................................................. 106

Gee my ‘n tweede kans ................................................................................... 106

ADINISTRATION OF JUSTICE / REGSPLEGING ................................................. 107

Initiation Schools must abide by Act - NPA ......................................................... 107

Electric Power in our Courts via DvdM ................................................................ 108

BOOKSHELF / BOEKRAK ..................................................................................... 110

Glipstroom: Anemarie Jansen ............................................................................ 110

Debuut boei, ondanks gebreke: Annemarie van der Walt ................................ 110

Dangerous mind: What Rick Turner still has to offer free South Africa: Marianne

Thamm ................................................................................................................ 112

Rebels Of Slagtersnek 1815: Dr JC van der Walt ............................................... 116

HUMOUR IN UNIFORM ......................................................................................... 117

The difference between Officers and NCOs – Adv Len Els ................................ 117

Testikels, M'Lord? - Lentulus .............................................................................. 118

“Nee gaan jy af en praat met hulle”: Piet-Patu van Zyl ........................................ 119

BRIEWE ................................................................................................................. 119

Geskiedenis Handelstak: Ettienne Lambrechts [Pta] .......................................... 119

Afsterwe: Brig Beetge – SAO Koot van Schalkwyk ............................................. 120

Klagte geweier: via Dr Dreyer van der Merwe ..................................................... 120

Pasop vir nuwe slender: Vryburger (via brig J Gilliomee) ................................... 120

Vuurfontein 1902. [BSAP HISTORY] Digest No 3664: via Col Terry Schwartz ... 121

CONCLUSION / SLOT ........................................................................................... 122

Salute! Saluut! ................................................................................................. 122

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The eNONGQAI Die eNONGQAI

Unofficial Police Gazette for Veterans of

the former South African Police Force

and for those interested in the history of

our Police, Defence and National

Security. A gratis publication.

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. ‘n Gratis

publikasie.

Email: Epos:

enongqai@gmail.com

enongqai@gmail.com

Your national security history magazine without malice. U nasionale veiligheidsgeskiedenistydskrif sonder kwaadwilligheid.

Om die verlede te bewaar sonder om in die verlede te leef.

To preserve the past without living the past.

WIE IS ONS? / WHO ARE WE? We are an informal group of police and defence veterans who would like to foster an

interest in South Africa’s police, defence and national security history from 1652

with cut-off-date 1994; when the new South Africa came into being. We only tell and

explain what we did; for we were the “on the spot” eyewitnesses! In fact we are the

ones you saw in the news reels of the time following orders from parlia-

ment. However we have to debate the incidents because our memory is fallible

as we grow older. In the terms of the day "we earned the T-shirt and right to tell our

stories for you to enjoy with malice towards none." In the suburbs we see so many

gardeners wearing those T-shirts! We all can learn from the past.

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LEGALITIES This publication is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all developments in

policing/ national security or to cover all aspects of those referred to. Readers should

take legal and other advice before applying the information contained in this

publication to specific issues or transactions.

Opinions

The eNongqai contains various and sundry personal opinions of different

correspondents and neither the compiler of eNongqai nor eNongqai will be held

responsible for any of their comments which is entirely their own and not necessarily

that of eNongqai or its publishers.

To all future correspondents

This condition must be placed at the end of your article: "The author of this article

shall indemnify and hold harmless eNongqai and its publishers from any and all

third-party claims, proceedings, actions, expenses, and damages (including attorney

fees) in connection with a breach or alleged breach of the representations and

warranties made in this article."

This is not a literary magazine, but a magazine by and for veterans of the SA

Security Forces; we want to capture the words and moods as written by our

former veterans.

DEVOTION: Bob Smith

"Then Moses led the Israelites from the Red Sea and they went into the desert of Shur. For three days they travelled in the desert without finding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water because it was bitter. So the people grumbled against Moses, saying "What are we to drink?" Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet." Exodus 15: 22-25 N.I.V. v.27: Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water."

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Turning Bitter into Sweet! The people were on a journey through a desert. Deserts are always sandy and the dust clogs one's throat. Water was needed urgently to soothe the dry mouth. Children were crying. They didn't understand. Day after day brought them fresh hope, but after three dusty days in the blistering heat ..... still no water! Suddenly, they could see a pool of water before them, and they all rushed to the pool of promise. But the water that had promised so much was bitter to the taste and they could not drink it. The people murmured. Surely Moses had a plan. This is not what they had expected during their journey to a new life. Many times on our own journey through life, it seems like we have travelled for so long, and there is no water, or that the water is bitter. We all have bitter experiences along our journey. Moses was told to cast some wood into the water, which he did ..... and the water miraculously became sweet! This is a strong symbol of the wood of Calvary's Cross on which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died to save the world from sin and to prove his eternal love for all of us. He alone is the cure for the bitter experiences in our lives! Despite the accusations of the people all around him, Moses had to make a conscious effort to cast that wood into the bitter waters. We have to also make that effort, despite the controversy from other people, in accepting Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and to allow His Grace, Mercy, and His Love that flowed from Calvary, to turn the bitter experiences in our lives into a sweet opportunity. Give Him a chance to remove all the bitterness from your life.... Pray to Jesus now, and tell Him of your bitter experience, so that He may bring a welcome change in your life and allow Him to replace your bitterness with His own sweet presence. Amen.

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POLICE / POLISIE

1908: Sersant Louis Abraham Francois Slabbert [Spesiale Politie, Transvaal

Politie / SA Politie: Prof Francois G. Du Toit

Prof du Toit skryf:

Goeie naand Hennie

Ons het lanklaas gesels. Intussen het daar so baie dinge gebeur. My oë en gehoor

het my in die steek gelaat en gedwing om uit te tree van die sendingveld in Sjina en

Asië. Ook moes ons na twaalf jaar terugkeer om na my skoonouers in die Kaap te

kom omsien. Ons het nou ses maande gelede hier in Brackenfell Kaap kom afpak.

Die proefdruk van my boek waarin jy ook gehelp het met insette is tans uit en ek

hoop om in hierdie jaar die finale druk uit te gee.

Ek wil begin deur jou so bietjie te bederf met 'n uittreksel van die boek. Ek sal van

tyd tot tyd so bietjie deurvoer, veral die gedeeltes omtrent die polisiegeskiedenis van

voor die begin van die Transvaalse Polisie, die SAP en die rol van die SAP deur die

Rebellie. Ek dink jy gaan dit baie geniet.

Indien jy ook van die Boereoorlog en konsentrasiekampe wil hê, sal ek dit ook vir jou

deurgee. Die boek maak 'n heel nuwe venster oop op mense verhoudinge in die

vroeër dae. Daar is baie nuwe geskiedenis ontbloot wat voorheen misgekyk is. Mag

dit vir elkeen in SA 'n openbaring wees.

Ons bly nog betrokke by sending in Sri Lanka hier uit die Kaap en sal jou ook

daaroor op hoogte hou indien jy belangstel.

Seën en groetnis.

Francois

Kommentaar - HBH

In die boek “Van Hugenoot tot Boer” skryf prof Du Toit1 oor sy Oupa, sers LAF

Slabbert. Hierdie is een van die beste boeke, in Afrikaans, wat ek nog gelees het oor

ons vroeë polisie-geskiedenis. In die maande wat kom sal ek, DV, ter saaklike

gedeeltes aanhaal.

1 Prof. of Sociology, Honorary Prof. of CAMI, Doctor of Education, Leader and Pastor of CIFC

Em. Prof. - Chinese Academy of Science (CIAC & CIOMP) - Jilin University of Technology - Changchun Advanced Medical Institute (CMC) - Changchun Teachers University - Guanghua College of Changchun University

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DANKBETUIGING

Voordat ons met hierdie pragtige stukkie geskiedenis begin, moet ons eers dankie

sê aan al die mense wat met soveel ywer saamgewerk het om by hierdie finale

produk uit te kom. Vir die skrywer alleen het dit twintig jaar se deeltydse versameling

van inligting gekos. Daarna nog ’n drie jaar se intensiewe navorsing en saamstel vir

publikasie.

Al die mense wat met entoesiasme eerste- of tweedehandse inligting oorgedra het

met bewyse in skrif en of foto’s. Die aantekenaars van brokkies inligting oor die jare

met spesifieke verwysing na dogters Malie van Niekerk (Slabbert) en Sylvia du Toit

(Slabbert).

Die baie mense wat ons so gasvry ontvang en gratis laat oorbly het waarvan ek ’n

paar moet uitsonder:

Helmoed en Irmgard Kliengenberg van Piet Retief

Alice en Hennie Backer van Boksburg

Johannes en Adrie Swart van Pretoria

Roelf en Annatjie du Toit van Lydenburg

Cor & Corrie Cross en Tom & Vesna Middleton van Ohrigstad Besondere insette van onoffisiële geskiedenis navorsers:

Christo Swart - Krugerspost

Jan Ferreira - Ohrigstad

Laurens Vosloo - Ohrigstad / Mosselbaai

Dorey Burger - Ohrigstad

Genl. Constand Viljoen - Ohrigstad (nasaat van die eerste Hugenoot – Villion)

Ben Hoffeldt - Welgevonden

Christien Grove - Pilgrim’s Rest / Ohrigstad

Annatjie Schurink - Lydenburg

Hans Meyer - Lydenburg

Gerrit Potgieter - Lydenburg

Hendrik Neethling – Lydenburg

Hennie Heymans - Pretoria

Menigte van offisiële geskiedenis navorsers waarmee ons inligting kon vergelyk.

Verdere medewerkers betreffende prosessering, proeflees, fotos, ens.:

Alice Backer

Snoep Pretorius

Sonja Rocher

Mimmie du Toit

Guo Zijiao (Earnest) Hierdie boek is ’n getuienis van julle entoesiasme, jul liefde vir ons volk, en jul

onwrikbare verbintenis om aan ons nageslag iets besonders na te laat. Julle het ’n

verskil gemaak. Bo alles, dank aan God vir die voorreg, krag en vermoë. - Chitoit

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VOORWOORD

Met oorgawe en familietrots, ja selfs met bewondering, skets die skrywer, Chitoit, 'n

intiem-getroue en eerlike lewensverhaal van sy voorgeslag. Geloofsoortuiging vleg

soos 'n goue draad deur Louis Slabbert se doen en late. Uit die skrywer se

noukeurige aantekeninge spreek ook sy eie vreugde dat hierdie kosbare nalatings vir

die nageslag bewaar is.

Terselfdertyd word dit egter ook 'n kosbare ontdekking van nuwe fokus en insig vir

die kleurryke geskiedenis van dié tyd in ons land. Ook die rol van die etniese groepe

in ons geskiedenis, beklee 'n plek in die groot gebeure en verryk ons hele

kultuurerfenis. Hierdeur word die grootse romantiek van die gebeure in Suid-Afrika

vasgevang en getrou weergegee.

Die warmte in die lewensverhaal van L.A.F. Slabbert, met sy oorgawe aan elke taak

en uitdaging hom opgelê, sy integriteit en karaktervastheid, sy onwrikbare geloof in

sy Skepper en die liefde en omgee vir sy medemens, maak hierdie boek 'n skat van

universele betekenis. Hieruit kan 'n wêreld vol haat, oorlog en geweld 'n les kom leer

van samehorigheid en vergewingsgesindheid, asook die dringende behoefte aan

naasteliefde, geborge in geloof in God die Vader.

Die boek bied leesstof wat die avonturier sal laat snak na asem; die boekwurm sal

laat kriewel van genot; die geskiedenis-akademici verstom sal laat oor nooit-

geskrewe feite en die massa sal laat bloos oor eie skandalige wandade en vergrype

teenoor hul medemens. Deur nougesette navorsing, slaag die skrywer daarin om

hierde werk die lig te laat sien, sodat dit 'n unieke bron vir 'n breë leserskring word.

Dit bevat inspirerende en telkens boeiende gebeure wat wêreldwyd vir vriend en

vyand nuwe betekenis inhou.

Die gedetailleerde vertelling van die werk wat hierdie pligsgetroue polisieman met

oorgawe en verantwoordelikheid verrig tot op die been, vervul 'n seldsame rol wat

nie eie is aan elke werk nie. Lees dit noukeurig en word begeester met 'n nuwe

idealisme vir ons land, Suid-Afrika en selfs die wêreld. Sy persoonlike belewenis van

onder andere die stigting van die Transvaalse- en later SA Polisie en SA Weermag

is kosbare aantekening.

Dit was voorwaar 'n vreugde om die werk deur te lees, maar ek moes dit telkens

onderbreek om eers 'n vars, nuwe staaltjie uit oorlogsgebeure, polisie speurwerk of

’n insident uit die onbegryplike menslike lot, iewers met iemand te gaan deel.

Getrou aan die Hugenote voorgeslag volg die skrywer en sy eie Mimmie, steeds in

Louis Slabbert se spore met sy Kaalvoetnooi s'n daarnaas. Dieselfde

onbaatsugtigheid en diens wat eie was aan hul voorouers, neem Chitoit en sy eie

"kaalvoetnooi" na Sjina vir twaalf jaar met ’n nuwe hoofstuk in hul eie

lewensverhaal.

J.J. (Snoep) Pretorius (Voorheen Superintendent Onderwys)

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Special Burger Police

Hier volg ‘n uittreksel uit die boek Van Hugenoot tot Boer oor die Spesiale Polisie wat op die Witwatersrand ingestel was. Kol HF Trew in een van sy boeke2 vertel van die SPECIAL BURGER POLICE onder bevel van maj Pretorius en kapt Thomas Kroon; maar hierdie is die eerste keer dat ek so ‘n volledige verslag oor die Spesiale Polisie lees: HOOFSTUK 42 SJINESE OPSTAND “Hoe dit ook al sy, ek was nie gelukkig in die Spoorweë nie en het my besluit deurgevoer. Ek is terug plaas toe met ‘n mooi klompie spaargeld waarvan ek vir my ouers gegee het om te koop wat hulle graag wou hê. Van die res het ek vir my dertig baster skaapooie gekoop teen £1-15 stuk (R3,50) en twintig boerbokooie met ‘n ram teen £1-10 (R3.00) stuk. Ek het vir ongeveer ‘n jaar met die vee geboer, toe kom die moeilikheid met die Sjinese. Omrede swak kommunikasie, streng verblyf inperkings en harde omstandighede in die myne, het baie Sjinese nie meer kans gesien vir die werk nie en by die honderde uitgebreek uit die mynkampongs van Johannesburg waar hulle soos gevangenes ingeperk was. In die omtrek van vyftig myl (80.5 km) om Johannesburg het hulle die platteland begin terroriseer met roof en moord. Daar was reeds honderde in die tronke. Daar het byna nie ‘n nag verbygegaan dat daar nie by ‘n huis ingebreek is en mense op gruwelike wyse aangerand of vermoor is nie. Die Boere was ongewapen en moes saans met pikke, byle en enige skerp voorwerp gaan slaap om hulself te beskerm. Dit het tot so ‘n punt gekom dat burgeroorlog amper uitgebreek het. Die Britte kon nie meer die veiligheid van die Boere waarborg nie. Die Sjinese het in groepies van drie tot tien geloop. Dit was nie net die Boere wat aangeval was nie, ook baie swartvolk op die plase is aangeval. Ons het twee Xhosa werkers gehad, ou Uintjie en sy seun, Jan. Sewe Sjinese het een nag by hul hutte gekom en eers Jan se stat aangeval. Sy deur is oopgebreek en hy en sy vrou is toegetakel. Ou Uintjie, sy vrou en ‘n jong seun was in ‘n ander hut so ‘n entjie daarvandaan. Twee Sjinese het hulle probeer vaskeer. Jan het ‘n kwaai hond gehad wat hom baie gehelp het. Hy skreeu toe na ou Uintjie, sy pa, wat sy skildvel en assegaai gryp en die hut uitstorm. Die twee Sjinese hardloop toe en sluit by die ander aan. Net toe die twee Jan se hut in gaan, steek ou Uintjie sy assegaai van agter dwarsdeur die een. Daarna het almal op die vlug geslaan. Vroeg die oggend kom ou Uintjie my vader vertel van die gebeure. Jan en sy vrou was gruwelik mishandel, maar darem nie dood nie. Ons het aan die S.A.C.3 op Heidelberg gerapporteer en hulle het dadelik gekom. Ons het die lande en rante deursoek en al ses gevang. Hulle was almal lelik toegetakel van die geveg met Jan. Die polisie het hulle toe weg. ‘n Paar dae later kry ons die plek waar hulle seker al vir ‘n tydjie geboer het. Dit was net agter ‘n woonhuis op ‘n hoë kop. Daar het [p 178] mieliestronke, pampoene en waatlemoene gelê waaraan hulle geëet het.

2 Trew, Lt-kol HF: African Manhunts (1938): Hoofstuk 12 pp 102 – 119 - HBH

3 South African Constabulary - HBH

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My ou moeder en ek het vir Jan en sy vrou sorgvuldig behandel en vir ‘n week lank opgepas tot hulle weer herstel het. Die Sjinese het so ‘n skrikbewind gevoer dat die Boere protesvergaderings gehou het wat ingestuur is na die Milner Regering. Gedurende November 1905 kom daar toe ‘n oproep vir jong manne om by ‘n spesiale polisiemag aan te sluit om die plaaslike bevolking teen die Sjinese te beskerm. Hulle moes kom met hulle eie perd, saal en toom en moes voorsorg maak vir hulle eie kos, met ‘n loon van 8/6 (85c) per dag en 4d-pennies (8 sent) spesiale toelaag per dag vir die perd se voer. Die wat wou aansluit, moes na Pretoria gaan. Die jong manne om Johannesburg en Heidelberg het by die honderde aangesluit, tog maar te bly om te help om die Sjinese kort te vat. Baie van ons was maar weer die ou kommando kamerade. Ek en Jim het ook aangesluit. Broer Jan en Hendrik, my jongste broer en my een suster, het op die plaas by my ouers gebly en toegesien dat die boerdery aangaan. Daar het soveel jong manne gekom dat party weer teruggestuur is, omdat dit meer was as wat nodig was. Ons het elk ‘n rewolwer en twaalf patrone gekry met die streng bevel dat ons nie mag skiet, tensy ons in doodsgevaar verkeer nie. Ons het ons eie klere gedra en ‘n gestreepte band wat as polisieteken gedien het om ons linkerarm. Ons is die basiese polisiëringsbevele geleer en ook die paar nodigste woorde in Sjinees. Daar was nie tyd vir verdere opleiding nie. Ons is verdeel, vyf man bymekaar. Een is aangestel as korporaal en moes kyk dat die ander vier man hul werk deeglik doen en moes beheer oor die ander vier uitvoer. Offisiere sou ons besoek en voortgaan om ons verdere opleiding te gee. Ek was die korporaal van my groep. My ander vier man was Jim (soos altyd was ons onafskeidbaar), twee De Beers en Kobie Lotz. Ons is na die verskillende plekke uitgestuur waar ons moes gaan patrolliewerk doen. Tente sou aangestuur word waarin ons kon bly. Die polisieposte was vyf myl (8 km) van mekaar af, rondom Johannesburg. My pos was op Putfontein. Zoon Henning het aan ons ‘n gedeelte van sy huis afgestaan om in te bly en ons kon dus gemakliker woon. Fanie Marais het ook daar gewoon en hulle was dankbaar vir die beskerming wat aan hulle verleen is. Die patrollies moes dag en nag ry. Saans gaan twee op diens. Hulle moet ry van die een polisiepos na die ander en weer terug; die heelnag deur rondom Johannesburg. Twee moes bedags ry en kyk of daar nie [p 179] Sjinese deurgebreek het nie. Ons moes by die boere langs ry en by hulle en hul werkers uitvind of hulle nie Sjinese gewaar het nie. Indien hulle sodanige informasie gekry het, moes hulle dadelik ry, hulle probeer opspoor en in hegtenis neem. Dit het dikwels gebeur dat Sjinese uitgebreek het. Baie het hulself natuurlik in die stad-omgewing self verskuil en as bendes van roof geleef. Onder die beskutting van die nag het hulle dikwels gesit en wag totdat die polisiewagte verby is. Hulle het geweet dat dit ‘n tydjie sou neem voor die wagte weer terugkeer. Die ou Republikeinse offisiere is aangestel om toesig te hou. Hulle het dag en nag onverwagte inspeksies uitgevoer om te sien of ons die werk deeglik doen en kon dan verder opleiding aan ons gee. Van die ou Staatsartillerie was daar Maj. Lood

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Petoors4 en Kapt. Kroon, ‟n Hollander wat geen Engels kon praat nie; Kmdt. Dam en Kmdt. Ben Bauer van die ou S.A. polisie5. Die was maar van die offisiere wat in my streek die rondte gedoen het. Kapt. Kroon, die Hollander, was ‘n komieklike mannetjie. Hy kon vloek soos ‘n matroos, nogtans was hy ouderling in ons kerk en hy het elke dag vir ons Godsdiens gehou. Hy was daarin net so bekwaam as in sy ander pligte. Hy was ‘n regte militaris, ‘n netjiese ruiter. Hy was ook ‘n dril instrukteur. Wat vir ons vloektaal was, was vir hom algemene taal. Hy’t gesê waar hy vandaan kom, was dit nooit gesien as snaaks of vloek nie. Dit laat my dink aan die Namakwalanders en die Boere van Boesmanland waarmee ek in die Boereoorlog en later tydens die Eerste Wêreldoorlog in aanraking gekom het. Ons was een dag op parade en ‘n jong man, Botha, kon net nie in gelid bly wanneer ons marsjeer nie. Dan sing Kapt. Kroon vir hom, so in gelid, soos die manne marsjeer. “Hou-tog-step-Bo-tha-ver-dom-me-Bo-tha-hou-tog-step”. Ek moes eendag saam met hom uitgaan op inspeksie van die poste. Toe ons naby Suurfontein kom, gee hy my ‘n rapport wat ek na ‘n ander polisiepos op Kaalfontein moes neem. Hy moes die poste op Suurfontein en Modderfontein inspekteer en ek sou hom die middag weer op Suurfontein kry. Op die terugrit vertel hy my wat met hom gebeur het. Na hy die môre by my weggedraai het, het hy vier “verdomme’ Engelse gekry met ‘n motorkar. Hulle het hom ‘n sekere pad gevra en of hy hulle verkeerd beduie het, of hulle hom nie verstaan het nie, maar toe hy die middag terugkom, ontmoet hy hulle weer. Hulle was vreeslik kwaad, beduie, vloek en wys na hom met die vuis. Hy kon egter niks verstaan wat hulle [p 180 ] sê nie en ry toe net weg. Ek was vyf maande op Putfontein toe ek verplaas is na Katbosfontein. Ek was vyf maande op Putfontein toe ek verplaas is na Katbosfontein. Ek was een môre op patrollie na Modderfontein, die plaas van twee Opperman broers in Pretoria distrik. Van ver af sien ek iemand gebukkend loop vanaf ‘n mielieland na ‘n wit koppie, waar baie ou myngate was. Ek ry vinnig daarheen en kry nege Sjinese binne een van die gate wat nie baie diep was nie. Ek boender hulle uit die gat, met die klomp groen mielies by hulle. Nadat hulle uit die gat is, sien ek ‘n plat klip onder in die gat met ‘n handdoek se punt wat eenkant uitsteek. In die handdoek was twee-en-twintig gelaaide dinamietpatrone met doppies en met ongeveer twaalf duim (304.8 mm) stukkies lont aan. Ek kon egter geen vrae stel nie, maar in my beperkte Sjinees gemeng met Afrikaans, Engels, SiZulu en wat nog meer, kon ek hulle streng genoeg aanspreek. Hulle het altyd ‘n string gevlegte hare opgekrul bo-op die kop gehad en rondom was hulle koppe kaalgeskeer. Wanneer ons hulle opgespoor het, het ons gewoonlik baie streng teenoor hulle opgetree. As hulle hulle teësit, het ons hulle aan die hare beetgekry en dan het hulle gou saamgewerk. Ons het goeie sambokke by ons gehad waarmee hulle telkens deeglik kennis gemaak het.

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Elke man het net een paar boeie by hom gehad, sodat hy net twee Sjinese aanmekaar kon boei. Ek het die spul eers goed uitgelooi en toe die twee leiers van die groep aanmekaar geboei. Daarna het ek die gelaaide patrone by my op die perd gevat en hulle aangejaag na die polisiepos. Ons het nie plek gehad om hulle aan te hou nie en moes hulle toe vir vyftien myl (24.1 km) verder na Suurfontein aanjaag, vanwaar hulle na Johannesburg gestuur is. Die aanklagkantoor in Johannesburg het hulle egter verwys na Pretoria omdat hulle in die Pretoria distrik gevang is. Die dinamietpatrone moes ook na Pretoria as hofbewyse. Die spoorweë wou dit nie vervoer nie omdat dit te gevaarlik sou wees en ek moes dit die veertig myl (64.4 km) te perd neem. ‘n Ander kêrel het die Sjinese geneem. Dit was vir my ‘n baie moeilike rit, daar ek die patrone uiters versigtig moes hanteer want dit kon baie maklik ontplof met die geskud van die perd. Verder moes ek dit onder beskerming van die nag se koelte vervoer. Die Sjinese is in Pretoria verhoor en tot ses maande gevonnis. Ek is groot lof toegedig en is na ‘n paar maande van Katbosfontein verplaas na Klipfontein, naby Springs. Baie dae het ek net gesê: “Dankie Here”, want by verskeie geleenthede waar ons met Sjinese te doene gekry het, kon hulle my telkemale oorrompel en gedood het. Daar het ek [p 181] gesien dat Sjinese nie baie brawe mense was nie. Geen wonder dat die kleine Japan die magtige Sjina oorrompel en vir ‘n paar jaar geregeer het nie. Naby die polisiepos was ‘n winkel wat behoort het aan Livingstone. Aan die winkel was ‘n kamer waarin hy en sy vrou geslaap het. Die kêrel het twee kwaai Bulhonde gehad. Een nag, net na die polisiepatrollie verby was, breek Sjinese die kamerdeur oop en vermink die man en vrou gruwelik. Hulle beroof die winkel en laat spaander. Toe die patrollie terugkom, vind hulle die verminkte lyke en die beroofde winkel. Die honde het nooit die nag geblaf nie en hulle is die volgende oggend vergiftig gevind. Ons het vermoed dat die Sjinese die winkel bekruip het en vergiftigde vleis aan die honde gevoer het. Nadat die honde dood is, kon hulle maklik hul planne uitvoer. Hulle spore is gevolg, maar hulle is terug na Johannesburg. Sover ek weet, is hulle nooit gevang nie, want hulle is natuurlik weer terug in die kampongs tussen die ander duisende Sjinese. Nie baie ver van my pos nie, het ‘n Bester familie gewoon. Ons is die nag 23:00 by die plaas verby en alles was rustig en stil. Om 03:00 die oggend toe ons terugkom, kry ons die huis verniel, maar die mense het nog geleef. Die Sjinese het met ‘n paar koevoete en gelaaide dinamiet daar aangekom. Hulle het gate onder twee hoeke van die huis gemaak, die dinamiet daarin gesteek en die hele helfte van die huis weggeblaas. Die familie het in die een kamer wat nog bly staan het, gevlug. Daar was ysterstawe voor die venster en die Sjinese het daarin geslaag om dit uit te breek. Die man het ‘n rewolwer gehad, maar min patrone. Hy het elke keer as daar iets by die venster verskyn, ‘n skoot afgetrek. Die Sjinese het ons gewaar toe ons terugkom en gevlug. Toe dit lig word, het ons begin soek en vyf gevang by ou verlate werkershutte. Hulle kon nie herken word as die misdadigers nie en is daarom net gestraf omdat hulle uit die kampong weggeloop het. Hierdie tragiese gebeure het vir twee jaar so aangehou.

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Die spesiale polisie het wel duisende Sjinese gevang, maar baie huise is op die mense se koppe opgeblaas. By honderde huise is ingebreek en die inwoners op gruwelike wyse vermoor, want die mense was weerloos en het geen wapens gehad nie. Ons spesiale mag was net eens te min om die probleem hok te slaan. Dit het weer op die punt van burgeroorlog gestaan. In 1907 het die eerste verkiesing plaasgevind vir selfregering. Die Milner Regering is met ‟n groot meerderheid verslaan en ons eie mense [p 182] het die regering oorgeneem, ook in die Vrystaat. Genl. Louis Botha was as Eerste Minister gekies en Genl. De la Rey, Genl. Beyers, Genl. Smuts, Genl. Hertzog en nog meer ander van die Boerehelde aan sy sy. Daar het ‘n groot omwenteling in die land gekom. Die eerste wet wat gemaak is, was dat die Sjinese dadelik teruggestuur moes word na hul land van herkoms. Nadat hulle weggestuur is, was daar weer rus en vrede in die land.” Bibliografie: Trew, Lt-Col HF: African Manhunts, Blackie & Son, London, 1938. Chitoit: Van Hugenoot tot Boer, China, 2014.

Stewels: Lt-genl Hennie Westraat Nancy Sinatra se 1966 trefferliedjie: “These boots are made for Walken”, draal die heel oggend al in my kop. Ek stap rekenaar toe en gaan verfris myself met die wysie daarvan en neurie heerlik saam. Ja, stewels was altyd ‘n belangrike deel van ‘n polisieman se toerusting. Sal ek dan kan vergeet van my eerste paar stewels wat ek ontvang het toe ek in 1960 vir opleiding in die Kollege aanmeld. Die volgende 6maande sou dit ‘n onafskeidbare deel van jou hele bestaan vorm. Jy sal met hulle werk, sorg dat hulle altyd blink, en as jy soms vaak was sou jy selfs daarin kon slaap, want ‘n paar uitgetrapte stewels was goud werd. Toe dit tyd geword het vir grensdiens het jy weer kennis gemaak met stewels, ja stewels wat jy sou dra om jou deur dik sand, riviere en oor berge te dra. Hoekom nou nostalgies staan en raak oor ‘n paar stewels? Elkeen van ons sal seker so kan voel oor die een of ander toerustingstuk wat jy ontvang het gedurende jou skof in die Mag. Baie van ons sou bv. liries kon raak oor sy ‘British Warmer’-warmjas, die ander een oor sy 303, die ander een oor sy 38 of 9mm of sy .32 pistool en die speurders oor sy eerste .25 pistooljie Maar terug by die stewels. Ons was almal gewoond aan ‘n regte egte paar leer stewels. Later het die leerstewels plek gemaak vir seilstewels wat tydens onlusbeheer gedra was, omdat die begrotings net nie wou klop met die mal pryse wat verskaffers daarvoor wou hê nie. ’n Goed ingeloopte paar stewels het geen plaasvervanger gehad nie. Stewels word reg oor die wêreld gedra deur soldate, polisiemanne matrose en lede van die veiligheidsgemeenskap. Oor die jare is die stewels wat ons ken baie aangepas en verbeter. Een van sy kenmerkende eienskappe nl. die gewig is ook oor die jare ligter gemaak. Eienskappe soos waterbestandheid en dra gemak het ook aandag gekry. Vandag is dit dan ook glad nie snaaks dat lede van die publiek militêre stewels as modegril dra nie. In Noorweë

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word die M77, dis nou hul stewel, toegerus met hakies waar ski’s aan gehaak kan word om oor die ys te beweeg want daardie deel van die wêreld is sneeu mos alledaags. Maar nou ja genoeg van die stewel. Ek sluit egter af met ‘m mooi stewelstorie. Op ‘n dag is ek in die kantoor van wyle brig Maat Saayman van die Bishop Lavis Kollege in die Kaap. My oog vang ‘n paar blink gepoleerde stewels wat oorkant sy lessenaar op ‘n kas staan. “En die stewels brigadier, wat is hul storie?” vra ek. Hy is so oomblik stil en antwoord toe: “Jy weet ‘n bevelvoerder van ‘n kollege sien gewoonlik baie polisiemanne wat voor hom geparadeer staan om betig te word of om die een of ander verduideliking moet aanhoor. Ek het altyd die paar stewels so geplaas dat ek dit altyd kon sien, ja die stewels het my letterlik herinner om in die man voor my se skoene te staan.” Ja nogal iets om oor na te dink, om in iemand anders se skoene te staan. Tot ‘n volgende keer Mooi loop Hennie Westraat Hermanus

Foto: Verster-versameling in die Hennie Heymans-versameling

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Sgt Louis James Kirby: Capt Patrick Coetzee

Acknowledgement: DFA 12 January 1990

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Police Sport: Sgt Kirby 2nd from the left

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Celebration

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Rip Kirby left

Rip Kirby – back row - right

Stock theft “Rip” right

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This is a very old photo of Louis Kirby aka “Rip” standing behind a really old Harley

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SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE HALL OF FAME: SAP HELDESAAL

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200 trefslae gehad – inderdaad ‘n rekord en ‘n bewys van die stempel wat kol Lesch

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Kol Lesch Word 85 Jaar: Kol Andrew Lesch

Andrew Lesch: 5 March 2014: 85 vandag

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Thys Du Plessis, Div De Villiers, Patrick Coetzee and 201 others like this. 53 of 150

Allan Vogel I can still hear his barking in my nightmares ! We will never forget ! Charlie platoon '83

Eden Ferreira Kyk net ons ou lede was darm van staal gemaak. GOD SEEN HULLE.

Eddie Stafford Eden dit is die waarheid

Martinaglia Andre A very disciplined policeman and a officer and gentleman in the highest degree. The Lesch family are of Prussian descent.

Deon van Vuuren A true LEGEND!! Salute.

Peter Constantine Morris I always remembered how keen his eyesight was on the parade ground. He was from the old school and took no nonsense. My respects to your Dad from one of several English troops, namely Troop 28, D. Company 1967, along with Brigadier David Bruce, Lt Col Rob Suberg, Const Dave Findlayand myself, Const Peter Morris and the rest of the troop.

Johan Geldenhuys Gellie Daai oe vas vlymskerp, beweeg net jou vinger dan was daar moeilikheid, vandaar die naam Karel Kraai.

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Martinaglia Andre Yes I was also in Police College in 1967. Les Crecoe was a great pal of mine from Natal. I was in Troop 9 ''A'' Company - ''One of the Canary Troops''.

Peter Constantine Morris Were you in an English Troop or not ? I remember there was an English six month troop, It may have been Troop 6. Where is your Dad based now ?

Darryl Ingram there were 3 other English troops as well 27,28,29 the colonel was a warrant officer caught me going out of camp to buy food from chip shop, made me wait in guard house until mess time was over so I would miss supper, never mind that I had 30 packs of viennas and chips in my bags, only trouble was none of them were mine, I was only the courier, he must have known somehow, brilliant

Martinaglia Andre No doubt obtained from ''Cosmos''. Lesch would have had a fit knowing that you were denied supper. He blasted our Troop and Drill Sergeant once for keeping us back , and not being able to have lunch. That was as a result very quickly organized for us.

Peter Constantine Morris Hi Darryl Ingram, I remember you well. D Coy consited of three Afrikaans and 3 English troops, as I remember it the 3 English troops were T 28, T 29 & T 30. T 25, 26 & 27 were the Afrikaans boys. Our bungalows overlooked the fence next to Yskor.

Sam Brittion is that rek nek, was he lt in 1977 at the college

Sam Brittion sorry no its not him, leach use to drive his little open jeep at the collage

Sam Brittion cant remember rek neks name lol

Barend Daniel Harmse Reknek was Lt. B A Smit.

Gerhard Booysen Barend --- ( is reg daar )

Sam Brittion thx thats right now i remember getting old not easy lol

Barend Daniel Harmse He turned out to be a great Station Commander and Officer.

Sam Brittion well done for him. man was he strict whilst I was in college in 1977 first 6 mths. lol had episode with him Lt Smit lol.

Freddie van Wyk yster onder hom gewerk

Tiny Nortje Hy is die eerste ou wat my uitgek*k het net na ek ingesweer het in 1961, eers mooi "is julle al ingesweer" Ja meneer " Nou wat de blissem loop julle oor `n parade grond!!!!!!. Was ook 1979 saam met hom in die Caprivi om `n buddy basis te bou,

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Attie Pieterse Een van die legendes.Hy het my van die paradegrond afgejaag omdat ek my kop kaal geskeer het en my naweek pas gekanseleer.

Sias Fourie Hy was yster, daar was min manne wat kon kers vashou by hom, Yster ek se Yster!!!!!!! Persoonlik wil ek vir hom se baie dankie vir die voorbeelkd wat jy vir so baie student en mede kollegas gewys het. Daar is min ander wat dieslfde beeld as U uitgedra het. Josias De Kock Fourie 52879T - Peleton 12 voljaar 1969

Tiny Nortje Net voor ons ons offisier kursus uitpasseer het, inspeksie, en hy kyk of jy ringetjies het om die knope vas te hou of vas gewerk. En jy sal dit vaswerk! 25 March at 08:06 · Like · 1

John Richard Allen Baie geluk en hoop daars nog baie geseënde jare voerentoe.

Johann Snyman In 1978 was die Kolonel ons Kompanjie Bevelvoerder toe on Kompanjie Bevelvoerder op grensdiens was. Kan sy gesegde baie goed onthou. Dit het n rigtingwyser vir my geword."As jy nie saam met n persoon in die dag wil loop nie, waarom wil jy saam met die persoon in die nag loop?"

Japie de Jager 1967 my Kollege jaar toe was hy AO. As hy gepraat het, dan het jy gehardloop!!

Gert Knoetze IN MY KOLLEGE MAJOOR EN TOE KOLONEL 1982 VIR N HELE JAAR NIE STANDERD 8 NIE PROEF SERSANT EKSAMEN OOK IN KOLLEGE GESKRYF 6 WEKE PRAKTIES AAN RAND BY ENIGE STASIE NIE NOU NIE HARDLOOP WEG VIR LYKE OF TONEEL IS TE DRASTIES DIS STAAL DRAAD WAT DAAR STAAN HY HET NIE DIKTE NODIG NIE WARE VOORBLEED VIR ENIGE POLISIEBEAMPTE HET OOK EER GEHAD OM DIE EERSTE STAATSPRESIDENT VAN DIE LAND TE BLOEMFONTEIN TE BEGRAWE IN HELDE AKKER SAAM DIE KALIBER

Eddie Stafford 1982 jaar in kollege gewees toe was hy majoor. Netjiesste offisier wat ek ooit teëgekom het, n man sonder grys areas. Dissipline ononderhandelbaar, baie geluk Kolonel, mag u met baie lewensjare geseën wees. SALUUT!!

Andre Koorts 1982 jaar in kollege gewees. Baie geluk Kolonel. Mag dit 'n geseënde en vreugdevolle nuwe lewensjaar vir u wees.

Elnic Steenkamp Baie geluk Kolonel. Tong in die kies groet ek u met ons geliefde bynaam vir u in 1972 "Luitenant Kraai Lesch" Hierdie man het met sy selfdissipline en netheid menige Polisieman vir die toekoms geskoei.

Boela Snyman Veels geluk pappa Lesch. Nou vir die volgende 85.

Japie de Jager Baie geluk ! Ek was deur sy hande in kollege 1967.

Piet Van Zyl 1971 skool en na al die jare weereens besef daar is geen alternatief vir absolute dissipline nie....Walk Tall

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Bertram Oswald Moggee Baie geluk Kolonel, daar is net 10 van jou soort en jy is al 10 sal jou altyd onthou 1974

Koot van Schalkwyk Walk tall Colonel you served the SAP with discipline at all times...We salute you enjoy your 85th birthday from all the retired members in the western Cape.!

Sias Fourie Baie geluk met die groot dag kolonel Lesch, mag ons almagtige God en Vader jou nog lank spaar vir die familie en vir jouself, hou aan om 'n voorbeeld te bly vir al die manne wat by jou verbygekom het in die kollege en ook die college van die lewe.

Gerhard Booysen Baie geluk Kolonel ---alle seën vir u op die dag -- en die toekoms --

Tim En Elsie Slabbert Baie geluk Kolonel. Mag u nog baie jare van goeie gesondheid geniet. Baie dankie vir die groot deel wat u bygedra het tot my dissipline tydens my opleiding as polisiebeampte en latere kursusse. (Kol Tim Slabbert )

Anton Du Bruyn Was opgelei deur hierdie legende in 1983 op offisiers kursus. Daar was geen luidsprekers nie. As Alwyn Lesch opdragte aan parade geskree het in die polisiekollege, kon jy dit hoor op Kerkplein. Ook sabel opleiding as offisier, weereens hy was enig in sy taak! Wat 'n voorreg.....

Kenneth Roland So wie sal vergeet

Francois Mouton An officer and a gentleman!!! Baie geluk Kolonel Lesch.

Hendrik Grobbelaar Baie geluk en seën aan u toegebid. Almal het reeds gesê wat ek ook sou wou sê.

Riaan Giliomee Baie geluk Kolonel, en wat van die Bisley.

Andrew Lesch Riaan, hy sal nooit ophou daarmee nie. Hy het steeds hierdie jaar aan die nasionale kampioenskappe deelgeneem 4 June at 22:36 · Like · 1

Andries J G Lesch Mens raak skoon knop in die keel wanneer persone so van hom praat. Ek is bevoorreg hy is my pa, my mentor, my beste vriend en my hero. Kan nie anders en geniet hom nog steeds 4 June at 23:02 · Like · 3

Boela Snyman Het baie respek vir hom gehad. Streng maar regverdig gewees.

Peter Constantine Morris At the time in '66 when Lesch was a W/O the camp commander was Colonel 'Piele' Snyman. Who remembers him ? Apparently the word goes that he was captured during WW II and hung by his fingers for a while. His fingers were massive, I remember but not so sure about the validity of the story. Maybe just another story.

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Naomi Bieldt Scheepers Kol Lesch was my pa Ludick Bieldt se troepsersant in 1957 toe hy in die Kollege (toe Depot) was! Awesome mens!

Naomi Bieldt Scheepers Peter Constantine Morris my dad also told us the tale about Col Snyman's fingers, and his uniform pants which were specially tailored for him, something to do with the bottoms being just as wide as the shoes were long. Whenever we were chatting about the college and the training, dad would tell us about Col Snyman and Lesch and the recruits having to "arrest" cigarette stumps on the parade ground. 18 June at 19:25 · Like

Kenneth Roland Wel ek was een van die ongelukkigstes wat een Saterdag per ongeluk gevang is wat galoop en rook het oor die parade grond. Mense ken jul die lokomotief ek het om daai grond gehardloop met ʼn sigaret in my mond en moes net PUFF sodat dit soos ʼn trein moes lyk. 18 June at 19:32 · Like · 3

Henry Austin Ja ek onthou hom goed, sonder om afbrekend te wees, ken jul nog sy bynaam " Kraai". 28 June at 11:17 · Like · 1

Ds Kritzinger: SAP Kapelaan: N-Kaap: Kapt Patrick Coetzee Hallo Patrick Wat my pa betref, hy was predikant in Bloemhof toe hy in 1969 beroep is as polisiekapelaan van Noord-Kaap na die Kimberley-Noord gemeente. Hy was daar gestasioneer totdat hy in '85 se kant weens mediese redes uit die Mag en bediening getree het. Hy het verskriklik baie gereis weens die feit dat hy so 'n geweldige groot streek gehad het en hy het geglo dat hy so gereeld as moontlik elke liewe polisiestasie in sy streek moes besoek, maak nie saak hoe klein nie. Hy het geweldig baie staaltjies vertel van al die wedervaringe wat hy gehad het, veral op die grens tydens die grensoorlog. Hy kon ook baie getuienis gee van dinge wat gebeur het. Hy het 'n reeks skyfies saamgestel oor die grens wat hy van dorp tot dorp gaan vertoon het ten bate van die Polisie se Weduwee- en Wees fonds. Chris is in besit van die skyfies. My pa was werklik 'n baie dinamiese man. Hy het geglo, teen die hoofkapelaan se wil, dat hy altyd in die voorste voertuig wat die landmyn sou aftrap, moes ry omdat daardie polisieman hom die nodigste gehad het. Hy het altyd van die klein Gideon Bybeltjies op die grens uitgedeel en so gee hy toe eendag een vir 'n man wat glad nie geglo het nie. Die man sit dit toe ongeërg in sy hemp se boonste sak, die sak aan die kant van sy hart. Dit was nog dieselfde dag dat dieselfde man betrokke was by 'n skermutseling met terroriste en 'n koeël wat hom in die hart sou tref, het in die Bybeltjie vasgesteek. Hy het tot bekering gekom as gevolg daarvan.

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Ek dink een van die wonderlikste getuienisse was die van 'n Indiërpolisieman wat so gewond was dat sy binnegoed buite sy liggaam gelê het. Hy was op sy laaste. My pa is toe dadelik na die toneel en het vir die man gesê dat dit nou die tyd is om vir sy god te bid. Die man het geantwoord dat sy god hom nie sal kan genees nie en my pa het toe vir hom gesê sy God sal. Hy het vir hom gebid en die helikopter het hom toe na Windhoek vervoer. 'n Maand later het die hoofkapelaan hom in die hospitaal besoek en hy was genees en boonop bekeerd. My pa moes altyd Julievakansies in Port Edward gaan diens doen as kapelaan en dan het ons gewoonlik met die staatskar in Escourt by die polisiestasie gestop vir brandstof. 'n Hele ruk na die voorval van die Indiërman stop ons toe daar en my pa gaan koop lekkers by 'n kafee oorkant die straat. Toe hy by die kafee inloop erken die eienaar hom dadelik as ds Kritzinger en hy vertel toe vir my pa dat hy familie is van daai man en dat deur sy genesing hulle almal tot bekering gekom het. Ongelukkig sterf baie staaltjies saam met 'n persoon, maar ek kan jou regtig aanraai om met my broer Chris in aanraking te kom. Hy's 'n great ou, jy sal hom baie geniet en ek dink hy sal jou baie meer dinge kan vertel. Ek dink sy geheue is ook beter as myne! Ek het ongelukkig nie juis elektroniese foto’s van my pa nie, maar ek heg hierby aan 'n geraamde foto wat ek sommer met my selfoon afgeneem het en dan nog een van ons as familie wat in '71 geneem is. Ek sit voor asook my laatlam boetie Danie. Chris en Rentia is agter. Ek is nie seker wanneer die foto van my pa geneem is nie.

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Ek gee glad nie om as jy my staaltjies op julle faceboek blad sit nie. Ek het bietjie gaan loer en dit lyk my Chris is reeds 'n vriend op julle blad! Hy is ook oral hoor! Dit was regtig lekker om met jou te kommunikeer oor die goeie ou dae! Alles van die beste en ek hoop regtig ek hoor weer van jou!

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New Police Cross For Bravery [Silver]: Arno Arrie Coetzee

This is the new Police cross for bravery Silver, No 16.

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Steve Wilson: awesome picture!

Arno Arrie Coetzee: Not new actually, this one was issued to me in 2007

Naomi Bieldt: Scheepers Baie mooi!!

Paul Du Preez: Give us the story Arno Arrie Coetzee. Don't be shy.

Arno Arrie Coetzee: Was a long time ago, Jeppestown

Paul Du Preez: Say no more.

Mark Newham Arno Arrie Coetzee wasn’t it around this time?

Craig Langley; it was today Mark Newham

Arno Arrie Coetzee: Yes today

Mark Newham: Sterkte my maat!

Engela Slabbert: Our son got no 2 postuum, Bennie Kanyage got no 1 in 2005

Arno Arrie Coetzee: Mine is nr 16

Arno Arrie Coetzee: My respect Mrs Slabbert.

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Tiny Nortje: twice I should have been recommended for bravery, but my officers was just too damn useless. Mentioned in Terrence Kings "Gallantry awards of the South African Police" though.

Deon Botes: baie mooi en impressive geniet hom en show af - ek soek ook 1 vir die 28 jr wat ek uit suffer vir dapperheid in SAPS lol

Arno Arrie Coetzee: Jy kan myne kry, miskien sal al die memories wat daarmee saamgaan ook dan weggaan

Melodie Jackson Potter: Arno ons dink aan jou vandag en die manne in blou wat dit nie gemaak het nie, Saluut Jul almal. Julle is daagliks in my gebede. Eendag sal die herinneringe weg gaan. Tot dan. Sterkte

Toffie Risk: Lest not Forget:

Inspectors Frederick "Frikkie" van Heerden (West Rand dog unit)

Inspector Victor Nzama Mathye (West Rand dog unit

Sergeant Gert Schoeman (West Rand emergency response service) Constable Pieter Seaward (Johannesburg dog unit) -

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Arno Arrie Coetzee: Ek en Gert het saam op n skof gewerk

Boet Meintjes Saluut manne.

Eddie Coetzee: Het altyd vir my ex gese ek en Victor het meer tyd saam spandeer as ek en sy..Was my ou skof gewees. Frik en Victor rus in vrede.(ander 2 ook)

Steve Wilson: Huge amounts of respect to the members who received this medal! It is amazing thing to see one someone’s field dress or tunic, as a member and a medal collector I get excited to see things like this out in the field!

Johnnie Els: Toffie Risk

Toffie Risk 21 June at 00:05

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The South African Police Cross for Bravery was a high-ranking decoration, that existed between 1963 and 2004. It initially had only one class, but it was expanded to three classes in 1988. Instituted on 20 May 1963, retrospective to 31 May 1961, the decoration was awarded to all ranks of the South African Police, for conspicuous and exceptional bravery in the execution of duties, or in protecting or saving life or property. Recipients were entitled to the post-nominal letters PCF, standing for Praefecturae

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Toffie Risk Finale Saluut-- Johnny Els- Medaljes aan hom toegeken- Tweede van links vir Dapperheid !

Toffie Risk On 25 January 1981, Laingsburg (Western Cape) was devastated by a severe flood. The hard rains immersed the whole town in water, only the roofs of the houses were left visible. At least 100 residents lost their lives and the bodies of 72 people were never found. A total of 184 houses were destroyed leaving only 21 houses standing. 425mm of rain fell on 24 and 25 January 1981 causing the Buffalo River that flows North-south through the town to burst its banks."Verskeie lewens is gered deur Johnny Els- " Bok " en sy Kollegas" RIV ons sal nooit vergeet nie !

Arno Arrie Coetzee Die medalje,silwer klas lyk nou bietjie anders. Sal later myne opsit

Arno Arrie Coetzee Kan iemand my dalk verduidelik hoe om n foto op te sit,ek gebruik my selfoon maar daar is geen menu vir dit nie Finale Saluut- Johnny Els -Gebore 16 Junie 1944 --- Oorlede 15 Junie 2014...Jy was 'n Dappere Held...RIV

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Dankie. Brigadier ek het nie die volle besonderhede nie, maar Lionel Snyman het by

Johnny Els se begrafnisdiens melding gemaak van die omstandighede waar die SAP

Medalje vir dapperheid ontvang het (Laingsburg se vloede 1981, verskeie mense se

lewens gered). Ek onthou dit was gebeeldsend op SAUK Televisie).

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Serve, Protect (And Shoot): Facebook page offers glimpse into SAPS Culture:

Rebecca Davis

12 JUN 2014 12:30 (SOUTH AFRICA)

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Few would dispute that the South African Police Service has an image problem. High-profile cases of police brutality over the past few years have fuelled the perception of a trigger-happy and ill-disciplined force. Social media isn’t helping: a Facebook page which appears to represent a Cape Town police station reinforces the sense of a violent and brutal internal police culture. By Rebecca Davis.

Mowbray Police Station, in Cape Town, appears to have its own Facebook page, brought to the Daily Maverick’s attention this week. Established in 2012, it is not updated very often. It has been used in the past to post news relating to POPCRU, the police union, and to call for donations for the station’s year-end function. The site’s administrator has also posted to respond to queries, such as how to apply to become a SAPS member.

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But the major function of the site seems to be to share police-related photographs and “memes”: images with text superimposed which spread rapidly online. There is a noticeable theme: the content which is shared on the Facebook page valorises a decidedly “hardline” approach to law enforcement.

The site’s profile picture is a mocked-up warning sign, with an image of a gun, which reads: “ATTENTION THIEVES. PLEASE CARRY ID SO WE CAN NOTIFY NEXT OF KIN”. The implication is that thieves caught should expect to die.

One photograph features a riot-geared policeman next to an Alsatian licking his chops, and bears the legend: “BAD GUYS…they taste like CHICKEN”.

Another jokes: “PEPPER SPRAY? IT’S A FOOD PRODUCT, ESSENTIALLY”.

“Due to the price increase on ammo don’t expect a warning shot,” reads another. “Sorry, but times are hard.”

It might be easier to laugh off these postings as a form of stress-relief for battle-scarred police officers, or just a kind of macho posturing, if they didn’t closely reflect what many people suspect to be SAPS’s actual modus operandi.

The quip about warning shots, for instance, echoes an entirely non-humorous statement made by erstwhile Deputy Minister of Safety and Security (now Minister for Women in the Presidency) Susan Shabangu in 2008: “You must kill the bastards if they threaten you or the community. You must not worry about the regulations. I want no warning shots. You have one shot and it must be a kill shot.”

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Hou boere veilig – Cele: Rapport

2014-06-21 23:34 /Artikelopsies /Deel / Kry Rapport op / James-Brent Styan Bheki Cele Foto: Craig Nieuwenhuizen Bheki Cele, die nuwe adjunkminister van landbou, bosbou en visserye, is afgevaardig om plaasmoorde in Suid-Afrika, en moontlike oplossings daarvoor, te ondersoek. Die oud-polisiehoof sê die veiligheid van boere is vir hom en die regering ’n top-prioriteit. Cele het in sy tyd as polisiehoof polisielede aangeraai om nie te huiwer om misdadigers dood te skiet nie as hul lewe bedreig word.

“Daar moet veiligheid wees vir boere en hulle moet gerus voel en voel hulle is deel van Suid-Afrika. Dit is ons almal se plig om aan hul veiligheid te werk.”

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Die nuwe landbouminister, Senzeni Zokwana, het Cele op grond van sy polisie-ervaring afgevaardig om dié kwessie te bekyk. “As ons veiligheid op die plase het, sal ons ekonomiese groei sien.” Ook die leier van die Ekonomiese Vryheidsvegters (EFF), Julius Malema, het Vrydag gesê boere, wit en swart, moet beskerm word, want hulle vervul ’n noodsaaklike rol. “Boere produseer kos vir die land, skep werk en laat die ekonomie groei. Die doodmaak van boere kom neer op die ondergrawing van ons ekonomie. Die moord op ’n boer is nie net ’n misdaad teen daardie familie nie, maar teen almal van ons. Die EFF sal dit nie duld nie.” Malema sê die EFF se LP’s in die parlementêre komitees oor polisie en justisie gaan die saak van veiligheid en misdaad teen boere in daardie komitees aanvoer. Pieter Groenewald, ’n LP van die VF+, sê hy hoop Cele doen wat hy sê. “Dis verrassend dat hy nou skielik veiligheid wil aanpak. Toe hy werklik in ’n posisie was om iets te doen, het hy nie. Ek het hom destyds gevra om te kyk na die gebrekkige sektor-polisiëring in die landbousektor, maar daarvan het niks gekom nie. Maar ek sal vreeslik bly wees as hy werklik iets wil doen.” Bennie van Zyl, hoofbestuurder van TLU SA, sê politici het tot nou soos die graf oor plaasmoorde geswyg. “As Cele ernstig is, sal ons graag met hom wil saamwerk. Oplossings vir misdaad begin by ’n politieke wil, want dan openbaar jy ’n gesindheid om meganismes in plek te stel om dit aan te vat.” Dianne Kohler Barnard, DA-LP, bevraagteken egter Cele se motiewe. Sy dien in die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor polisie. “Hoekom het hy nie plaasmoorde as ’n prioriteit beskou toe hy nasionale polisiehoof was nie? Nou is hy adjunkminister en nou is dit skielik ’n prioriteit? Sy woorde is te min, te laat.” Kohler Barnard sê die veiligheid van boere is buitendien nie die adjunkminister van landbou se werk nie. Dié verantwoordelikheid val onder die polisie. Sy sê plaasmoorde bly ’n reuse-kwessie met geen duidelike plan van regeringskant om dit aan te pak nie. http://www.rapport.co.za/Nuus/Hou-boere-veilig-Cele-20140621

KOL EUGENE A DE KOCK

Op-Ed: De Kock ordered my sister’s killing – and no, his debt is not paid

Jane Quin / South Africa

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It would have been my sister Jacki’s 59th birthday last month. But she never got

further than her 30th. She was shot by Vlakplaas members under the direction of

Eugene de Kock in the Maseru raid of December 1985. Next year she will have been

dead for as many years as she lived. By Jane Quin.

From then on, the dead end keeps on growing longer. Unlike the prison sentences, or lack of them, of those who killed, and conspired to kill, her and other South Africans who died in struggle for our collective liberation.

There have only been three white South African perpetrators of Apartheid crimes convicted: Eugene de Kock, Clive Derby-Lewis and Ferdy Barnard. For all the direct and indirect damage of Apartheid. For all those whose lives were deeply damaged and destroyed through death, torture, banishment, exile and jail for fighting for justice, only three people among the perpetrators are paying some sort of price.

And now two of the three come up for parole and the consideration of their release. Into life on compassionate grounds of health or having paid their debt to society.

Do I object to the release of Eugene de Kock? Absolutely. As I do to the possible early release of Clive Derby-Lewis. Chris Hani is still very dead. No compassionate grounds will ever change the deep harm and hurt of Hani's loss for South Africa and his loved ones. The loss of Jacki remains forever as hurt to us who loved her, including going forward, the family children who were never given that chance.

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Let us not forget who De Kock is; what he has done. He was responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of deaths: sometimes indirectly through the provision of arms to Inkatha supporters, the Transkei coup plotters, tampered grenades, false information and through his activities with Koevoet outside the country. De Kock was directly responsible for multiple other murders, alone and/or with others, supposedly beginning in November 1983 in Manzini, Swaziland, with shooting dead ANC members Keith McFadden and Zwelakhe (Zwelibanzi) Nyanda, for which he and the other operatives involved were awarded medals for ‘fighting terrorism’.

Just some of the other people and incidents he was directly responsible for killing over the years are:

June 86, Chesterville, four comrades killed by Vlakplaas members. In 1990 at a judicial inquiry all the black members testified to this, as well as Brig Schoon, De Kock, Paul van Dyk and Willie Nortje.

1985: Abduction of unknown person from Swaziland and blowing up body at Island Rock.

1985: ANC member shot dead in the Transkei in a joint operation with Transkei Security Branch.

12 Feb 89, Swaziland: murder of Derrick Mashobane, Thabo Mohale and Portia Shabangu in Swaziland.

8 June 1988, Piet Retief: killed three women and one man, Makhosi Nyoka, Lindiwe Mthembu, June-Rose Cothoza and Surrendra Naidu.

June/July 89: murder of askari M T Mtheheleng.

July 1990: murder of Brian Nqulunga.

March 92, Nelspruit: five people killed - alleged planned robbery by Tiso, Winnie Mandela's bodyguard and others Khona Kabela, L Nyalende; G Mama; O Nshaota; T Leballo.

In the end, the only real political murder De Kock was actually convicted for was Bheki Mlangeni in 1991, who was not even his intended victim. Dirk Coetzee was. Jacki and the others murdered in the 1985 Maseru massacre are not even listed among those he was charged for. Let us also not forget there are ways in which he still benefits. First and foremost, he is still alive, even if he is in prison. He can be visited by family and friends should they so choose. Theoretically, at least he and his family can still potentially benefit from what he has done. Awfully, he has cultish adorers who would welcome his release.

But, ultimately, my concern is much broader than just De Kock’s life, incarceration and/or potential release. My concern is the lack of commitment to seeing justice done as a result of the TRC process.

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For all its foibles and controversies and differing value for the many people that participated in it, for me, the TRC was amazing. Through the process we got to tell to the world the horror and sadness and fury of our loss in the TRC hearings. Through the amnesty process we got to see included in the names of those who caused her death members of the State Security Council who together had plotted the demise and destruction of thousands of fellow South Africans, and their foreign allies. It was a gruelling process. We sat in a room among my sister’s killers. But the truth was heard. I was politically proud as a South African and personally grateful as a family member of a victim of an Apartheid regime crime.

And then it let us all down. We as a country, failed to prosecute the named and admitted perpetrators who didn’t get amnesty. It was hard enough to swallow the terms of TRC that would see self-confessed murderers and torturers walk free if they were deemed to be telling the truth and their acts were considered to fall within the political ambit of their side. But to fail to carry through the hearings into punitive practice through the [expedient?] loss of political steam is a travesty of justice. It diminishes the TRC and erodes its value for our present and future.

So it is less De Kock that I care about, one way or another, than it is the failure of the country to carry through the value and promise of the TRC.

While De Kock sat in jail for these past 20 years of his 212-year sentence (intended to keep him locked away for life), his conspirators who were refused amnesty for Jacki’s murder have been allowed to get away scot-free. At least while he was whiling away some of his time in jail, De Kock’s testimony at their amnesty hearings helped to expose their part in the saga. Despite the careful machinations of Visser and Wagenaar, it was the lawyers for the regimes perpetrators who held [most of] the cards controlling the damage to their dirty side.

In the amnesty hearing for murderer's of Jacki, her husband Leon Meyer, known in exile as Joe, and four other MK operatives, Nomkhosi Mary Mini, Lulamile Dantile, Vivian Stanley Mathee, Monwabisi Themba Mayoli (all South African citizens) and three Lesotho nationals Mankaelang Mohatle, Boemo Tau and Amelia Leseuyeho, who were “caught in the crossfire”, we heard the details of the unfolding horror story of the death of our loved ones. Of the three competing Apartheid groups trying to kill these MK cadres in Maseru, De Kock’s C1 unit from Vlakplaas got to be the ones to actually carry out the murder mission. Working with an informer, they planned and carried out an attack on a house party where they killed all the victims of the raid beside Jacki and Joe.

We heard how the informer led two members of De Kock’s unit off separately to the ‘safe house’ where Jacki and Joe lived as a family with their one-year-old daughter Phoenix. Opening the door to a familiar voice, Jacki apparently shouted in alarm to Joe as she was confronted not by a friend but by two armed men. They shot her. Dead. Then they shot Joe. Then they left. Joe didn’t die immediately. He crawled as far as the neighbours’ home before he died a few hours later. Left alone in the house with her dead mother was Phoenix, who’d had her first birthday just two days before.

As we pushed for the full story at the amnesty hearings, we heard more about the roles of those higher up in the chain of command. We got a glimpse De Kock’s

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commander sitting in his kitchen at home in silk dressing gown, smoothly sipping morning coffee with lily-clean hands, while the ‘success’ of his orders to murder were reported to him.

In the end, through the amnesty process, common cause was found between them and the foot soldiers who carried out the physical act and conspiracy to commit murder by those who had ordered the Maseru raid.

Johannes Velde Van Der Merwe, Eugene Alexander De Kock, Willem Albertus Nortje, Izak Daniel Bosch, Nicholaas Johannes Vermeulen and Frederick Schoon were refused amnesty for the killing of Jacki, mainly on the grounds that she was not an MK member; that two armed men trained to kill in many ways including hand-to-hand combat could easily have overcome an unarmed woman surprised in her own home instead of instantly murdering her; and that murder motivated by personal racist hatred of a ‘white’ woman because she was married to a ‘coloured’ man did not qualify as the official political position of the Apartheid regime.

Yet they have never been charged in civilian life for the murders they acknowledged having participated in. For which they were refused the protection of amnesty. So how dare we as a country spend precious resources of time, money and energy considering the release of the killers who are captive, when we haven’t even bothered to bring the others to book?

Owing to the more recent additional aberration of judicial process through the bizarre precedent set in the Wouter Basson case, we cannot in this instance prosecute the foot soldiers who physically killed Jacki because they did so outside of South Africa. However, the conspiracy to commit murder by those who ordered the killings happened right here within our borders, as members of PW Botha’s centralised control in the Security Council.

If anyone seriously considers the possibility of parole for De Kock, at least ensure it is purposeful. Although any consideration would be over-compensatory to prime evil, at least ensure some material quid pro quo. For example, in this case, his possible release should depend on the successful conviction of the conspirators in command of the murder mission. Material from the Truth Commission cannot be used directly as evidence, but the testimony of De Kock can, with full transcripts of previous explanations available to assist his memory. Better yet, keep him inside as company to the other perpetrators when they come to join him.

There can, of course, be common cause in feeling that we need to call for them and many others to be punished for all the people they harmed. But for better or worse, the TRC process was exactly for the purpose of helping us reconcile to the political murders of war. Where people who were not exonerated through that process can be brought to book for their crimes against our society, they must be. If they are not, we are all colluding with injustice yet again.

I call on the country to keep the commitment of the TRC. Charge those who were refused amnesty. Make justice be done. NOW. While unpunished perpetrators still have some life to be lost. In small recompense for the lives they took forever. DM

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Photo: Eugene de Kock appears at the Truth And Reconcilation Commission (TRC) amnesty hearing with his lawyer Schalk Hugo May 24. (Reuters)

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Sal De Kock vrygelaat word? Vryburger

July 1, 2014 - Nuus - no comments

Die Minister van Korrektiewe Dienste het tyd tot 10 Julie om ’n besluit te neem oor Eugene de Kock se aansoek om op parool vrygelaat te word.

Die minister se woordvoerder het gesê die besluit is nog nie geneem nie, maar ’n aankondiging sal gemaak word ingevolge ’n hofbevel. De Kock se regsverteenwoordigers moes

die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria nader om die minister te dwing om ’n besluit te neem oor sy parool-aansoek.. De Kock is gedurende 1996 tot lewenslange gevangenisstraf gevonnis, en ’n verdere 212 jaar gevangenisstraf is hom opgelê nadat hy skuldig bevind is op aanklag van ’n reeks oortredings, wat moord, sameswering, ontvoering en aanranding insluit. Hy is reeds 20 jaar in die tronk. Waarnemers het blykbaar gevra of De Kock se parool op dieselfde wyse as Derby-Lewis s’n hanteer gaan word, en wie van die publiek gaan genader word om hulle mening uit te spreek oor sy vrylating. Die Hani-familie word telkens genader om hulle gevoel te toets oor Derby-Lewis se vrylating. Ontleders is van mening dat daar weereens gekyk moet word na die vrylating van sogenaamde siekes wat tans gesond genoeg is om gholf te speel, terwyl geen blanke genader is om te hoor of sulke mense vrygelaat moes word nie. Intussen word die Minister se besluit oor mnr. Clive Derby-Lewis afgewag http://www.dievryburger.co.za/2014/07/sal-de-kock-vrygelaat-word/

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POLICE HISTORY: SOUTH AFRICA / POLISIEGESKIEDENIS: SUID-

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Babsfontein – Die Boere Memphis: Eduan Liebenberg Naude

Eduan Liebenberg Naude BABSFONTEIN – DIE BOERE MEMPHIS Fanus Rautenbach het dit nodig geag om ‘n paar keer in sy grap boek na Babsfontein te verwys, nogal asof almal behoort te weet van die plek. Verwysings wat alles so tong in die kies sê...want Bapsfontein was nie ‘n gewone plek nie. Die ou, Pretoria Delmas pad, het deur Bapsfontein geloop, so ‘n rapsie oor die dertig kilometer buite Pretoria. As mens van Pretoria se kant af in die plaas-plekkie beginne inkom, was daar ‘n koeëlronde padkafee aan die regterkant van die pad. Spiros, die Griek was daardie tyd, in die tagtigs, die eienaar van dié populêre inry-plek-kafee waar mens als; koeldrank, padkos en die Sondag koerant kon koop. Hoeveel male is ek nie soontoe ontbied nie en hoeveel keer het ou Spiros, wanneer ek instap, ‘n glasbotteltjie Coke se prop met daardie tipies kordaat spontane manier van hom, afgeskiet, en die botteloopmaker aan die toutjie, nonchalant laat val om aan die toonbank te hang; die bottel waaruit ‘n ‘gaskrul’ stoom, met ‘n selfversekerde afgemetenheid voor my op die toonbank laat neerklap en sê: “Sargeant, sorry for calling you, have a coke...these fuckin bastards, they buy for five rand, they make shit for three hundred!” Dan ry ek terug polisiestasie toe met die besope outa wat in die ronde kafee moles gemaak het. Agter die bult roskam ek hom en laat hom gaan met die opdrag dat hy moet wegbly vir ‘n paar dae en dan maar weer gaan koop by die ronde kafee. Bapsfontein was natuurlik in die tagtigs waarvan Ma-Linguis praat, die ontug Mekka van hierdie land. Die een plek in die ganse Suid Afrika waar boerewors per capita die meeste deur ousies verorber is. In my destydse skrywetjie: “Om Hoere te Jag - I”, verwys ek juis gedeeltelik na daardie aspek van Bapsfontein se ‘verbode terrein’, wat vandag nie meer ‘n ‘probleem’ is nie. Die Ontugwet is verwyder toe die nuwe sisteem in werking gestel is, en toe die ou sisteem verdwyn, toe vergaan die ou Bapsfontein ook. Saam die ou garde het een van die lewendigste en bekende kuierplekke en... dansbane van die Afrikaner tot niet gegaan... Net verby Spiros se inrykafee in die rigting van Delmas het die pad ‘n draai gemaak en waar dit weer reguit trek, so drie honderd meter verder, het mens in Bapsfontein se hartkamer ingery. Aan die linkerkant was die Bapsfontein Hotel, met sy restaurant-kafee en die hotel se ingang amper op die hoofpad. Regoor die hotel was daar die pretpark met al die ontspanningsgeriewe wat ‘n Suid Afrikaner van die goeie ou apartheid dae voor kon droom. Koeltebome, braaigeriewe, sitplek, parkeerplek ‘n swembad en ‘n permanente pretpark met masjien-aangedrewe-vermaak. ‘n Trekpleister en uithangplek sonder gelyke. Daar het die land se Country sangers van die tyd, naweke bymekaargekom en die mense vermaak. Dit was nie aldag wat mens vir Barbara Ray, Gene Rockwell, Lance James, Bobby Angel, Tommy Dell en andere op ‘n gegewe dag onder die bome kon hoor sing nie. Nie aldag wat mens

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treffers soos ‘I Dont Wanna Play House’ – ‘Heart’ – ‘Dankie’ – ‘Before The Next Teardrop Falls’ en ‘Teddy Bear’ in lewende lywe kon luister nie. By Bapsfontein was dit algemeen. Vrydag en Saterdagaande het Bapsfontein getril. Van heinde en verre het al die verskillende tipes mense wie se voete gejeuk het gekom. As Kaapstad naby genoeg was sou die wat van dans hou, Bapsfontein toe gegaan het. Reg langs die hotel, as deel van die kompleks, was ‘n enorme saal met twee dansbane. Die dans oppervlak van die dansbane was spesiaal vervaardigde dans vloere wat enige nasionale of internasionale dans kompetisie met reg sou kon aanbied. Een van die twee dansbane was daardie tyd die grootste dansbaan in Suid Afrika, en baie moontlik in die Suidelike Halfrond. Dié, is gedien deur ‘n spesiale platform vir ‘n groot orkes. Die dansbaan was rond. Om dit, alkant van die platform af, kon honderde mense by netjiese tafels en stoele sit. Daar was altyd ‘n lewende orkes soos die van Hansie Roodt, of andere. Dit was nog nie die dae vir platejoggies nie. ‘n Platejoggie langs Bapsfontein se dansbaan sou wees soos ‘n allemintige puisie op die punt van ‘n skoonheid se neus - soos wanneer ‘n stinkhout tafel pink of groen geverf word. Daarom ook, was bokspring op die maat van geraas, so uit soos ousie kafoefel op ‘n aanklagkantoor se stoep. Daar is vas gedans, en as jy nie goed kon dans nie het jy weggebly anders het jy uit gevoel. Van Bronkhorstspruit, Benoni, Brakpan, Kemptonpark, Delmas en Pretoria het almal wat wou dans, kom dans...’Alle danspaaie het na Bapsfontein geloop’. Kyk, as jy goed kon dans, en jy was ‘n jintelman wat nie selfsugtig was nie en jy het jou vat aan ‘n vrou geken; dan was Bapsfontein se dansbaan, die voorportaal na haar bed. Ek dink menige wit perd is daar buite Bapsfontein se danssaal staan gemaak. Baie waardige mense het daardie aande spontaan, uitgevat in hulle dansklere, soos Fred Astaire en Ginger Rodgers tussen die beskonke armpompers en hakopskoppers deurgevloei. Bapsfontein se dansbaan was spesiaal geveerd. Min mense het dit geweet, maar vir die, wat van hulle dans hou soos wat Julio Iglesias van sy sang hou met sy dun-sool skoene om die musiek te voel, sou die wat weet die vloer ook gevoel het. Ek was van 1980 tot 1985 as polisieman by Welbekend Polisiestasie gestasioneer en was ‘n hele ruk die waarnemende Stasiebevelvoerder aldaar. Bapsfontein was in my area – ses kilometer van die polisiestasie af. Bapsfontein se wel en wee was deel van my alledaagse werk en lewe. ‘n Gewone Afrikaner-messelaar-bouer was die Hitler van Bapsfontein. Soos wat die Feuhrer die vader van snelweë is, so was Oom Frans Hattingh die skepper van die Bapsfontein Hotel. Die ontspanning area en die groot saal met die dansbane - dit was sý brein kind. Ek het eendag baie lank met oom Frans gesit en praat en hy het my sy lewensverhaal vertel. Vertel hoe hy stene gelê het dat sy jonge-rug wou breek en bloed deur die krake van die sement eelte op sy hande sypel. Dat hy homself ryk gebuig, gesweet en gewerk het en toe Bapsfontein ‘raakgesien’ het. Hy het altyd ‘n wit hemp gedra, ‘n geruite netjiese ‘omie’ hoed en ‘n netjiese ‘tweed baadjie’. Sy silwergrys hare wat onder die hoed uitgesteek het, het ‘n waardigheid uitgebeeld - Frans Hattingh, die Don van Delmas kiesafdeling! Ek het as jong pasgetroude, 25 jarige polisieman my jongste broer en suster wat ‘n tweeling is in my sorg geneem omdat ek gesien het my weduwee ma kry finansieel

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te swaar. Hulle het van standerd agt tot deur matriek by ek en my vrou gewoon en ons het vir hulle gesorg. Ek het dit daardie tyd self nie breed gehad nie en Oom Frans Hattingh was baie beïndruk toe hy uitvind wat ek en my vrou doen. Sy kleinkind was saam die tweeling op skool. My broer was ‘n kranige rugbyspeler en het van Standerd agt al vir die skool se eerstespan gespeel (lees my happie ‘Die Malle se Prostaat’ dit hou verband met Bapsfontein en die rugby) en die een jaar was daar ‘n toer na die Suidkus van Natal. Ek het slapelose nagte gehad oor die kostes daaraan verbonde. Toe laat die afrigter my weet iemand het vir my broer betaal. Ek het navrae gedoen en het na ‘n gesukkel uitgevind dat dit Oom Frans Hattingh was. Oom Frans is nou dood. Ek kan dus die volgende met ‘n vrye gemoed vertel. “Adjudant, wat word van die dagga wat julle by die ‘swart volk’ wegvat?” Ek het aan hom verduidelik dat dit na gelang van ‘n latere hofbevel vernietig word. Ek kon in sy gesig sien dat die gesprek nie klaar is nie en toe vertel hy my van “Ou” oom Voges op die plaas daar naby... “Daardie man is donners amper tagtig, en hy klim op daardie trekker van hom so vinnig soos ‘n jags bobbejaan en hop weer daar af na ‘n paar uur se ploeëry kompleet soos ek scaffolds afgespring het toe ek neëntien was!” Hy vra toe dadelik of ek kan dink hoe die oompie dit regkry, en voor ek kon reageer kom dit uit “Die donner vertel my hy suip daggatee elke oggend op ‘n nugter maag. Hy trek twee teelepels dagga in ‘n koppie kookwater en suip dit. Dit is hoe hy dit regkry” Toe word ek sommer: “Ou seun” sê hy, “Ou seun, mý trekker, is daardie pragtige vrou van my wat baie jonger as ek is... kan ons nie so ‘n plannetjie maak nie, my gô raak uit?” Ek het vir oom Frans gereeld ‘n plannetjie gemaak. September 1981 toe sneeu dit op Bapsfontein. Daardie September was dit die naaste wat dit aan Pretoria so erg gesneeu het. Daardie aand ry ek in die sneeu, skelm gly, gly na die Bapsfontein saal met my ou 1965 Volkswagen Variant motortjie, want ek het iets gedoen wat ‘n polisieman verbied is. Ek het na Eugene Terreblanche gaan luister. Daar in die saal langs die dansbaan het die AWB leier op ‘n podium gestaan en sy woorde sal my altyd bybly: “As jy opkyk na die voëls sien jy ‘n stryd om voortbestaan, en as jy afkyk na die mier sien jy ook ‘n stryd om voortbestaan. Elke lewende wese het die reg om te stry om te lewe. As die swart man in opstand kom dan is dit sy reg om te probeer voortbestaan, maar as ek op hom moet trap vir my voortbestaan, is dit ook my reg” Ek het daardie aand nooit sou kon dink dat daardie selfde saal vandag ‘n toonbeeld sou word van ‘n Bapsfontein wat moes swig onder ‘n ‘omgekeerde trap’ as die wat Terrblanche impliseer het nie. Die bediendekamers agter die hotel het ‘n plakkerskamp geword. Die Hotel en plesieroord wil julle nie sien nie. Nog minder die kroeg en veral nie die danssaal. Ek wil nie gaan kyk nie – ek dink die dansvloer het vuurmaakhout geword. As mense wat al gesterf het, vandag sou kon opstaan sal daar meer hartseer wees oor plekke wat vergaan het as enige iets anders. Oor Bapsfontein sal baie mense weer terug in die graf wil klim... Maar so van graf gepraat. Ek dink die Don het ‘n hand in die grond onder sy Bapsfontein. Onlangs het die dolomiet en water onder Bapsfontein ‘n allemintige sinkgat agter die hotel begin veroorsaak en die plakkers moes inderhaas geskuif word.

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Gawie Botha, Frik Bruwer, Beverly Lancaster Olivier and 14 others like this.

Francois Beirowski mooi

Andre Steinmann Snr Was ook as kind baie daar. Wally en Truia Watkins is familie. Tannie Truia is my pa se suster en woon steeds daar. Sy is nou 82.

Christo Giani Wel gese!!

Deon Huysamen Dankie Eduan. Jy vat my nou ver terug. Was op Kempton Park, Boksburg en verskeie stasies in Pretoria gestasioneer vanaf 1963 tot 1981. My ouers het in Springs gebly. Kan nie eers tel hoeveel keer ek Babsfontein deurgery het nie. Op Kempton Park was die populêrste plek vir die ewige padblokkades juis daar waar die pad vanaf Babsfontein by die Kempton Park-Pretoria pad aangesluit het, 'n klipgooi van Esselenpark af. Kan baie stories vertel van daardier jare.

Johan Herselman Snr Ek het hierdie item van jou werklik geniet. Ek het hier opgeslip in my jongdae. Eich

Jaco Van der Merwe Uitstekende storie, man dit was mos nou lekker.

Paul Greyling Ek ken daardie danssaal. Het self in my jong en jeukerige dae daar gaan dans. Was toe op Witbank en Middelburg en het daarvandaan gery om lekker te gaan dans.

David Botha Die laaste keer dat ek Gene Rockwell persoonlik hoor en sien 'Heart' sing het was by die Bapsfontein hotel. Voel soos gister. Dankie Eduan.

Eduan Liebenberg Naude Vriende - Elke geslag het hulle tydvlak, maar ek dink ons het dinge gehad wat "evergreen" is...

Gawie Botha Hoe ouer ons as blankes word, hoe meer geskiedkundige erfenisse word van ons vervreemd, en interessant dat ons as blankes in groep vorm, dit gelate aanvaar!

Jaco Van der Merwe Iemand, kan meer onthou wie nie (dalk as gevolg van pdsd), het n tydjie gelede n komentaar gegee dat hierdie slegs n blad vir polisie aangeleenthede is. Wat n groot leuen, ek tydens my dienstydperk min oor polisie sake gepraat, juis om daarvan te vergeet. Ons het baie, selfs in werkstye tydens vergaderings oor allehande gebeure geklets. Eduan Liebenberg Naude, dit is altyd lekker om van jou te hoor, aangesien elke storie wat jy skryf iets in het om oor na te dink en selfs die ouer garde terug te neem na beter en mooier herinneringe. Great stuff.

Eduan Liebenberg Naude Jaco - so tussen my 'anderste' denke en voorkeure skemer daar darem 'n deel wat dinge lekker sien... Daar is baie oud polisiemanne en vroue wat die suiwer polisie gedeelte wakker en lewendig hou - wat ek self baie geniet - maar ons het mos ook 'n "haas" deel aan ons, nie waar nie?

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Frik Bruwer Eduan gedurende my kollege opleiding in 1968 het ek baie Saterdae aande daar gaan windsurf( langarm dans) en as ons Sondae af was gaan Country muskiek gaan luister,dit bring sommer baie heimvee terug.

Eduan Liebenberg Naude Frik - En hoe vertel mens hierdie dinge aan die volgende geslag, dat hulle dit ervaar so diep en eg soos ons dit ervaar het? Eintlik kan mens nie rerig nie. Dit is soos om die nostalgie rondom 'n koolstoof te probeer verduidelik. Daar is iets wat jy beleef wat nie oor vertel kan word nie - behalwe aan die wat dit self beleef het. Dan is daar totale waardering. Oor hierdie dinge praat jy net met die 'ouer' mense...

Frik Bruwer Eduan dit is soos soveel ander dinge soos toe ons kinders was kon jy in die somer tot 9 of 10 uur buite speel en jy was veilig,waar is die dae wat mense in die aande gaan "window shopping"doen het soveel dinge om te noem maar dit alles behoort aan die verlede.Ek kan nie eens onthou wanneer ek ek laas in Durban middestad was nie en soos ek verneem lyk dit soos n varkhok.Ek kan onthou as ons in die aande in die stag rond geloop het hoe daardie vragmotor wat water spuit on groot borsels die pad skoon gemaak het ook iets van die verlede.

Jan Calitz Ek kry byna heimwee! Goeie ou dae toe die Datsun SSS'e, Alfa's en Cortina's die manne se trots was. Bobby Angel, Tommy Dell en ander het vir die feestelikhid gesorg!

Frik Bruwer Ja Jan ek het self n SSS gery.

Rebellion at Slagtersnek / Slachtersnek-Rebellie: Dr JC van der Walt

REBELS OF SLAGTERSNEK 1815 sal DV in Junie 2014 gereed wees. Dit het baie jare van navorsing in die Kaapse Argief gekos om by die ONGEMAKLIKE WAARHEID uit te kom.

Die skrywer, JC vd Walt het selfs die grafte van Hans Bezuidenhout sowel as die Hottentot soldaat wat hy doodgeskiet het opgespoor, kruise daar opgerig en AVBOB kranse daar geplant.

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CHAPTER 4

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN GRAHAM: His Hottentot Cape Regiment and the

Burgher commandos expelled twenty-thousand Xhosas from the Zuurveld in 1812.

PHOTO: Lieutenant-Colonel John Graham, first commander of the Cape Regiment.

By May 1810 the Government had enlisted 742 Hottentot soldiers.

Xhosa chiefs Kassa and Habana stole 745 cattle and 12 horses during April, May

and June 1810 in the District of Uitenhage. On 15 April 1810 they stole 29 cattle from

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Johannes Janse van Vuuren of Swartkops River. Hottentot soldiers of the Cape

Regiment recovered the cattle.

By 1811 some 20 000 wandering Xhosas under Chief Ndlambe burnt 497 Boer

homesteads to the ground and they stole thousands of cattle, sheep and some

horses. They simply ignored the official Great Fish River boundary proclaimed in

1780 which had once again been officially recognized by King Ngqika and

Commissioner Jan Willem Janssens at Katberg on 20 June 1803.

The frontier Boers had no option but to leave their farms.

The Xhosa stole 1 200 head of cattle during the first three months of 1811 and they

murdered two Boers and six Hottentot servants. During the evening of 8 March 1811

the Xhosa murdered the elderly Burgher, Jan Davel, and also stole 120 head of

cattle.

Major Jacob Glen Cuyler, a Dutch-speaking American from Albany, New York, who

was in charge of Fort Frederick, Algoa Bay, made an urgent appeal to the Cape

authorities to set an ultimatum to all the Xhosa intruders west of the Great Fish River

to leave the area before a certain date. Graham supported this idea. At this stage he

fielded some 800 armed men ready to do battle. This number included 400 men of

the Cape Regiment and 350 members of the local Burgher commandos plus two

hundred British soldiers. The Burghers and the Hottentot soldiers fought side by

side.

The 350 Burghers were under the command of their civil leaders, Field-Commandant

Gabriel Stoltz and Field-Cornets Willem Nel and Willem Grobler.

On 20 December 1811 the massive military operation to clear the frontier started. On

7 March 1812 Sir John Francis Cradock wrote to Lord Liverpool:”I am happy to add

that in the course of this service there has not been shed more Kaffir blood than

would seem to be necessary to impress upon the minds of these savages a proper

degree of terror and respect.”

By the end of February 1812 hardly a trace of a Xhosa remained in the Zuurveld. In

just two months the Cape Regiment and the Burghers, plus help from the 21st Light

Foot, succeeded in driving some 20 000 Xhosa intruders from the Zuurveld.

In order to maintain peace on the eastern frontier border, Colonel John Graham

established 22 Military Posts plus several observation posts along the western side

of the Great Fish River. He also used the Hottentots of the Cape Regiment to repair

the roads and bridges to improve communication with the frontier and to deliver post

by pack oxen to the Burghers. (497 words)

CAPE CORPS From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

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The Cape Corps and its predecessor units were the main military organizations in

which the Coloured members of South Africa's population served.

1781–1878

As one of the military units of South Africa with one of the longest histories, the Cape Corps reflects the history of South Africa's Coloured population to a great extent.

The first Coloured unit to be formed was the Corps Bastaard Hottentoten, which was organized in 1781 by the Dutch colonial administration of the time. Based in Cape Town and drawing its members from men of mixed Hottentot and White ancestry, this unit had about 400 members. However, the unit was disbanded in 1782.

In 1793 this unit was re-formed in Cape Town as the Corps van Pandoeren , only to be disbanded again in 1795.

The unit was re-formed again under the British colonial administration in May 1796, this time under the name Hottentot Corps. It was headquartered in Wynberg and consisted of about 300 men. In 1798 the headquarters were moved to Hout Bay.

On 25 June 1801 the Cape Regiment was formed. It was organized as a British imperial regiment of ten companies and retained all the personnel of the Hottentot Corps.

With the Dutch taking over colonial administration of the Cape once again, the Corps Vrye Hottentotten ("Corps of Free Hottentots") was formed on 21 February 1803. It was later renamed the Hottentot Ligte Infanterie ("Hottentot Light Infantry").

When the British returned to the Cape, they formed The Cape Regiment in October 1806. Headquartered in Cape Town, it was organized as a typical colonial unit with British officers and Coloured other ranks. In later years, the Regiment also had a troop of light cavalry added.

On 24 September 1817 the Regiment was reduced in size (a previous order to completely disband having either been ignored or rescinded) to two small units of about 200 men for the defence of the Cape Colony's eastern frontier. The two units were named the Cape Cavalry (consisting of one troop of dragoons) and the Cape Light Infantry. Mathew Richmond, coming from the Royal Military College, joined them in 1817.[1]

In 1820 these two units were again combined under a unified command and renamed the Cape Corps. The Cape Mounted Riflemen (Imperial) were formed on 25 November 1827; the cavalry wing was disbanded and the Corps reorganized as battalion of mounted infantry.

In 1850 some soldiers effectively mutinied by joining Coloured rebellion in the eastern Cape; the regiment was subsequently reconstituted as mixed unit with both White and Coloured members. Some years later, in 1854, the recruitment of Coloured members for the battalion was completely halted.

The battalion was completely disbanded in 1870 when military service abolished for Coloureds, although its name and traditions were appropriated in 1878 by another (all-White) Cape Mounted Riflemen.

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1915–1991

As part of South Africa's efforts for World War I, the Cape Corps was re-formed in the Cape Province by Sir Walter Stanford, as a single battalion in December 1915 as part of the Union Defence Force. In 1916 the Corps was expanded and a second battalion raised. The original battalion was re-designated the 1st Battalion and the new unit (which was disbanded in 1918) as the 2nd Battalion.

In order to provide additional troops for South Africa's participation in World War II, the Cape Corps was reconstituted again on 8 May 1940, partly from the Association of the 1915-1918 Corps.

This unit was assigned the role of a non-combatant service corps with a pioneer battalion and five motor transport companies. It was later expanded to include several motorized infantry battalions, infantry battalions, prisoner of war (POW) guard battalions and POW escort battalions. At its peak strength, the Corps had about 23,000 members. On 13 October 1942 the Corps absorbed the South African Indian and Malay Corps but was disbanded at the end of hostilities in 1945.

In 1947 the Cape Corps was reconstituted as a Permanent Force Coloured service corps only to be disbanded in 1948 by the newly elected National Party, which abolished military service for Coloureds.

The Cape Corps was reformed again in 1963, as a non-combatant Coloured service corps; it was considered to be the successor to all the previous Coloured and Cape Corps units since 1796. The Corps was designated a Permanent Force unit of the South African Defence Force in 1972.

In 1973 the unit was renamed the South African Cape Corps Service Battalion. When the South African Defence Act was amended in 1975 to give Coloureds "equivalent status to whites" in the South African Army, the battalion was renamed the South African Cape Corps Battalion, its combatant status was restored and the first Coloured officers were commissioned.

During the period 1979 to 1989 the South African Cape Corps (SACC) was substantially expanded:

The SACC Maintenance Unit was formed in 1979 from some of the members of the original service battalion.

The original combat battalion was renamed 1st Battalion when the 2nd Battalion was raised in December 1984.

The 3rd Battalion was raised in Kimberley in 1989.

The SACC School and SACC School for Junior Leaders were founded.

In 1990 the SACC was reduced to a single battalion and re-designated 9 South African Infantry Battalion which was re-roled as a seaborne light infantry unit. Currently, as a result of the post-1994 transformation of South Africa, Coloured soldiers, sailors and airmen serve alongside their fellow South Africans in a fully integrated South African National Defence Force.

Corps symbols

Corps badge: Although there were numerous variants, the Corps badges of the 1915

- 1991 era all consisted of the Crest of the Arms of the Cape of Good Hope Colony,

i.e. the figure of Hope with her left hand resting on an anchor and her right hand or

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elbow resting on Table Mountain, with an inscribed scroll below. During 1915 to

1945 the inscription read "Cape Corps", while during 1963 to 1991 it read "Fortiter Et

Fideliter". The figure of Hope also appeared on the gorgets of the Dutch Cape

regiments up to 1795.

Corps motto: Fortiter et fideliter (1963–1991).

Battle honours

Battle honours awarded to the Cape Mounted Riflemen:

Cape of Good Hope (awarded in 1841 for service in the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Kaffir Wars).

The 1915 Cape Corps did not inherit the battle honour of the Cape Mounted Riflemen. References Jump up^ A. H. McLintock, ed. (23 April 2009). "RICHMOND, Mathew, C.B.". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage / Te Manatū Taonga. Retrieved 11 April 2012.

Cape Mounted Rifles Motto: “Aucto Splendore Resurgo”6

1878 – 1902 1902 - 1913 SAMR – ZABS 1913 - 1926

Cape Mounted Riflemen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

6 http://www.southerncape.co.za/history/military/forces/cmr/welcome.php

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A painting of off-duty Cape Mounted Riflemen. Cape Colony, 1850.

Cape Mounted Rifles under Captain Carey charging the enemy at Waterkloof on 14 October 1851 during the 8th Frontier War

The Cape Mounted Riflemen were South African military units.

There were two separate successive regiments of that name. To distinguish them, some military historians describe the first as the "imperial" Cape Mounted Riflemen (originally the "Cape Regiment"), and the second as the "colonial" Cape Mounted Riflemen.

Cape Mounted Riflemen (1)

The first, so-called "imperial", unit, was formed by the Dutch administration of the Cape Colony in 1793, to enlarge its garrison because of the threat posed by the war in Europe. It was originally called the Corps van Pandoeren, i.e. "Corps of Pandours", and consisted of Khoisan and Coloured men under White officers.

Cape Regiment (1795–1827)

The British retained the unit after taking over the colony in 1795, and renamed it the Cape Regiment. When the Dutch resumed the administration in 1803, they changed the name to the Corps van Vrye Hottentotten, i.e. "Corps of Free Hottentots" and again, in 1805, to the Hottentot Ligte Infanterie, i.e. "Hottentot Light Infantry".

After British rule was reinstated in 1806, the unit was called the Cape Regiment again. The regiment had its headquarters at Simonstown and formed a key component of the Cape's frontier defences, repeatedly distinguishing itself in the early frontier wars.

In 1817, it was divided into mounted and infantry sections, and was renamed the Cape Corps of Cavalry and Infantry, or "Cape Corps" for short.

Cape Mounted Riflemen (1827–1870)

In 1827, the infantry section was disbanded, leaving only the mixed-race cavalry unit. The resulting exclusively mounted corps was renamed Cape Mounted Riflemen.

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The unit was deployed in several operations and campaigns: the 4th Frontier War (1811–1812), the 5th Frontier War (1818–1819), the 6th Frontier War (1834–1835), the siege of Durban (1842), the 7th Frontier War (1846–1847), the 8th Frontier War (1850–1853), and the Basuto War 1850–1852.

The CMR were disbanded in 1870. [1]

In 1915 the earlier name, "Cape Corps", was revived for a unit of Coloured soldiers. The name Cape Regiment was revived for another Coloured unit, in 1986.

Cape Mounted Riflemen (2)

The Cape Colony government founded the second, so-called "colonial", in 1855, as the para-military Frontier Armed and Mounted Police (FAMP).

Frontier Armed and Mounted Police (1855–78)

The function of this locally recruited multiracial force was to maintain law and order in the districts along the colony's frontier with the Xhosa kingdoms in the Transkei. A new constitution that prohibited discrimination on the basis of race and instituted the non-racial Cape Qualified Franchise partially assuaged some of the Xhosa people's grievances, leading to a period of relative peace on the frontier. Nevertheless, conflicts did erupt over the following decades, and the FAMP played a central role in policing them.

The FAMP was operationally deployed in the Transkei in 1858, against the Koranna in 1869, in apprehending the Zulu chief Langalibalele in 1873, in Griqualand West in 1875, and in the 9th Frontier War (1877–1878).

When the Cape attained "Responsible Government" in 1872, its new Prime Minister John Molteno shifted the focus of government policy to internal development, rather than territorial expansion. Nonetheless, his government expanded the FAMP, whose efficiency and military capacity Molteno had a very high opinion of. The new government was also of the opinion that a competent FAMP force would remove the need for any outside British intervention in the region.

Consequently by 1876, the FAMP had grown to have units stationed at Komga, Queenstown, Palmietfontein, Kingwilliamstown, Peddie, Butterworth, Kenhardt, Fort Murray, Ealing Post and Kokstad. An artillery unit was added in 1874. The FAMP were also re-organised for rapid mobility; lightly equipped and possessing considerable local knowledge, they formed a very effective police force for the rough and mountainous frontier terrain.

Cape Mounted Riflemen (1878–1913)

Finally in 1878, the FAMP were fully militarised, as a unit of the Colonial Forces, and renamed Cape Mounted Riflemen.[2]

In 1879, the CMR fought in the Moorosi campaign, where they gained much distinction. They also fought in the Basutoland Gun War (1880–1881), the Matabeleland campaign (1893–1894), the Bechuanaland campaign in 1897, and the Second Boer War (1899–1902). During these wars, the CMR came to comprise the dominant portion of the whole of the Cape Forces.

As before, during peacetime the CMR served as a police force.

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1st South African Mounted Riflemen (1913–26)

In 1913, the CMR were incorporated into the new Union Defence Forces as the 1st

South African Mounted Riflemen. In World War I they fought in the German South

West Africa campaign (1914–1915). In 1922, they were deployed in operations to

crush the Rand Revolt on the Witwatersrand.

The 1st SAMR were disbanded in 1926, for financial reasons. [3]

Notes Jump up^ http://www.southerncape.co.za/history/military/forces/cmr/welcome.php Jump up^ http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeandtimessir01moltgoog/lifeandtimessir01moltgoog_djvu.txt Jump up^ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE/2008-06/1214540920 References

Castle, Ian. (1991) "The Cape Mounted Riflemen" in Military Illustrated No 38.

Young, P.J. (1955) Boot and Saddle.

MOORD: ATTAQUASKLOOF

‘n Stukkie Aarde Geskilder Met Bloed: Past Danie van Tonder

Brig Hennie Groete hier vanuit Rustenburg! Hierdie brokkie nuus mag moontlik vir die Enongqai van waarde wees. Hierdie jaar 2014 is die 80ste mylpaal verbygesteek en daar is besluit dat dit nou tyd is om die kluis na 150 jaar oop te sluit en die ware gebeurtenis se vertroubaarheid te gaan toets wat 70 jaar gelede persoonlik deur my grootmoeder aan my oorgedra is wie se pa die “Sheriff” op Mosselbaai was in die omgewing van 1856. Januarie 2014, is ‘n vlug geneem na George en vandaar af is ‘n huurmotor gehuur en die feite opgevolg vanaf Mosselbaai. Die Outeniqua Historiese Vereniging vir die Museums Oudtshoorn, Mosselbaai, George en Knysna het verneem van die ondersoek en gevra om dit in hulle argiewe te plaas getiteld “N STUKKIE AARDE GESKILDER MET BLOED” gaan in op die webtuiste: WWW.historycape.co.za 1. kliek: Archives Doc 2. Kliek: “Archives” in 5de blokkie 3. Kliek: “People” in die grys kolom 4.Onder people of Oudtshoorn kliek: Filename: Rietfontein-Gert-Swanepoel-die moordenaar. Groete Danie van Tonder

Pastoor Danie – Is ‘n oudlid van die Mag en een van ons vroeë korrespondente. As ek reg onthou was hy en genl Mike Geldenhuys saam op SAP Utrecht gestasioneer. Hy het ook twee seuns in die Mag - HBH

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‘N STUKKIE AARDE GESKILDER MET BLOED

Hoog in die lug wentel ʼn arend op die wieke van die wind sy wyd uitgestrekte vlerke

se donker skaduwee sirkel rondom die bloed deurweekte grense van Rietfontein

geskilder met bloed in Attaquaskloof as ʼn stilswyende getuie waar na beraming

tussen 40 en 50 slagoffers die hoogste tol betaal het. Die stukkie aarde aangedui

deur ‘n rooipyl op die satellietkaart in Oudtshoorn’s distrik is geleë op die rand wes

van die Outeniqua berge in die Wes-Kaap.

Die ware verhaal is ʼn brokkie nuus uit die kluis na 150 jaar, ʼn prikkeling van begin tot

einde met spannings volle oomblikke in elke sin hoe die Sheriff se lewe ʼn haardikte

van die dood geskei word wat nooit tot sy reg al die jare in ʼn boek, nuusblad of

museum verskyn het nie, daar is baie geskryf en gespekuleer oor die werklike

gebeurtenis. Net meer as 150 jaar gelede was skrywer se oupagrootjie die Sheriff op

Mosselbaai bekend as Karel Hanche wie met sy gesin hier gewoon het, sy jong

dogter Sannie het baie jare later die grootmoeder van skrywer geword wie as jong

seun aan haar voete geluister het na die boeiende verhaal van die gevaarlike reeks

moordenaar Gert Swanepoel.

As jong kind in die huis van haar pa onthou sy glashelder hoedat die Sheriff opdrag

ontvang het om na Attaquaskloof te reis om ‘n dagvaarding op die gevaarlike

verdagte te gaan dien om in die strafhof te verskyn op ‘n aanklag van moord en wat

daar afgespeel het in die vallei van Attaquaskloof en die rol wat die Sheriff vervul

het. Op die tydstip het Swanepoel sterk onder verdenking gestaan vir ‘n aantal

moorde op sy kerfstok wie reeds vir moord ‘n vonnis uitgedien het op Robben-eiland

en na enkele jare later vrygelaat is. Gerugte het hierna die ronde gedoen dat geen

vreemdeling wat die plaas besoek weer gesien word nie. Die omgewing het hom

geken as ‘n genadelose en gevoellose skurk wie selfs geen respek vir sy eie ma

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getoon het nie deur met sy geweer op haar te vuur as bewys is die gat in die huis vir

jare sigbaar gewees.

Gert Swanepoel

Toegang tot die vallei was strategies in die verdagte se guns met ‘n deurgang deur

‘n poort wat ontsnapping bemoeilik. Sy wrede boerboel honde en uitgehongerde

jaghonde op hok het nie gehuiwer om ‘n mens te verskeur nie en daarmee saam

was hy ‘n uitstaande skut wat selde sy teiken gemis het. Sy onthou ook baie goed na

die Sheriff se vertrek hoe hy ‘n paar uur te perd vanaf Attaguaskloof op pad

aangedoen by die naaste poskoetsstasie en reëlings getref het dat ‘n uitgeruste vars

poskoets perd die volgende dag opstal vir hom versteek word want hy het verwag

dat Swanepoel na die prosesstuk gedien is die Sheriff se lewe gaan eis. In lig van

hierdie agtergrond het die Sheriff met die prosesstuk in sy sak met sy taai geharde

ryperd vanaf Mosselbaai vertrek en die gevaarlike reis begin.

Met ‘n goed voorbereide plan het hy teen sonsondergang voor die ou plaashuis op

Rietfontein van sy ryperd afgeklim en homself voorgedoen as ‘n vee-spekulant en te

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kenne gegee het dat hy ‘n aantal beeste soek om te koop, dit was die gewenste

lokaas om herberg te verkry maar ook sy lewe op die spel geplaas want vorige

spekulante en groot wildjagters wat die plaas besoek het, het met geld of goud en al

net verdwyn en is nooit weer gevind nie.

Die versoek het die verdagte gepas en hy het sy spinnerak begin span, die Sheriff se

perd is by sy perde in die stal gesit en aangebied dat hy binne sy huis moet oornag.

Later die aand was dit duidelik dat die verdagte se vrou slaafs sy bevele uitvoer en

dat sy nie buite berekening gehou moet word nie. Teen slapenstyd is ‘n sekere

slaapkamer in die lang donkergang aan hom toegeken waar hy moet oornag en

bygevoeg dat sy besoeker nie moet waag om alleen in die nag uit die huis te stap

nie, daar hy beweer dat sy mensvreter honde in die nag los gemaak word.

Die slaapkamer se deur was toegerus met ‘n slot en handvatsel sonder sleutel met

‘n skrikwekkende doodsreuk wat swaar in die lug hang, die ou plankvloer in die gang

het onheilspellend gekraak onder die gewigtige voetstappe laer af in die gang wat

stadig traag en talmagtig van sy nuwe prooi wegstap. Die dowwe lampliggie met net

genoeg olie vir ‘n paar minute het spookagtige beelde heen en weer op die

verbleikte kalkmure gegooi, oorlopens vol suspisie kniel die Sheriff voor die swaar

houtkatel in ‘n bukkende posisie waar hy die vierkant lyn van ‘n versteekte valklap

(luik) met ‘n kelder in die vloer ontdek, die bed is stadig sonder geluid weg geskuif en

met sy knipmes is die kelder se valklap opgelig. Die angsvolle doodsreuk daar binne

was genoeg en dit het sy vermoede gestaaf dat nog ‘n slagoffer daar lê op sy

kerfstok wat nie betyds verwyder was voor sy koms nie.

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Die adrenaline het nou vinnig gepomp sy brein het oortyd gewerk elke sintuig is

verskerp. Een ding was seker groot moeilikheid is nou aan die kom en hy is senter in

die visier as die volgende op die kerfstok, met die adrenaline nou vol in sy are het hy

die hangkas geluidloos geskuif tot teen die deur om te dien as ‘n buffer ingeval die

monster as geweldenaar met geweld die kamer sou betree sonder genade.

Sy vermoede was reg, middernag was daar ‘n geskuifel van voetstappe voor die toe

deur, stadig het die deurhandvatsel begin draai, elke spier was nou gespan soos ‘n

luiperd wat gereed is vir sy sprong, op ‘n hoorbare stem het die Sheriff gevra “wie is

daar”?

Die antwoord was: “ek wou net hoor of jy al slaap!” Sy donderende voetstappe weg

van die kamer het verraai dat hy woedend is minute het nou gevoel soos ure. Met

dagbreek, sonder slaap het hy uit die huis gesluip na die perdestal en sy ryperd

opgesaal en gewag vir daardie oomblik toe die monster van ‘n mens niks

vermoedend met kaalhande uit sy huis gestap kom.

Die Sheriff het die tyd reg gelees en sy ryperd gelei na die huis tot buite bereik van

die monster die oomblik benut en vinnig op sy perd geklim die dagvaarding voor die

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verdagte se voete gegooi en hom gewaarsku om op die betrokke datum in die

strafhof te verskyn op ‘n aanklag van moord.

Swanepoel was rasend van woede na sy mensvreter honde gehardloop hulle oop

gemaak sy huis ingehardloop sy geweer gegryp na die perdestal gesnel met een van

sy beste perde die Sheriff agtervolg wie teen die tyd ongeveer ‘n kilometer

voorsprong gehad het.

Nou was dit ‘n jaagtog vir baie kilometers tussen lewe en dood, die beste perd met

die taaiste uithou vermoë gaan die wedloop en oorwinning bepaal. Meter vir meter

het die sheriff se taai ryperd wat ‘n aanvoeling gehad het dat sy ruiter se lewe in die

weegskaal is veld begin wen, bloeddorstig het die monster skote uit die saal op hom

gevuur, die poskoets stasie het in die verte insig gekom die uitgeputte ryperde se

spoed het afgeneem.

Die Sheriff het sy moeë uitgeputte perd blits vinnig vervang met die enigste vars

uitgeruste poskoets perd soos vooraf gereël en die jaagtog voortgesit, Gert

Swanepoel die monster het sy agtervolging gestaak. Die moorddadige het die

aftoggeblaas en omgedraai sonder sy prooi, die prosesstuk is geïgnoreer en die

gereg het sy gang gegaan.

Hierna het vier sterk polisiemanne met ‘n skotskar deur twee osse getrek na die

plaas Rietfontein vertrek met ‘n vrag velle op waaronder hulle wapens versteek was

en hulle as smouse voorgedoen.

Terwyl ‘n drankie op die stoep bedien word en Swanepoel die monster sy glas na sy

mond lig het die vier manne hom oorrompel en onder arres geplaas en hom geboeid

vanaf die Klein Karoo via Oudtshoorn na George vervoer.

April 1856, het die Hooggeregshof op George se sitting begin met Regter Cloete op

die bank, dit was ‘n lang uitgerekte verhoor met getuies wyd versprei. Op die einde

van die verhoor is die monster Gert Swanepoel ter dood veroordeel en is opgehang

aan die onderpunt van Yorkstraat op George.

Betta die vrou van Swanepoel het opgedaag met ‘n verewa en perde met ‘n

doodskis waarop sy sittende die verrigtinge waargeneem het, hierna het sy

Swanepoel se oorskot teruggeneem na Rietfontein die stukkie aarde wie se grense

met onskuldige bloed geskilder en deurweek is. Die datum in die skrif aantekening

op die foto van Swanepoel was 1856, en is duidelik verander na 1858 (2 jaar na sy

dood).

Sewentig jaar na skrywer se grootmoeder die ware verhaal aan hom as jong seun

oorgedra het, het hy vanaf Noord/Wes na Mosselbaai gereis en die spoor van die

Sheriff opgevolg. In die argiewe van CP Nel Museum op Oudtshoorn is die spoor

opgetel en met vergunning is insae gedoen in die lêers insluitende die

Hooggeregshof prosesstukke tydens die finale verhoor wat geëindig het April 1856

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op George, die dokumente in die argiewe bewys dat die verhaal van skrywer se

grootmoeder was eg en vertroubaar in bewaring van ons mooi Erfenis.

Foto: Die skrywer- Danie van Tonder, agterkleinseun van Sheriff “Karel Hanche”

Ns. Met dank word die volgende persone en instansies erken vir hulle waardevolle

hulp en bydrae:

Reg in die begin word ‘n lansie gebreek vir mnr. Pieter van Reenen van Hartenbos,

terwyl skrywer op Mosselbaai ‘n naald in ‘n hooimied soek het ‘n onbekende vriend

bekend as “Manie” in Montagu straat woonsaam langs die Park die naam voorsien

van mnr. Lewies van Zyl wie vir skrywer op die spoor gesit het van Pieter van

Reenen, vanaf hierdie oomblik het Pieter uit sy pad gegaan om hulp aan die skrywer

te verleen en hom bygestaan met waardevolle inligting, na vertrek na Noord/Wes het

die kontak nie geeindig nie deur epos kommunikasie is van tyd tot tyd positiewe feite

onder andere die foto van Swanepoel met die artikel langsaan is ook deur Pieter

voorsien.

Mnr. Allen Duff wie geografies baie goed op hoogte is met die omgewing waar

die misdade gepleeg is vir sy goeie advies en hulp;

me. Hilda Boshoff van CP Nel Museum Oudtshoorn;

me. Ema Marx van Batolomias Dias-museum Mosselbaai;

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me. Linda Labuschagne van George Museum;

me. Sue van Waart vir haar boek “Swartberg en sy Mense” wie ‘n redelik

akkurate prentjie skep wat strook met die verhaal van skrywer se

grootmoeder rondom die stukkie aarde geskilder met bloed.

Met erkenning aan die skrywer en : www.historycape.co.za - HBH

Cape Mounted Police: Colin Jones: G McGregor (Namibia)

German Medal “Kalahari 1907”

Hennie,

Thanks a lot. /.../ As a matter of interest I have attached Colin Jones medals. He was

an Australian who remained here after the Boer War and joined the CMP and

thereafter the SAR.

Regards,

Gordon

Medal: Marengo Raid 1907(HBH)

The Cape Mounted Police, Cape Mounted Rifles & German Forces took part in the

1907 Marengo Raid. So far I have found no reference to Colin Jones.

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HOE ONTHOU ONS DIE SAP? Onthou die verslaggewer reg? Of onthou hy verkeerd? Kommentaar welkom.

National: Radio station tries to repair a past where flowers could get you

beaten

20 JUN 2014 00:00 Charles Leonard RSG is a station for tannies, but also for ooms, teenagers, weirdos, liberals and the open-minded.

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June 16 1986

Now I remember the plainclothes security policeman like a cartoon character:

square-faced, square-jawed, slits for eyes as he leant into my farm bakkie on

Monday June 16 1986 at the gate of the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.

But then ... then it was a three-dimensional, live rage in his cold eyes, more for me

than for the bishop’s wife who was sitting next to me. One could smell his

resentment, much more than you could the mound of beautiful flowers on the back of

the Hilux, or its diesel fumes.

“Vir jou gaan ek opfok [You, I’m going to fuck up],” his voice a hoarse whisper. His

knuckles white as his fingers grab on to my bakkie’s door I’m too scared to make eye

contact.

“We’re leaving straight away,” the bishop’s wife says, sounding as reassuring as she

can.

Four days earlier then-president PW Botha had declared a countrywide state of

emergency with curfews, bannings, news blankets, restrictions and, soon, multitudes

of detentions.

On the Sunday, the Central Methodist church – which I attended at the time – and

a number of other Johannesburg congregations decided to collect flowers at their

services for the people of Soweto to show solidarity with them, because we knew

they would be under siege from PW’s agitated security forces.

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I was part of the “floral vanguard” taking the blooms to rallies commemorating the

10th anniversary of June 16, when students rose up against the enforced use of

Afrikaans in township schools.

An armoured vehicle patrols past burning houses in the KTC squatter community camp in Cape Town in 1986. (Dave Hartman) Surround Soweto with a ring of flowers instead of a ring of steel, we argued. Guns, but no roses, was Botha’s security forces’ unspoken, unequivocal counterargument. They turned our flower-stacked bakkie back a block after Bara. You didn’t argue with Botha’s finest, especially not when there are many of them. It was therefore no surprise that they escorted us out of Soweto after our little encounter with square-jaw at Bara, after I naïvely thought: “Why don’t we just drop the flowers off at the hospital?” For months after that, the cops would park in the street near the commune I lived in, close enough to tell me they were watching. It was nothing compared with the harassment township activists suffered, but enough to remind me that for my type of out-of-line Afrikaner, there was one message: “Vir jou gaan ons opfok.”

The cops got their chance a few years later (I was all bashed head, blood, bruises,

teargas and public humiliation), but that’s definitely a story for another day.

June 16 2014

This week, another June 16 came around – on a Monday again, coincidentally.

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That evening I allowed myself a wry little smile as I tuned into the SABC’s Afrikaans public service radio station, Radio Sonder Grense (RSG), to listen to my prerecorded programme of modern African music, Radio Afrika ... in Afrikaans, and on Youth Day. I was thinking about the 28-year-old Bara encounter again – and how blessed we are with the richest of ironies in our country. About two months ago, the editor of industry publication The Media had asked me to write a piece about RSG, after hearing that I was about to start a 13-week series of Radio Afrika. “But I thought RSG was a station for the tannies [Afrikaner aunties],” she said. It was not my first outing on RSG’s specialist Monday-night music slot. Last year I did a reggae show in the same slot that has also brought genres such as hip-hop, jazz, punk and world music to the volk’s ears. In the new series I take my listeners on a weekly 50-minute musical adventure playing genres such as Afrobeat, Ethiojazz, benga, highlife, makossa, coupe decale, mbalax, soukous, palm wine, chimurenga, kuduro, raï and marrabenta. And do the listeners respond –so far, fortunately, only positively. Xolisa from Cape Town, tant Winnie from Heilbron, Rhoda from Cape Town, Cobus from Johannesburg, Leon from Lydenburg, Tebogo from Carletonville, Nic from Windhoek, Shana from Pretoria, Vusi from Pretoria, André from Kathu, Marika from Centurion and Adelie from Nairobi have all told me they like what they’re hearing. Look, I don’t think the programme is give-up-the-day-job brilliant, but also not you’ve-got-a-voice-for-print unlistenable either. This, I think, is because RSG loudly celebrates and literally broadcasts the fact that Afrikaans is a liberated language –the majority of people who use the taal are not white, and they come from all classes and backgrounds. The station has long shaken off its historical image as the station of choice for old Broeders (and their tannie wives). These days the ruling elite no longer listens to Afrikaans radio, which quietly allows RSG to live up to its public service mandate. In researching the article for The Media, I found out that RSG was doing something right for its listeners. According to the official national listenership figures released in February, RSG reaches nearly two million people, its highest recorded number in the past couple of years, station manager Magdaleen Kruger told me in an interview. “RSG targets the modern, progressive Afrikaans-speaking and [Afrikaans]-understanding community – it is evident [it] reaches its target market,” she said. It’s a hybrid of traditional public broadcasting service programmes and commercial shows. The daylight programming is more music, personality driven and commercially inclined ... that’s when you make money to be able to do pure public service broadcasting in the evening.”

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Kruger says RSG has to keep innovating to stay relevant: “We have an on-air, week-long arts festival, for which RSG received the Fleur du Cap theatre award for innovation in theatre, audience participation in programmes like Seepkis (soapbox) and co-presenting, radio sitcoms and e-crossword puzzles.” So RSG is not a station for tannies only? “Ja, RSG is a station for tannies, but also for ooms and teenagers. RSG is for weirdos, liberals and the open-minded ... and for the religious and the atheists, the bold and the beautiful, the good, the bad and the ugly, the rich and the poor. “That’s a tall order, but that’s what distinguishes it from commercial, community and private radio stations. That’s the challenge, to be relevant to all these groups and to entertain, inform and empower all of them ... from the cradle to the grave, and in the process try your very best to satisfy all, but not all the time.” Afrikaners and Afrikaans still have a lot to answer for, as June 16 reminds us every year. At least some of them, like those folk at RSG, are aware and try to make reparations. Charles Leonard is the news editor of the Mail & Guardian. http://mg.co.za/article/2014-06-19-radio-station-tries-to-repair-a-past-where-flowers-

could-get-you-beaten

POLICE MEMORABILIA

SAPS: Squad Cars: Highway Patrol & Flying Squad: Neil Thomas Anderson

Neil Thomas Anderson added 3 new photos. 24 June at 10:41 · Hi everyone, my new project. Ignore the fact the steering wheel is on the wrong side! Awaiting a lightbar. Home-made decals. Gert Visagé and 2 others like this.

Hennie Heymans Very Good indeed! We will publish in July's eNONGQAI! 24 June at 14:40 · Like

Neil Thomas Anderson Thanks Hennie. That means a lot. Yesterday at 01:38 · Like

Eugene Smit: That looks real good bud good job but did you have to use a slow 540 couldn’t you go for the very fast HP109 328i lol

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SAP Dog tags: Rhodesia: Maj HC du Preez

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NATIONAL SECURITY: INTELLIGENCE / NASIONALE VEILIGHEID:

INLIGTING

Spioenasie Hier onder volg ʼn pragtige storie oor ʼn held – hierdie slag ʼn ridderlike Duitse Spioen wat deur de Britte in die Toring van Londen deur ʼn vuurpeleton tereggestel is. Hierdie is ʼn oulike storie en verdien om weer na ʼn 100 jaar gelees te word. Almal weet dat spioene in oorlogstyd en burgerlike drag net een vonnis kry: doodstraf of as hulle gelukkig is lewenslange gevangenisstraf.

WW1: The German Spy who was Shot in the Tower of London

'I would like to express my sincere thanks to the men who are going to execute me':

On show after 100 years, the letter from the first German spy captured in WWI to the

Guards in the Tower of London

German spy Carl Hans Lody was shot by firing squad on November 6, 1914

He was found guilty of war treason after spying on British naval fleet

A letter he wrote to his guards at the Tower of London has been unearthed

Note expressing 'thanks and appreciation' on display at Wellington Barracks

By Lucy Crossley Published: 02:58 GMT, 2 July 2014 | Updated: 03:20 GMT, 2 July 2014

Found: A letter written by Carl Hans Lody (pictured), the first German spy to be captured during the First World War, to his guards at the Tower of London has been found after 100 years

A letter written by the first German spy to be captured during the First World War to the Guards at the Tower of London has been found after 100 years. Carl Hans Lody was shot by firing squad at the Tower in November 1914, after he was found guilty of war treason and sentenced to death. Now, nearly 100 years after the 37-year-old was killed, a letter he wrote to the guards at the Tower, thanking them for the 'courtesy and consideration' shown towards him, has been unearthed. In the letter to the guard's commanding officer, the German Lieutenant wrote: 'I feel it is my duty as a German officer to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the guards and

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sentries.' Asking for his thanks to be passed on to the men, he added: 'Although they never neglected their duty, they have shown always the utmost courtesy and consideration towards me.' The letter was written the day before Lody's execution on November 6, 1914. It has been stored at the Guards Museum at Wellington Barracks, but has now been uncovered as part of an exhibition at the museum on the First World War, and the role of the Foot Guards during the conflict. Born in Berlin on January 20, 1877, Lody joined the German Navy in 1900 - serving for a year before he was transferred into the First Naval Reserve and then went on to enter the merchant navy, where he served on English, Norwegian and American ships. In 1904 he graduated as a captain from the Maritime Academy in Geestemünde, but became ill and was never able to take up the post. Instead he changed career and became a tourist guide - making many friends from the United States as a result of his new role. In 1912, Lody married an American woman, and although the marriage did not last he managed to obtain a forged U.S. passport under the name Charles A Inglis - enabling Lody, who spoke English with an American accent, to travel throughout Europe. As war loomed, Lody volunteered as a Sea Lieutenant, and offered to travel to Britain in order to observe and report back on the country's fleet.

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Gratitude: Nearly 100 years after the 37-year-old was killed, a letter he wrote to the guards at the Tower, thanking them for the 'courtesy and consideration' shown towards him has been unearthed His request was denied, and in 1914 he requested to be released from the Naval Reserve so he could go back to America. At the outbreak of war, German naval intelligence decided that Lody's command of English and American passport would make him and ideal agent. He was persuaded to travel to England to gather information on the actual losses suffered by the British fleet, Britain's air defences and the activities at Rosyth naval base in Fife, Scotland. 'I feel it is my duty as a German officer to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the guards and sentries'- Carl Hans Lody, November 1914 However, Lody's intelligence gathering training was limited, and his attempts at espionage were somewhat inaccurate and amateurish. Lody, who stayed at a hotel in Fife, sent his first coded report back by telegram transmitted via Sweden. It read: 'Must cancel. Johnson very ill. Lost four days, Shall leave shortly, Charles.' This meant that there were four ships being repaired at the dock, and that several others were about to head out to sea. The Germans dispatched the U-21 submarine to this area with orders to attack the shipping about to leave. The lead ship was HMS Pathfinder, a class scout crusier, which became the first ship ever to be sunk by a torpedo fired from a submarine. But after this Lody's lack of training started to show, and he began to make mistakes - putting his address on his letters and writing them in German, while he also stopped encrypting the contents. His actions soon alerted the authorities, and although he fled to Killarney in Ireland he was arrested by police as a suspected spy.

Execution: Carl Hans Lody was shot by firing squad at the Tower of London in

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November 1914, after he was found guilty of war treason and sentenced to death.

He was taken to London and detained at Wellington Barracks, before being convicted of espionage following a court martial at the Middlesex Guildhall in Westminster, and sentenced to death. He had denied attempting to convey information calculated to be useful to an enemy through a letter sent from Scotland, and committing war treason by sending a letter to Berlin from Dublin. During the second day of his trial he admitted that he was a German national and that the American passport found in his possession was a fake. When the Provost Marshal went to Lody’s cell to collect him for execution, he is alledged to have said: 'I suppose that you will not care to shake hands with a German Spy?' The Provost Marshal responded: 'No. But I will shake hands with a brave man.' He was executed on a miniature rifle range at the Tower by an eight man firing squad made up of members of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. His execution was meant to be a secret, but it was rumoured that members of the firing squad broke up the chair Lody was sitting on when executed and sold it in the local pubs.

Artifacts: The bullet that killed Lody during his execution by firing squad on November 6, 1914

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Grateful: A sixpence which Lody gave to a guard looking after him as a tip

+5 John Fraser, a Yeoman Warder at the time of Lody's death said of his execution: 'The escort and the firing party, too, where far from comfortable, and one could see that the slow march suitable to the occasion was getting badly on their nerves. They wanted to hurry over it, and get the beastly business finished. 'But the prisoner walked steadily, upright, and yet as easily and unconcerned as though he was going to a tea-party, instead of to his death. His eyes were upturned to the gloomy skies, and his nostrils eagerly drank in the precious air that was soon to be denied them. But his face was quite calm and composed - almost expressionless. 'Then came a queer and pathetic little incident. As the party came to the end of the Veranda, the Chaplain, in his nervousness made to turn left, which was the wrong way. Instantly Lody took a quick step forward, caught the Chaplain by the right arm and with a polite and kindly smile, gently guided him to the right - the correct way. 'A few minutres later the procession disappeared through the doorway to the sinister shed, and shortly after there came the muffled sound of a single volley. Carl Lody had paid! 'When I think of Karl Lody a phrase always slips into my head - just three little words: A gentleman unafraid!'

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Lody was first buried in the Tower of London and later disinterred and transferred to the East London Cemetery in Plaistow then finally to Highgate Cemetery, north London. http://www.theguardsmuseum.com/

A BLOODY HISTORY: EXECUTIONS AT THE TOWER OF LONDON

The Tower of London's White Tower

Despite its bloody reputation, few executions actually took place inside the Tower of London, with many prisoners executed publicly at other sites in London, including nearby Tower Hill. Private executions were reserved for only the most sensitive and high profile cases, such as the palace's most famous execution - the beheading of Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII's second wife, who was convicted of infedility and incest and beheaded by a French swordsman near Tower Green in May 1536. In total six people were executed at the Tower during the Tudor period - Countess of Salisbury Margaret Plantagenet Pole, Henry VIII's fifth wife Catherine Howard and her lady-in-waiting Lady Jane Rochford, Lady Jane Grey - who was named Queen following the death of Edward VI, and Robert Devereaux, the Earl of Essex, who became the last person to be officially beheaded at the Tower in 1601, under Queen Elizabeth 1. All six are buried inside the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, within the Tower. On July 18, 1743 three men from the Black Watch regiment were shot at the Tower on charges of mutiny. The Highland regiment had been charged with keeping peace in Scotland, and were assured they were only be asked to serve there. However, as they travelled to London to be inspected by the King they heard rumours that they were to be instead deployed to the Caribbean - leading around 100 men to turn back. They were taken to the Tower and all but three were pardoned.

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In total 11 men of various nationalities were shot as spies by firing squad at the Tower between 1914 and 1918. During the Second World War the Tower again served as a temporary prison and in August 1941 German Josef Jakobs was the last person to be executed there. He had been caught as he parachuted into England and found guilty of espionage, before being shot by firing squad while seated in a chair in the East Casemates Rifle Range.

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History: International Co-Operation with ANC

Geagte Hennie, Many thanks for your recent most encouraging message, and it was most inspiring to learn how impressed you were with the editorial in the March 2014 edition of our Springbok Cyber Newsletter, and how you wished to re-produce it in your own eNONGQAI on-line magazine. We of course are delighted to give you full permission so to do. We forward at the end of this message the complete version of this editorial however, so perhaps you will be able to re-print it in its entirety. If you could also quote our e-mail address (springbk@netcomuk.co.uk) and invite any of your readers who might be keen to receive copies of our SCN regularly in future to contact us, then of course we'd be most grateful. I trust that you'll have no objection, but we've now added your own e-mail address to our SCN circulation list, so if you ever spot anything else that you might want to reproduce please do not hesitate to do so, though of course once again we'd be most grateful if you could give us full acknowledgements. Alles van die beste, Alan Harvey - editor, the SCN

Source: Springbok Cyber Newsletter March 2014 edition """"""""""""""""""""""""""" A supporter has recently sent us a highly revealing report from the Irish Political Review of January 2014. In this report, written by Manus O’Riordan, he states inter alia:- “Kader Asmal was South Africa’s Minister of Education on the occasion of our last meeting in May 2006, when he and Louise hot-footed it from Dublin Airport to spend the afternoon with the O’Riordan family on the day of my father’s funeral. There was, however, one Asmal-O’Riordan secret that my father had taken to the grave with

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him, and Kader certainly did not divulge it to any of us on that day. Indeed, it was only after Kader’s own funeral – five years later – that their secret was first published in his memoirs, in Chapter 3 on Ireland: “’The 1980s opened with a spectacular coup de main against one of South Africa’s most strategic installations (which) did involve an Irish connection, a fact that till now has not been public knowledge. In the late 1970s I was asked if it was possible to arrange military training for some MK [ANC terrorists] combatants. I wanted very much to undertake this task, but it was a delicate one because it would of necessity involve the IRA. I went to see the general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, Michael O’Riordan, who was a man of great integrity [sic] and whom I trusted to keep secret the information at his disposal. He in turn contacted Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin, and it was arranged that two military experts would come to Dublin to meet two MK personnel and take them to a safe place for two weeks of intensive training. Later we did arrange a successful meeting, the training was conducted, and I believe the expertise the MK cadres obtained was duly imparted to others in the ANC camps in Angola. Then on 1 June 1980 South Africa was shocked by one of the most daring [sic] and audacious acts of military [sic] insurgency in the struggle against apartheid. On that day the country’s major oil refinery plant in the town of Sasolburg was bombed by explosives. Black smoke billowed over the Highveld. Every newspaper and television station carried pictures, footage and stories of the attack. The propaganda value and its effect on the morale of the liberation movement [sic] were inestimable. I had again been approached by the MK High Command who wanted us to find two people to conduct a reconnaissance operation and report back on the feasibility of attacking Sasol, South Africa’s major oil refinery, vital to the maintenance of the apartheid state [sic]. Once again I arranged the task with Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin through the intermediation of Michael O’Riordan. They laid the ground for one of the most dramatic operations carried out by MK personnel. Some months after we’d set arrangements in place Louise rang me at work to say that I must come home immediately. I excused myself from an important academic meeting at Trinity College and drove as fast as I could in the Dublin traffic. There on the television was the extraordinary spectacle of Sasol in flames, lighting up the sky for miles around. We cheered and felt we had made a major contribution to the struggle. It was a huge morale booster, and must have been the same in South Africa. It was evident that the regime [sic] had suffered a demonstrable loss and embarrassment. Yet only Louise and I knew (plus, of course, O’Riordan and Adams – MO’R) that the attack on Sasolburg was the result of reconnaissance carried out by members of the IRA.’ “Mandela fully approved of Asmal’s revelations in Politics in My Blood, and penned an appreciation of Kader as a forward to that book. His debt to Adams was, in turn, repaid by his inclusion in the Mandela guard of honour this December 14th.” So there we have it, straight from the horse’s mouth. It has been known for some time, of course, that the Ellis Park car bombing in 1988 was a direct operation carried out by IRA operatives, but never before has the full extent of IRA involvement in ANC terrorism in South Africa been revealed. Not only this, but the fact that the SF/IRA terrorist leader Gerry Adams was given the “honour” of being in the guard of honour at Mandela’s funeral (something sinisterly ignored by most of the international media at the time) shows just how close ANC/IRA links have been.

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There are two important factors which must be emphasized as a result of these revelations. 1) That international terrorist organizations co-operated closely throughout the era of the Cold War, and that liaison between them seems to have been coordinated by the international Communist movement (witness the fact that Michael O’Riordan was general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland), and 2) that the ANC themselves were probably the most ineffective international terrorist organization, and relied upon assistance from elsewhere in order to carry out their “spectaculars”. Given these factors, the fact that the NP government decided to surrender to ineffective ANC terrorism at the very time when the entire evil empire of Soviet Communism was collapsing is even more inexplicable and reprehensible. Had a counter-coordinated Western War Against Terror, similar to that initiated during the 2000s, been conducted during the 1980s then in all probability South Africa would not have been allowed to fall to the ANC terrorists. All that of course is history now, but what we should be looking towards today is a re-vigourated Western War Against Terror, and this will mean the Western powers taking steps to remove that ANC terrorists now ensconced in power, who undoubtedly are not only re-paying favours to the IRA, but are also harbouring and bankrolling many of the Islamic/Palestinian terrorist movements causing havoc around the globe. ”””””””””””””””””””

Kenya and South Africa’s mutually destructive visa race

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It’s about to become a lot harder, and more expensive, for South Africans to travel to Kenya. Join the club, the Kenyans say – it’s already a mission for them to come here. But the petty, tit-for-tat regulations don’t seem to be in

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anyone’s interest: surely we should be encouraging travel, tourism and trade between two of Africa’s most important countries? By Simon Allison.

For such a grand and pompous profession, diplomacy can at times be ridiculously petty – and the current visa spat between Kenya and South Africa is the perfect example. Currently, South Africans can obtain a visa for Kenya on arrival, and free of charge. We can just book a ticket and rock up, and we will be welcomed with open arms. At Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, there’s even a special, always shorter passport queue which South Africans can use – the Kenyans have set up a fast-track for citizens belonging to particular regional bodies. As of September this year, this generous welcome will disappear, to be replaced with an expensive and onerous visa application system that will greatly complicate travel to and through Kenya. South Africans must now obtain a visa prior to arrival, and pay a fee of R750. Applicants must present a return air ticket (which, presumably, they must purchase with no guarantee that the visa will be issued); a letter of invitation from a host in Kenya; proof of funds in the form of a bank statement; and a letter from their South African employer or education institution. Complicating things further is that would-be travellers to Kenya must appear in person at the High Commission in Pretoria, in order to submit biometric data. Sorry for you if you live in Cape Town, or Durban, or anywhere else in this huge country that is not within spitting distance of the capital. The Kenyan High Commission in South Africa refused a request for a phone interview to discuss why they’ve implemented these supremely inconvenient changes, but did respond to several questions by email. “In international relations and treaties, the principle of reciprocity states that favours, benefits, or penalties that are granted by one state to the citizens or legal entities of another, should be returned in kind. For example, reciprocity has been used in the reduction of tariffs, the grant of copyrights to foreign authors, the mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments, and the relaxation of travel restrictions and visa requirements. The same requirements apply to Kenyan Nationals travelling through OR Tambo International and the requirements have been in place for Kenyans since December 2013,” said Deputy High Commissioner Hellen Gichuhi. In other words: tit for tat, an eye for an eye. Kenya did it because South Africa did it first. So far, so childish. Especially because Kenya’s adherence to the principle of reciprocity is haphazard at best. For instance, Americans can pick up a visa on arrival in Kenya; Kenyan citizens, meanwhile, must go through the laborious American visa application process before they depart. The same applies for the European Union. Deputy Commissioner Gichuhi did not respond to a question from the Daily Maverick pointing out this inconsistency.

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It is true, however, that South Africa recently implemented similarly stringent restrictions on Kenyan citizens. Kenyans have always needed a visa to enter South Africa, and always required one in advance – South Africa does not issue visas on arrival to anyone. In December 2013, the situation changed slightly. To cope with the sheer volume of visa application in Nairobi, South Africa hired the services of VFS, a global visa-processing behemoth that operates 1,259 visa application centres for 45 client governments in 113 countries. VFS also works for South Africa in Nigeria and India. VFS’s services don’t come cheap, and it’s the visa applicants who must pay. Kenyans applying for a South African visa must now pay a service charge to VSF. “It’s a service charge not a charge for the visa itself. We don’t raise any revenue from any visa issued to a Kenya,” said Jackie McKay, Deputy Director General for Immigration Services at Home Affairs – in other words, the man in charge of overseeing South Africa’s visa regime. “The Kenyans are now seeing it as South Africa charging them for a visa, which is completely wrong.” The VFS website seemed to indicate that, in fact, it is McKay who has the wrong end of this particular stick. It outlines the fees that Kenyan applicants must pay at the VFS centre in Nairobi. There are two separate charges, a “visa fee” and a “service charge”. The website states quite clearly: “There is a service charge of KSHS 5,850 (inclusive of VAT) levied per application over and above the visa fees.” In total, the charges for one applicant come to approximately R1,267 - a lot more than Kenya is asking South Africans to pay. No wonder the Kenyan government is unhappy, and slapping down a few visa regulations of its own. Contacted about the discrepancy between his comments and the fees listed on the VFS website, McKay apologised for making a mistake. “I confused it with India,” he said. Needless to say, this doesn’t fill us with confidence that South Africa’s visa regime has been carefully considered. And when asked about the cost of a South African visa for Kenyans, McKay said, “We don’t think it’s exorbitant”. In this context, it’s easy to see where Kenya is coming from – and it is possible to have a sneaking admiration for a country that is not prepared to put up with expensive, arbitrary restrictions imposed by South Africa on the movement of its citizens. Both countries, however, should be questioning the wisdom of their actions – in terms of trade, tourism and even just the pan-African idealism, which they espouse at every opportunity. Especially because the visa restrictions even apply to transiting through the two countries. In other words, if South Africans want to travel on Kenyan Airways to London, or Kigali, or any other destination, they must have a visa to transit through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport – even if they never leave the airport, or even the transit lounge. The same applies to Kenyans transiting through South Africa. Truth is, though, that there’s not a lot of pan-African love between Kenya and South Africa at the moment. The two countries are at loggerheads over the contentious issue of the International Criminal Court, at which Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta

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and his deputy William Ruto are currently on trial, charges with crimes against humanity committed during Kenya’s post-election violence in 2007-2008. Kenya is lobbying hard for African countries to pull out of the ICC; South Africa, until recently at least, has been steadfast in its commitment to the international court. Another complicating factor is the mysterious case of Samantha Lewthwaite, aka “The White Widow”. Lewthwaite is a British woman with links to Somali Islamist militant group Al Shabaab. Lewthwaite was allegedly involved somehow in last year’s Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, in which 72 people died. She had entered Kenya on a fraudulent South African passport, and Kenyan authorities were not impressed. Whatever the real reasons behind the sudden escalation in visa tensions, it seems unlikely that either country will benefit from the new rules. For Africa to speed up its development, economists stress the merits of regional integration; political scientists stress the importance of cultural ties and mutual understanding; and politicians stress the significance of pan-Africanism. Making this harder and more expensive for citizens of two of the continent’s most populous and politically significant countries is not going to further any of these ideals. DM Photo: Kenya's and SA passports. SIMON ALLISON http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/section/africa/article/2014-06-27-kenya-and-south-africas-mutually-destructive-visa-race/#.U7QyH6vzuHA

1941: Last Spy Execution

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SECRET FUND / GEHEIME FONDS

Official spends R17 000 a month on 'entertainment'

2014-07-02 19:27 Johannesburg - A State Security Agency (SSA) official spent over R17 000 on "entertainment" in less than a month, it was revealed on Wednesday. In the intelligence department's reply to a parliamentary question posed by the DA, it emerged that an SSA liaison officer used a state credit card to make purchases of R17 186.63 from 8 May to 2 June, 2014. "According to the reply, a state security official... has been using a Diners Club Card for foreign intelligence services liaison 'entertainment'," DA spokesperson Dion George said in a statement. Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced in his medium-term budget policy statement last year that no credit cards would be used by government departments from 1 December 2013. "When the instruction note was eventually issued, the department of finance back-pedalled on this promise, allowing government departments to use credit cards for travel and accommodation expenses, online transactions, and petty cash. 'Entertainment costs' were excluded from this list," said George. The DA wanted an investigation into whether the expenditure violated Treasury’s cost-cutting measures introduced by Gordhan. - SAPA http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Official-spends-R17-000-a-month-on-entertainment-20140702

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DEFENCE

FA-22: USAF

First FA-22 Fighters Delivered To Langley Air Force Base

Be sure to read about the "black-out button" below the pictures.

First FA-22 Delivered To Langley

These are great in-flight photos of the FA-22 as the first aircraft

delivery was being made to Langley AFB in Va. Langley is to be the first

Operational AFB for the FA-22. It is a very beautiful AFB, located in a

picturesque location, as you can see in these photos, near Norfolk and

Hampton , Va.

The aircraft flying along with the FA-22 in the last of these photos is

the F-15, which will be replaced by the FA-22, which is several times

better.

In actual in-flight (simulated) Combat Operations against the F-15,

Two FA-22s were able to operate without detection while they went

head-to-head against (8) F-15s. The FA-22s scored missile hits (Kills)

against all of the F-15 Aircraft and the FA-22s were never detected by

either the F-15s or by ground-based radar. Maj. Gen. Rick Lewis said:

'The Raptor Operated Against All Adversaries with Virtual Impunity;

Ground Based Systems Couldn't Engage and NO Adversary Aircraft

Survived'!

FA-22 -- America 's most advanced fighter aircraft for the 21st Century!

They're a titanium and carbon fiber Dagger. They're so advanced that if

their on-board locator is switched off ,even our own satellites can lose track

of them. They're the first military aircraft ever built that is equipped

with a 'black-out button'. What that means is this:

The best conditioned fighter pilots are capable of maintaining consciousness

up to in the vicinity of 15+ G. The Raptor is capable of making 22+ G

turns. If someday an adversary builds A missile that is capable of catching

up to one of these airplanes and a Raptor pilot sees that a strike is

imminent, he hits the 'b.o.b.' and the airplane makes a virtual u-turn,

leaving the missile to pass right on by.

They know that in the process the pilot will temporarily lose consciousness, so the

Raptor then automatically comes back to straight and level flight until he or she

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wakes back up.

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FIGHTING SPIRIT, ATTITUDES & MYTHS /VEGLUS & GESINDHEID &

MITES

British Tommy would only fight after frequent cuppa breaks and the SS

were sadistic fanatics: Britain's leading war historian tackles greatest

myths of WW2 By Anthony Beevor; Published: 21:00 GMT, 14 June 2014 | Updated: 21:00 GMT, 14 June 2014

All nations create their own myths, and the British felt an understandable need in the depressing reality of the post-war world to vaunt the qualities of the British Army and its leadership

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American and Canadian observers were amazed by the British soldier's expectation of regular tea and smoke breaks. A certain trade union mentality influenced attitudes as to what could be expected of them. Seventy years have now passed since the Allied invasion in June 1944, which began the liberation of western Europe from Nazi occupation. One might have expected interest to diminish with the passage of time and the death of participants, yet there are more museums in Normandy and more visitors than ever before. All nations create their own myths, and the British felt an understandable need in the depressing reality of the post-war world to vaunt the qualities of the British Army and its leadership. Inevitably, much later, a highly critical view was adopted by some historians, who claimed that the German Army was far superior. It is time to re-examine the balance, but first of all we must recognise that the British Army possessed certain systemic flaws not shared by the U.S. and Canadian armies. It had been much more deeply marked by the social and political tensions of the interwar years. Soldiers and NCOs were far more politicised than in World War I. As a result, a certain trade union mentality influenced attitudes as to what could be expected of them. American and Canadian observers were amazed by the British soldier’s expectation of regular tea and smoke breaks. On the first day of the Normandy invasion, many who felt tired after wading ashore believed that they had earned a rest on the beach simply for having survived the landing. An American liaison officer reported: ‘There was also a feeling among many of the men that, having landed, they had achieved their objective, and there was time for a cigarette – and even a brew-up – instead of getting on with the task of knocking out the enemy defences and pushing inland.’

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Heinrich Himmler, head of the Waffen-SS, on a troop inspection The other connected failing came from a demarcation mentality: of not doing anything that was not strictly their job. Sappers, as a Canadian observed, did not believe it was their task to fire at the enemy when not engaged on an engineering task, and infantry refused to help ‘fill a crater or get a vehicle out of difficulties’. There was little of that attitude in either the German or the American army. And of course the regimental system itself encouraged a sense of parochialism. The Germans quickly observed that the British were resolute and brave in defence, but often over-cautious in attack. Perhaps a historic psychology might have been at work. British military myths had always tended to focus on heroic defence – the retreat to Corunna, the squares at Waterloo, the sieges of Lucknow and Delhi, and Rorke’s Drift. Glorification of the attack had been much rarer. By 1944 the country had been at war for nearly five years, so there was a considerable war-weariness. And as the end of the war came in sight, men wanted to survive. They became ‘canny’ and reluctant to take risks, especially those who had fought through North Africa and Italy. But British caution did not impress the Americans, who thought that once again they were trying to get others to do their fighting for them. This was unfair, considering that in Normandy the British and the Canadians were facing the vast bulk of the elite Panzer divisions. The Soviet press dismissed the troops facing the Allies as the dregs of the German Army.

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By chance this coincided with visits by Soviet officers to both British and American armies, who made remarks about the slowness of their advance in comparison to the Red Army on the eastern front. A British officer produced a map of the eastern front and asked the Soviet colonel to show the position of the army he had served with. It transpired that the Germans opposite had just nine divisions to cover a front of 600 miles, whereas the Allies were facing six Panzer divisions and four infantry divisions over just 62 miles.

Warren-SS members on parade. The Germans quickly observed that the British were resolute and brave in defence, but often over-cautious in attack But what were the differences between the German Army and the British? Unlike the German Army, junior British officers were never really trained to take over in the event of superiors becoming casualties. And British Army doctrine led to over-prescriptive orders, which in the view of German and American observers made it almost impossible for the commander on the ground to exploit an opportunity. British officers were taught to consolidate first, but this inevitably put the emphasis on the occupation of a position rather than the destruction of the enemy. ‘The British would stop when they reached the objective, even if there was no opposition beyond it,’ General Jodl said just after the end of the war. 'The psychological casualties on the Allied side were high. Both American and British army psychiatrists were struck by the fact that except at the end of the battle for Normandy, comparatively few German prisoners appeared to be suffering from combat fatigue, in spite of enduring more intensive shelling and bombing. 'This, they concluded, was due partly to the effects of Nazi propaganda and to the fact that the German Army simply did not recognise the condition.

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'A captured German Army doctor called Dammann agreed. He considered that ‘German propaganda urging the men to save their Fatherland has helped to keep down the number of cases of combat exhaustion and neuropsychiatric casualties’. German officers would have shaken their heads in amazement at the softness of Allied discipline. The German Army’s new soldiers arrived at the point of a boot. And if they shot themselves through the hand or foot in an attempt to be sent home, they were executed. German units had a rather different problem. A visceral hatred provoked by the deaths of friends in battle on the eastern front at Soviet hands, or relatives or girlfriends killed by the Allied bombing campaign, produced the phenomenon of so-called ‘verrückte Helmuts’ or ‘crazy Helmuts’. Almost every company seemed to have had one or two of these characters who felt they had lost any reason for living themselves, but just wanted to kill in order to gain revenge. But were all German soldiers fanatics like them or the the Waffen-SS? Within ordinary infantry divisions, attitudes could be very different. One soldier called Eberhard Beck, a gunner with the 277th Infanterie Division, wrote that ‘for us the war had been lost for some time. What counted was to survive.’ This was certainly the opinion of many of the older soldiers.

British troops advance during the Battle of Caen ‘They were more mature’, he explained, ‘concerned, fatherly and humane. They did not want any heroics.’

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Beck and his comrades often discussed the right sort of Heimatschuss [wound] that would be just serious enough to have them sent back to a hospital in Germany. In fact, the elite Allied forces: Rangers, Airborne, Commandos and Parachute Regiment were probably better soldiers than the Waffen-SS. And if one studies the performance of average, as opposed to elite troops, the evidence indicates that only a small proportion of front-line forces, whether British, American or German, truly engaged in combat. An initial study in the British Army was carried out in Italy by Major Lionel Wigram. Wigram estimated that in most platoons only a small handful of men really did the fighting. Another small group of men were likely to run away at the first opportunity. Those in the main group in between would follow the fighters, if things went well, or the potential deserters if they went badly. General Montgomery was so horrified by the report that he had it suppressed. Yet other armies were no different, it turned out. The Germans divided their soldiers’ combat performance into four categories, which were essentially the same as Wigram’s breakdown except that they split the main group in the middle in two. And American studies came up with similar results, showing that most enlisted men seldom fired their rifles in combat. The Red Army found that most of its conscript soldiers were no different. Soviet officers argued during the war that a weapons inspection should be carried out immediately after an engagement with the enemy. All those found to have clean barrels should be executed immediately as ‘deserters’. But what of the Waffen-SS, whom the British found themselves up against? They were told before the invasion by their officers that any of them who surrendered to the enemy without being seriously wounded would be treated as traitors. Perhaps the most horrific story of SS discipline was told by an Alsatian drafted into the 1st SS Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. A fellow Alsatian, who had also been forcibly recruited, deserted and tried to escape. He was spotted and his commander then ordered members of his own company to beat him to death. The captain declared that this was an example of ‘Kameradenerziehung’, an ‘education in comradeship’. It was hardly surprising the British and Canadians captured so few SS alive. In the main base hospital near Bayeux, the senior medical officer, Colonel Fraser, recounted how he used to make his rounds of the wounded German prisoners. They all smiled back when he greeted them. Then, one morning they all turned their backs on him.

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The chief nursing sister told him that a wounded SS soldier had been brought in and they were now afraid of showing any friendliness to their enemy. Fraser examined this SS soldier, who needed a blood transfusion. ‘But once the needle was in, the passionate young Nazi suddenly demanded: “Is this English blood?” When told that it was, he pulled it out, announcing: “I die for Hitler.” Which is what in fact he did,’ Fraser noted. One could hardly imagine a British or Canadian prisoner of war wanting to die in this way for Churchill or King George VI, or an American soldier wanting to die for Roosevelt. Nobody should have expected an average citizen from a Western democracy to have fought in the same way as those indoctrinated by a totalitarian society. In fact we would be most uneasy today if the ordinary British, Canadian or American soldier had fought in Normandy in the same fanatical way as the Waffen-SS. The important point is that ordinary men from all walks of life were prepared to risk and even lose their lives to save Europe from a terrible Nazi occupation. They won at great cost, and we have every reason to feel proud of them and deeply grateful. Antony Beevor will be speaking about the Normandy Landings at the Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival, June 23-29, cvhf.org.uk

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UK Military & Jihad

Former Head of the Military Lord Richards warns Armed Forces 'Not Good

Enough' to tackle militant Jihadism

Peer used maiden speech in the Lords to call for higher defence spending

Says 'biggest threat confronting free world is that posed by jihadism'

Warns it is not just Iraq and Syria that are threatened by Islamic terrorists

By Tom Mctague, MAIL ONLINE DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR

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Published: 18:42 Gmt, 23 June 2014 | Updated: 20:38 Gmt, 23 June 2014

Britain's Armed forces are 'not good enough' to deal with the global Islamist terror threat, the former head of the military Lord Richards said tonight. In his maiden speech in the House of Lords the new peer questioned if the military was in a 'fit state' to protect our 'way of life' from extremists. Lord Richards – who as General Sir David Richards was chief of the defence staff for just under three years from October 2010 – said that the 'biggest threat confronting the free world today is that posed in my judgement by militant jihadism'.

Former head of the military, Lord Richards - formerly General Sir David Richards - warned peers that Britain's armed forces may not be 'good enough' to tackle Islamic extremism. But he said: 'Are our armed forces in a fit state to play their role in dealing with these and other risks to our way of life? 'Well, my Lords, the answer must be that it is not good enough but it is some consolation that it is better than any other allied nation except the United States.' He warned that it was not just Iraq and Syria that were threatened by Islamic terrorists. He said: 'All states are equally vulnerable, including many great Muslim nations.

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'Rather than bickering, states should cohere to confront this threat through the adoption of a multi-dimensional strategy in which all can play a constructive part. 'This struggle will be generational and our leaders must stop seeking short term tactical solutions.' Lord Richards called for defence spending to be increased as the economy improves. He said: 'As the economy grows, routine defence spending post 2015 must increase, as a minimum, to 2 per cent of GDP.

Lord Richards used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to call for increase defence spending

'If not, given the mathematics that seems stubbornly to govern defence expenditure, the size and effectiveness of the armed forces will inevitably deteriorate.' Lord Richards also warned about the plans to replace thousands of regular soldiers with part-time reservists. He said that the brave experiment over the Army Reserve must either soon be proved to work or a new solution found. 'Any additional money spent on this must not be taken from other programmes, merely robbing Peter to pay Paul.' Share or comment on this article

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Twee spesialiste het SANW in knyptang 2014-06-21 23:35 /Artikelopsies /Deel / Kry Rapport op Erika Gibson Die stelsel waarmee die weermag rekord hou van elke item wat hy koop – van ’n teelepel tot ’n tenk – word verlam deur ’n ingewikkelde regsgeding. Intussen kan geen nuwe verskaffer of aankope op dié databasis geregistreer word nie. Miljoene items is volgens ’n internasionaal-erkende Navo-stelsel op die databasis

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geregistreer, elk met ’n unieke stafiekode. So hou die weermag tred met voorraad, ammunisie en voertuie en elke moer en bout van elke vliegtuig. Die regsgeding gaan oor die bronkode om dié stelsel in stand te hou. Omdat die maatskappy wat die instandhouding moes doen nie twee afgedankte spesialispersoneellede betaal het wat hulle toekom nie, hou een van hulle die kode geheim totdat hulle betaal is. Die bedrag waaroor die dispuut handel en die rente daarop is sowat R800 000, maar die afgelope paar jaar was daar soveel bykomende komplikasies dat die staatsinligtingstegnologie-agentskap (Sita) dit oorweeg het om ’n heeltemal nuwe stelsel teen R80 miljoen te koop. Dít is afgekeur. Toe die laaste bronkode in Januarie verval het, het die stelsel tot stilstand gekom. Die kode moes gereeld by ’n prokureur in Pretoria ingedien word kragtens die intellektuele besitreg daarop. Dit het egter mettertyd nie meer gebeur nie. Die kodifiseringstelsel is voor 1994 deur Logtek vir die weermag ontwikkel. Dié se naam is in Information Dynamics (ID) verander. Sita betaal nou al drie jaar lank lisensie- en onderhoudgeld aan ID, maar toe dié nie die mas kon opkom nie is die swartbemagtigingsmaatskappy MADI-IT gesubkontrakteer. Intussen het Sita glo nooit sy ooreenkoms van een maatskappy na die volgende oorgedra nie. Die sagtewareprogrammeerder Maarten Kruger het die bronkode. Hy is is een van die spesialiste wat die kode ’n paar jaar gelede moes ontsyfer nadat gegriefde direkteurs van ID die rekenaars “skoongevee” het. Hy en sy kollega Neil Mostert het eers vir ID gewerk en toe vir MADI-IT, waar hulle vroeër konstruktief ontslaan is, en totdat hulle betaal is, gaan hulle nie help nie. Die arbeidshof en die Kommissie vir Versoening, Bemiddeling en Arbitrasie (KVBA) het reeds in hul guns uitspraak gelewer. Ingevolge die hof en die KVBA se bevindings skuld MADI-IT hulle met rente nagenoeg R800 000. Die weermag bevind hom in die skaakmatsituasie: Hy is die gebruiker en eienaar van die stelsel, maar het nie die kundiges of sagteware om dit te kan gebruik nie. Kruger sê elke moontlike kanaal is reeds gevolg om ’n oplossing te vind. In ’n stadium wou die weermag hom in diens neem, maar dié onderhandelings het doodgeloop. Hy het briewe aan die departement van verdediging en die ouditeur-generaal geskryf om in te gryp. Daar het niks van gekom nie en volgens sy prokureur, Jacqueline Keet, sal ’n verdere hofbevel die enigste uitweg wees. Dit gaan egter nie die weermag se verknorsing onmiddellik oplos nie. Tot dan sal die ratte van die groter masjien stadig tot stilstand kom, sê Kruger.

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Sita sê stelsel werk, maar... Sita sê in sy reaksie die stelsel is “ten volle operasioneel”, behalwe as dit gewysig of op datum gebring moet word. Dit is dan wanneer die bronkode nodig is. Jeanny Morulane, ’n woordvoerder, sê die kwessie oor die nie-betaling van salarisse is ’n geskil tussen MADI-IT en die gegriefde voormalige werknemers. Sita se kontrak was met ID en dit is sedertdien opgeskort omdat die maatskappy gederegistreer is. “Sita sal dit oorweeg om die uitstaande geld aan MADI-IT te betaal, mits die opgedateerde kode vir veilige bewaring aan ’n prokureur oorhandig word.” Volgens Morulane was ID ’n geregistreerde maatskappy toe die kontrak met Sita gesluit is, maar dit is sedertdien gederegistreer. Sy sê die kodifiseringstelsel is baie oud en die weermag is besig om ’n nuwe stelsel aan te koop. Die weermag kan steeds sy voorraadbestuur met die stelsel doen soos dit tans werk, volgens Morulane. http://www.rapport.co.za/Nuus/Twee-spesialiste-het-SAW-in-knyptang-20140621

SANW: Tenk-ongeluk: Van Reenenspas

‘n Storie sonder woorde ...

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Admiraal nou Politikus via adv Len Els

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Siege of the Israeli Consulate in Johannesburg

“SIEGE OF THE ISRAELI CONSULATE IN JOHANNESBURG

14. Background * In last week’s issue mention was made of the incident when the Israeli Consulate in Fox Street, Johannesburg, was laid siege by David Protter on 29/04/1975. Brian Austin added from out of England that Protter, after psychiatric examination, had found to have mental health problems. Four people were killed and at the height of the siege Protter was holding 20 hostages. 15. Deon Potgieter of Signals “During the Fox Street Siege I was stationed at Wit Command Signal Unit and had to supply the radio sets for the Police operations and had to act as radio operator for Brig Swanepoel. I had to take a A39 radio set up to the Consulate door on the 5th floor and instruct the supposedly ‘… Japanese and Lebanese terrorists’ on how to use it. I handed the A39 to David Protter at the door, who said that he knows the radio as he did his NSM training as a Signaler. He gave me his name and told me that he is a security guard at the Consulate and made as if his life and others were in danger and could not talk to me. This assisted the SAP to start gaining information and it was later established that he was employed as the security guard at the Consulate. His brother, Charle, was questioned and later found to be an accomplice. The SAP thought that there were more terrorists as Protter had a Israel Uzzi SMG and would stand back and spray bullets through all the windows at the buildings and police across the road. The gun battle went on almost through the night. What I can remember is that Protter had only killed the Vice Consul Major Yiora Rave, the head of security who had a disagreement with Protter before the Siege. The many wounded were as result of shrapnel and friendly fire. Protter was found to be mentally unstable but stood trial and was sentenced to 55 years and his brother to five years in jail. The last I heard was that he was released from prison in 1991 after serving 15 years”. 16. Deon van Zyl of Signals “David did upset our day. I took the radios in a Mini Minor to the various groups around the building, as it was the only vehicle narrow enough which could drive on the pavement. Protter now runs a security company in Tzaneen complete with a body arsenal which will intimidate Arnold Swartzeneger”. 17. Rusty van Rooyen van Leërinligting “Die storie, soos tot dusvêr vertel, is onvolledig. Ek was destyds by D Ops werksaam en die situasie is streng gemonitor. ‘n Element van Spesiale Magte was wel betrokke, soos wat dit in Peter Stiff se boek ‘The Silent War’ geboekstaaf is”. 18. Roy Allen van Afd Inl “Na hierdie voorval het die SAP besef dat ‘n spesialiseenheid nodig is om sulke voorvalle te hanteer. Gevolglik is koll Dries Verwey en Bert Wandrag op ‘n evalueeringstog gestuur om die Spesiale Magte van die Israeli’s, Duitsers, Britte,

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Franse en Amerikaners te bestudeer. Ek was 'n stigterslid van die SAP se Spesiale Taakmag (STM) wat in 1976 hieruit gevloei het. Die STM was 'n gedugte eenheid wat die vyand menige verliese toegedien het. Tydens die bestaan van die STM het ons ongelukkig sewe kollegas aan die dood afgestaan, maar die vyand het tienmaal meer sulke verliese gely”. Bron: WEL EN WEE VAN DIE MILITÊRE VETERANE: BERIG 13/2014 & Paul Els.

Anglo Boer War: Phil Beck

Wellington blockhouse & Wolseley blockhouse

Main line bridge Wolseley & Wolseley snow

SANDF granted stay of execution

2014-07-02 22:39

Johannesburg - The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday ruled in

favour of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) and set aside an order it had

granted for the arrest of three of its senior officials.

The SANDF had applied for a "stay of execution" after the court on Tuesday ordered

the arrest of defence force chief Lieutenant General Solly Shoke, air force chief

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Lieutenant General Zakes Zimpande Msimang, and defence and military veterans

secretary Sam Gulube.

The three were wanted for contempt of court after they failed to uphold a court order

stating they should re-instate four soldiers dismissed from duty two years ago.

"The court has decided to set aside the 1 July 2014 order and the one it had given

on 10 September 2013," said SANDF spokesperson Brigadier General Xolani

Mabanga.

The September order Mabanga referred to was one in which the court ordered the

reinstatement of the soldiers.

The matter would now be heard on 22 July.

- SAPA

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20140702

Gedig: Lt-kol MJJ van Rensburg (SALM)

Gee my ‘n tweede kans

GEE MY N TWEEDE KANS

Sewe maal sewe , hoeveel kanse nog ?

Soveel keer die verkeerde pad geloop.

Baie van my besluite was bedrog,

gee my net `n tweede kans vir hoop.

Toe kom die haelstorm

en hy slaan die koring af.

Die stoppels het op aandag gestaan.

Ag! Koringland, gee my `n tweede kans

dan plant ek weer van vooraf.

My skoene se tong flap uit,

my deur geloopte sole maak seer.

Skoenmaker vervang my leer,

Ek het so getrou gedien vir my heer,

gee my net `n tweede kans, die keer.

Ek is `n ou swart Ford motortjie.

In my jeug was ek die praat van die dorp.

Nou is ek die ouderling in die oue museum.

Laat ek weer ry, gee my `n tweede kans.

Ek is een van vier buitebande.

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Ons het gaan kuier in baie lande.

Maar ! Ons klerasie is afgesluit.

Die eienaar praat van nuwe bande.

Asseblief versool my en gee my `n tweede kans.

David sê , wees my genadig!

Gee my weer die vreugde

My offer is `n gebroke hart en verslaé gees.

Gee my net `n tweede kans.

`n Man hang aan `n derde kruis,

drie kruise wat uit Golgota verruis..

Hy kry sy paspoort met `n tweede kans

om saam met Christus te wees in sy ewige huis.

Die aasvoël vlieg in die hoë spannings draad

en breek sy vlerk in die ergste graad.

Die geneesheer het sy vlerk reg bedraad.

Sy tweede kans is sy reis na die hemelvaart.

Ek was `n ryk jong man

en het gaan speel in die wêreld fees span..

Die vriende het al my geld ingepalm

en so het ek in die varkhokke getalm.

Ek het gebieg, Vader gee my `n tweede kans.

MJJ van Rensburg Desember 2013.

ADINISTRATION OF JUSTICE / REGSPLEGING

Initiation Schools must abide by Act - NPA 2014-06-26 08:24 (Picture: AFP)

Johannesburg - Initiation schools should abide by the Children's Act when performing circumcision on boys, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Wednesday. "Those who contravene these sections will be prosecuted," NPA spokesperson Nathi Mncube said in a statement. He said according to section 12 (8) of the act, boys under the age of 16 may only be circumcised if this was performed for religious purposes, or if the circumcision procedure was necessary for medical reasons, which were based upon the

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recommendation of a medical practitioner. The act states that anyone who is guilty of contravening this section will be liable to a term of imprisonment up to 10 years, a fine, or a fine and imprisonment. A repeat offender may be liable for a term of up to 20 years' imprisonment, a fine, or a fine and imprisonment. Proper counselling In relation to boys over the age of 16, the act stipulates that circumcision procedures can only be performed if "the child has given consent to the circumcision in the prescribed manner, after proper counselling of the child and in the manner prescribed". According to section 12 (9) of the act, boys who undergo circumcision procedures should receive proper counselling and the boy must give written consent on the form prescribed by regulation. The section of the act also stipulates that the circumcision procedure should be "performed by either a medical practitioner or a person who has been trained to perform circumcisions and who has knowledge of the child's social and cultural practices". In accordance with Regulation 5(2), the procedure should be performed in a sterile environment and the human tissue should be properly disposal of. "In instances where death ensues due to negligence, the responsible persons will be charged with culpable homicide," the act stipulates. Taking into consideration the child's age, maturity and stage of development, every male child has a right to refuse circumcision, the act says. - SAPA

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Electric Power in our Courts via DvdM

Attached is a picture of the emergency generator at Atteridgeville court, next to the

2010 WC Soccer - Super Stadium at Atteridgeville, Pretoria.

This massive generator was installed as part of the 2010 WC Soccer upgrades done

at many court houses.

It is basically still brand new as it has not been working except for testing it etc.

In or about March 2014 we had a power failure, bought diesel and tried to start it but

it failed to proceed. Its problem appears to be at its control box.

As I understand Public works says it is not their problem because this million rand

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machine does not belong to them. It was a donation to the Dept of Justice.

And so it goes. Yesterday, 30 June, here was no power and the generator stood like

a "blue" elephant.

And today, 1 July this state of the art German technology that is supposed to start

automatically within seconds of a power failure, is still silent - sleeping.

At least 4 courts are standing for a second day. Litigants in maintenance, domestic

violence, harassment, estate and other matters are kept waiting outside in the cold.

The courts are standing; service delivery to a needy public is non-existing.

The whole building is wrapped in darkness, whilst somewhere there is a technician

raring to come and fix the problem if he/she would just be instructed or contracted.

What to do or are we waiting for a divine intervention?

Anyone with advice or a top notch auto electrician with warmth in his heart to come

and fix this blue machine?

Storie herinner my aan 'n sekere hof in Noord Wes so jaar of 5 terug: Met beurtkrag hoogmode is Justisie hier in Noord Wes (anders as gewoonlik) op die snypunt van gereedheid: Een merske kragopwekker word ingesit by hof "X". Probleem skyn te wees by "procurement" - Hoe word petrol daarvoor aangekoop? Volgens the powers-that-be moet die verskaffer van die brandstof klaarblyklik as 'n

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"supplier" by Justisie geregistreer wees en moet wie ook al petrol wil ingooi telkens 3 kwotasies Streekkantoor toe stuur van hoeveel die petrol kos... Dan moet die goedkoopste een aanvaar word... Maar die "quotes" is net vir 10 dae geldig.... So ek glo nie die jennereitir het al ooit geloop nie...

En hoe vat jy die laagste tender - brandstof mag nie teen afslag verkoop word nie.

They say “many hands make light work!” Jokes aside, they also say: “Justice

must be seen to be done! And justice delayed is justice denied!” HBH

BOOKSHELF / BOEKRAK

Glipstroom: Anemarie Jansen

Hennie, hierdie is ook Eenheid 6 se boek. Die manne, saam met kol Hein Kilian, se stories is vervat in Glipstroom, in die karakter Louis Jonker. Ek sal graag wil hoor wat die reaksie van lesers is. Mooi loop. Anemarie Jansen

Debuut boei, ondanks gebreke: Annemarie van der Walt: Maandag 30 Junie 2014

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Glipstroom, Anemari Jansen, HUMAN & ROUSSEAU, R195 Maja Jonker is die enigste vrou in ’n padkamp in die Kavango in Namibië waar haar man, Louis, aan ’n projek werk. Die vorige jaar nog het sy ’n redelik sorgvrye en selfs roekelose bestaan gevoer as onderwyseres in die skadu van die Soutpansberg. In dié tyd word haar nuuskierigheid geprikkel deur die kunstenaar Lem, wat op ’n plaas in die berge woon. Hy vervul mettertyd heelwat leemtes vir Maja, maar die gevolge van besluite wat sy neem en nié neem nie, dra sy saam met haar: “Ek leef in die glipstroom van verlede jaar. Alles wat toe gebeur het, beïnvloed my lewe nou. Dis buite my beheer. My lewe het ’n moedswilligheid van sy eie gekry.” Die verhaal speel om die beurt in die Kavango en in die Soutpansberg af en die hoofstukke word ook só aangedui. Hoewel dit help met die chronologie van die verhaal, het dit soms gevoel of twee verskillende verhale afspeel wat bloot toevallig iets met mekaar te doene het. Die belewenisse van ’n vrou in ’n afgesonderde manswêreld oortuig nie altyd nie en delf selde dieper. Soos Maja mymer ná ’n besoek deur ’n groep jong meisies aan die padkamp: “Dit was vermetel. Om te maak asof dit lekker is hier terwyl hulle niks weet van die eensaamheid wat mens kan beetpak nie. Hulle, wat vriendinne en vermaak op die voorstoep het, weet nie hoe dit voel om alleen met jou hond te gaan draf, verbeelde gesprekke te voer of daglank net sand en mans te sien nie.” Dieselfde geld ’n keerpunt in die verhaal waar ’n insident beskryf word waar die skrop-operateur van die padkamp, Thabiso Mrayi, beheer oor die vaartuig verloor en in die proses vyf Kavango-mans doodry en geweld losbreek. Dié gebeure wek herinnering op by Louis, wat swaar aan die verlede en die herinnering van sy diensplig in die townships in die tagtigerjare dra, en dit word ’n sleutel tot sy karakter. Die geweld enersyds, en die magteloosheid andersyds, bring hy eindelik onder woorde: “Ons was nog kinders[...] en jy moet die skare beheer. Jy wil huil, jy wil kots, man, jy wil jou broek natmaak van vrees. Maar jy kan nie, nie voor die ander nie, jy face daai haat en geweld.” Maja is ’n karakter wat ten beste omskryf kan word as ’n jong vrou op soek na selfverwesenliking – ’n onderwerp waarmee veral jonger vrouelesers behoort te vereenselwig. Glipstroom is Jansen se debuutroman. Haar goeie beskrywings van die bos, sekere karakters en dialoog lewer ’n verhaal wat mens tog bybly ondanks die voorspelbaarheid. Daar kon egter sterker redigering wees om woorde soos “blinkigheid” (op Louis se gesig) en Maja se talle kere wat sy “neersyg” te skrap. Om minder te vertel en meer te wys bly een van die grootste uitdagings in ’n roman. Jansen slaag plek-plek daarin, en ’n mens sien uit na ’n volgende verhaal waar die teuels stywer gehou word. – Annemarie van der Walt is ’n vryskutskrywer en boekwinkelbestuurder.

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Dangerous mind: What Rick Turner still has to offer free South Africa:

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Four months after Steve Biko was beaten to death in police custody in 1977, fellow activist, academic and philosopher, Rick Turner, was assassinated in his Durban home. Both men offered South Africans – black and white – transformative new ways of thinking about and framing themselves and society. Their ideas were such a threat that authorities at the time tried to wipe both men off the face of the earth. MARIANNE THAMM revisits Turner’s legacy and what it might offer contemporary South Africa.

Late last year American scholar, historian and author, Billy Keniston, published Choosing to be Free – The Life Story of Rick Turner (Jacana) 35 years after this charismatic and influential thinker was assassinated on 8 January 1978 in his Durban home by unknown killers. Turner was just 36 and died in the arms of his 13-year-old daughter Jann, today a well-known novelist and film director. No one has ever been held responsible for the murder.

Reading Keniston’s biography - which consists of a series of interviews with friends, fellow academics, former students and family members threaded through the unusual story of Turner’s life, beliefs and the germination of his thoughts and ideas - one is immediately struck by how bereft contemporary political discussion is of

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committed, independent, bold and excitingly original thinkers such as Biko and Turner.

One also realises just how much philosophy and philosophical thinking is absent from the propaganda, policy, ideology, rhetoric, tweeting and song and dance that passes for public political discourse.

Compared to Biko and Turner, today’s headline sluts who offer choice click bait to an addicted media, sound like cheap squeaky toys accidentally squashed underfoot in the dark.

Biko and Turner found themselves in a repressive South Africa, cut off from the rest of the world, in the intellectual, cultural, spiritual and political desert of the 1970s. It was in these barren and brittle circumstances that the two men dreamed of a world that could be different. But first the old order and all that propped it up – ways of seeing, thinking and being - had to be dismantled.

Where political ideologies sought to shape the exterior physical landscape, Biko and Turner understood that people first needed to turn inwards and perform a sort of deep, psychic root canal on themselves to be truly liberated. Turner held that people could learn new values by living them.

Where Biko was the founder of Black Consciousness it could be argued that Turner hoped to spark a renewed “White Consciousness” or “Human Consciousness” that would help to dismantle notions of race, class and identity.

“We are born into a society, and we adopt its behaviours and values; we come to be the person that makes sense within that context. But at the same time, we are not doomed to accept the world-view we developed through our upbringing. We have the capacity to decide who we are, what values we believe and the structure of relationships that we want to be part of…” Turner wrote.

While some may argue today that the ideas and thoughts of Biko and Turner remain marginal, and in Turner’s case are 'Utopian', there is more than enough reason to revisit his arguments. Particularly for those South Africans who are interested in and committed to exploring the shifting dynamics of identity and race.

“Today, in the severely compromised political climate of post-Apartheid South Africa, the need for the kind of idealist vision that Rick Turner lived and died for is just as urgent as it was during his lifetime,” writes his biographer.

Particularly Turner warned and understood that democracy would only be possible as a result of economic equality – a term that today has led to the formation of a new political party which trawled around 1 million votes in the last election. Political power, Turner believed, had little substance without power over the economy.

Because Turner has been so marginalised as a political voice for so long in this country, perhaps it is apt at this point to recap some of his early history.

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Richard Turner was born in Cape Town in 1941 to parents, Jane and Owen Turner, who had immigrated to South Africa from England. His father had been a soldier in the British Army in the Anglo-Boer War and his mother was from working-class stock from London’s East End. Rick’s father, an alcoholic, died when he was 13 and it was his mother - who was “rarely sentimental” and who offered him enormous independence - who helped shape his early life experiences.

In 1959 Turner enrolled at the University of Cape Town for an engineering degree but switched later and graduated with an honours degree in philosophy. It was at UCT that that he developed his political conscience and joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a “liberal non-racial” student organisation. He also taught adult literacy in the townships in his spare time.

But Turner’s real coming of age occurred not in Cape Town but in Paris, where he earned a doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1966 on the political philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre. His decision to enroll at a French university rather than an English one – which would have been the obvious choice of most of his white, English-speaking contemporaries – “was probably the single most influential decision of his lifetime,” writes Keniston.

That Turner learned to speak French in his 20s and wrote his doctorate in that language at one of the world’s foremost universities is in itself also remarkable accomplishment.

Turner spent the early sixties in Paris with his wife Barbara Hubbard (and their young daughter Jann) and returned to Cape Town in 1966, at the age of 25.

In 1968 students at the Sorbonne took the streets in an uprising that provided a direct challenge by a post-war generation to the political order of the time and almost forced out the then-president Charles de Gaulle. The European uprising inspired similar revolts in the rest of Europe and the US. Back in Apartheid South Africa the event hardly made it to the news.

But ripples of dissent had washed across the continent. At UCT students staged a nine-day sit-in protest when a black anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, had been appointed to the department but the government pressured the university to reverse the decision. At the time UCT was closed to black students. Turner was a frequent visitor and contributed to mass meetings at the sit-in.

“While many whites still attempted to be reasonable and make respectful demands of the government, at least the possibility of more radical thought and action was once again visible,” Keniston writes of the sit-in.

In 1969, after his marriage to Barbara had collapsed, Turner moved to Grahamstown where he found a job in the politics department at Rhodes. These were crucial years for student politics when Biko, a medical student at the University of Natal, began to call for “a fundamental shift in the relations between white liberals and blacks”.

In 1969, after the development of Black Consciousness, a group of black students split off from NUSAS and formed the South African Student’s Organisation (SASO).

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Turner immediately recognised Black Consciousness not as a threat but as an invitation.

“Black Consciousness invited whites to reconfigure themselves as neither innocents nor as saviours, as neither entitled to their present status nor excluded from human interactions with the black majority of South Africa,” writes Keniston.

Turner, Keniston says, immediately understood this point, writing “the refusal of blacks to want to ‘be like whites’ is not racism. It is good taste.”

Turner saw white people as being trapped within a social structure – which was of their own making – that persistently and severely constrained the capacity of human beings to have any kind of genuine interaction with each other.

In 1970 Turner took up a position at the University of Natal. By then the South African security police had already been alerted to his activities and he was being spied on regularly. That year Turner married Fozia Fisher according to Muslim rites, which were not recognised in the country at the time. The couple – because he was white and she was black – risked punishment and arrest.

What is so appealing about Turner and this thinking is that it is impossible to stereotype or categorise where he was situated on “the left”.

“Turner was never a member of the African National Congress, the Communist Party or any union or political party of any kind. His vision for transformation in South Africa was independent and radical in away that the vision of the ‘stereotypical revolutionary’ never can be,” writes Kensiton.

Andrew Colman, who met Turner in the student movement and who is now professor of psychology at Leicester University, describes Turner as “the opposite of a demagogue” and says he was “ecumenical in his political views”.

Turner, if one needed to categorise his political thinking, could be termed a libertarian, humanistic Marxist with liberal tendencies.

“He was very radical, but not a communist. Like many of us, he was very anti-state, particularly anti-Soviet,” said Colman.

Turner had radical ideas on education and labour and connected with and consulted with a wide spectrum of organisations.

In 1972 Turner penned Eye of the Needle, a short book that has become a classic and which expounded his idea of the “necessity of Utopian thinking”. It was a book that profoundly influenced a generation of young white intellectuals, including Max Du Preez.

The book can be read on the South African History Online website.

In 1973 Turner, along with the entire NUSAS leadership, were banned for furthering the aims of Communism.

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His movements were severely restricted; he was unable to connect with friends, colleagues and even his family. He became, in essence, a “non-person”. It was also a crime to quote him in any newspapers or to possess a copy of his book.

Rick Turner was shot dead through a bedroom window of his Dalton Road home on 8 January 1978, just four months after Steve Biko’s death in detention on 12 September 1977. Jann and her sister Kim were visiting their father at the time and he had gone to investigate a noise he had heard outside.

There is much food for thought, much to argue with, mull over, consider and reconsider in Keniston’s book. There is the inspiration to imagine a society that could be different from the one we live in today. Whether it is realistic or probable is not what counts; it is the mere fact that Turner was capable of imagining and proposing something different.

One is left, also, with the feeling that South Africa has been robbed of yet another extraordinary thinker who did and could have continued to contribute to a deeper understanding of a fractured society and perhaps seen a different “promised land.”

“Ironically”, writes Keniston, “if we can understand the extent to which Rick Turner was marginalised by the one-dimensional heroes of the liberation struggle, his ideas will have space to re-emerge as a viable alternative.”

We’ll give Turner the last word.

“Choices. Our lives are made up of all the choices that we make, or do not make. Choices made visible, but not chosen. Choices made, but not understood, or not re-evaluated later, or regretted and carried like a weight. These are, indeed, troubling quiet times. It is tempting to drift into the numb comfort of cynicism. But simply naming the moral depravity of our times is not enough. The only escape from cynicism, at this point, lies in Utopian thought, in articulating and defending a vision of an ‘ideally possible society’.”DM

Photo: The cover of Choosing to be Free – The Life Story of Rick Turner; Rick and Jann Turner in London, 1966.

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Rebels Of Slagtersnek 1815: Dr JC van der Walt REBELS OF SLAGTERSNEK 1815 sal DV in Junie 2014 gereed wees. Dit het baie jare van navorsing in die Kaapse Argief gekos om by die ONGEMAKLIKE WAARHEID uit te kom.

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Die skrywer, JC vd Walt het selfs die grafte van Hans Bezuidenhout sowel as die Hottentot soldaat wat hy doodgeskiet het opgespoor, kruise daar opgerig en AVBOB kranse daar geplant.

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HUMOUR IN UNIFORM

The difference between Officers and NCOs – Adv Len Els

A young Army officer was severely wounded in the head by a grenade, but the only visible, permanent injury was that both of his ears were amputated. Since his remaining hearing was sufficient, he remained in the Army. Many years later he eventually rose to the rank of Major General. He was, however, very sensitive about his appearance. One day the General was interviewing three servicemen who were candidates for his headquarters staff. The first was a Captain, a tactical helicopter pilot, and it was a great interview. At the end of the interview the General asked him: “Do you notice anything different about me?” The young officer answered, 'Why, yes, Sir, I couldn't help but notice that you have no ears.' The general was displeased with his lack of tact and threw him out. The second interview was with a Navy Lieutenant, and he was even better. The General then asked him the same question: “Do you notice anything different about me?” He replied sheepishly: 'Well, sir, you have no ears.” The General threw him out also. The third interview was with an old Sergeant Major, an Infantryman and staff-trained NCO. He was smart, articulate, fit, looked sharp, and seemed to know more than the two officers combined. The General liked this guy, and went ahead with the same question: “Do you notice anything different about me?” To his surprise the Sergeant Major said: “Yes, sir, you wear contact lenses.” The General was very impressed and thought: “What an incredibly observant NCO, and he didn't mention my ears.” He asked: “Sergeant Major, how do you know I wear contacts?”

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“Well, sir,” the soldier replied, “it's pretty hard to wear glasses with no f*****g ears.”

Testikels, M'Lord? - Lentulus Abel Knater (skuilnaam) verskyn voor my as eiser in die siviele hof. Hy dagvaar die Minister van Polisie vir skadevergoeding weens pyn en leiding, emosionele skok en verlies aan lewensgenietinge. Hy getuig oor die noodlottige dag se gebeure, en dis duidelik dat dit nie Abel se dag was nie. Inteendeel. Abel stop een oggend by 'n robot in Mabopane oppad kafee toe vir die Sondag koerante, brood en melk. Twee rowers pluk die voorste deure oop, help Abel hardhandig uit sy BMW, neem die leisels oor en laat spat. Op hul hakke stop 'n vangwa met twee geregsdienaars aan boord wat die hele petalje waargeneem het, en hulle gelas Abel om in te klim. In wat Abel aanvanklik as sy 'lucky break' beskou het volg 'n wilde weste jaagtog aka James Bond. Die rowers verloor beheer van die BMW om 'n verkeersirkel, bots teen 'n boom en vlug te voet die bosse in. Abel en sy twee beskermhere volg te voet. Abel is geklee in 'n sweetpak en tekkies en is heelwat fikser as die dienaars van die gereg. Bygevolg is die scenario: rowers in eerste plek, Abel kortkop agter in tweede plek en onse dienaars wat sleg uitsak in derde plek. Die rowers spring oor 'n vier voet draad heining en Abel gee nie tou op nie. Hy druk met sy hande op die heining en lig die regter been soos 'n hond wat water afslaan ten einde oor te spring. Op die kritieke oomblik besluit een dienaar dat sy McDonald pens nooit sulke hoogtes sal oorbrug nie. Hy pluk sy dienspistool uit en laat preekwoordelik waai. Kinkel in die verhaal: Abel is onderbroekloos onder sy sweetpak. Die skoot klap en Abel groet finaal sy regter testikel: onder hom uitgeskiet. Abel gaan aant gille; die dienaar gaan aant gille en die rowers verdwyn in die bosse. Met uitspraak het ek op die meriete geen probleem nie. Die dienaar van die gereg was duidelik nalatig. Selfs grof nalatig. Die vasstelling van die quantum skadevergoeding gee egter hoofbrekings: Hoe bepaal jy die waarde in rand en sent van 'n man se regter teste??

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“Nee gaan jy af en praat met hulle”: Piet-Patu van Zyl

BRIEWE

Geskiedenis Handelstak: Ettienne Lambrechts [Pta]

Nalv ons versoek dat oudlede van die Handelstak genl Daan le Roux moet skakel;

het Ettiene Lamprechts soos volg reageer:

Generaal, my Pa (Dirk Lambrechts) het my verwys na u via die webblad. Ek het gesien daar is ou foto’s van die Handelstak en van Keem op die webblad. Ek het foto’s van 'n Handelstak kursus, Keem se heel eerste foto en 'n foto van 'n Keem konferensie. Daar is natuurlik baie Handelstak lede op die foto’s. Laat weet maar of u belangstel. As u belangstel in wat van die Handelstak mense geword het wat tans in die privaatsektor is laat weet maar. Ek was byvoorbeeld op sekondering in Duitsland by Siemens. Terwyl ek daar was, was daar nog twee voormalige Handelstak speurders saam met my op sekondering. Ettienne Lambrechts

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Afsterwe: Brig Beetge – SAO Koot van Schalkwyk

Brigadier Hans Beetge, lid van ons afgetrede S.A. Polisie is op 29/06/2014 oorlede.

Begrafnis diens 4/07/2014 sal gehou word om 11.00 te N.G.K Monumentpark-Oos.

Weduwee se nommer is (012) 347-6872. Groete aan al die lede Koot Van

Schalkwyk. Wes-Kaap.

Klagte geweier: via Dr Dreyer van der Merwe

Besetters brand boer se besittings, SAPD weier om op te tree – AfriForum deur Esmarie Prinsloo op 13 Junie, 2014 Lede van die SAPD in Ingogo het ʼn boer in kennis gestel dat besetters op sy grond, wat die plek aan die brand gesteek het, nie van brandstigting aangekla kan word nie omdat hulle in werklikheid die eienaars van die grond is. Chris Fourie, AfriForum se provinsiale koördineerder in KwaZulu-Natal, sê dat mnr. Gerhard Botes, eienaar van die plaas Samson net buite Newcastle, omstreeks 14:45 op 8 Junie 2014 gesien het hoe besetters op sy grond die veld aan die brand steek. Hy het die plaaslike polisiestasie in Ingogo geskakel, maar toe hulle op die plaas aankom het hulle geweier om ʼn saak van brandstigting te open. Fourie het gesê brandstigting is waar ʼn persoon onwettig en met voorbedagte rade iemand anders of sy eie onroerende eiendom aan die brand steek en dan die waarde van ʼn versekeraar verhaal. “Die SAPD-lede het nie die nodige inligting omtrent die eienaarskap van die plaas gehad nie, maar prima facie-bewyse dui daarop dat mnr. Botes die wettige eienaar van die plaas is. Die SAPD-lede moes die saak oopgemaak het soos versoek en dit aan die ondersoekbeampte oorgelaat het om te bepaal wie die eienaar is. Hierdie optrede van die SAPD kan ʼn presedent skep dat besetters as eienaars beskou word en dat hulle kan doen wat hulle wil,” het Fourie afgesluit. AfriForum het versoek dat die SAPD se stasiebevelvoerder by Ingogo die geval ondersoek en seker maak dat die brandstigters aan die pen ry. Nog ʼn voorbeeld van AfriForum wat sy lede se regte beskerm. Indien jy by ʼn organisasie wil aansluit wat ‘n verskil maak en aan die gemeenskap sy stem terugbesorg, SMS “Newcastle” na 45267. R1/SMS.

Pasop vir nuwe slender: Vryburger (via brig J Gilliomee)

June 23, 2014 - Nuus - 30 comments

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Suid-Afrikaners het eers geleer om die “ryk oom in Engeland” se bemaking te ignoreer, toe kom die nuwer weergawe van ’n selfoonnommer wat jou etlike miljoene Rand sou besorg, toe die Ontvanger wat jou ’n klomp geld gaan terg betaal, en nou is daar ’n splinternuwe een…. Die nuutste slenter is dat die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) se naam gebruik word om geloofwaardigheid aan ’n bedrieër te verleen. Die slenter is onverwags vir enige wetsgehoorsame burger en gaan waarskynlik baie mense in ’n slagyster laat trap. Die slenter begin dat jy ’n SMS kry van die SAPD af, dat ’n saak teen jou geopen is en dan moet jy “so en so” kontak by die volgende selfoon nommer. Dit maak dat jy moet vasstel wat gaande is – jy skakel die nommer, en ’n “konstabel” antwoord, en wil weet wat jou naam en ID nommer is. Dan soek hy glo op die rekenaar na jou gegewens – en so tussendeur begin hy ander vrae vra, by watter bank doen jy sake, hoe lank is jy al by die bank, – alles so terloops terwyl hy kamma na jou gegewens soek op die rekenaar. Dan word jy gevra om ’n “vier syfer PIN op die selfoon in te tik” om daarmee sy saaknommer in te kry op sy rekenaar se stelsel. Dan is jy klaar gekul ! As jy waag om sy vrae nie te antwoord nie, raak die “konstabel” moeilik en dreig jou met arrestasie. ’n Polisiewoordvoerder sê dat mense wat sulke SMS’e kry, die besonderhede daarvan aan die SAPD bekend moet maak en nie moet terug skakel na die betrokke selfoon nie. http://www.dievryburger.co.za/2014/06/pasop-vir-nuwe-slenter/

Vuurfontein 1902. [BSAP HISTORY] Digest No 3664: via Col Terry Schwartz

Vuurfontein 1902. Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:22 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "FIONA QUICK" fiona9724 At the end of Sept 1901 124 members of the BSAP under the command of

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Lt.Col Bodle, Insp. Drury and Sub. Insp. Chapman and Ingram left Bulawayo for Mafeking and the Transvaal, where they were to meet up with Lord Methuen and his troops. In what was likely to have been late December 1901 this BSAP Column was in action against Tollie de Beer's commando near Vuurfontein, where they captured two Boers, two wagons, two Cape carts, 78 head of cattle and 1500 sheep. The BSAP had one man wounded. I haven't been able to identify this person. It would be appreciated if somebody could do this for me please? The members of the BSAP arrived at Schweizer on 2 January 1902 and joined up with Lord Methuen the next day. This indicates that it was before this date that the member of the Force was wounded. Kind regards, Geoff

Any info on these BSAP members would be appreciated by Col Terry Schwartz.

Where is Vuurfontein? Does anybody know? - HBH

CONCLUSION / SLOT

Die e-Nongqai bevat die uiteenlopende en diverse persoonlike menings van verskillende korrespondente en die opsteller van e-Nongqai kan nie vir enige deel van die inhoud daarvan in sy persoonlike hoedanigheid verantwoordelik gehou word nie.

The e-Nongqai contains various and sundry personal opinions of different correspondents and the compiler of e-Nongqai cannot be held responsible for any of their comments.

Dankie aan almal wat gehelp het om hierdie uitgawe ’n sukses te maak! Baie

welkom aan ons nuwe lesers!

It was a pleasure to compile this edition! Thanks for your support! –HBH

Greetings – Groete

Salute! Saluut!

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