ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Germany’s declaration of war on Poland on 1 September 1939 and the consequent war in Europe not only found the Union of South Africa politically divided but militarily unprepared to fight a modern war let ...
Van Der Waag, Ian(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2000)
Some one hundred years ago, South Africa was torn apart by the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). To mark this cataclysmic event, Covos-Day is publishing a series of books. The first is a facsimile of Donald Macdonald's ...
Thompson, P. S.(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2004)
Bambatha is widely known as the chief who led a group of men to confront the Natal colonial government in protest against poll tax. He lived in a broken, sandy and stoney area known as Mpanza valley, to the north of Greytown, ...
Smith, L. M.(Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, 1992)
Die Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskap is blootgestel aan snelle veranderinge wat noodwendig 'n neerslag vind in die SA Weermag en die Militêre Akademie op Saldanha. Dit is egter nie net die veranderinge wat hul invloed laat geld ...
Heineken, Lindy(Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, 1998)
Most countries expect their armed forces to be broadly representative of the populace with respect to race, ethnic composition, social class, religion and gender. The concern, particularly with respect to the officer corps ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The use of military force to suppress internal unrest has been an integral part of South African
history. The European colonisation of South Africa from 1652 was facilitated by the use of force.
Boer ...
Van der Waag, Ian(Taylor & Francis; UNISA Press, 2011-06)
Domestic history in South Africa is largely an unploughed field. Yet, for much of South Africa’s past, households were the places where concerns about class, gender and race intersected, at a very close, personal, level. ...
Henry Timson Lukin was born and educated in Britain. After completion of his schooling at the
Merchant Taylor’s School in 1875 he had hoped to enter the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, but
failed the entry examinations. ...