• Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk : two South African military disasters revisited 1941-1942 

  Katz, David Brock (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are the largest disasters suffered by South Africa in its military history. Yet, despite their enormity, Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are little understood and hardly remembered. South ...
• Fighting Springboks : C Company, Royal Natal carbineers : from Premier Mine to Po Valley, 1939 - 1945 

  Bentz, Gustav (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• An Australian war correspondent in Ladysmith : the siege report of Donald Macdonald of the Melbourne Argus 

  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 ...
• Bambatha at Mpanza : the making of a rebel 

  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, ...
• Akademiese steun by die militere akademie : die aanspreek van andershede in die SA Weermag 

  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 ...
• The challenges of transformation : SANDF officers' attitudes towards integration, affirmative action. women in combat and language usage. 

  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 ...
• The role and application of the Union Defence Force in the suppression of internal unrest, 1912-1945 

  Fokkens, Andries Marius (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-12)

  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 ...
• Life in a South African household, 1909 - 1923 : changing patterns in leisure and servitude 

  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. ...
• Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin (1860-1925) : the making of a South African hero 

  Nortier, Erasmus Wentzel (2005-12)

  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. ...

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