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        Accolades and albatrosses : the South African National Defence Force's centenary and the commemoration of milestones in South African military history 

        Visser, Deon (Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012)
        Peoples, societies, institutions and other entities frequently record their histories in terms of successive epochs, and commemorate those histories according to perceived milestones or turning points in their development. ...
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        Airpower in the Union of South Africa's First World War campaign in German South West Africa 

        Garcia, Antonio (Historical Association of South Africa, 2017)
        During the Great War, aircraft were used primarily for reconnaissance and artillery spotting. The Union of South Africa's First World War campaign in German South West Africa (GSWA) allowed for South Africa's first employment ...
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        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 ...
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        All splendid, but horrible : the politics of South Africa's second "Little Bit" and the war on the western front, 1915-1918 

        Van der Waag, Ian (Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012)
        South Africa’s decision to enter the First World War was not easy. After a difficult interplay between Whitehall and Tuinhuis, the Botha government agreed to secure limited strategic objectives in neighbouring German South ...
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        The "apostles of terror" : South Africa, the East African campaign, and the Battle of El Wak 

        Kleynhans, Evert (Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-11)
        Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the Union Defence Force (UDF) had to undergo a rapid transformation from an ageing defence force to one that could project offensive power across Africa. The formation ...
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        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 ...
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        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, ...
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        Battle on the Lomba, 1987 the day a South African armoured battalion shattred Angola’s last mechanised offensive : a crew commander’s account 

        Esterhuyse, Abel (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)
        Writing about the Namibian Border War and South African involvement in the Angolan Civil War is difficult. Many South Africans have been conscripted or willingly served in the military at the time and find it difficult to ...
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        Between history, amnesia and selective memory : the South African armed forces, a century's perspective 

        Van der Waag, Ian; Visser, Deon (Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012)
        2012 has a double significance for this year sees the centenary of the founding of the African National Congress (8 January) and of the creation of the Union Defence Forces (1 July), two organisations that have for much ...
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        Black workers, typhoid fever and the construction of the Berg River : Saldanha military water pipeline, 1942 – 1943 

        Visser, Deon; Monama, Fankie (AOSIS, 2008-04-11)
        War creates a huge need for labour to support the war efforts of the belligerent parties. In South Africa tens of thousands of ‘non-white’ workers were mobilised during the Second World War to satisfy the Union Defence ...
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        A breakdown of civil-military relations : the Soviet coup of 1991 

        Matthee, Heinrich (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 1999)
        In August 1991 a Committee for State Emergencies, consisting of the minister of defence and the chief of the KGB, ousted Mikhail Gorbachev from power in the Soviet Union. The coup was important for several reasons. The ...
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        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 ...
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        Change, organisational culture and the development of the South African Military Academy to 2009 

        Visser, Deon; Van Dyk, G. A. J. (AOSIS, 2011-12-31)
        This article investigates the impact of change and organisational culture on the growth and development of the South African Military Academy. It explores the impact of Nationalist Party rule since 1948 and black majority ...
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        Changing attitudes among South African prisoners of war towards their Italian captors during World War II, 1942-1943 

        Horn, Karen (Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012)
        The Battle of Sidi Rezegh in November 1941 and the fall of Tobruk in June 1942 were disastrous for South Africa. At Sidi Rezegh, the entire 5th South African Infantry Brigade was lost and at Tobruk the following year more ...
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        Civil defence and protective services in South Africa during World War Two, 1939–1945 

        Monama, Fankie L. (Historical Association of South Africa, 2019-11)
        During World War Two, South Africa inaugurated the Civilian Protective Services organisation as a civil defence effort to deal with, inter alia, the preventive and protective measures in defence of the civilian population ...
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        Civilian-military interaction on the Matie campus : the 'battle of Wilgenhof', 1957 

        Visser, D. (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2009)
        The South African Military Academy was established in 1950 as a branch of the SA Military College, under the academic auspices of the University of Pretoria. A mere three years later, in 1953, the Union Defence Force ...
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        A clash of military doctrine : Brigadier-General Wilfrid Malleson and the South Africans at Salaita Hill, February 1916 

        Katz, David Brock (Historical Association of South Africa, 2017)
        Brigadier-General Wilfrid Malleson (1866–1946) received his commission into the Royal Artillery in 1886 and transferred to the Indian Army in 1904. He was relatively inexperienced in combat having served on the staff of ...
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        A critical analysis of the impact of water on the South African campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915 

        Kleynhans, Evert (Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)
        The South African campaign in German South West Africa (GSWA) during the First World War depended largely on the access, availability and control of all water sources in the operational area. The Union Defence Force (UDF) ...
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        Deneys Reitz and the First World War : an Introduction to the Department of Defence Archival Holdings 

        Kleynhans, Evert (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)
        The historical sources detailing South Africa’s participation in the First World War are vast, and range from official publications to regimental histories, private diaries and first-hand accounts. The Department of Defence ...
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        Good hunting : German submarine offensives and South African countermeasures off the South African coast during the Second World War, 1942-1945 

        Kleynhans, Evert (Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)
        By the latter half of 1942, the High Command of the German U-boats (BdU) realised that the ‘sinking results’ of the North Atlantic had decreased immensely. The successes of the Allied anti-submarine operations in the North ...

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