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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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        African military geosciences : military history and the physical environment 

        Bezuidenhout, Jacques; Van der Waag, Ian (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018)
        This eight-chapter volume, African Military Geosciences: Military History and the Physical Environment, is a tour-de-force covering nearly 500 years of African military geosciences. It is a truly global book that reveals ...
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        The African Standby Force : Quo Vadis? 

        Vrey, Francois; Mandrup, Thomas (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2017)
        Standby forces of the African Union are expected to deploy rapidly into high-intensity conflict zones. Inherently they stem from and are expected to work effectively with regional militaries of differing capabilities. But ...
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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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        Analysis of heat transfer in Berman flow of nanofluids with Navier slip, viscous dissipation, and convective cooling 

        Makinde, O. D.; Khamis, S.; Tshehla, M. S.; Franks, O. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-03-31)
        Heat transfer characteristics of a Berman flow of water based nanofluids containing copper (Cu) and alumina (Al2O3) as nanoparticles in a porous channel with Navier slip, viscous dissipation, and convective cooling are ...
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        Analysis of thermal stability in a convecting and radiating two-step reactive slab 

        Makinde, O. D.; Tshehla, M. S. (Hindawi, 2013)
        This paper investigates the combined effects of convective and radiative heat loss on thermal stability of a rectangular slab of combustible materials with internal heat generation due to a two-step exothermic chemical ...
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        Anatomy of post-communist European defense institutions : the mirage of military modernity 

        Jordaan, Evert (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2020)
        In Anatomy of post-communist European defense institutions: The mirage of military modernity, Thomas-Durell Young’s aim was to determine why Central and Eastern European (CEE) states have failed to apply democratic defence ...
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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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        Application of successive linearisation method to squeezing flow with bifurcation 

        Motsa, S. S.; Makinde, O. D.; Shateyi, S. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-01-02)
        This paper employs the computational approach known as successive linearization method (SLM) to tackle a fourth order nonlinear differential equation modelling the transient flow of an incompressible viscous fluid between ...
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        The application of Supers theory in the military : culture and gender in the life roles of young professional officers 

        Kotze, M. E. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2001-01)
        Abstract: Political and societal changes in South Africa have resulted in the fundamental transformation of amongst others the personnel composition of the National Defence Force in order to be more representative of the ...
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        Applying game based learning at the South African Military Academy: an experimental study 

        Dreyer, Adriaan Marthinus Francois (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)
        ENGLISH SUMMARY : The contemporary military environment is characterised by new technologies, advances in computer usage, and a younger generation of students who have the expectation that the use of technology within ...
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        Armoured warfare : the South African experience in East Africa 1940-1941 

        Kleynhans, Evert Philippus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)
        ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Following South African entry into the Second World War on 6 September 1939, the Union Defence Force (UDF) transformed from an ageing peacetime defence force into a modern armed force capable of projecting ...
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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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        The axis and Allied Maritime Operations around Southern Africa, 1939-1945 

        Kleynhans, Evert Philippus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)
        ENGLISH SUMMARY : The majority of academic and popular studies on the South African participation in the Second World War historically focus on the military operations of the Union Defence Force in East Africa, North Africa, ...
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        The background radiation and exposure levels at various South African west coast military units 

        Bezuidenhout, Jacques (Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)
        The West Coast of South Africa between St Helena Bay to the north and Langebaan Lagoon to the south is characterised by numerous granite protrusions. These outcrops are elements of the underlying Cape Granite Suite, which ...
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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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