• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• South African naval diplomacy since 1994 

  Manganyi, Calvin (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the beginning of naval power, navies have been used by their states as instruments of foreign policy. In South Africa, the political transition since 1994 originated the evolution of the country’s ...
• 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 ...
• South African defence policy and capability : the case of the South African National Defence Force 

  Louw, Gerhard Martin (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Armed forces the world over have three primary functions — force development, force deployment and force employment. Defence policy plays a guiding role in all of these, but is especially important in ...
• Multi-detector registration system for the study of multi-body decay of heavy body nuclei 

  Malaza, Vusi David (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

  Nuclear ssion is commonly known as a process where a heavy nucleus such as Uranium or Thorium decays into two fragments of roughly equal mass. On occasion however, instead of decay into two parts a process known as ...
• Weak states and child soldiering in Africa : contextual factors 

  Van Niekerk, Magdaleen (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last forty years Africa has been one of the most conflict-ridden regions in the world, resulting in untold human suffering. It has been estimated that between 1955 and 1999 some nine to ten ...
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• South African defence since 1994 : a study of policy-making 

  Jordaan, Evert (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As South Africa entered the transitional period towards establishing a multi-party democracy, its defence policy changed fundamentally. The African National Congress (ANC) as the upcoming governing party ...
• 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. ...
• Peace support in Africa : potential contribution and roles of the South African Navy 

  Thiart, Theunis Johannes Daniel (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African Navy (SAN) was created after the First World War as an indigenous naval capability for South Africa was deemed necessary. Its roles and responsibilities through the years have depended ...
• Military Intervention in African after the Cold War 

  Ramuhala, Mashudu Godfrey (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Military intervention remains controversial when it happens, as well as when it fails to. Since the end of the Cold War, military intervention has attracted much scholarly interest, and it was demonstrated ...
• Conflict and peace in Burundi : exploring the cause(s) and nature of the conflict and prospects for peace 

  Mokoena, Benjamin P. O. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)

  The purpose of this study is to investigate the cause(s), the nature, and characteristics of the conflict in Burundi, and 10 explore the conditions for sustainable peace and prospects for peace. The study is intended as ...
• Pursuing human security in Africa through developmental peace missions : ambitious construct or feasible ideal? 

  Olivier, Laetitia (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the feasibility of the concept Developmental Peace Missions (DPMs). It seeks to answer the question whether DPMs is an ambitious construct or a feasible ideal and whether DPMs could ...
• 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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