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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Hattingh, Maria Jacoba(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)
Since the 1940s, the evaluation of information systems has been the topic of many
authors’ research. When taking into account the amount of resources invested in an
organisation’s information systems, especially in the ...