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Wie is ons? / Who are we? We are an informal group of police and defence veterans as well as civilian researchers who would like to

foster an interest in South Africa’s police, defence and national security history from 1652 with cut-off-

date 1994; when the new South Africa came into being.

As veterans we only tell and explain what we did; for we were the “on the spot” eyewitnesses! In fact we

are the ones you saw on TV and in the news reels of the time following orders from parliament. However

we have to debate the incidents because our memory is fallible as we grow older. In the terms of the day

"we earned the T-shirt and right to tell our stories for you to enjoy with malice towards none." We all can

learn from the past.

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Revival of the “Old” Nongqai

We have attempted to revive the spirit of the old “Nongqai” – to conserve our southern Africa national

security history. We also pay homage to our departed comrades.

There is no longer a SA Police Force Museum Since 1652, the date from which we kept records, the records show that policing in southern Africa was

relatively good! Bad apples were kicked out. Later we got Inspector King from the UK. Our first detectives

were not bad either, taking into consideration the limited forensic assistance available. We are attempting

to conserve and preserve our national security history. So much is owed to so few – those few who

formed a dotted line between peace and total anarchy.

Administration We are mainly a “one-man-show”, so if we do not respond immediately to your email – please send a

reminder to [email protected] or phone Hennie Heymans at 012-329-4229.

We were “fighters” and not “writers”. We are very good “clerks”. History is such an all absorbing subject;

we have do much reading, research, scanning, liaison and other tasks - so sometimes we tend to forget,

however that’s one of the ‘bonuses or plights’ when we get old.

We also need knowledgeable persons for our website which is a virtual museum and archive.

There is also a vacancy for a Honorary Blog Master; and a

Honorary Graphic artist.

mailto:[email protected]

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Legalities This publication is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all developments in policing/ national

security or to cover all aspects of those referred to. Readers should take legal, medical and/or other advice

before applying the information contained in this publication to specific issues or transactions.

The Nongqai contains various and sundry personal opinions of different correspondents and neither the

compiler of the Nongqai nor the Nongqai will be held responsible for any of their comments which is

entirely their own and not necessarily that of eNongqai or its publishers.

Contents Wie is ons? / Who are we? ......................................................................................................................... 2

Revival of the “Old” Nongqai ...................................................................................................................... 3

There is no longer a SA Police Force Museum .......................................................................................... 3

Administration ............................................................................................................................................. 3

Legalities .................................................................................................................................................... 4

Contents ..................................................................................................................................................... 4

Durban: Black Sash ................................................................................................................................ 6

Durban Sentraal ...................................................................................................................................... 7

Kaapstad / Cape Town ............................................................................................................................... 9

Torch Commando? ................................................................................................................................. 9

Black Sash ............................................................................................................................................ 10

Protest at Parliament ............................................................................................................................ 11

Old Rondebosch Police Station ............................................................................................................ 12

Bellville: Col Engelbrecht & Col Louwrens ............................................................................................ 13

Cape Town: Police Convoy ................................................................................................................... 14

Cape Town Central: Col van Zyl, Col Cerff, Col Van Lill & Maj Koos le Roux ....................................... 14

Old Wale Street Police Station .............................................................................................................. 15

Cape Town Central ............................................................................................................................... 16

Gen PJ Coetzee .................................................................................................................................... 17

Maj (later genl-maj) Floors Mostert ....................................................................................................... 18

Cape Town: Opening of Parliament ...................................................................................................... 19

Pretoria SAP Rugby .............................................................................................................................. 19

Alleged Police violence: Port Elizabeth ................................................................................................. 20

Veiligheidstaklede: WVK .......................................................................................................................... 21

Brig WF Schoon .................................................................................................................................... 21

Genl Johann Coetzee ........................................................................................................................... 22

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Katatura: SWA/Namibia ............................................................................................................................ 23

Koevoet ................................................................................................................................................. 23

Koevoet ................................................................................................................................................. 24

Young policeman in a cafe .................................................................................................................... 30

Slot ........................................................................................................................................................... 31

Thanks ...................................................................................................................................................... 31

Contact details / kontakbesonderhede ..................................................................................................... 31

Greetings – Groete ................................................................................................................................... 31

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Durban: Black Sash

Stand at B.S.C. opening, City Hall, Durban http://www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/islandora/object/islandora%3A6478 Comments by HBH: Right on the stage is Archbishop D Hurley.

Row of Black Sash members in stand, with Archbishop Denis Hurley. One woman holds a placard reading: "We stand in solidarity with detainees".

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Durban Sentraal

Police wait on standby during the 1970s labour riots, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

http://www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/islandora/object/islandora%3A18469 Comments by HBH: Addressing the police: Brig TM Bisschoff

Police dispersing strikers, South Africa,


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Three white policemen walk down a road in front of a local pharmacy in Central Durban, while a group of

local black people look on, 1973.

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SO ONTHOU EK ONS POLISIE-OFFISIERE! – SALUUT! - HBH



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Kaapstad / Cape Town

Torch Commando?

Bits of broken railing from the Groote Kerk were among a collection of missiles and weapons which the police say were used against them last night. Constable C. Bredenkamp (left) and Constable W.J. Botha are examining the assortment at Caledon Square today.


Scenes like this occurred in parts of the city last night when rioting broke out following the torchlight procession and protest meeting. Time and again the police made baton charges to disperse the mob which pelted them with bottles and stones.




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Black Sash

Special Branch photographer


Two members of the Black Sash standing in protest. They are supporting a placard which reads: "Swart Rivier, Fraserdale Blanke Groepsgebied Onregverdig". They are being photographed by a member of the Special Branch. Moira Henderson is on the left

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Protest at Parliament

Photograph of Cornelia Bullen-Smith (on left) and Beva Runciman, who chained themselves to the gates of Parliament in protest against the death of a child in detention. They are watched by three policemen.

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Large group of Black Sash members holding a demonstration in front of the Cultural History Museum

(now Slave Lodge) at the top of Adderley Street, Cape Town. A horse-drawn carriage passes by.

Possibly at Opening of Parliament





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Old Rondebosch Police Station

The former Rondebosch Police Station, our auction choice for the week. This building housed

Rondebosch's police for 77 years, and is one of the oldest buildings in Rondebosch.

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One of the oldest buildings in Rondebosch - which has served as a police station for more than 70

years - is up for auction shortly. Built around 1880, it was originally a labourer's cottage on the old

Rozendaal wine estate, and later another storey was added. The building has served as a police

station since 1906 and represents the last of the old "cottage" police stations so prevalent in the

Peninsula until recent years. For this reason representations have been made to the Public Works

Department and National Monuments Council in order to get something done to preserve the building

- but so far without success.




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Bellville: Col Engelbrecht & Col Louwrens

Communications: Bellville district police chief Colonel Jurie Lourens, front, and Bellville police

commander Colonel Gys Engelbrecht, back, keep in close contact with their men.



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Cape Town: Police Convoy

Convoy of police vehicles, Cape Town


Cape Town Central: Col van Zyl, Col Cerff, Col Van Lill & Maj Koos le Roux

Top police officers confer in Adderley Street during the height of the unrest yesterday. They are, from

left, Colonel A.P. van Zyl, head of the Riot Squad, Colonel P.A. Cerff, staff officer to the Divisional

Commissioner, Colonel D.A.L. van Lill, District Commandant for Cape Town, and Major Koos Le Roux,

at present with the Riot Squad.




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Old Wale Street Police Station

An old landmark goes: the Old Dutch building in Wale Street known as "the old Wale Street Police

Station", which is to make room for the new Provincial Administration offices and which is the subject of

a query by REX (Leeuwendal-crescent), is one of the finest examples of the old "dark kamer" (roof

chamber) type of old Dutch colonial architecture. One of the last, if not the last, of these fine buildings

is the Martin Melck House in Strand-street. The "dark kamer" was a sort of domestic observation room

from which the household could watch the arrival and departure of ships in Table Bay. The old Wale-

street building was built in its present form in the later years of the eighteenth century. It was the early

home of the Brand family, and in it Mayor G. B. van Zyl, M.P. for Sea Point, spent his early boyhood.

The building was originally ornamented by one of the best of the pediments which Anton Anreith, the

famous sculptor of that time, left as a heritage for posterity. The pediment, since lost, was of a martial

design, with grapeshot and cannon-balls forming the motif of the design.. After many years as a police

station the old building served for some time as a day nursery for working mothers.


Alleged Police Violence in the Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage Area: Paper Presented at National Conference

on 15 March 1986 discussing police brutality, riots, mob violence, detentions, violence and torture of

detainees, prison conditions, legal system.

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presented-national-conference-1986


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Cape Town Central

Man with a police escort, Cape Town.

http://www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/collection/islandora-16302 Vlnr: XXX?, Adv CF Erasmus en kol IPS Terblanche


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Gen PJ Coetzee

General at Court: General Johann Coetzee at the Supreme Court yesterday

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Police officials talk amongst themselves, Cape Town.


Kommentaar: Lyk soos prof Richard van der Rost, onbekend, onbekend & brig Flip Fourie

Maj (later genl-maj) Floors Mostert

Major F.J. Mostert, head of the Fraud Squad and former Murder and Robbery squad chief, joined riot

police on Adderley Street to assist a force badly hit by widespread rioting across the Peninsula. Here


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he enjoys a light moment during a brief let-up in the unrest.


Cape Town: Opening of Parliament

Mounted escort for Dr. Jansen: Men and their horses went through their paces on Green Point

Common today in preparation for their role of mounted escort to the Governor-general at the opening

of Parliament on Friday. They are members of the South African Mounted Police, and will be led by

Captain A.L. du Pisanie. [On the left is Sgt H Tulleken – HBH]


Pretoria SAP Rugby

Saturday afternoon rugby match at Loftus Versveld Stadium, Pretoria (Tshwane): South African Police



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versus Iscor (Iron and Steel Corporation), 1967.

http://www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/islandora/object/islandora%3A1569 Comments by HBH: “Klein-Mof” de Klerk, Mof Myburg and Willie Esterhuizen

Alleged Police violence: Port Elizabeth


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Veiligheidstaklede: WVK

Brig WF Schoon

Brigadier Willem Schoon, Pretoria, 1998. Schoon was a former head of ‘C’ section, the anti-terrorism unit of the South African Police (SAP) security branch responsible for liaising with the commanders of the undercover unit at Vlakplaas. He applied for amnesty for his involvement in numerous cases of murder and abduction, claiming that he was forced to participate in such actions by the circumstances that prevailed at the time. He received amnesty and is retired.

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Genl Johann Coetzee

General Johann Coetzee, Pretoria, 1998. General Coetzee was Commissioner of Police in Pretoria

between 1978 and 1985. He came to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to seek amnesty

for the bombing of the African National Congress (ANC) offices in London in 1982. When faced with

evidence linking him to Ruth First and the Schoon deaths, General Coetzee refuted all knowledge of

any involvement with any assassinations committed by any of his personnel while he served as Police

Commissioner.



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Katatura: SWA/Namibia

The Security Branch record those present at a Cassinga Day commemoration in Katutura. The Battle of Cassinga, Cassinga Raid or Kassinga Massacre was a controversial South African airborne attack on a SWAPO refugee camp and military base at the former town of Cassinga, Angola on 4 May 1978.


Koevoet

Sunset return to base of Koevoet in Casspir and Wolf vehicles. Koevoet is the common name of the

South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN). The Casspir is a landmine-

protected personnel carrier. The Wolf is an armoured transport vehicle


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Koevoet

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Abandoned Koevoet detention centre


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Abandoned Koevoet detention centre at Onaimwandi. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Off-duty Koevoet operatives Off-duty Koevoet operative based at Arendsnes. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Koevoet gunner checks his Browning machine guns Machine guns, Armoured personnel carriers - Namibia - Oshakati.



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Koevoet gunner checks his Browning machine-guns on the Wolf armoured personnel carrier before embarking on an early-morning patrol from Oshakati. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Title: General Hans Dreyer, commander of Koevoet Subject: Police – Namibia Description: General 'Sterk' Hans Dreyer, officer commanding the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL COIN), Koevoet.

Title: Off-duty Koevoet operative with his family Subject: Children, Women, Men, Police--Namibia Description: Off-duty Koevoet operative based at Arendsnes with family, Joosfontein. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Title: Koevoet returning to base at sunset Subject: Armoured personnel carriers, Military convoys Description: Sunset return to base of Koevoet in Casspir and Wolf vehicles. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN). The Casspir is a landmine-protected personnel carrier. The Wolf is an armoured transport vehicle

Title: Koevoet families picknicking at Cunene River Subject: Children, Recreation--Namibia Description: Picnic on the Cunene River. Koevoet families at Ruacana near the border with Angola. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).






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Title: Discussion amongst Portuguese-speaking members of Koevoet Subject: Amputees, People with disabilities, Wounds and injuries Description: Off-duty Portuguese-speaking members of Koevoet discuss wounds, war and an uncertain future. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Title: Slain PLAN combatant brought back to Koevoet base Subject: War casualties - Namibia Description: Slain People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatant is brought back to Koevoet base, tied to a casspir (armoured military tank), at Tsandi, Uukwaluudhi. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Title Personnel files of operatives recruited by Koevoet are discarded SubjectLegal documents--Destruction and reconstruction DescriptionPersonnel files of operatives recruited by Koevoet discarded at Onaimwandi. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Title Personnel files of operatives recruited by Koevoet are discarded SubjectLegal documents--Destruction and reconstruction--Namibia DescriptionPersonnel files of operatives recruited by Koevoet discarded at Onaimwandi. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).









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Title: Bodies of Plan combatants killed during contact with Koevoet are buried at Uupindi Subject” Mass burials--Namibia, Dead--Namiba, Cemeteries--Namibia, Namibia--Armed Forces, War crimes--Namibia, War victims--Namibia Description: The crucifixion. The bodies of 133 People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatants killed during contact with Koevoet at Oshimbimbi are buried at Uupindi, west of Oshakati. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Title: March by parties opposed to the TGNU is broken up by Koevoet Subject: Demonstrations--Namibia, Police--Namibia Description: March by political parties opposed to the creation of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNU) is broken up by Koevoet, Katutura. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

TitleVigil by striking workers SubjectSquatter settlements--Namibia--Windhoek DescriptionVigil by striking workers at the Single Quarters in Katutura, after an attack by Koevoet forces sent from the north. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

TitlePLAN combatant tied to casspir Subjectcorpses, human remains, tanksDead, Transportation DescriptionA slain People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatant is brought back to Koevoet base, tied to a casspir (armoured military tank), Tsandi, Uukwaluudhi, South-West Africa (Namibia). 'Koevoet' is the common name for the South West African Police Counterinsurgency Unit (SAWPOLCOIN).







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Title: Tortured PLAN combatant handedover to ICRC for repatriation to Angola Subject: Torture - Namibia, Prisoners of war - Namibia Description: A People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatant tortured for information by Koevoet is handed over to the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) for repatriation back to Angola. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).

Title: Destruction of the outer palisade of a home by casspirs Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century, Armoured personnel carriers. Description: Destruction of the outer palisade of a home by Casspirs, an armoured personnel carrier that is protected from landmines, as a result of fighting between SWAPO and the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN), also known as Koevoet, in the Omundudu area.

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Young policeman in a cafe

Wonder wie is hy? Waar sou hy vandag wees?

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Slot Daar is nog vele verhale en foto’ op in die Nongqai op te neem en vir die nageslag te bewaar.

Thanks Thank you to Mr Paul Weinberg who made this issue possible

Dankie dat u help om die geskiedenis lewendig te hou ...

Identifiseer solank u privaat foto’s – identifiseer die datum, die plek en die tyd – identifiseer die mense op die

foto’s en die fotograaf. Bêre u dokumente, sakboeke, dagboeke, foto’s, koerante, plakboeke ens – al die goed is

belangrik om ons geskiedenis te bewaar en in die toekoms reg te vertolk. Bewaar die verlede!

Contact details / kontakbesonderhede Hennie Heymans: [email protected] / Glenn Elsden: [email protected] Nico Moolman: [email protected] met webtuiste www.nicomoolman.net Paul Weinberg (UCT) [email protected]

Greetings – Groete Salute! Saluut!

Hennie Heymans

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