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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"South African Defence Force"”.
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White South Africa and defence, 1960-1968 : militarization, threat perceptions and counter strategies
… is concerned with the militarization of white South African society in the 1960s. It argues that the military threat perceptions of the period were crucial in altering white views of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and reinforcing support for the National Party government. The military …
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The Border and Beyond : an analysis of the post-Border War discourses of families of ex-SADF soldiers
… of soldiers who fought in some capacity for the South African Defence Force (SADF) in Namibia and/or Angloa during the 1970s and 1980s. The sample for this study comprised one male and 14 female participants, all white South Africans between the ages of approximately 30 to 70 years. All …
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A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)
COSAWR consisted mainly of white male South Africans who avoided whites-only conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF) by going into exile in Britain and the Netherlands. COSAWR was founded in 1978 with the assistance of the African National Congress (ANC) and the British …
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Enduring suffering: the Cassinga Massacre of Namibian exiles in 1978 and the conflicts between survivors' memories
During the peak of apartheid, the South African Defence Force (SADF) killed close to a thousand Namibian exiles at Cassinga in southern Angola. This happened on May 4 1978. In recent years, Namibia commemorates this day, nationwide, in remembrance of those killed and disappeared following the …
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Liggaamlike weerbaarheid in onderwysperspektief
… does not come into its own. According to the South African Defence Force, heads of departments at teachers' training colleges, the HSRC snort investigation and superintendents of education, the contribution to physical preparedness is at present inadequate and the "product" that leaves school …