South African Defence

EDUCATIoN IN THE PRE-1994 SoUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE FoRCE AND THE INTEgRATED REVoLUTIoNARY ARMIES

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

South African History [Apartheid]

After the Second World War, in 1948, the NP, with its ideology of apartheid that brought an even more rigorous and authoritarian approach than the segregationist policies of previous governments, won the general election. It did so against the background of a revival of mass militancy during the 1940s, after a period of relative quiescence in the 1930s when black groups attempted to foster unit...

Pre-deployment preparation of military nurses of the South African National Defence Force for participation in peace support operations.

BACKGROUND South Africa has dedicated itself to participate in peace support operations (PSOs). The concept of 'jointness', involving different arms of services, was adopted within the South African National Defence Force, thus involving nurses in PSOs. PROBLEM STATEMENT Combat-readiness being a prerequisite for those involved in PSOs raised questions as to the readiness of forces to particip...

The South African Defence Force physical training programme. Part III. Exertion-related injuries sustained at an SADF basic training centre.

The incidence and nature of exertion-related injuries were studied at a South African Defence Force basic training centre. A total of 404 separate injuries were sustained by 359 of 947 recruits during the 10-week basic training cycle. Of these injuries, 18,3% were sustained with (group 1) and 81,7% without (group 2) an obvious sudden precipitating event. Exertion-related injuries were responsib...