8 articles in this issue
Jan Van Rooyen,Hussein Solomon
The role of external involvement within Africa is not a new phenomenon by any standard; in fact, Africa’s recent political history is rife with similar examples. From the onset of colonisation, European powers have been subjugating and manipulating Africa... see more
Jo-Ansie Van Wyk,Linda Kinghorn,Hollie Hepburn,Clarence Payne,Chris Sham
Constructivism challenges the prevailing approaches to international relations and security. It attempts to explain, inter alia, how actors acquire their identities, and how these identities shape actors’ material and non-material interests. These constru... see more
Graeme Callister
It is widely known that from the introduction of the Defence Amendment Act of 1967 (Act no. 85 of 1967) until the fall of apartheid in 1994, South Africa had a system of universal national service for white males, and that the men conscripted into the Sou... see more
Deon Visser
As a member of the Commonwealth, South Africa aligned its defence policy closely with that of Great Britain in the years between the two World Wars. Apart from taking responsibility for its own defence, the Union of South Africa was also expected, at its ... see more
E.C. Ejiogu
Since time immemorial, societies, states and state builders have been challenged and transformed by the need and quest for military manpower.1 European states relied on conscript armies to ‘pacify’ and retain colonies in parts of the non-European world. T... see more
Ian Van der Waag
Defying their British rulers, the Boers of the Transvaal rose in rebellion in December 1880. A British column, moving between Bronkhorstspruit and Pretoria, was attacked by a Boer commando and almost annihilated and the seven British garrisons in the terr... see more
Abel Esterhuyse
“Die Buffel Struikel: ’n Storie van 32 Bataljon en Sy Mense” (The Buffalo Stumbles: A Story of 32 Battalion and Its People) was written originally in Afrikaans. The author is an Afrikaans-speaking white South African who, as a member of the well-known Sou... see more
Godfrey Ramuhala
The 1992 United States-led international military operation into Somalia was a multilateral effort persuaded by and under the aegis of the United Nations (UN) to thwart a humanitarian crisis as a result of political cataclysm, civil unrest and natural dis... see more