AFRICAN INDEGINOUS BELIEFS, SECRET RITUAL PERFOMANCES AND CULTURAL PRACTICES DURING WARFARE
By: Abraham Mohale, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History Limited Nature of Early Tribal Warfare Warfare was a low-intensity conflict among the black tribes or the so called “Bantu” prior to the rise of King Shaka (Zulu Kingdom), Moshoeshoe (Lesotho)
ANC INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATION – FROM LONDON TO LUSAKA – RADIO FREEDOM
By: Abraham Mohale, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History I grew up in the black township of Ga-Rankuwa, situated around Pretoria North, in the 1980s. My late father Harry Mohale, used to be a political activist and a member
Nazi police bayonet
By David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH) Under the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), Germany’s police force was under multi-party government control, and each German state exercised some degree of authority over its state’s police force. In mid-1933, the
MEMORIAL PLAQUE, ‘DEAD MAN’S PENNY’ – FIRST WORLD WAR (WW1)
By Tinyeko Captain Ndhlovu, Curator: Insignia, Memorial Plaques, Postal History, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History Introduction This article is a significant contribution to the military numismatic medallion known as the memorial plaque, which was introduced by the British Empire to honour