Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s

Title: Warfare by Other Means
Subtitle: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s
Author: Peter Stiff
Publisher: Galago
Cape Town, South Africa 2001
ISBN 1919854010 / ISBN 1-91-985401-0
ISBN 9781919854014 / ISBN 978-1-91-985401-4
Hardcover, dustjacket, 17 x 24 cm, 600 pages, many bw- and colour photos

About: Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s

This outstanding book explores the methods of highly unconventional warfare conducted by South Africa’s secret intelligence and covert warfare units during the final years of apartheid. Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s tells how SADF joined a disastrous attempt by Colonel Mike Hoare’s mercenaries to overthrow the Renéé regime in the Seychelles. Having failed to convert Transkei into its Eastern Cape bastion, it turned next to the Ciskei to take over its intelligence functions. It explains the roles played by surrogates like the Witdoekes in the Cape Flats, the Ama-Afrika in the Eastern Cape, the Iliso Lomzi in Transkei, the African Democratic Movement in Ciskei, Inkhata in KwaZulu-Natal and more, in combating the total onslaught. It tells of a great variety of Military Intelligence front organisations like Dynamic Teaching and Veterans for Victory. It tells how Project Barnacle, an adjunct to Special Forces, destroyed jets of the Air Force of Zimbabwe and how it assassinated enemies. It deals with the Project Coast as a biological/chemical warfare unit. It tells how the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) poisoned prisoners, about assassinations, destruction and mayhem committed at home and abroad. Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s explains how the CCB itself was uncovered after the shootings of Dr. David Webster in South Africa and Anton Lubowski in Namibia.

Content: Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s

Picture credits
Acknowledgments
Colour and black and white pictures
In-text maps, illustrations, cartoons and diagrams
Foreword
Operation Anvil — Seychelles — An anti-communist coup going begging 1977-1981
Enter Mad Mike' Hoare — Froth Blowers blow the froth
Operation Anvil — Seychelles Coup Attempt — The Execution 25
November 1981
Operation Anvil — Seychelles Coup Attempt — Unhappy landings in Durban
Operation Anvil — Seychelles Coup Attempt — After the coup was over
Assassination of Gerard Hoarau: 1985 — Hello. Ian Douglas Withers alias John
Douglas — Enter Colonel Garth Barrett — Enter Craig Williamson and Longreach — Introducing Giovanni Mano Ricoi — Craig Williamson (on South Africa's behalf) takes over Seychelles Intelligence
Total Onslaught — Total Response — National Security Management System
The all-powerful Stato Security system — SADF's three spheres of influence — External operations — Planning — Authorisation for secunty actions — Interdepartmental co-ordination — Stale of Emergency
Section of Pseudo Operations to D40 — D40 to Project Barnacle 1979-1986
Establishment of Project Barnacle. April 1979 — Project Barnacle eliminations — Special Forces' Medical Unit. 7-Medical Battalion and Project Coast — 7-Medical Battalion's achievements — Recruits from Rhodesia — Operational authority — Operation Dual: The killing machine — Project Barnacle 1982 — Operations Mozamcambique/Swaziland late 1980s — Anti-ANC operation goes wrong Zambia January 1986 — Zambian Reconnaissance 1986
Absolute Power/Absolute Corruption — Transkei and Ciskei 1970s and 1980s
Ciskei joins the homelands club — SADF establishes the Transkei Delence Force — Enter Abe Isaac Kaye and his pals — Operation Lalsa formation of losothu Liberation Army: 1979 — Rumblings in Ciskei