Department of Military Veterans
department of the South African government
The Department of Military Veterans (DMV) is a separate government department and no longer a sub-department of the Department of Defence. The Department is responsible for providing support and services to veterans of the South African military, including veterans of the armed wings of anti-apartheid movements (Umkhonto we Sizwe, APLA, etc.). The political head of the department is the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans; as of 2024 this is Angie Motshekga. Her two deputies are deputy are Retired General Bantu Holomisa and Richard Mkhungo (Hlophe).
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Department of Military Veterans” as department of the South African government. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as department of the South African government. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15213660. Authority coordinates are -25.890, 28.190. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.
Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Department of Military Veterans”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Department of Military Veterans primary sources, Department of Military Veterans archive and Department research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Department of Military Veterans”?
- What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Department of Military Veterans” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.