Milites Dei Academy (MDA) – specializes in full-time residency programs designed to cultivate discipline, rules, and structure through an intensive military-style foundation. Our overall goal is human transformation into leadership using fitness, nature, the protection of species, and fostering responsible tactical weapon ownership and firearm training. We focus entirely on tactical firearms mastery, wilderness tracking, and anti-poaching […]
“These silos once cured the golden leaf that built Peebles Valley”. Today, Milites Dei Academy utilizes the silos for dry firearm training classes and one of the rooms house all the snares that the students have collected over the years. In the tobacco era, these silos are flue-curing kilns, built of brick, mortar and iron […]
Here’s how it began and how Milites Dei Academy students explore and learn to complete 2D and 3D Mapwork in the Peebles Valley. Gerrit Haarhoff in his book “Forgotten Tracks and Trails of the Escarpment and the Lowveld” writes Emil Cohen, a geologist and cartographer left Lydenburg on June 24, 1873, on foot with a […]
The most famous dog “Jock” in South Africa walked right through this valley in the late 1800s, where Milites Dei Academy has been situated since 2015. At Sanderson House, a Jock Plaque marks the connection of Jock of the Bushveld travelling through this conservancy. Today that same house is home to Milites Dei Academy, […]
by Rebecca Botha Milites Dei Academy is a military-style training academy. Before I joined the academy, I actually started communication with their sales since October 2024. When I first joined Milites Dei Academy (10 January 2026) for the Three-Month Course, I was told I am so far the only girl enrolled for my time here. […]
For the last two months Kempton park has been in disarray. Women’s bodies have been found with frightful similarities. They were all found half naked or naked, with bruising. The police issued a warning that women should not be leaving the house alone. For example, a lady, went for an afternoon run, and her body […]