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South African Defence Force - Infantry School 1986

Situated on the outskirts of Oudtshoorn, the School of Infantry trained the junior leaders for South Africa's mot. Infantry. The training was rigorous by any standards and less than half the candidates completed the course. It involved a platoon weapons phase, an endurance march covering 140 kilometers through the Swartberg mountains, a conventional warfare phase, urban and rural counterinsugency phases. The candidates were deployed operationally in Sector 10 along the SWA border as well as during the riots in support of the South African Police (SAP). Some of the footage in this clip does not depict members of Infantry School but serves to provide historical context.

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Added: 270 days ago by SAClips

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South African Defence Force: Auxiliary Forces

Thousands of black troops served alongside their white comrades during the South African Border war (1966-1989). Two prominent units feature in this video, namely 32 and 101 Battalions.

South  Africa  Namibia  Angola  Border  War  grensoorlog  Apartheid  infantry  32  Battalion  101  African  Defence  Force  SADF  SWAPO  UNITA  FAPLA  Kaplyn  Cuito  soldiers  Cold  combat  Afrikanerhart  Bok  van  Blerk  Tyd  om  the  trek  racism  military 

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Added: 270 days ago by SAClips

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South African Defence Force: Brothers in Arms 2

The SADF increased the number of South African recruited black units from the early 1980s onwards. 21 Battalion served as the nucleus for the numerous other units that emerged out of all the various ethnic groups in the country. The most prominent unit may have been 121 Bn comprised of Zulus and located at Matubatuba in KwaZulu/Natal. The troops, unlike most of their Namibian counterparts, also served in the townships during the riots. This resulted in many soldiers being killed when on leave e.g. thrown from trains, their houses burned, their families attacked and sometimes injured or killed by UDF (later ANC) supporters. As "Apartheid soldiers", these men have basically been ignored by history, although black soldiers served both as NCOs and officers, attending Infantry School alongside white and coloured candidates from 1987 onwards.

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Added: 270 days ago by SAClips

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Koevoet (Shadows in the sand)

Koevoet (Afrikaans for crowbar), also known as "Operation K" and officially known as the "South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Unit" (SWAPOL-COIN), was a police counter insurgency unit in South-West Africa (now Namibia) during the 1970s and 1980s. ("Crowbar" was an allusion to their mission of prying insurgents from the local population). They were the most effective unit (in terms of personnel lost versus enemies killed) deployed against SWAPO fighters (seeking Namibian independence from South Africa) and were accused by them of brutal and indiscriminate use of force.

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Added: 504 days ago by DurbanSurfer

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SADF FIGHTING SWAPO, CUBANS AND RUSSIANS

South African Defense Forces fighting Cubans, SWAPO, and Soviet advisors in last years of white rule in South Africa.

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Added: 1280 days ago by gary

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