In Memoriam – Battle of Bangui, 2013
Paratrooper Prayer
(Real) BROTHERS IN ARMS AT 1 PARA BN: 2XBROTHERS (including twins)
2x Badenhorst 2x Bakker, Danie & Cobus 2x Barnard 2x Barnard 2x Belwood 2x Bender 2x Beneke, Siegfried (C Comp 76/78) & Nico (D Comp 78/79; G Comp 79/80; G Comp 81/82) 2x Bestbier 2x Blake 2x Blauuw Pieter & Andries 2x Bolton 2x Botha Piesang (80/81) & br (76/77) 2x Botha, Phillip & Johan […]
SAW SOLDATE GEDENKMUUR deur Cerneels Lourens
DIE ONUITROEILIKE HULDE IN GRANIET: SAW SOLDATE GEDENKMUUR 31 MEI 1961 TOT 27 APRIL 1994 MANNE EN VROUE IN GRANIET DEUR MANNE VAN GRANIET INLEIDING Op 25 Oktober 2009 is een van die mooiste gedenkmure in die wêreld neffens die Voortrekkermonument onthul. Hierdie artikel het ten doel om enersyds die “Manne van Graniet” van die […]
C-130 (Flossie)
C-130 Hercules aka “The Flossie” (Posted by Fanie van Loggerenberg on the FlyAfrica Facebook group on Wednesday 21 April 2021) “A while back, whilst we were running a series on SAAF aircraft, the question arose as to how the Hercules C130 got the nickname ‘Flossie’. Well, here we have it courtesy of Jan Marais from […]
Background to Rooiplaas
Background to Rooiplaas Rooiplaas, the parachute training facility in Bloemfontein, South Africa, has a rich history. It played a crucial role in the training of thousands of paratroopers and parachute packers. In 1960, the first South African soldiers received their training as paratroopers in the United Kingdom. On 1 April 1961, the first parachute unit […]
THE AIRBORNE CONCEPT IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY, 1960-2000: STRATEGY VERSUS TACTICS IN SMALL WARS by EDWARD GEORGE McGILL ALEXANDER (PhD Thesis)
http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/23448
THE CASSINGA RAID (M.A. dissertation) by EDWARD GEORGE MCGILL ALEXANDER
http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/1475/00dissertation.pdf?sequence=4
The forgotten soldiers (Staff reporter)
https://mg.co.za/article/2003-04-04-the-forgotten-soldiers/ “‘Forgotten’ is an understatement; we have been wished away.” A former member of the African National Congress’s now defunct military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), finds a rare point of agreement with a former conscript in the apartheid regime’s South African Defence Force (SADF) who says: “We are sitting here, up shit creek, no paddles […]
The lingering, unspoken pain of white youth who fought for apartheid by Theresa Edlmann
https://theconversation.com/the-lingering-unspoken-pain-of-white-youth-who-fought-for-apartheid-46218 The legacies of apartheid in South Africa can only be understood by making sense of the complexities of the past. This includes recognising what those who were young during the apartheid era – and who are now the elders and leaders of our society – experienced during that time. In the roughly 30 years […]
