116 Battalion
SADF 116 Battalion
South African Defence Force (SADF): 116 Battalion SA Infantry Corps: Mounted Unit
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Sabotage at Koeberg
Rodney Wilkinson is a South African anti-apartheid activist and former national fencing champion who famously planted four bombs inside the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station near Cape Town on 16 December 1982. Operating as part of the ANC's Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), he escaped across the border on a bicycle before the devices detonated, causing major structural damage without any casualties.
1 SWA Specialist Unit
1SWA Spes
1 SWA Specialist Unit, or 1 SWASpes, was a unique South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) counter-insurgency unit during the Border War. Formed in 1977 as 101 Specialist Unit in Oshivelo (in 1980 became part of the SWATF), it combined horse-mounted infantry, motorcycles, expert trackers, and specialized dogs. The idea of this combined unit rose from the use of tracker dogs and mounted infantry that the South African Defence Force (SADF) at the beginning of the Border War.