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Lenie, was a legendary South African Police (SAP) scent-tracking police dog in the Cradock District of the Eastern Cape during the late 1930s and 1940s. She was the first SAP scent-tracking police dog to be permanently stationed at a rural police station like Cradock. She died of natural causes in 1950, at the age of 13 in Cradock.
South African Defence Force (SADF): 116 Battalion SA Infantry Corps: Mounted Unit
1906: the Ferreira Raid in the North Western Cape Colony
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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.
A Canadian woman of Chinese origin has been arrested for allegedly spying while working as an intern at the military headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance (Nato), according to Belgian prosecutors. Canadian officials, including Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, launched a review of how the suspect passed security screening by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
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.
From 1968 to 1994 the South African Police (SAP) Counter Insurgency Unit (COIN) and the SAP Special Task Force used distinct camouflage uniforms. First the SAP Pattern 1 and later the SAP Pattern 2, from 1970 to1994. With the SA Police Service (SAPS) only the Special Task Force still use camouflage uniforms.From 1968 to 1994 the South African Police (SAP) Counter Insurgency Unit (COIN) and the SAP Special Task Force used distinct camouflage uniforms. First the SAP Pattern 1 and later the SAP Pattern 2, from 1970 to1994. With the SA Police Service (SAPS) only the Special Task Force still use camouflage uniforms.
The one humped camel was introduced to German South West Africa from 1889 onward. Early shipments came from the East African coast, Port Said, British India, Somaliland and Arabia. Camels were difficult to obtain at the time due to global military and infrastructure demands. The first major shipment to DSWA included 76 camels from Port Said, followed by an additional 403 animals acquired through Hagenbach’s Somali and Arab trading contacts. Later, a large consignment of 2,000 Somali camels arrived after a sea voyage of 192 days. Initially, the camels were intended for railway construction between Lüderitzbucht and Keetmanshoop, but they soon became essential to military operations in the arid interior.
VETERAN: ROCHÉ VERMAAK - From Paratrooper to Police Dog handler, founder of the Armscor/Denel Special Dog/Reaction Unit, initiator of the SAP Dog Memorial, and founder of the Animals in War Memorial"
The Church Street Bomb Explosion, Friday 20 May 1983, Pretoria: A Personal Perspective
Casspir Mk II B: South Africa's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP), Wolfgang Witschas -- Nongqai Volume 17 No 4
SAA Flight SA 228: 20 April 1968: Windhoek
SAP Alouette III helicopter accident at Terrace Bay, 1966
Nesbitt's Horse Field Intelligence Unit - Wolfgang Witschas
Second Anglo Boer War (1899-1902): Canadian Unit - Strathcona's Horse
"Steinaecker's Horse unit" (SH) was a volunteer British military unit created by the British Military Intelligence, that fought for the British during the Second Anglo-Boer War or South African War (1899-1902), operating primarily in the Lowveld of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR), Swaziland,
Lashkar-e-Taliba (LeT): The Islamist-Jihadist Pakistani militant organization - Wolfgang Witschas
Jack Hindon - the Scottish-born Boer Soldier - Wolfgang Witschas
The South African Navy's (SAN) Warrior-class Multi-Mission Inshore Patrol Vessels (MMIPV) are a class of modern, versatile warships designed to enhance maritime security within South Africa's Exclusive Economic Zone. These are a new class of patrol vessels designed to operate in both shallow inshore waters and the high seas, with a wide range of capabilities including border protection, search and rescue, mine countermeasures, diving, and disaster relief. The first three vessels, the SAS King Sekhukhune I, SAS King Shaka Zulu, and SAS Adam Kok III, have been delivered and named.
1899 - 1902: Second Anglo Boer War: Jansenville Fort
The Tale of the Two Statues in Durban - Gen Louis Botha & King Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo
Second Anglo Boer War: The Concordia monument: "The men who would not march: Concordia Northern Cape: April 1902"
