South African border war - bloody memories

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    In the film 'Across the border', four white South African veterans who fought on the border of occupied Namibia and Angola in the 70s and 80s together with thousands of other young white conscript soldiers reflect on their terrifying adventures. They were part of the elite Crowbar unit, a death squad responsible for killing many people. During the South African Border War, they fought against what was known as the Rooi gevaar (red danger), the government term for the ANC and SWAPO liberation movements.

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  • @Eaglespirit007
    @Eaglespirit007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    South Africa was a great country before the ANC, Salute to the old SADF from Morocco North Africa

    • @zaf_man_unltd4230
      @zaf_man_unltd4230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      fucv you there was nothing great about South Africa before ANC. 🖕🏿

    • @rohx9001
      @rohx9001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@zaf_man_unltd4230 is there anything great about SA now that the ANC had taken over. Aparthied was evil, but it changed. Corruption is much harder to change when the people that need to change are the corrupt ones

    • @frikkievannieplaas7743
      @frikkievannieplaas7743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@zaf_man_unltd4230 voetsjek bosluis

    • @yolandeengelbrecht7596
      @yolandeengelbrecht7596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very true

    • @yolandeengelbrecht7596
      @yolandeengelbrecht7596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zaf_man_unltd4230 are u dumb

  • @echohunter4199
    @echohunter4199 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    As a retired US Army Infantryman, I know exactly what this man is describing and I would’ve done the same. An enemy prisoner who did or tried to kill me is only valuable until he no longer is.

  • @schalkuys1506
    @schalkuys1506 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Makes me proud to be South African. My dad fought in this war.

    • @calebgovind5009
      @calebgovind5009 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ur father was a war criminal. Must be very proud indeed , hope he suffers

    • @devanberriman8113
      @devanberriman8113 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mine too. It makes my heart swell with pride. The SANDF was a force to be reccond with

    • @peterr7530
      @peterr7530 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@devanberriman8113 Called SADF back then. The current SANDF has nothing on what we were back then.

    • @nathanielsibanda4789
      @nathanielsibanda4789 ปีที่แล้ว

      Proud if killing blacks?

    • @damien4246
      @damien4246 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Funny enough my grandfather was in Angola but he fought for Portugal not South Africa

  • @vbantjes
    @vbantjes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Was in Angola 1987 as a sapper myself mega memories from this video ... salute to all fellow SADF soldiers 👍

    • @GuidoMillonezz
      @GuidoMillonezz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I am Cuban, I was there as Sergeant Major Instructor of a company in an elite battalion. Many of us die, we killed other as well, we were soldiers, we followed orders, I am white my self, even my black or mulato cubans brother repeated with me__why the hell are we here fighting for somebody else??! communism is worse than ISIS...

    • @mariusduplessis541
      @mariusduplessis541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same here..also a Sapper 87..

    • @andreasmanopolous8745
      @andreasmanopolous8745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      82431941BG Ackermann I salute all you brothers in arms. Hooja. i was ther 85 . Recently in Ghana and Doje. Daresalaam. Memories never go. How do you fade the pain. Were on 74 pils a day. I salute all my brothers in arms.

    • @reubenwest8364
      @reubenwest8364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Viva communism

    • @reubenwest8364
      @reubenwest8364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Rebellion Party wie se kind is die weet djou ma djy is hie

  • @jthornejnr
    @jthornejnr 12 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    We finally slept for a day after being in theater for 9 days and 8 nights only to be awakened again to prepare for yet another amputation. However devastating and emotionally crippling and pointless the death of a child was, I think that those who returned in a body bag, were the blessed ones. They, the brave soldiers, filled up the little hero’s acres in almost every little town by whatever name. Today I cry silently for them and their loved ones deep within my spirit being at the waste!

  • @FOscum
    @FOscum 11 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Bloody Memories ......... that we can never forget. RIP fallen ones.

    • @alexcope8142
      @alexcope8142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How did you guys navigate through that bush terrain?

    • @joatmofa0405
      @joatmofa0405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alexcope8142 with a compass - the trees were just swiped aside by the buffels & kaspers ..... readings on maps were taken ("R.V.'s") and we drove in the direction of the R.V. (point on the map)

    • @alexcope8142
      @alexcope8142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joatmofa0405 what's an RV?

    • @joatmofa0405
      @joatmofa0405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alexcope8142 in Afrikaans : R.V. = "Ruit Verwysing" - kinda like a GPS point on a map! af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruitverwysing

    • @alanbstard4
      @alanbstard4 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexcope8142 easy

  • @barend63
    @barend63 10 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    If you have not been in a war situation, please do not make any comments. Fact is goverments start wars, and individuals are called to go and fight their wars. In a war situation you are doing whatever you have to do to survive and will act accordingly. In order to understand the frustration of the soldiers in this particular war you had to experience the scenes they had to deal with. You have no idea what the insurgents did to the local population to intimidate them. Most of the men in this war was 19 - 21 years old. Go figure. The reality is that the SADF was a formidable force and we did kick ass. As far as I know communism has not worked anywhere. Today we are sitting with a corrupt goverment and a parliament full of thieves and incompetent idiots. If Cuba was such a great place to live, why do they drown like rats to get to the US? I do believe it is a great country, but their politics suck. Despite all the crime, corruption and poor services, South Africa is still a great place to live! It takes balls to live Africa.

    • @zoltancsikos5604
      @zoltancsikos5604 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Rudi Roux Communism worked in Vietnam, China and NK is staying afloat.

    • @cubasedoos
      @cubasedoos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Your'e dreaming..can see you were not there.

    • @augustomundombe829
      @augustomundombe829 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We Angolans the indisputable greatest WARRIORS of mother AFRICA history; are living in real world, and are also; the indisputable true only independent power house of mother AFRICA in all levels...VIVA ANGOLA the special ones ;)

    • @alanvt1
      @alanvt1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No! the real losers were black south africans!

    • @irishboer7124
      @irishboer7124 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      you probaby have relatives ponceing off the european tax payer in europe or the UK right munt?

  • @TheMadManPlace
    @TheMadManPlace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Many lives were lost - many died - many did not survive mentally - and there was FUCKALL SUPPORT for the mental casualties - those lives were also lost.
    RESPECT to ALL THE CASUALTIES.
    We were all men and we all suffered.

    • @jskok3280
      @jskok3280 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly, the same can be said of the USA military system and wars. Their veterans have largely been dumped to rot after their termination from the military. So sad . What a waste of life.

  • @simonmccourt675
    @simonmccourt675 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Buffell troop carrier..used to hate it..Rpg always on my mind...but proud to have served .Yes even as an English man.

    • @francoismuller7031
      @francoismuller7031 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      salute from a boertjie proud to have served..

  • @submariner200
    @submariner200 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    he,he,he Castro went to Angola #1 to fight for the control of Angola's diamond and Ivory markets which the Soviets wanted to control,Castro received 20,0000,000 dollars every year from Neto in Diamonds,the Cubans were far from fighting for love of their ancestors #2 Castro also fought to expand Soviet ambitions in the regions.They never fought to defend the freedom of anyone.Castro as a dictator was defending his own interests.

    • @emmanuelhitilasha2460
      @emmanuelhitilasha2460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      whose interest were you fighting for in Namibia???????

  • @ezrakinloch168
    @ezrakinloch168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    2 of my uncles fought here.the pictures they had were intense. Still have some pics of them patrolling and in trenches.thats when our army was a force to recon with these day.im sure Lesotho will whip us

  • @jthornejnr
    @jthornejnr 12 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    During 1975/76 I was obedient to the call of the SADF to do by bit for my country as a medic. I was 19 at the time and though I never entered the danger zone, I certainly did experience the brutal hell of it and witnessed the distraught emotional consequences of the continuous line of “casavacs” (casualty evacuations) that made their way through the boarder hospital before being sent to larger hospitals back to the States (a name given to South Africa by the SA troops)

    • @TjakaErasmus
      @TjakaErasmus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The American troops in "Nam" (Vietnam) referred to the USA as "The States". We also fought in "Nam" (Namibia). And for us South Africa was the "States". LOL

  • @mikehunt3800
    @mikehunt3800 7 ปีที่แล้ว +279

    3000 south african troops beat 30 000 cubans so bad fidel executed their general

    • @mayitojl
      @mayitojl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Which Rambo's version was that ??

    • @SuperBushcat
      @SuperBushcat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @ Mayito jl the one before your time . . . !!!!1

    • @vincenthuisman1577
      @vincenthuisman1577 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ha ha ha ha

    • @jonathanallen9596
      @jonathanallen9596 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Mike Hunt they had no air. And no anti air systems worth a damn. Most of their forces weren't Cuban. They were their advisors

    • @stennaymezmboumbadjiembi6516
      @stennaymezmboumbadjiembi6516 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mike Hunt I think SA troops​ fought with the advantage of the Land, a rude and desertical land where Cuban troops were not used to !

  • @GYBEHO
    @GYBEHO 11 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    And now look what you have for a government..

  • @TheMadManPlace
    @TheMadManPlace 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    And people back in civvy street could not understand when troepies came back bossies...

  • @danielbtwd
    @danielbtwd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Counter insurgency is very different from conventional. I served with 4 sai during Hooper as a ratel gunner. After that they asked for 6 volunteers to go back and operate ratels. It was the only time that they told us what we were volunteering for. Out of the entire battalion only 10 people stepped forward. I spent 8 months in Angola and 5 months in Namibia. Namibia broke my heart.

  • @gideonbester1438
    @gideonbester1438 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    my dad was koevoet, he never spoke about it, but when he was lying in hosp full of morphine sum stuff came out, i was in 101 airsupply, 44 para....but i understand now why he never spoke about it.... i still would of liked to know tho.... thank you for your service, all of you! i have so much respect!

    • @johnpringle5199
      @johnpringle5199 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Respect for what?

    • @Redt_123
      @Redt_123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@johnpringle5199 defending Namibië from communism idiot

    • @barrys1342
      @barrys1342 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnpringle5199 hi John
      Perhaps I feel similarly
      Dazed
      Confusion
      Yet
      Yes
      Respect for what?
      What we didn’t know/understand?
      Tough stuff
      Thanks
      Barry

    • @splashafrica
      @splashafrica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnpringle5199 they did their duty. It wasn't all blood guts and glory SA had put a massive effort into winning hearts and minds in Namibia. All dentists psychologist and veterinarian services where conducted by the South African army in the operational area. Troops involved themselves as teachers park rangers served in Healthcare supported agriculture and forestry the number of schools increased from 212 in the operational area to 757 thats 140 000 new pupils in schools that couldn't be accommodated the locals where payed R1000s for identifying a landmine so the communities could be made safer from MK and SWAPO insurgency. SWAPO on the other hand assassinated tribal leaders and local police intimidating their way into an electoral Victory once SA withdrew from SA.

  • @jocummins8889
    @jocummins8889 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Gotta love the use of emotive language to create an impression in the video description. Neither Namibia, nor Angola were "occupied". Angola had been embroiled in a bloody civil war since the early 70's, a civil war in which Russians (predominately advisors and instructors) and many thousands of Cubans troops involved themselves and also supported guerrillas aiming to violently overthrow the administration in the then South West Africa. This was the "red danger" referred to and the single most important factor in preventing the South Africans from granting SWA immediate independence in terms of UN 435. (SWA was handed to SA by the UN forerunner as a protectorate after WW1, in the same way as PNG to Australia) The SAs knew that they either fight the war on the SWA border, or on their own as the front would immediately move there. Those freedom loving Russians and East Germans weren't supplying arms and training SA dissidents because they loved the black man (ask those trained there how they were treated ;) ), they had a clear agenda to create a communist government in SA too.
    Koevoet was part of the SWA police, not the SA military and only a very few SA conscripts were assigned there, normally as specialists eg sappers for landmine or boobytrap removal, or medics. (Yes our "liberation" forces were great believers in landmines and boobytraps and killed many more civilians they were supposedly fighting for, than they ever did soldiers. An inconvenient truth!
    A "death squad", what does that even mean? Koevoet were a highly effective para-military force that killed more than their fair share of enemy combatants; surely the definition of a successful military organisation in wartime? These weren't uninvolved civilians they killed, they were trained soldiers, armed with a variety of Soviet bloc weaponry (AK47, RPG, Skorpion SMG, Makarov pistols, anti-personnel landmines, plus larger mines intended for vehicles, limpet mines along with that contributor to world peace, Semtex for demolition and boobytraps.) Left alone, those soldiers did not seek out combat with SA forces, they laid landmines in local roads, terrorised tribesmen and committed acts of sabotage to undermine support for the SWA administration. Classic Marxist revolutionary tactics.
    The collapse of the USSR etc at the end of the 80's changed the political and strategic landscape suddenly and completely and it is no coincidence that Namibian independence and the SA negotiated settlement followed in very short order, Namibia 1990 and SA '91-'94. A working knowledge of Marxist revolutionary theory would reveal that these relatively peaceful political transitions were not the result sought by the liberation forces, but in the absence of their sugar daddy arms suppliers, it was the best result they could hope for.

    • @DaveyJonesLockerwithJazzy
      @DaveyJonesLockerwithJazzy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amen 🙏 ... truth be told, spread the gospel..
      Also in remembrance, let us not forget why this all kicked off.. a political Cuban despot (Fidel Castro) who'd only recently before threatened the United States Florida Coast with nuclear arms during the Soviet-influenced Cuban Missile Crisis, suddenly finds himself and 150,000 Cuban & Russian cronies on our doorstep doing similar.
      What was South Africa supposed to do, but act in defence?? Any other country would've done the same.
      Furthermore, the memories of those tortured Portuguese Angolan citizens chased into the West African sea and into refuge along our border with what was Portuguese West Africa are not forgotten, and then some!

  • @Odin62100
    @Odin62100 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Read 'Die Buffel Struikel' and how a whole Recce company was put together to attack a camp in South Angola. Good old-fashioned conventional infantry attack.

  • @gravedigger9313
    @gravedigger9313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You did good man

  • @ilseschouten951
    @ilseschouten951 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    THANK YOU BO7YS

    • @andrekleyn5737
      @andrekleyn5737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ja ouens was daar tydens ops Askarie 82/83, Grootfontein was n drywer. Laat n Groot knop in n ou se keel Jong. Sou dit Weer wou doen. As daar ouens is wat in peleton 3 was in Grootfontein 82/83 sal dit goed wees on van hulle te hoor.

  • @jthornejnr
    @jthornejnr 12 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I witnessed mangled bodies, maimed young faces, limbless torsos and somewhere from inside those broken bodies, I heard the tearless cries from broken hearts and broken spirits. God, I would think and pray, “What is the purpose meaning and significance of all this disfiguration and pointless untimely deaths?….. only to be interrupted by a radio signaling yet another landmine explosion. There was little time for the beer tent and idle chats with fellow mates.

  • @HenryParkes-kp1yc
    @HenryParkes-kp1yc ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” Ernest Hemingway.

  • @ajm6464
    @ajm6464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love these days, that's when the ANC and Swapo knew their place. Today the rubbish r as arrogant as fck!!!!!

  • @Ghoulza
    @Ghoulza 12 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    @TheMOONBEAM40 LOL you really are clueless, SA caused such a humiliating defeat on cuba that castro executed his general, took over command himself and sent in an extra 15000 soldiers to bost his force of allready 30000 soldier, all this because 3000 southa frican kicked his ares... after that he agreed to ALL terms SA had asked for and he was forced to remove all his soldiers from Angola, it was such a defeat russian gave up supporting him. Cuba lost thousands of troops SA 21

  • @nektariosvasilopoulos3841
    @nektariosvasilopoulos3841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Rudi roux
    Correct. Unless you have been in a 'you vs me' scenario....where only one survives. Unless you have been in the sheer madness and fear that is war ,ambush, skirmish,attack you cant relate. You might want to ,but you cant. Respect to all soldiers. They did/do what was asked of them. Hopefully we won't be tested. As I said respect to all soldiers. You were on the front line. The politicians were not.

  • @petersmith7360
    @petersmith7360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Was there, do what you have to, I did, came out alive

  • @3MINUTEFILM
    @3MINUTEFILM 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Go and have a look at Bok van Blerk's emotional tribute to the young men who gave everything to keep a nation safe. lgpRvmIPS6U

  • @TheMiyagiSan1
    @TheMiyagiSan1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Trots Boer

  • @goonerfromjhb
    @goonerfromjhb 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If those okes were after you, it would have been a good time to kiss the family goodbye

  • @Johann_Reyneke
    @Johann_Reyneke 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    #BOERlove

  • @mikevigus
    @mikevigus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And if we spent the money on educating the masses and giving equally opportunities instead of a war we would all be far better off..
    Black and white

    • @greenpeace7380
      @greenpeace7380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      People want to justify oppression of one race by another using bad leadership of black governments. No black person would have picked up arms against anyone had minority governments treated blacks as human beings. If anyone still believe they should have maintained apartheid then deal with it

    • @doppies2001
      @doppies2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@greenpeace7380 say that to the millions that are jobless, homeless, hopeless now under cANCer Dictatorship !
      also ask Tutu about his Statement that people were better off under Apartheid...

  • @Realityprogramming
    @Realityprogramming 12 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I agree mate, i learned my trade from Koevoet. They were not the bad guys.

    • @emmanuelhitilasha2460
      @emmanuelhitilasha2460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      are you crazy? these incidents were happening along the Namibia Angola border where I was born? what is the use of hanging dead bodies of Guerilla fighter and harassing us and tell us if you join SWAPO we will kill you like that dog hanging on the Caspir?

    • @io_inc
      @io_inc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm lost please explain more, such things are hidden from history books.

    • @ca9968
      @ca9968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@emmanuelhitilasha2460 education...other than one from a communist bloc point of view...
      I think the point was that if you acted like a barbarian that men who were better at being barbarians would come after you and dish out your just desserts...time has told us all now that a heavy hand in Africa was the only effective learning tool available...

    • @emmanuelhitilasha2460
      @emmanuelhitilasha2460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@io_inc Is not hidden and was death squad here and they killed thousands of our people include my 2 uncles in the mid-80s. Their journalists report Koevoet as good and Killed Thousands Of Communists. These were our parents and elder brothers. In Northern Namibia and Southern Angola, there are thousands of unmarked graves until now of unknown people. The Koevoet idiots killed in public too. This is why Some Boers who use to kill people around Okahandja at a farm now at a location now called Five Rand run away in 1990 coz they thought the black government they will do as they were doing. The place is called 5 rand coz even if you work 6 months or 1 year, the Boers there only pay 5 Rand. My uncle told me the Caspirs use to bring dead body to the other side of the Five Rand railway line

    • @emmanuelhitilasha2460
      @emmanuelhitilasha2460 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@io_incthis is what Koevoet do in Northern Namibia and go around primary schools in northern Namibia and terrified us, that is how we first forced to see a dead body and another thing of a poster Of Sam Nujoma with long teeth and they tell us Sam Nujoma drink blood and eat people meat too. I can clearly see that our parent killers are still well in South Africa and a shameful thing
      za.pinterest.com/pin/622552348459545181/

  • @JOATMOFA
    @JOATMOFA 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unfortunately, not all men can endure & outlast wars and battles. I have been through similar and have *NOT* ever felt the need to "confess"!

  • @jobbybobby5749
    @jobbybobby5749 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My dad fought in this war

    • @peterzinn9070
      @peterzinn9070 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Say Hi to him from me.

    • @kennedymogomotsi6973
      @kennedymogomotsi6973 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So what

    • @emmanuelhitilasha2460
      @emmanuelhitilasha2460 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably your father was one of those who bring dead bodies to terrify us all the time digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/islandora/object/islandora%3A6770

    • @garylandman7889
      @garylandman7889 ปีที่แล้ว

      So did I, and man, did we kick some arse..

    • @trevordebeer9812
      @trevordebeer9812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I fought in that wa

  • @tyronvangreunen
    @tyronvangreunen 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If you have a loved one that received a heart transplant,thank the south african surgeon who devised it and achieved it in the 70's.Despite all what you say ,this was all credit to the white south africans who had no intention but building a safe and strong economic country.

  • @GYBEHO
    @GYBEHO 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Listen carefully. "pulled out my gun" signifies it was a hand gun. probably his 9mm side arm

  • @PadBoll
    @PadBoll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How can we watch the full documentary ? the link has expired, Thank's

  • @PKPK-rr3rs
    @PKPK-rr3rs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    My father fought in Angola, he was 1st Special Battalion Armour SAA.

    • @dirkvanschalkwyk7169
      @dirkvanschalkwyk7169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i like the flag on your photo

    • @bighatlogan4629
      @bighatlogan4629 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My father was in the 1st parachute battalion in Angola.

    • @GuidoMillonezz
      @GuidoMillonezz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I am Cuban, I was there as Sergeant Major Instructor of a company in an elite battalion. Many of us die, we kill other as well, we were soldiers, we followed orders, I am white my self, even my black or mulato cubans brother repeated with me__why the hell are we here fighting for somebody else??! communism is worse than ISIS...

    • @eddiepires3998
      @eddiepires3998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@GuidoMillonezz From one ex soldier to another, I'm sorry you lost comrades. I hope none of them were close friends. It was a long time ago. It was not personal , you must understand we were very motivated because we felt we were doing the right thing protecting our home country. As the saying goes : war does not decide who is right, war only decides who is left. I hope you are having a better life in Miami.

    • @emmanuelhitilasha2460
      @emmanuelhitilasha2460 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GuidoMillonezz stratcom is back!

  • @vilasalazar
    @vilasalazar 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    3:36 - 'I pulled my gun out' - 'gun'??? you're a professional hardcore soldier, and you call your firearm a 'gun'? please man

    • @coenraadkruger366
      @coenraadkruger366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Gun rifle what ever it is his story and was his fight so hê can tell his storie as hê like so keep your yap close and listen to his story

    • @gordondwyer3641
      @gordondwyer3641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun.

    • @pieterdeyzel2555
      @pieterdeyzel2555 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      vilasssaaasssa ape - I had guns. Firearm??? WTF???

    • @ekiamedia2403
      @ekiamedia2403 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂

  • @sapaus
    @sapaus 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Correct. Never gun for a pistol or a rifle. Sometimes also refereed to as weapon for a pistol but never gun.

    • @garylandman7889
      @garylandman7889 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they are Handguns... therefore, gun is absolutely correct.

  • @phillipschutte759
    @phillipschutte759 11 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Mandela never said sorry for the bombs he gave orders to plant, why must the former soldiers.

    • @joebiernacki7346
      @joebiernacki7346 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      True. The SA Government offered to release Comrade Mandela if he would renounce violence. He refused because he was safe from it in a SA Prison where he was set up in an apartment.

    • @ellismaytham456
      @ellismaytham456 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because Mandela was correct

    • @shaunsnyman5107
      @shaunsnyman5107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ellismaytham456 mandela was a idiot

    • @christophermwanilwa7074
      @christophermwanilwa7074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry to whom? To the blacks oppressors?

    • @shaunsnyman5107
      @shaunsnyman5107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@christophermwanilwa7074 blacks are the racists

  • @johnshackleton323
    @johnshackleton323 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Who has heard this before? And what meaning does this have for you? "Ek vlieg nou oor die spoorsnyers in die rigting van die spoor." That phrase, and hearing that over the radio, will stay with me forever. And then Botes over the radio: "Z4E kontak". And then Z4 HQ calling: "Z4E kontak, radio stilte." Memories.

  • @MrAbniel
    @MrAbniel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm a black Namibia oshivambo speaking and I'm not a born free but i was too young to recall on what happening. As far as I see SADF was well militarily equipped and well trained. How come SADF haven't took victory, how where it ends?

    • @sarki1723
      @sarki1723 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you can be proud of your people, which ever side they were on.

    • @splashafrica
      @splashafrica ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Militarily the war was practically won in Namibia but SA had already agreed with the UN to give Namibia independence so it took an opportunity to use it as a political tool when it saw one. You need to look at the bigger picture Cuba and SA didn't have a reason to fight each other after the soviet union collapsed but both countries needed to tell their people back home something to make the war seem like it had been worthwhile. Cuba wanted credit for Namibian independence and South Africa wanted Soviet influences out of its back yard.

    • @vanessasmook4229
      @vanessasmook4229 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Politics Mr Abniel. Politics.

  • @torent7790
    @torent7790 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    MY GOD, MY VOLK, MY SUID AFRIKA..SALUUT

    • @jpbasson6475
      @jpbasson6475 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stem!! 8sai Trots Afrikaans

    • @keep_it_tidy56
      @keep_it_tidy56 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is such a beautiful & meaningful flag compared to the current advert for underpants.

  • @vladimirkolovrat2846
    @vladimirkolovrat2846 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    nothing more beautiful than watching a floppy flop

  • @johanschoeman869
    @johanschoeman869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    War is a filthy business an not a romantic idea as many young men seem to think it is. There is no glory and no honor in battle. It cannot be avoided in certain instances and you have to do what is needed. Just be warned that the emotional scars are permanent and very difficult to deal with as you get older. Best we seek a solution before we opt to fight, but if we have to get it over with quickly.
    My respect to all my brothers in arms that served with me in the SADF. I will always be proud to be reckoned as one of you and as man that served my country when i was called upon to do so!

  • @autopedia2647
    @autopedia2647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Does anyone know that intro track

  • @walterforrester7917
    @walterforrester7917 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There are so many stories like that. Myself and company of 5SAI 79/81 can say a lot, but the guys refrain from speaking. Speaking doesn't necessarily bring healing. It sometimes opens wounds of long ago.

  • @Brecconable
    @Brecconable 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    To bloody right mate

  • @mvt1313
    @mvt1313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What happened to Maj. Tickly Kessler?

  • @lourenslabuschagne7433
    @lourenslabuschagne7433 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nato needs this vehicles in Afgan, maybe then they will reach their goal. The best there is.

    • @GreencampRhodie
      @GreencampRhodie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      NATO is a terrorist organisation. Do your research!

  • @trevknott
    @trevknott 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Are U fore real? we here there.... get over it ...the world feels fork all

  • @georgesnuch6424
    @georgesnuch6424 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the plan was greater and powerfull

  • @vilasalazar
    @vilasalazar 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    my friend, as jy die saw geken het... you'd know a rifle was never a gun - in any language, at any time, ever

    • @TjakaErasmus
      @TjakaErasmus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for war, this is for fun. LOL

  • @daniellion7116
    @daniellion7116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ever see koevoet drive over a landmine?They fly like pawpaws because they all sat on top of the caspirs.Dont believe what they tell you,was in ovamboland,saw it first hand

  • @kenbird9017
    @kenbird9017 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The whine of the Casspairs carried for miles and the Swapo in the area would bombshell (split up) and this created the bizarre scenario of 5 armoured personnel carriers and 30 odd policeman following one Swapo. The kill was inevitable where heat and lack of water played a major factor against the quarry.

  • @MrStevestr
    @MrStevestr 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ja !

  • @user-fs7np7xo1m
    @user-fs7np7xo1m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All gave some and some gave all - 1977 December to June 1979 Eenhana , Ilundu , Nkongo. 54 Battalion. (5 SAI) Respect to everyone. dead or alive. We were called upon and we served. Without dignity. Besides , we were soldiers.

  • @bolfieb492
    @bolfieb492 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in South Africa

  • @platvis379
    @platvis379 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    those were the days South Africa was still a safe country.

  • @submariner200
    @submariner200 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @TheMOONBEAM40 Only in your dreams Castro won in Cuito Cuanavale!

  • @TheMiyagiSan1
    @TheMiyagiSan1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My Vriend, ek is bly ons dink saam!

  • @manifestgreatness1
    @manifestgreatness1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Andrew and Jan Olivier. These were my uncles in the war

  • @gertdekker9271
    @gertdekker9271 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    great memories

  • @shaunlaubscher2905
    @shaunlaubscher2905 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Served from 1985 to 1987 as a corporal- 6SAI - Greetings to all my brothers. Damn we are getting old...

    • @javalava3238
      @javalava3238 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      When were you born

    • @shaunlaubscher2905
      @shaunlaubscher2905 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@javalava3238 1966

    • @javalava3238
      @javalava3238 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shaunlaubscher2905 so if I am correct you are 25

  • @creoleviking8433
    @creoleviking8433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Now they are all leaving SA for Mother Russia.
    You just cant make this crap up.

  • @christiaanc682
    @christiaanc682 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    no war in south africa wahahaha.daar is n oorlog net om te oorleef in die land en n oorlog teen die wit mense ons jeug kry nie werk nie en ons ouer generasie is besig om hulle werke te verloor . and for the people who is saying koefoet isnt worth shit come to south africa and and try taking on a toppie/ boer oom you will be hiding in the corner of the room calling your mom if he had to say jump you would first ask him how high as hy se kak dan vra jy watse kleur.

  • @mikeyranson
    @mikeyranson 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    link is dead

  • @dariomendoza6892
    @dariomendoza6892 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    war is a neverending tale!!!

  • @maaifoediedelarey4335
    @maaifoediedelarey4335 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I was there in 1982 & 83 as Marine/Infantry in Oshakati. There was a Koevoet base nearby, so we got to know them well. Koevoet was police (therefore inside South West Africa, not constrained by Geneva convention as the military was) - their duty was to hunt down terrorists that committed a crime, inside the territory of SWA - this they did exceedingly well, using their own methods and tactics. The military had units like 201 Battalion (Bushmen, exceptional trackers) and 32 Battalion which largely operated inside Angola, where Koevoet could not go (since they were Police) - 32 B were even more devastating, but in a different way, as military operatives, using military methods and tactics. I have to say though - I think this guy is lying - he probably had some bad experiences (like we all did, and it does fruck with your head as PTSD), but he has added drama to his own story, that I doubt happened - I may be wrong of course, but what and how he expressed himself, is contrary to the way vets do when recounting bad experiences. No vet would ever refer to a 'gun', even for the benefit of a film crew - all of us that were there, to this day, would still use the terminology of the time, it's burned into our psyche. Other indicators are his facial expression & tone of voice.

    • @stuartcampbell3861
      @stuartcampbell3861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is my rifle this is my gun this is for shooting this is for fun i'll never forget that drummed into us in basics cheers

    • @joatmofa0405
      @joatmofa0405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You may have a point there...or perhaps he experienced only 1 x contact and felt the need to "open up" ....

    • @gregdeegan6258
      @gregdeegan6258 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kak man. That was my brother. It's exactly what happened. Why would he lie? You have no idea what he went through!

    • @gregdeegan6258
      @gregdeegan6258 ปีที่แล้ว

      8 years in Koevoet. Dozens of contacts!

    • @maaifoediedelarey4335
      @maaifoediedelarey4335 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gregdeegan6258 Of course you'd believe your brother, who wouldn't ? Though you're to close to form an opinion, and obviously you never walked the walk. He went through no different what every other guy went through - it affected all of us, albeit in different ways and degrees. Keep on believing whatever makes you feel ok.

  • @jahnkaplank8626
    @jahnkaplank8626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    all this, and then FW de Klerk sold you out.

  • @jamesbishop338
    @jamesbishop338 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had to play the last post on my Ttumpet on these funerals of our lovely men ... Was heart broken but we were soldiers of note
    Well trained and Vasbyt was the thing then

  • @Simba5124
    @Simba5124 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah I’m sure I was with that guy once before - I was a driver and we went across the border a few times with recognisance - Mad stuff 86- 87 Ondangwa

    • @joatmofa0405
      @joatmofa0405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      53Bn ?

    • @Simba5124
      @Simba5124 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joatmofa0405 yeah there were also some Zulu guys part of the crew - we shot up a few ostrich with 20mm on that specific assignment to which I believe they laid anti tank mines outside an enemy base in just a few Kilometres from the border 👍💪

    • @joatmofa0405
      @joatmofa0405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      -recognisance- = reconnaissance

    • @Simba5124
      @Simba5124 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joatmofa0405 smertass - Smart arse

  • @raymondramsawak8230
    @raymondramsawak8230 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:35 . . You must really be troubled nowadays

  • @ruvanefriebus-cv6td
    @ruvanefriebus-cv6td 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When we we're feared a terrible beast that devoured the wasteland and all in it's path

  • @sergeidragunov8103
    @sergeidragunov8103 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry Odin, Directed at CliffhangerRsa

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back when the adults were in charge of RSA

  • @MirageTader
    @MirageTader หลายเดือนก่อน

    War criminals,South African army committed atrocities in Namibia and I can believe that some Africans are proud to see Africans suffering in their own country.

  • @vilasalazar
    @vilasalazar 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    dan is die woord 'pistool'. Believe me, never 'gun'

    • @LitoGeorge
      @LitoGeorge 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually, it was weapon. But you are right, it was never "gun" 👍

  • @samogufonianrockstar7510
    @samogufonianrockstar7510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    SADF 👋 Manne

  • @sapaus
    @sapaus 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So are you saying Mandela had no power or say while imprisoned?
    Also are you saying that hanging to power which doesn't belong to you makes you stupid? Include a note explaining the intelligence of Robert Mugabe.
    Please explain how the Zuma government is doing a better job of building a future for South Africa for all races, religions and creeds; and why.
    BTW I hated apartheid but loved the country; including reverse apartheid which the whole world now knows South Africa for.

  • @mariusduplessis541
    @mariusduplessis541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We called our rifles our wife's.. because we slept with it..I called my rifle miss South Africa of that time..;)She came and visit us at our basis in 87..but I was on a mine hunt at that time so I didn't meet her...Damn...

  • @sammyelagoh6043
    @sammyelagoh6043 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am not happy, the fact remains.

  • @friedrichmeneer7255
    @friedrichmeneer7255 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jis

  • @davidogwela5627
    @davidogwela5627 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    sad

  • @submariner200
    @submariner200 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why is Castro buying New Mercedes when Cubans can not purchase new cars?Why Cubans are not allowed to enter in 3 star Hotels?Why Cubans are not allowed to fish lobsters?Why only communists travel outside of Cuba?Why there are 2.5 million of Cubans out of Cuba if Communism is so good?Why? Why Castro has more than 12 mansions all across Cuba when Cubans are in need of a simple House?Why the best restaurants are serve with dollars and the regular Cubans can not enter?Why? Answer ,please!

  • @bernardhickman4918
    @bernardhickman4918 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's a book on this story or well part of this story

  • @edwardverster4200
    @edwardverster4200 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    it is only badluck i was olso there

  • @southpawmoose
    @southpawmoose 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    why only 3 minutes

  • @jeanettemarcos4997
    @jeanettemarcos4997 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It was all for nothing

  • @du39104
    @du39104 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I simply love reading your comments! Not many youtube tards were able bring up something so profound... War is nasty, plain and simple.

  • @foibenellafrans945
    @foibenellafrans945 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    where is he now? Somebody pls give me a gun.

    • @nagihangot6133
      @nagihangot6133 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      foibenella frans He is in your bedroom

  • @richtervanheerden1537
    @richtervanheerden1537 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    777

    • @jam5533
      @jam5533 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      AWB??

  • @submariner200
    @submariner200 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Empires go down but dictators go down,look around you.HUSSEIN, MUBARAK, KADHAFI.Who will be next?

  • @badlaamaurukehu
    @badlaamaurukehu 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    PSA

  • @sergeidragunov8103
    @sergeidragunov8103 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For sure... "Kom troepe, vandag kots julle naaiers, dis oppies tyd" !!!!
    words that struk fear into troops!!!!

    • @JohnJones-ct9pr
      @JohnJones-ct9pr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      n Russiese Boertjie !!!!!!

    • @LitoGeorge
      @LitoGeorge 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oppie. The stuff of blerry nightmares and kots.

  • @jimbat1000
    @jimbat1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    look at solders run!!!

  • @hennievanniekerk6040
    @hennievanniekerk6040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Adrennalin rush, or art of war !

  • @deanjoubert30
    @deanjoubert30 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who won if I may ask