Conscription was from 16y. Every year at school all boys from 16y would fill out military papers and you would be issued with a army number. If you were to stay on at school you would be excused from service for that year
The insanity that South African defense Force was using mrap style vehicles but way back when and we had to wait and get our asses blown off in Afghanistan and Iraq I just don't f****** get it why didn't we have those vehicles
I had 8 men on a Security Police Casspir which hit a phosphorus-rich, box-mine (IED) in the Namibian/Angolan border area. My men lost their weapons and had holes burned through their clothing and webbing, but not one had a serious burn-wound. The Casspir Driver had hot engine-oil blown onto his lower abdomen and legs, but walked away from the burning wreck. My men and the SP guys, unarmed and carrying only a blackened A39SA Radio, walked back around 12 Km. to where I was waiting with water, emergency supplies and transport back to base. I had been forbidden to go further along the sand-road because of the danger of landmines and possible 'hostiles' likely armed with AK47s, RPDs, RPGs & SAMs. I had also been refused chopper extraction. Had it not been for the SA designed & built MRAP, these boys would have been toast. BTW, I am now 72 and served in the SADF as a National Serviceman, between 1968 & 1980.
That's all due to international sanctions and the arms embargo. The West placed sanctions upon us so we built our own. And built them better than the crap we were buying. That is Boer ingenuity.
Very interesting & informative!Two things missed were the first Boer war & the 1914 rebellion when a portion of the Boer/Afrikaner refused to turn against Germany in favour of England. Much of the bitterness is still just beneath the surface.
Boer Afrikaners did not serve in the englishmans war, Botha and Smuts are seen as traitors and the 1913 land act as implemented by the foreign office in London, as we were a union with a govenor general who had the last say.
A VERY AMERICAN NARRATIVE. THE BRITISH FAVOURED GREATER RIGHTS FOR THE NATIVE POPULATION WHEREAS FOR THE DUTCH THE NATIVES HAD NO RIGHTS. THAT'S WHY THE BOERS HEADED OFF ON THEIR GREAT TREK.
The new army is nothing compared to what it was .
Have the facts totally wrong : When the Dutch landed in Southern tip of South Africa it was only inhabited by the San : :
Koi
Conscription was from 16y. Every year at school all boys from 16y would fill out military papers and you would be issued with a army number. If you were to stay on at school you would be excused from service for that year
Did my bit and now look at the state of it. Corrupt incompetence. Eskom going well. It's so sad.
The insanity that South African defense Force was using mrap style vehicles but way back when and we had to wait and get our asses blown off in Afghanistan and Iraq I just don't f****** get it why didn't we have those vehicles
I had 8 men on a Security Police Casspir which hit a phosphorus-rich, box-mine (IED) in the Namibian/Angolan border area. My men lost their weapons and had holes burned through their clothing and webbing, but not one had a serious burn-wound. The Casspir Driver had hot engine-oil blown onto his lower abdomen and legs, but walked away from the burning wreck. My men and the SP guys, unarmed and carrying only a blackened A39SA Radio, walked back around 12 Km. to where I was waiting with water, emergency supplies and transport back to base. I had been forbidden to go further along the sand-road because of the danger of landmines and possible 'hostiles' likely armed with AK47s, RPDs, RPGs & SAMs. I had also been refused chopper extraction. Had it not been for the SA designed & built MRAP, these boys would have been toast. BTW, I am now 72 and served in the SADF as a National Serviceman, between 1968 & 1980.
That's all due to international sanctions and the arms embargo.
The West placed sanctions upon us so we built our own. And built them better than the crap we were buying. That is Boer ingenuity.
A lot of the MRAP type vehicles were south African in origin.
In their bush wars Mines were popular.
In 1979 we used it and drones you guys are far behind
@@gerterasmus2810 throughout the cold war the us tried to avoid bushwars and we have used drones for decades.
Very interesting & informative!Two things missed were the first Boer war & the 1914 rebellion when a portion of the Boer/Afrikaner refused to turn against Germany in favour of England. Much of the bitterness is still just beneath the surface.
As far as it concerns me
South Africa has no military police or metro police
That anyone can rely or depend on
Especially now
Have you noticed in one pic of the Boer commands theit where blacks to
Europeans were the first people to settle in South Africa.
Boer Afrikaners did not serve in the englishmans war, Botha and Smuts are seen as traitors and the 1913 land act as implemented by the foreign office in London, as we were a union with a govenor general who had the last say.
Jislyk you got a deep hate it seems. Bet you AWB😅
What army now?
My grandfathers brother died in the world war 2
14000 taken prisoner, at El Alamein? Total casualties were only 13000.
One vote in the '90s, and lo! it was all better...
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This young commentator is outa his depth !!! ..... most of what he said is from a one sided English pommie point of veiw & a lot of BS !!
Those guys blue berets gunners
A VERY AMERICAN NARRATIVE. THE BRITISH FAVOURED GREATER RIGHTS FOR THE NATIVE POPULATION WHEREAS FOR THE DUTCH THE NATIVES HAD NO RIGHTS. THAT'S WHY THE BOERS HEADED OFF ON THEIR GREAT TREK.
Who exactly are these "natives" you speak of?
Forced and went over the Drakensberg mountain can still see the ruts