Photos Angolan Civil Wars, Rhodesian Bush Wars & South African Border Wars
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One of J. Ross Baughman's Pulitzer Prize winning photos.
It is 1977. The white Rhodesian government is under intense pressure from the country's disenfranchised black majority. Baughman travels with a rugged cavalry unit. Grey's Scouts. Their mission: to seek out anti-government guerrillas and destroy them.
The villagers will not give up the guerrillas. So the scouts resort to torture. "They force them to line up in push-up stance," Baughman remembers. "They're holding that position for 45 minutes in the sun. many of them starting to shake violently."
The soldiers warn that the first man who falls will be taken away. "Eventually, the first guy fell. They took him around the back of the building, knocked him out and fired a shot into the air. They continued bringing men to the back of the building. The poor guy on the end started crying and going crazy and he finally broke and started talking. As it turns out. what he was saying wasn't true, but the scouts were willing to use it as a lead."
Remembers Baughman: "It had all the feeling of an eventual massacre. I was afraid that I might see entire villages murdered."
A Grey's Scout questioning villagers near the border of Botswana in the autumn of 1977.
It is 1977. The white Rhodesian government is under intense pressure from the country's disenfranchised black majority. Baughman travels with a rugged cavalry unit. Grey's Scouts. Their mission: to seek out anti-government guerrillas and destroy them.
The villagers will not give up the guerrillas. So the scouts resort to torture. "They force them to line up in push-up stance," Baughman remembers. "They're holding that position for 45 minutes in the sun. many of them starting to shake violently."
The soldiers warn that the first man who falls will be taken away. "Eventually, the first guy fell. They took him around the back of the building, knocked him out and fired a shot into the air. They continued bringing men to the back of the building. The poor guy on the end started crying and going crazy and he finally broke and started talking. As it turns out. what he was saying wasn't true, but the scouts were willing to use it as a lead."
Remembers Baughman: "It had all the feeling of an eventual massacre. I was afraid that I might see entire villages murdered."
A Grey's Scout questioning villagers near the border of Botswana in the autumn of 1977.
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South African Bosvark Mk I a standard Unimog 416 that had a V-shaped hull in place of the flatbed to protect the passengers from landmines it was an interim solution til the purpose built Mine Protected Vehicle the Buffel entered service in 1978
Unimog general purpose 4X4 truck fitted with a locally improvised mine countermeasures
Unimog 4x4 without proper mine protection - just sandbags.
Unimog general purpose 4X4 truck fitted with a locally improvised mine countermeasures
Unimog 4x4 without proper mine protection - just sandbags.
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South African anti-tank squadron members in 1998 during the first large-scale military intervention under democratic rule, Op Boleas. SA lost 11 soldiers while 134 rebels were killed during a military rebellion in Lesotho.
The Southern African Development Community intervention in Lesotho, codenamed Operation Boleas, was a military invasion launched by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and led by South Africa through its South African National Defence Force into Lesotho to quell a coup d'état.
Mandela authorised the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to Lesotho on 22 September 1998 to quell the rioting and maintain order. Botswana Defence Force soldiers were also deployed. The operation was described as an "intervention to restore democracy and the rule of law." The SANDF contingent included a squadron of Ratel-90 and Rooikat armoured fighting vehicles seconded from 1 Special Service Battalion.
Widespread arson, violence, and looting occurred despite the presence of SANDF soldiers. The last South African troops were pulled out in May 1999 after seven months of occupation. The capital city of Maseru was heavily damaged, requiring a period of several years for rebuilding.
The Southern African Development Community intervention in Lesotho, codenamed Operation Boleas, was a military invasion launched by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and led by South Africa through its South African National Defence Force into Lesotho to quell a coup d'état.
Mandela authorised the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to Lesotho on 22 September 1998 to quell the rioting and maintain order. Botswana Defence Force soldiers were also deployed. The operation was described as an "intervention to restore democracy and the rule of law." The SANDF contingent included a squadron of Ratel-90 and Rooikat armoured fighting vehicles seconded from 1 Special Service Battalion.
Widespread arson, violence, and looting occurred despite the presence of SANDF soldiers. The last South African troops were pulled out in May 1999 after seven months of occupation. The capital city of Maseru was heavily damaged, requiring a period of several years for rebuilding.
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South African small team members returning from a mission in Angola. Man to the left became SF RSM, and the man to the right pretty much invented small team concepts for the SADF. Jose da Costa and Andre Diedericks (RIP).
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uganda to south africa so far for impouned!what is story?Rhodesian tankers with a round from their Polish T-55D. Libyan aid to Uganda, impounded in South Africa and gifted to Rhodesia
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Secret agreement confirms that Estado Novo collaborated with 'apartheid' in the colonial war
MadreMedia / Lusa
9 Dec 2020 08:46
A secret agreement, until now never confirmed, validated the formal collaboration between the Estado Novo and the segregationist regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia, in 1970, according to the historian Vicente de Paiva Brandão.
“Alcora” is the name of the secret military alliance between Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), to fight the independence movements in southern Africa.
"The weakening of the liberation movements that were fighting Portuguese forces in Angola and Mozambique was clearly of interest to South Africa," said the historian, recalling that Pretoria was also facing similar resistance in Namibia.
"The weakening of the liberation movements that were fighting Portuguese forces in Angola and Mozambique was clearly of interest to South Africa," said the historian, recalling that Pretoria was also facing similar resistance in Namibia.
“Lisbon and Pretoria were organized at the time to prevent Africa from being a space disputed by the two superpowers, who had anti-colonial speeches, as long as the outcome of the fights favored them”, explained the assistant professor at the University of Cape Verde and who dedicated to study these agreements.
Portugal and South Africa looked at the colonial war as a way to maintain “civilizational and pro-Western values on the African continent”, he stressed.
With the independence of the Belgian Congo, today the Democratic Republic of Congo, training camps are created for guerrillas who fought apartheid and Salazarist regimes.
The South Africans viewed Angola and Mozambique as “the vanguard of defending their own country and the regime”, so they promoted “information sharing and military support”, which even resulted in the provision of equipment.
“This is all very disguised and there is always an attempt that will never be known to the general public. Portugal did not want to be associated with a state where ‘apartheid’ was in force and at the same time South Africa didn’t intend to be associated with a state considered colonialist ”, summarized Paiva Brandão.
Paiva Brandão discovered this agreement after an “investigation in Oxford based on Rhodesian connections, namely from the moment when there was a rupture in relations between Ian Smith (Prime Minister) and Great Britain”.
The agreement was signed on October 14, 1970, but the official name was “exercise”, to camouflage the diplomatic scope of the document.
The objective of the agreement was "to investigate the processes and means of achieving a coordinated tripartite effort between Portugal, the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia, with a view to facing the mutual threat against their territories in Southern Africa", reads in the book, published by Casa das Letras.
After 1975, Pretoria “resented immensely the independence processes” of Angola and Mozambique, which became stages for the formation of cadres that would later destabilize segregationist regimes in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in the rise of Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia, independence from Namibia and democratization of South Africa.
Google translation from Portuguese, original article:
24.sapo.pt
MadreMedia / Lusa
9 Dec 2020 08:46
A secret agreement, until now never confirmed, validated the formal collaboration between the Estado Novo and the segregationist regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia, in 1970, according to the historian Vicente de Paiva Brandão.
“Alcora” is the name of the secret military alliance between Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), to fight the independence movements in southern Africa.
"The weakening of the liberation movements that were fighting Portuguese forces in Angola and Mozambique was clearly of interest to South Africa," said the historian, recalling that Pretoria was also facing similar resistance in Namibia.
"The weakening of the liberation movements that were fighting Portuguese forces in Angola and Mozambique was clearly of interest to South Africa," said the historian, recalling that Pretoria was also facing similar resistance in Namibia.
“Lisbon and Pretoria were organized at the time to prevent Africa from being a space disputed by the two superpowers, who had anti-colonial speeches, as long as the outcome of the fights favored them”, explained the assistant professor at the University of Cape Verde and who dedicated to study these agreements.
Portugal and South Africa looked at the colonial war as a way to maintain “civilizational and pro-Western values on the African continent”, he stressed.
With the independence of the Belgian Congo, today the Democratic Republic of Congo, training camps are created for guerrillas who fought apartheid and Salazarist regimes.
The South Africans viewed Angola and Mozambique as “the vanguard of defending their own country and the regime”, so they promoted “information sharing and military support”, which even resulted in the provision of equipment.
“This is all very disguised and there is always an attempt that will never be known to the general public. Portugal did not want to be associated with a state where ‘apartheid’ was in force and at the same time South Africa didn’t intend to be associated with a state considered colonialist ”, summarized Paiva Brandão.
Paiva Brandão discovered this agreement after an “investigation in Oxford based on Rhodesian connections, namely from the moment when there was a rupture in relations between Ian Smith (Prime Minister) and Great Britain”.
The agreement was signed on October 14, 1970, but the official name was “exercise”, to camouflage the diplomatic scope of the document.
The objective of the agreement was "to investigate the processes and means of achieving a coordinated tripartite effort between Portugal, the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia, with a view to facing the mutual threat against their territories in Southern Africa", reads in the book, published by Casa das Letras.
After 1975, Pretoria “resented immensely the independence processes” of Angola and Mozambique, which became stages for the formation of cadres that would later destabilize segregationist regimes in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in the rise of Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia, independence from Namibia and democratization of South Africa.
Google translation from Portuguese, original article:
Acordo secreto confirma que Estado Novo colaborou com o 'apartheid' na guerra colonial
Um acordo secreto, até agora nunca confirmado, validou a colaboração formal entre o Estado Novo e os regimes segregacionistas da África do Sul e Rodésia, em 1970, segundo o ...
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Rhodesian (SAS) during the Rhodesian Bush War, in Operation Uric: September 1st - 8th, 1979, in the Gaza Province of Mozambique
Sgt. Beryl Sheehan - armed with an FN FAL rifle, with her dog "Bracken“, she served in the Rhodesian Security Forces (Rhodesian Women’s Service) during the Rhodesian Bush War, c. 1970 - 1979
Sgt. Beryl Sheehan - armed with an FN FAL rifle, with her dog "Bracken“, she served in the Rhodesian Security Forces (Rhodesian Women’s Service) during the Rhodesian Bush War, c. 1970 - 1979
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Rhodesian Bush War. Mozambique. September 1979. Troopers of the Rhodesian SAS during Operation Uric.
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