The Parabats were first “blooded” in combat in 1966 during a counterinsurgency war in South West Africa (known nowadays as Namibia); indeed, these troops carried out the very first combat ...

The South African Defence Force in the 1980s actively assisted Mozambican resistance movement Renamo to execute five men suspected of assassinating Renamo's secretary-general Orlando Christina, the ...

KARACHI, April 9: The Secretariat of South Asian Development Fund (SADF) is shifting to Pakistan for two years on conclusion of two-day eighth meeting which began here on Friday. President of the ...

Sofrep said that in 2006, three SADF veterans had founded STTEP (Specialised Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection) “to help fill the vacuum left by the departure of Executive Outcomes”.

A joint committee has been set up to further discuss whether names of South African Defence Force (SADF) soldiers killed in the apartheid era should be included on the wall of names in Freedom ...

Breytenbach, who retired from the SADF in 1987, was a Special Forces officer and the first commander of 1 Reconnaissance Commando, South Africa's first Special Forces unit.

The Parabats were first “blooded” in combat in 1966 during a counterinsurgency war in South West Africa (known nowadays as Namibia); indeed, these troops carried out the very first combat ...