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# ![@thyphoidjack Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::3041507912.png) @thyphoidjack Mike the Warthog

Mike the Warthog posts on X about angola, south africa, the first, the british the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 1631 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[angola](/topic/angola) #138, [south africa](/topic/south-africa) #2440, [the first](/topic/the-first), [the british](/topic/the-british) #796, [cape town](/topic/cape-town) #273, [battalion](/topic/battalion) #87, [libya](/topic/libya) #179, [air force](/topic/air-force) #1118, [cuba](/topic/cuba) #299, [germany](/topic/germany)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Headline of the day Operation Savannah XX November 1975: The Cela reinforcements It was the first time that South African reinforcements were sent into Angola by road as far as Cela a distance of some XXX kilometres. When Commandant van der Westhuizen departed from Grootfontein on the night of XX November 1975 he had XXX people and XX vehicles in his convoy. At S de Bandeira Commandant Boy du Toit convinced a platoon of ELP-members (the so-called freedom fighters) to accompany them as guides. With them in front a number of skirmishes at FNLA and UNITA roadblocks occurred with the result that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995191882578567366)  2025-11-30T18:03Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"30 Nov 1983 : - A rifleman from XXX Battalion (SWATF) was killed in action during a contact with SWAPO/PLAN insurgents. - Mr Pik Botha announced that major issues on the Namibia solution were all resolved except for the Cuban presence in Angola"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995199326143103442)  2025-11-30T18:32Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Cape Times X December 1975 SA's proof of Cubans in Angola PRETORIA. - Further proof of Cuba's involvement in the Angola war was provided here yesterday by the Chief of the Defence Force Admiral H H Biermann. Military training handbooks giving details of Russian arms and training techniques were displayed at a briefing given by Admiral Biermann yesterday. The books were found on the bodies of Cuban soldiers killed in Angola. And from Washington Guy Bernard reports that a Cuban general who is close to Prime Minister Fidel Castro is handling Russian arms being poured into Angola. United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995744766068129904)  2025-12-02T06:40Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Rand Daily Mail X December 1975 The books that show how to kill Military Correspondent Military training handbooks giving details of Russian arms and training techniques have been found on the bodies of Cuban soldiers killed by anti-communist forces fighting in Angola. At a briefing in Pretoria yesterday for South African military correspondents by the Chief of the Defence Force Admiral H H Biermann it was confirmed that Cuban soldiers were in action in Angola using sophisticated Russian weapons and that there had been casualties among them. Military correspondents were told: "In an effort to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995744980531351935)  2025-12-02T06:40Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"The Star X December 1975 Big bangs are key in battle HUAMBO - Russian rocket launchers which fire XX rockets and are operated mainly by Cuban soldiers mounting saturation bombardments for the MPLA against Unita-FNLA forces in Angola have been a key factor in the past two weeks in stopping the Unita-FNLA northerly advance according to on the spot accounts reports Henry Reuter of The Star's Africa News Service. Thirty-nine wounded Unita troops brought to the Huambo hospital last Sunday said the weight of fire was overwhelming. Because of it say Unita sources the MPLA has forced an FLNA retreat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996224980627910937)  2025-12-03T14:28Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"The Star X December 1977 No troop cuts in Angola Havana tells Carter HAVANA - Cuba has rejected American efforts to get Havana to reduce its forces in Angola and said the US was "uselessly wasting time with demands about this." The rejection - the first official Cuban reaction to renewed pressure by Washington on Havana to cut its troop strength in Africa - was contained in a report by Cuba's Prensla Lalina news agency quoting the vice-president General Raul Castro. NOT FOR TALKING General Castro No. X in the Cuban government and brother of President Fidel Castro was speaking in Angola at the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997243506692075862)  2025-12-06T09:55Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Rand Daily Mail X December 1975 Why our troops are guarding that Angola dam CALUEQUE (Southern Angola). - A Vickers machinegun which last saw action with Allied forces in North Africa during the Second World War stands atop the mass of concrete and steel of South Africa's precious investment in Angola. The Calueque Dam which has risen majestically out of this barren territory in little more than two years was conceived and started when Angola was a Portuguese African territory. The fact that it is XX km inside Angola arises strictly from civil engineering considerations. Engineers on the site"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997243979671175324)  2025-12-06T09:57Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"@elonmusknews30 A"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1993374942940086304)  2025-11-25T17:43Z 7321 followers, 69.3K engagements


"15 Squadron SAAF Personnel pose for photographs with a Camel at Kufra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1993916986624192916)  2025-11-27T05:37Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"03 Feb 1943: N/N Able Seaman George Edward Bird a South African National serving in the Merchant Navy was Reported Missing when the unescorted British Motor Tanker M.V. Cordelia with a cargo of fuel oil a straggler from Convoy HX-224 was torpedoed and sunk at 21h54 South of Iceland by U-632 (Oberleutnant zur See Hans Karpf) with the loss of XX Officers and Ratings plus X DEMS Gunners. The sole survivor of this sinking was the Chief Engineer who was picked up and taken aboard the U-Boat. While under questioning he carelessly made mention of Convoy SC-118. This vital information was immediately"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1993917950240141793)  2025-11-27T05:40Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"A Stug IIII Ausf. D captured by South African troops after the Gazala Battles. This Stug was in No X Company Sonderverband XXX (Special Formation 288). A rare photograph as not many Stugs were sent to North Africa. I believe that only three Stugs were sent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1993945072602370267)  2025-11-27T07:28Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"I've been in a few of these parades myself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1993983659800494424)  2025-11-27T10:02Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"South African Armoured Cars in Derna January 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1993983710706733507)  2025-11-27T10:02Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Cockpit of the Martin B-26 Marauder. XX XX XX XX and XX Squadron SAAF all operated the B-26 Marauder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994099880290062409)  2025-11-27T17:43Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"A picture I have found on the Bundesarchiv/ Federal Archive ( Germany). The original inscription in German reads: Gefangene "Englnder" nach der Schlacht in der Wste zwischen Tobruk und Sidi Omar. am 24.11.1941 aufgenommen PK-Aufnahme Kriegsberichter Zwilling 10733-41 Nov. XX In my rusty German I translate this to be: English prisoners after a battle in the desert between Tobruk and Sidi Omar on 24.11.1941 I post this here as these may well be black South African troops but there is no way of knowing for certain. I record the fact here should anyone wish to dig further now or in the future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994116853879415279)  2025-11-27T18:51Z 7323 followers, XXX engagements


"South Africas Minister of Defence Oswald Pirow inspects the guard of honour presented to him Nazi Germany XX November 1938. To his left is Admiral Wilhelm Canaris orchestrator of the XX July 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler. Strung up on piano wire for doing what was right. I wonder what was said there. Pirow resigned his position in government upon declaration of war against Germany. I understand why. Many Afrikaners are of German descent and Germany supplied the Boers with their weapons during the Boer Wars. My own South African German family fighting with the Boers. Though many"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994272623488839759)  2025-11-28T05:10Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"28th November 1899 after the Battles at Belmont and Graspan the British and the Boers once again came to battle at the Modder River. De La Rey decided to change tactics and instead of placing men on top of hills he instructed them to dig trenches on the banks of the Modder. The British advanced unknowingly into the ambush. De La Rey had instructed his men only to open fire when the British were XXX yards away. Some 8000 Boers occupied four miles of entrenched positions on both sides of the river. Half of the Boers were Free Staters on the right under Prinsloo the other half Transvaalers under"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994272978876424690)  2025-11-28T05:11Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"25 Squadron SAAF B-26 Marauder Mk. III's at Biferno in Italy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994273538404999468)  2025-11-28T05:13Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"South African troops and terrain from Life Magazine North Africa 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994280821612589067)  2025-11-28T05:42Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"On X October 1987 the SADF's elite XX Mechanised Battalion Group (with some XX Battalion and UNITA support) caught FAPLA's 47th Landing and Assault Brigade in the open while it was trying to cross the Lomba River. and destroyed the entire brigade (Here depicted in 1/300th scale)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994281931723141478)  2025-11-28T05:47Z 7318 followers, 2196 engagements


"Propaganda Leaflets in Italian and German dropped by XX and XX Squadron SAAF Liberators over Yugoslavia in 1944-45"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994285142223835484)  2025-11-28T06:00Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"28th November 1899 A British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw the British suffer heavy casualties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994288667255357741)  2025-11-28T06:14Z 7318 followers, 1239 engagements


"The Cape Town Highlanders is a reserve mechanised infantry regiment of the South African Army Reserve. Descendants of Scottish immigrants to South Africa raised the Cape Town Highlanders in 1885. On XX April of the same year their services were accepted since then this date has always been celebrated as the regiment's official birthday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994291714371047775)  2025-11-28T06:26Z 7318 followers, 1305 engagements


"On Saturday XX November 1987: - The G-6 troop now packed up and moved out of its deployment area on XX November. The guns had been in action almost daily since the 9th. They had fired some ninety rounds per gun per day all charge X or X mostly HE base-bleed. They took just over two days to cover the XXX kilometres of bush back to Mavinga breaking a new logistics route as they went. From Mavinga they went back to Rundu along the existing route. - The Helderberg B747 crashed in the sea near Mauritius killing all XXX passengers and XX crew. - After the SAA Boeing XXX Helderberg went down in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994298275055169538)  2025-11-28T06:52Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"28 Nov 1992 : - Four APLA gunmen burst into the King William's Town Golf Club as XX members of the King Wine Circle a wine-tasting club that includes much of the town gentry were having their annual Christmas dinner. Five (not four) guests were killed instantly when the men sprayed the room with automatic weapon gunfire and lobbed in hand grenades. R-4 and R-5 rifles petrol bombs and hand grenades were used and three hand grenades exploded in the dining room the bar and in a shed outside the clubhouse. Fifteen diners and two waitresses were injured some seriously by gunfire shrapnel and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994298664622162294)  2025-11-28T06:53Z 7318 followers, 2737 engagements


"Tragedy struck XX Squadron on 28.11.1943 when the Squadron lost it's first members to be killed flying the B-26 Marauder during conversion training in Tunisia at Setif. Photo is just to depict a B-26 Marauder. SAAF B-26 Marauder never carried a Torpedo but some SAAF pilots seconded to XX RAF Sqdn did drop torps from the B-26. B-26 Marauder Mk.II 41-18191 41-18191 flew into a mountain near Setif Tunisia when descending through clouds in bad weather Maj. HALSE A.E. D.F.C. & M.I.D. Alan Edward. 103157V Pilot SAAF XX Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery Tunisia. Plot XX. Row B. Grave X. Lt. KRISEMAN D."  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994328485024698489)  2025-11-28T08:52Z 7322 followers, XXX engagements


"27 November 1985 : - Three MK members of the Special Operations Group infiltrating from Maputo tried to launch an attack with 122mm rockets on SASOL II at Secunda. All three were killed in the follow-up operation. - A civilian farmer from Messina Mr Jas Balie was killed when his tractor detonated a Czechoslovakian Pt-Mi-Ba- III Anti-Tank Mine laid by MK Operatives as part of Ops Cetswayo while he was driving to one of the plantations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994329127696871878)  2025-11-28T08:54Z 7318 followers, 1036 engagements


"WATERKLOOF AFB back in the day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994331037174768012)  2025-11-28T09:02Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"C- XXX HERCULES AFB WATERKLOOF 1961 📷 Wie van julle ouens het al in die Hercules gevlieg Kom gesels saam AI Overview One Major accomplishment The Observation Post In 1965 the Lockheed C-130 Hercules at AFB Waterkloof was the new workhorse for the South African Air Force's (SAAF) XX Squadron which had received its first aircraft in 1963. The squadron's move to Waterkloof coincided with the arrival of the Hercules which it used extensively during the South African Border War to support troops in conflicts in Namibia and Angola. History of the C-130 Hercules at Waterkloof in 1965 Arrival and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994331277273497736)  2025-11-28T09:03Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Aftermath of Battle. These pictures show the aftermath of the Battle of Modder River ( XX November 1899). Two infantry brigades attacked entrenched Boer positions across the Modder River. As the British troops came within 1200 yards of the river the Boers opened fire. Most of the British troops were forced to throw themselves flat. Some tried to advance in short rushes but could find no cover on the veld. The battle became a day-long stalemate. Most of the British infantry lay prone on the veld tortured by heat and thirst but safe from enemy fire unless they moved. Many stoically smoked pipes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994331501777822097)  2025-11-28T09:04Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"25 Squadron SAAF Ventura Mk. I seen crossing the Coast while returning from an Anti-Submrine Patrol off Port Elizabeth in 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994331710842916938)  2025-11-28T09:05Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"28 Nov 1978 : - A lance corporal from X SAI was killed in action 2km from Elundu Base when his 32-man patrol clashed with a group of approximately XXX SWAPO/PLAN insurgents that had just crossed the cut-line. During the engagement a White Phosphor hand grenade that was attached to his battle harness was struck by an enemy bullet and exploded killing him instantly. - Cuba and Angola signed a Culture Agreement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994419779952607611)  2025-11-28T14:55Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"The HONOURED DEAD MEMORIAL in Kimberley was dedicated as a Siege memorial on XX November 1904 five years to the day after the second Battle of Carters Ridge in 1899. Twenty-seven defenders of Kimberley lie buried within the tomb. C.J. Rhodes was instrumental in commissioning the memorial the winning design being that of HERBERT BAKER who modelled his conception on the circa XXX BC Nereid Monument a sculptured tomb from Xanthos Turkey. The material used for the construction of this XX ft high edifice situated at the highest point of Kimberley was sandstone from the Pasipas Sandstone Quarry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994471984843931753)  2025-11-28T18:22Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Pupils from Brackenfell High School took part in the annual bivouac near Swartklip. Some of the cadets fired on the range as part of a field exercise. This was during the period when schools still had cadet training in preparation for compulsory national service in the South African Defence Force. (Tyger-Burger X April 1984)🦉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994494588057522344)  2025-11-28T19:52Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"250 ADU Cactus firing unit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994510376445329485)  2025-11-28T20:55Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"South Africans on guard in Angola . . . South African-based foreign correspondents returned last night from a 48-hour trip into Southern Angola to see how South African troops are guarding the hydroelectric and irrication schemes near CaTueque. On an official tour organised by the Defence Department the correspondents were taken to South African camps about XX kilometres north of the South West Africa border. These pictures were taken by correspondents in the party. The party included representatives of The Times of London The Los Angeles Times Associated Press Reuters the BBC the Daily"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994668396219126176)  2025-11-29T07:22Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Headline of the day Operation Savannah XX November 1975: X Forward Field Hospital On XX November 1975 the first casualties were brought in to X Forward Field Hospital. There were XX wounded South Africans and XX UNITA victims of the battle of Ebo. The hospital and its personnel were barely ready for such a large number of casualties. The medical team worked through the night. A shortage of plasma resulted in the officers themselves having to donate blood. The Ebo casualties brought the realisation that a helicopter was essential for the evacuation of losses. The first casualties only arrived"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994668577853448346)  2025-11-29T07:23Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"29 Nov 1899 : - The Wynberg Camp at Cape Town was declared a military hospital to receive soldiers wounded or sick returned from the front in the Anglo-Boer War. The barracks were named NO.1 General Hospital and the tents NO.2 General Hospital Wynberg. No. X General Hospital was eventually demolished and replaced by X Military Hospital in 1979"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994668721646756070)  2025-11-29T07:24Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Christmas card from Cpl I. Traub - co Concealment Camouflage School Zonderwater"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994668930410188954)  2025-11-29T07:25Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"I believe Australian troops in the Anglo-Boer War XX Jan 1901 at Van Rhynsdorp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994669332224512045)  2025-11-29T07:26Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"25 Squadron SAAF Christmas Card 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994669798383632499)  2025-11-29T07:28Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"SADF's last PoW in Angola is coming home MIKE ROBERTSON RIFLEMAN Simeon Petrus the last SADF prisoner of war was last night released into the custody of the Red Cross. Petrus a member of XXX Battalion had been held captive in Angola since September 1987. He will return to Johannesburg tomorrow. Petrus's release comes after his continued captivity was raised by the SA delegation to the Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC) between Angola SA and Cuba at a meeting taking place in Hazyview in the eastern Transvaal. Angolan delegation leader Gen Antonio dos Santos Franca is said to have told the JMC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994683750383222785)  2025-11-29T08:24Z 7319 followers, 3464 engagements


"BRITISH GENERALS OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR London: Vanity Fair 29th November 1900 The Generals are Left to Right: Col Plumer Lt-Gen Sir Archibald Hunter Maj-Gen Sir Hector Macdonald Lt-Gen Sir Redves Buller Maj Gen R. Baden-Powell Field Marshall Lord Roberts Maj Gen Lord Dundonald Lt-Gen Sir Herbert Kitchener Maj Gen Sir Reginald Pole Carew Maj Gen Sir Frederick Carrington Lt-Gen Sir George White and Maj Gen Sir John French"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994730880829366484)  2025-11-29T11:31Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"6th South African Infantry Brigade Troops at Tobruk in Libya"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995056613825339618)  2025-11-30T09:05Z 7322 followers, XXX engagements


"The Irish Press 30th November 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995061676069253311)  2025-11-30T09:25Z 7320 followers, XXX engagements


"30 Nov 1965 : - The first production variant of the Sud Aviation (Aerospatiale) Super Frelon (Super Wasp) made its maiden flight in France. South Africa procured a number of these helicopters some years later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995183329113682158)  2025-11-30T17:29Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"South African Armoured Car personnel enjoying their lunch on the Cathederal Mole in Benghazi 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995184158159647212)  2025-11-30T17:32Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"Sunday Times XX November 1975 Angola trap faces SA in 'anti-Red war' By RICHARD WALKER GUY BERNARD and FLEUR de VILLIERS SOUTH AFRICA'S admitted presence in Angola this week puts her in the front line of a desperately dangerous war. There are growing signs that she could be trapped alone in her support for the anti-communist forces. The United States and Russia went into the weekend eyeball-to-eyeball over the Angolan crisis and there was every sign that the climax to the major East-West confrontation was approaching fast. As Pretoria fires off anxious appeals to the United States and Nato to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995193197392269335)  2025-11-30T18:08Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"30 Nov 1981 : - Special Forces sabotaged various oil facilities in Luanda supported by Navy in Operation Kerslig. - A captain from X Reconnaissance Regiment was killed in action in a premature explosion while laying demolition charges at the oil refinery in Luanda during Operation Kerslig. - UNITA claimed responsibility for the major fire at Luanda's state-run oil refinery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995197029161521389)  2025-11-30T18:23Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Cape Times XX November 1983 '100 XXX troops in SWA' an inflated figure Defence Reporter IS THE entire full-time South African Defence Force - army navy air force and medical services - stationed in SWA/Namibia Not likely military observers reacted yesterday in answer to an assertion at be Commonwealth Conference in New Delhi by the honorary secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Mr Abdul Minty that XXX XXX South African troops were stationed in the territory. They pointed out that the entire Permanent Force and national service elements of the SADF together amount to XX XXX men and women"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995206766536376541)  2025-11-30T19:02Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"@brettherron @CyrilRamaphosa @POTUS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995368768516800871)  2025-12-01T05:46Z 7318 followers, 1589 engagements


"Dutton's store damaged by Long Tom during the Siege of Ladysmith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995372361881903416)  2025-12-01T06:00Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"The Star X December 1983 US may take new stand on aid to Unita As fighting in Angola's eight-year-old civil war appeared to be increasing and moving north towards Luanda the Wall Street Journal hinted at a possible increase in United States support for the Unita rebels. The Journal yesterday posed the question: "Was Grenada a flash in the pan or the end of defeatism in US foreign policy "We'll have to sign in the American attitude towards the Angolan fighting in which Jonas Savimbi's Unita may be on the verge of a major victory over the Cuban and Russian-backed Luanda regime" it said. The"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995381822222373319)  2025-12-01T06:37Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Two more Springbok POW's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995385559704101037)  2025-12-01T06:52Z 7320 followers, XXX engagements


"1 Dec 1980 : - A people's revolutionary court at Cuito (Bie province) sentenced four UNITA members to death as 'counter-revolutionaries'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995386333574082992)  2025-12-01T06:55Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Commando closure Commemoration medal set"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995421676432236920)  2025-12-01T09:16Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"A drawing titled Magersfontein by the Dutch / South African artist Frans David Oerder (1867-1944) was drawn on somewhere at the beginning of 1900. During the South African War (1899-1902) Oerder was paid by the Transvaal Government to paint scenes from the war. He was captured early on and stayed in Pretoria where he painted the everyday life of the British in the capital. On XX December 1899 the Battle of Magersfontein was fought near Kimberley in South Africa. This is a drawing by Oerder of the Boer trenches. Frans Oerder was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands came to South Africa in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995765843045523600)  2025-12-02T08:03Z 7320 followers, XXX engagements


"The Ghosts of the Castle of Good Hope📷 The Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town is South Africas oldest surviving colonial building and has long been linked to stories of unexplained events. Built by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679 it served as a fort a supply station and later a military headquarters. Its long and often harsh history has given rise to accounts of hauntings that continue to attract attention. One of the best known stories is that of the Lady in Grey. She is described as a tall woman dressed in grey who moves through parts of the Castle with an air of distress."  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995774329175323048)  2025-12-02T08:37Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"South African Engineers Bulldozer Pulling down an Italian Fascio Littorio (Fasces) at Kismayu in Italian Somaliland on XX April 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995775929235198343)  2025-12-02T08:43Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"South African Armoured Car personnel enjoying their lunch on the Cathederal Mole in Benghazi 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995791741056606225)  2025-12-02T09:46Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"On this day X December 1939 the SAAF saw what is regarded as it's first combat against Germany for WWII. This is when a Ju.86 (Junkers aircraft of German origin) intercepted the German East Africa Company Passenger Liner WATUSSI South of Cape Point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995797820285014161)  2025-12-02T10:10Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"Signallers Pic is titled SAADA - I am unsure of that acronym"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996131031171440825)  2025-12-03T08:14Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"The Star X December 1975 Dr K's bid to solve Angola stalemate The Star Bureau WASHINGTON - The Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger is expected to fly to Moscow within three weeks to seek a break-through in the stalled Strategic Arms Limitation talks coupled with talks on the Angolan crisis. He will do so to a background of increasingly sharp exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Angolan war which is seen here as moving into a stalemate position between the pro and anti communist forces. Kremlin rejection of repeated United States warnings against continuous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996225300464644432)  2025-12-03T14:29Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"F-86 Sabre Ruth II of X Squadron SAAF in Korea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996283763488068093)  2025-12-03T18:21Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"4th December 1893 - A patrol of XX British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996457732547948740)  2025-12-04T05:53Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Schalk Burger dies; 5th December 1918 Schalk Willem Burger (6 September 1852 X December 1918) was a South African military leader lawyer politician and statesman who was acting president of the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek from 1900 to 1902 whilst Paul Kruger was in exile. He served in a number of military conflicts such as the Sekhukune Wars of 1876 and later during the Transvaal war of 1881 he served as acting Veld Kornet. He was elected as commandant of the Lydenburg Commando in 1885. In 1886 he became a member of the Volksraad (Peoples Council) in Transvaal representing Lydenburg. During his"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996816690059886838)  2025-12-05T05:39Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Argus X December 1983 Koevoet: State asks for death WINDHOEK. - The prosecution in the Koevoet trial in Windhoek today asked for the death sentence to be imposed on a former Koevoet member Johannes Paulus. Paulus XX was convicted in Windhoek Supreme Court on September XX of murder three charges of attempted murder rape and four charges of armed robbery with aggravating circumstances. A former Koevoet colleague Paulus Matheus XX was convicted on the same day of attempted murder rape and four charges of armed robbery with aggravating circumstances. The offences were committed in northern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996942928866845028)  2025-12-05T14:01Z 7323 followers, XXX engagements


"The Star X December 1975 SA battalion 'controls Cunene' CALUEQUE - Substantial South African troop concentrations are in the border zone of South West Africa and Southern Angola to guard the massive Cunene River hydro-electric and irrigation project. They are in total control for at least XX km on the Angolan side as far as Calueque where a massive 3km barrage and pumping works across the river is three-quarters complete. Commandant Ernst "Tiny" Nel army commander of the zone officially designated No X Sub Area of No X Military Area said troop strength is "at about battalion level." Foreign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996943292441805058)  2025-12-05T14:02Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"The Green Point prisoner-of-war camps during the South African War (1899-1902). My great-grandfather and his brothers spent time there as POWs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997045766733328472)  2025-12-05T20:49Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"Headline of the day Operation Savannah X December 1975: Run-up to Bridge XX Reports that the enemy had been busy rebuilding bridges and had inspected the bridge across the Nhia River had led to Colonel Swart's decision on X December 1975 to gain control of this bridge known as Bridge XX. The engineers would have to construct the bridge from materials they could find in the immediate vicinity and would have to rely on their own resourcefulness. Because the building of the bridge would have to occur under the cover of allied fire it was necessary to locate good observation posts for directing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997244047946027156)  2025-12-06T09:57Z 7320 followers, XXX engagements


"25 Ratel G59 November XX 1987. Damaged by mortar Op Modular. From Dries Heyneke Captain Phillip van Dyk. XX mm Mortar. No casuals. Look on my albums the photo is there. I was his BSM. Was deployed with MVL 127mm. It was the morning of XX November 1987. Danie Crowther was hurt in that incident. Capt van Dyk was the Artillery Advisor to XX Bn. From Danie Crowther: I saw the projectile hit the Ratel. Minutes after that I lay on the ground. Death. I was with Robbie Hartslief (RIP) and Hannes Nortman at one of our OP positions about XXX m in front of where our tanks were deployed. At that stage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1993379169028522008)  2025-11-25T18:00Z 7317 followers, XXX engagements


"The Zulu shield in the iSandlwana visitors centre. This is a genuine relic of the battle one of only two I know of that can be directly connected to iSandlwana. It was found on the site of the St Vincents mission when the missionaries arrived to start building in 1880; for many years it was housed in the St Vincents church. It is a regimental shield a type known as the umbhumbhulozu - the colour suggests that it probably belonged to the uNokhenke ibutho who at one point in the battle did attack over the ground where St Vincents was subsequently built"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1994670348176949568)  2025-11-29T07:30Z 7317 followers, 2884 engagements


"30 Nov 1978: - The first operational deployment to South West Africa/Namibia for the Mirage F1CZ (3 Squadron) took place when five aircraft deployed to Air Force Base Ondangwa the primary mission to escort Mirage IIIR/R2Zs from X Squadron's Reconnaissance Flight during tactical reconnaissance missions into Angola. - Cuban Politburo member Ramiro Valdes signed several cooperation agreements with the Angolan Deputy Premier Carlos Rocha Dilolua. There would be about 11000 Cuban technicians in Angola in 1979"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995196727402578304)  2025-11-30T18:22Z 7317 followers, XXX engagements


"The Kings Blockhouse on Devils Peak📷 The Kings Blockhouse stands high on the lower slopes of Devils Peak and is one of the few surviving structures from a defensive system built around Cape Town in the late 18th century. It was constructed during the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795 as part of a line of blockhouses intended to secure the landward approach to the town. The system included three main blockhouses the Kings Blockhouse on Mowbray Ridge the Queens Blockhouse on the Zonnebloem Estate and the Prince of Wales Blockhouse on the hillside above what is now De Waal Drive."  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995373003098497131)  2025-12-01T06:02Z 7320 followers, XXX engagements


"Headline of the day Operation Savannah X December 1975: Political collaboration It could be expected that Savimbi Roberto and Chipenda would collaborate in any planned action against their mutual enemy the MPLA. A meeting on X November resulted in a joint declaration made by both Roberto and Savimbi on X November 1975. Herewith they had undertaken to accept XX November as the date of Angolan liberation and that both the FNLA and UNITA would send delegations to the OAU-conference at Kampala to try and find a peaceful solution to the conflict. Before that occurred there would be no cease-fire."  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995376698670387452)  2025-12-01T06:17Z 7317 followers, XXX engagements


"1 Dec 1981 : - News from Southern Africa was dominated by the attempted coup in the Seychelles which originated in South Africa. A party of about XX white mercenaries flew to the Seychelles Islands from Swaziland and the coup was crushed at the airport on XX November. Forty-four of the mercenaries escaped by hijacking an Air India plane back to South Africa leaving a half dozen of their fellows in the Seychelles. The XX were detained upon arrival in South Africa. The Seychelles government asked South Africa to extradite the mercenaries. South Africa denied official involvement in the failed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995383605564932219)  2025-12-01T06:44Z 7321 followers, XXX engagements


"If we turned back the clock XXX years we would find ourselves in the middle of a conspiracy. Men gather in what is now Botswana to prepare for the Jameson Raid an attempt to overthrow the ZAR government that would go famously wrong. Why does a 130-year-old failed raid matter Because its consequences led to the 2nd Anglo Boer war and eventually to the birth of South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995412729855619356)  2025-12-01T08:40Z 7317 followers, XXX engagements


"A few MRL Rockets are being launched from the SA Army Combat Training Centre Lohatlha"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995421469288051054)  2025-12-01T09:15Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"In August 1915 a new conscript named Albert Marr arrived at the recruiting station of the 3rd Transvaal Regiment of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade. After undergoing a medical examination and other official procedures the now private under number 4927 turned to the regiment command with an unusual request. He asked to be accompanied at the front by a comrade - a baboon of the Chakma variety named Jackie. After a little reflection the officers agreed to enroll an unusual soldier in the Union Defense Force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995932275226411322)  2025-12-02T19:05Z 7322 followers, XXX engagements


"Two XX Squadron SAAF Personnel in on leave in Alexandria Egypt. The Cecil Hotel can be seen in the background"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995933836367331459)  2025-12-02T19:11Z 7322 followers, XXX engagements


"Photograph of a gun very ironically nicknamed Silent Sue by the 16th Brigade in South Africa c.1900. NAM.1966-10-57-12"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996135987756298434)  2025-12-03T08:34Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"2 Squadron SAAF Pilot Lieutenant Jean De Wet DFC (US) Bronze Star (US) Air Medal (US) with Oak Leaf Cluster photographed after returning from a combat mission over North Korea. Lieutenant De Wet completed two flying tours in Korea. His 1st flying tour with the F-51 Mustang and his 2nd Flying tour on the F-86 Sabre. He was also one of ony two SAAF Airmen who volunteered for a two-month Ground Tour with the U.S. Army as Forward Air Controllers on the Front Line. Lieutenant De Wet was attached to the U.S. Army's 5th Regimental Combat Team of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997343993093369884)  2025-12-06T16:34Z 7317 followers, XXX engagements


"Rand Light Infantry Graves at Bardia in Libya"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997945736949125373)  2025-12-08T08:25Z 7320 followers, XXX engagements


"Defenders of Rorke's Drift William Partridge G Co/2nd/24th Regiment William Partridge was born on XX June 1858 in Ross- n-Wye Herefordshire. Having served with the Monmouthshire Militia William enlisted for the regular army at Monmouth on X June 1877 and as 1410 Private Partridge he was posted to the 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment being described as just over five feet six inches tall with a fresh complexion grey eyes and brown hair. His religion was Church of England. He sailed to the Cape in February 1878. He took part in the Cape Frontier War being appointed lance-corporal on X August 1878"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997597521816748195)  2025-12-07T09:22Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"The Star X December 1975 A mercenary army could save Angola' The Star's Africa News Service Only an immediate and massive mercenary move can save Angola from the clutches of the pro-communist MPLA a former Congo mercenary leader said in Johannesburg today. And it appeared that South Africa could provide the vital springboard he said. In an exclusive interview before leaving Jan Smuts for Europe Major Sam Cassidy said: "I feel that if there is not a private army recruited now on behalf of Jonas Savimbi's Unita and Holden Roberto's FNLA movements; then the communist stranglehold will become so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997943968609280120)  2025-12-08T08:18Z 7318 followers, XXX engagements


"From the Memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel Igor Anatolevich Zhdarkin November XX 1987 - Night passed quietly. Our technician officer Sasha Fatianov and I left our usual place of sleeping under armored personnel carrier and went to sleep in our new-built dugout acquiring so to speak a new home. It is sufficiently large and spacious we made the roof in three layers we covered the walls with sticks we built bunks upon which we placed mattresses and we hung up mosquito nets. Terrific"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995359383941730557)  2025-12-01T05:08Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Today in history. 1652. From the diary of Jan van Riebeeck. The wind was blowing from the south west at dawn which meant that the yacht could leave Table Bay. The sun baked pleasantly warm during the day. Shortly before the afternoon a group of Saldanhars arrived at the fort with a herd of sheep and some cattle that wanted to quancel them. In total there were XX sheep exchanged on the day as well as X cattle. Twelve wild ducks along with XX other species of wild birds were also exchanged the day. The ducks in short became dinner. At dusk several fires were seen in the area of the mountain and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995721380327805336)  2025-12-02T05:07Z 7319 followers, 1131 engagements


"2 Dec 1979 : - A lieutenant from X South African Infantry Battalion died of wounds while serving in Rhodesia. His section was attached to a convoy that were responsible for checking the road for land mines and at sunset they set up a temporary base (TB) for the night. Just before 08h00 the following morning the TB was attacked by a numerically superior force of ZANU insurgents and came under heavy small-arms mortar and RPG-7 rocket fire. He was wounded in the neck by shrapnel and although treated for his wounds he succumbed through loss of blood before he could be evacuated. - A Sergeant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995764940364296343)  2025-12-02T08:00Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"stuck in a shona .waiting for the recovery to come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996084414221353065)  2025-12-03T05:09Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"My favorite picture of myself during my time in service During my Air Supply course when we were doing the practicles for Helicopter slinging note the Gecko vehicle as cargo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996230433504215409)  2025-12-03T14:49Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"3 Dec 1975 : - A South African armoured car troop patrolling the Nek near the Nhia River drew fire from 122mm guns and rocket launchers and an intense counter-bombardment between the guns of both sides erupted until the FAPLA artillery was finally silenced by accurate observed fire from the SA Artillery. In the photo are the G2- Medium Guns of the South African Artillery in Angola in early December 1975 during those days before the Battle of Bridge XX (Original Photo from Kevin Bowden)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996254154927268078)  2025-12-03T16:24Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"@Knick_RSA Your history says different"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996458813311054211)  2025-12-04T05:57Z 7319 followers, 6039 engagements


"Eight Members of the South African Native Military Corps who made the Supreme Sacrifice during World War Two now quietly rest in the shade of a large tree in the Military Plot of the Eshowe Cemetery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997308831248855177)  2025-12-06T14:15Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Service shooting medal. 1985"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997596378550456717)  2025-12-07T09:17Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Cape Times X December 1983 XX Unita dead in new offensive claims Angola LISBON. - Angola claimed this week that its Cuban-backed forces had killed XXX Unita guerillas in recent intensified fighting in five central and eastern provinces of the country. The Noticias do Portugal news agency citing a monitored official Angolan Angop agency dispatch said the military operations took place between November XX and XX. It quoted the Angolan news agency as saying "We have destroyed several (rebel) bases captured guerillas and war material and freed hundreds of (peasant) prisoners." The Angolan report"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997597284855374328)  2025-12-07T09:21Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Korean war 2nd Squadron of the South African Air Force North American Mustang Mk. IVA 'Miss Marunouchi' (s/n KM361) Pilot visible can someone name him Source NARA archives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997598111007482273)  2025-12-07T09:24Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Peasant warriors singing psalms during the Anglo-Boer War at the graves of English soldiers who buried them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997598221653377336)  2025-12-07T09:25Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Capt Bryan Maskell returns from a mission X Squadron Korea. From the collection of the late Capt. B A T Maskell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997703382728126531)  2025-12-07T16:22Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Operation Savannah 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997745725183340841)  2025-12-07T19:11Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"South African Engineers Bulldozer Pulling down an Italian Fascio Littorio (Fasces) at Kismayu in Italian Somaliland East Africa on XX April 1941. During and after the war virtually all the Fascist and Nazi Monuments and symbols were destroyed by Allied troops. South African's of all races and ethnic groups joined forces against the Axis. The number XVIII marked on a fasces referred to the number of Lictors (attendants/bodyguards) assigned to a Roman official holding imperium (authority) specifically indicating an official entitled to XX Lictors. This number represented the specific rank or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997910142247985211)  2025-12-08T06:04Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Headline of the day Operation Savannah X December 1975: Protecting the flanks Col Swart had been aware that both his left and right flanks could be threatened during his attack on Quibala via Bridge XX. He therefore took measures to protect both flanks. Combat Team Kilo was sent out in an easterly direction on D-Day Monday X December 1975. The combat team comprised of just less than a company of UNITA infantry an armoured car troop and anti-aircraft guns. By 16h15 they had progressed to about XX km northeast of Sanga along the road to Quibala when they encountered XX Cubans and XX other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997927422256136499)  2025-12-08T07:13Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"2nd South African Division Troops photographed during the Battle of Bardia in Libya on XX December 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997930960801706190)  2025-12-08T07:27Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Imperial Light Horse Graves at Bardia in Libya"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997944045575012613)  2025-12-08T08:19Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"1st Battalion South African Police Graves at Bardia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997949022963957943)  2025-12-08T08:39Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"#OperationAskari On this day in 1983 - XX years ago - our battalion (#201Battalion) was really proud to be deployed in this major operation in the war in Angola. All four companies and elements of our Reconnaissance Wing were deployed under my command for the duration of the operation. Our HQ was in Mupa (approximately XXX km inside Angola) and the four companies were deployed in a wide area South of the operation's primary conventional targets (Cuvelai and Techumatete) to prevent any interference from other enemy forces and seek and destroy any straggler elements fleeing the Northern area."  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997949174617125074)  2025-12-08T08:39Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


""Last stand at Isandlwana XX January 1879 Anglo-Zulu War" You can buy this art print here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1998009634615947516)  2025-12-08T12:39Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Naval conflict off the Cape of Good Hope in the arts between British and Dutch forces around 1800"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995057406947250417)  2025-11-30T09:08Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Just Nuisance was the only dog ever to be officially enlisted in the Royal Navy. He died in 1944 and was buried with full military honours. "Just Nuisance" was born in April 1937 in Rondebosch a suburb of Cape Town and as a puppy he was bought by Benjamin Chaney who then moved to Simonstown in the southern peninsula of Cape Town to run the United Services Institute (USI). Simonstowns Naval Base was one of the Royal Navy's most strategic naval stations with control over the South Atlantic and Cape Hope route. Simonstown's sailors spent a lot of time at the USI. The friendly pup grew up in this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995386733379117490)  2025-12-01T06:57Z 7319 followers, 1071 engagements


"@TheCinesthetic Warrent Officer Ripley NO contest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995431365295378527)  2025-12-01T09:54Z 7320 followers, 2056 engagements


"@juicenotthekid_"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995778605612159474)  2025-12-02T08:54Z 7319 followers, 2282 engagements


"SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN EAST AFRICA 1941 SAF XXX. Men of a South African armoured car unit cleaning their heavy machine guns at Hobok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1995927472727359886)  2025-12-02T18:46Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"Major General Daniel (Dan) Hermanus Pienaar CB DSO (27 August 1893 XX December 1942) Dan Pienaar was born in Ladybrand OFS and raised in Natal. His family fought against the British in the ABW and he was interned in the Pietermaritzburg refugee camp as a boy of seven. His leg was injured and he became ill with 'blood poisoning' He spent many months in the military hospital at fort Napier. He became good friends with the wounded soldiers in the hospital. He joined the Natal Police Artillery in 1911 and then transferred to the Union Defence force in 1913. In WWI he served in German South West"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1996810171524211161)  2025-12-05T05:13Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"7 Dec 1979 : - A rifleman from XX Commando was killed in action while on patrol in the Etale area. The patrol discovered a concealed SWAPO/PLAN weapons cache and while inspecting the contents of the cache he inadvertently detonated a booby trap device that killed him instantly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997586962010796148)  2025-12-07T08:40Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"The Star X December 1981 Enemy planes skirted Operation Daisy Deepest thrust into Angola destroys two Swapo bases Military Correspondent A Swapo regional headquarters and a military command post XXX km inside Angola have been destroyed and XX Swapo men killed in a major SADF strike codenamed Operation Daisy. - An airstrike as well as parachute and mobile ground forces were used in the attack. - Swapo lost XX men. - Combined forces had three dead. The names have been released. - Two base areas were destroyed. - A limited amount of communist-made weaponry equipment and supplies was captured or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997592862305788249)  2025-12-07T09:03Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"The British garrison at Wakkerstroom is stocked by Republican artillery. Friday December X 1901. Anglo Boer War. Day number XXX of the war. * Genl. Louis Botha lures his followers between Ermelo and Wakkerstroom (Kalkoenkraans) into a lure trap. The fight ends indefinitely and Genl. Botha's power is disappearing as quickly as they appeared"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997601277337858244)  2025-12-07T09:37Z 7320 followers, XXX engagements


"8 Dec 1985: - A single Buccaneer (421) carried out a successful LOROP (Long Range Oblique Photography) of the Cuito bridge and Angolan brigade concentrations east and west of the river. Thius was the first operational deployment of the LOROP system. The crew comprised of George Snyman and Riem Mouton. This was George Snyman's last Buccaneer flight. info from Johan Conradie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997948844974219334)  2025-12-08T08:38Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"A battery of Cuban 122mm BM-21 multiple rocket launchers on the other side of the battlefield during the days before the Battle of Bridge XX Angola December 1975:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1997950075608453485)  2025-12-08T08:43Z 7319 followers, XXX engagements


"SAAF MIRAGE F1 📷 AI Overview The Mirage F1 CZ was a powerful single-seat fighter/interceptor variant of the Dassault Mirage F1 used by the South African Air Force (SAAF) in the 1970s-90s known for its effectiveness in desert conditions during conflicts in Angola/Namibia armed with cannons rockets and missiles and capable of Mach 2+ serving smaller air forces well. Key Characteristics Role: Single-seat interceptor and multi-role fighter. Operator: Primarily the South African Air Force (SAAF). Service: Introduced in 1975 active through the 1990s. Performance: Speed over Mach X high ceiling"  
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"Rand Daily Mail X December 1975 Fortune soldiers from SA in battle 'Mail' Africa Bureau CAXITO. - Fifteen South African mercenaries were among the X 000-strong force which unsuccessfully defended this strategic north Angolan town against the Marxists MPLA in a fierce battle over a week ago according to an MPLA spokesman. Caxito XX miles north of Luanda and now shell-scarred fell to the MPLA after a 48-hour battle which according to the MPLA left XX anti-MPLA troops dead. The army spokesman said that according to information from a number of deserters from the anti-MPLA forces the town had"  
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"9 Dec 1977 : - Two members from X South African Infantry Battalion were killed in action when their patrol walked into a SWAPO/PLAN insurgent ambush near St. Mary's on the Yati Strip. - The Havana Domestic Service reported that Cuba and Botswana would be establishing diplomatic relations"  
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"9 Dec 1981 : - Offices of the Chief Commissioner of the Department of Co-operation and Development in Cape Town were damaged by a bomb blast. - Two more trade unionists have been detained in the eastern Cape. Thozamile Gqweta president of the South African Allied Workers Union and Sisas Nphelananere vice president of the same union had each been detained more than once earlier in the year. A postponement of the trial of more than XXX trade unionists arrested in the Ciskei bantustan in September 1980 was also announced. - Two corpses were found in a burnt-out car just inside the Swazi border."  
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"10 Dec 1976 : - South Africa's Prime Minister gave an assurance that South Africa had no territorial ambitions in Angola; but expressed deep concern at Soviet and Cuban involvement. - The United Nations Commissioner for Namibia Sean MacBride alleged that South Africa was preparing an invasion of Angola for January 1977. The South African Minister of Defence P.W. Botha denied this"  
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