#  @thyphoidjack Mike the Warthog
Mike the Warthog posts on X about south africa, history, cape town, in the the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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[south africa](/topic/south-africa) #1583, [history](/topic/history) 9.09%, [cape town](/topic/cape-town) #219, [in the](/topic/in-the) 7.49%, [angola](/topic/angola) #352, [the first](/topic/the-first) 5.88%, [the british](/topic/the-british) 5.35%, [war](/topic/war) 3.74%, [commando](/topic/commando) 3.21%, [defence](/topic/defence) 2.67%
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"SADF soldier stand guards at the election booth in April [----] while a group of newly enfranchised South African waiting to vote"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022644596719640831) 2026-02-14T12:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"23 Dec [----] : - Four civilians were killed and sixty-one others including very young children were injured when a Soviet SPM limpet mine exploded outside the Sanlam Shopping Centre at Amanzimtoti while the Centre was crowded with holiday makers doing last minute Christmas shopping. The Limpet mine had been placed inside a refuse bin by MK operatives. One of these uMkhonto We Sizwe (MK) operatives Sibusiso Andrew Zondo (19) was later arrested in February [----] and the other two Phumezo Nxiweni (20) and Sipho Stanley Bhila (31) were shot dead during a shoot-out with Security Police. Zondo"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2003471429983953386) 2025-12-23T14:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SHOULD I keep going with South African Military History only or go with more modern SANDF items like I have been doing for the last while I am not sure how you feel Please leave a comment: Is it nice to see the new generation doing it or should we stick with what happened in South Africa in the past https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017268023992705446 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017268023992705446"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2017268023992705446) 2026-01-30T16:05Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
"June28 [----] The first contingent of Boer prisoners arrived abroad the SS Armenian and were transferred to internment camps set up at Darelle's and Burt Island. Over [--] months Bermuda would receive [----] Boer war prisoners of war"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2017642763634827630) 2026-01-31T16:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Battle of Salt River (1510) Long before Cape Town existed the area around Table Bay was already a well-used and well-understood landscape. Salt River Lagoon and the nearby plains were occupied by San hunter-gatherers and Khoi pastoralist communities who moved seasonally with their cattle following grazing and water. For thousands of years this was a functioning indigenous world with its own systems of land use trade language and diplomacy. In [----] this landscape became the site of the first recorded military conflict between Europeans and indigenous people in what would later become South"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2017856234796273925) 2026-02-01T07:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"CAPTION READS: On the silver plaque of the first FN rifle that was locally manufactured in South Africa are the words: The first light automatic rifle R1 that was fully manufactured in the Lyttelton Engineering Works and which was presented on [--] September [----] by His Excellency the Prime Minister Mr. J. J. Fouch to His Excellency Dr. H. F. Verwoerd Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa. This rifle is on public display at the National War Museum at Saxon World ( next to the Jhb Zoo) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017868598153293874"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2017868598153293874) 2026-02-01T07:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Boer Commando in action during the First Boer War 1881"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2018297586910740905) 2026-02-02T12:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"South African Soldiers returning after World War on parade passing through the Triumphal Arch in Adderley Street Cape Town 1918"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2018691169861943339) 2026-02-03T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"February [--] 1976: South African forces begin a gradual withdrawal from central Angola toward the "Cunene line" as Operation Savannah begins to wind down due to a lack of international political support"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2018979856026132789) 2026-02-04T09:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Short video of APLA combatants in Tanzania Video is entitled: VIVA THE AZANIAN PEOPLE'S VANGUARD"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019313628273602782) 2026-02-05T07:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Our soldiers during the SAMIDRC deployment (2025)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019482331589828727) 2026-02-05T18:44Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements
"@zulu_brah I dont get your post So because SOME parts of Soweto were not kept up to standards by the inhabitants (the old adage: don't shit where you eat) - EVERYTHING in South Africa must be torn & broken down to those standards in Soweto I am sorry but that is some sheer kak logic"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019515658246189226) 2026-02-05T20:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The fact that South Africa was one of the first countries outside of the UK to develop and deploy its own radar technology during World War II is a profound yet often forgotten chapter of military and scientific history. The SA Radar Project: A Secret Success The South African radar program was initiated out of necessity and national security. With the outbreak of World War II in September [----] the vital sea route around the Cape of Good Hope became a target for German U-boats and surface raiders. Britain while having developed the technology could not immediately supply radar sets to its"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019638755112464605) 2026-02-06T05:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As most people on the group know Winston Churchill took part in the famous battle of Spion kop outside Ladysmith from 23-24 January [----] He was a lieutenant in the South African Light Horse and he acted as a courier on his own initiative to and from the summit at Spion kop and Gen Warren's headquarters. He made a statement about the scene: Corpses lay here and there. Many of the wounds were of a horrible nature. The splinters and fragments of the shells had torn and mutilated them. The shallow trenches were choked with dead and wounded. The Lancashire Brigade and particularly the Lancashire"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019649366936461665) 2026-02-06T05:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Horse Memorial Port Elizabeth 1955📷 The Horse Memorial is a provincial heritage site Port Elizabeth. It commemorates the horses that served and died during the Second Anglo-Boer War during which the British military imported large numbers of horses for mounted and transport duties. More than [------] horses died in British service in South Africa. Port Elizabeth played a central role in this history as the majority of these animals were landed at its harbour. Horses were shipped from several countries including the United States and Australia before being sent onward to the front. The memorial"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019662789917163977) 2026-02-06T06:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902) South Africa Commando from Krugersdorp in Transvaal Possibly Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek Politie (Zarp)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019891781890871797) 2026-02-06T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Two [--] Squadron SAAF Ground Crew members catch up on local home news while in Korea from a newly-arrived South African Newspaper. In the background stands Mustang [---] THORIUM that survived the War and was returned to the USAF in December 1952"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020034478161232048) 2026-02-07T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF Pilot Captain Vincent Francis Kuhn Air Medal (US) with Oak Leaf Cluster completes [--] Combat Missions over North Korea"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020040388824699209) 2026-02-07T07:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Long Tom Vaal Krantz 6th February [----] One of the Long Toms at Ladysmith was taken forward for use during the action at Vaal Krantz. Prior to [--] February [----] an emplacement had been prepared for it on a hill called "Doringkop" (Thorn Hill). The gun arrived at Vaal Krantz on [--] February but could not be placed on the hill because one of its wheels had broken and the hill was too steep anyway. The Boers managed to get it to the top that night. It started firing at 05:15 the next morning. British return fire only managed to destroy one of its ammunition wagons but the setback was temporary. On"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020079430324875652) 2026-02-07T10:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Marmon Herrington Mk VI prototype in the South African National Museum of Military History Johannesburg (South African Reconnaissance Vehicle)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020187141905739779) 2026-02-07T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ConCaracal Is Eskom looking for another tariff increase"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020202321968259453) 2026-02-07T18:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AFB YSTERPLAAT I am not sure about the type of aircraft on the flightline here"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020397167475618164) 2026-02-08T07:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Members of the 1st Battalion South African Irish chatting to South African WAAF's while on leave in Cairo"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020397988104007993) 2026-02-08T07:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] at the National Conference of the Springbok Legion [--] delegates from ex-Servicemens Branches and Soldiers Camp Committees all over the Union attended the First National Conference of the Springbok Legion held at Corona Lodge Johannesburg on February 5th and 6th [----] the areas represented were Johannesburg Springs Benoni Palmietkuil Cape Town and districts Durban Port Elizabeth East London Potchefstroom Premier Mine Kimberley Voor- trekkerhoogte. More than half the delegates were in uniform and about [--] per cent of those present were women. It was revealed by the secretary that the"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020398411766243809) 2026-02-08T07:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Smiling South African WAAF's Going on Leave"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020398637327454612) 2026-02-08T07:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"8 Feb [----]. : - 1st Field Brigade (Cape Field Artillery) was formed as an Artillery unit in Cape Town from 6th Battery Cape Field Artillery (Prince Alfred's Own). - 2nd Field Brigade (Natal Field Artillery) was formed as an Artillery unit in Durban from 7th Battery Natal Field Artillery. - 3rd Field Brigade (Transvaal Horse Artillery) was formed as an Artillery unit in Pretoria from the Transvaal Horse Artillery. - 4th Field Brigade was formed from elements of the 6th Artillery Regiment (1st 2nd and 3rd Batteries and the old Permanant Force Batteries which had previously made up the 1st Field"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020422371836838289) 2026-02-08T09:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"BATTLE OF CEZA MOUNTAIN (1888) This small engagement was the last time Zulu forces defeated the British in Zululand. At the outset of the uSuthu Rebellion the resident magistrate of Ndwandwe Richard Hallowes Addison resolved to arrest the uSuthu ringleaders on Ceza Mountain. Since this was still a civil matter the troops supporting the operation could only take action if Addison called on them to do so. On [--] June [----] Addison [--] Zululand Police under Commandant George Mansel and [---] of Mnyamanas Auxiliaries supported by [--] of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and [--] mounted infantry under Major"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020538265279811847) 2026-02-08T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Torch Commando The Torch Commando was a South African anti-apartheid organisation born out of the work of the Springbok Legion a South African organisation of World War II veteransfounded in [----] during the Second World War and the War Veterans Action Committee established with the involvement of Springbok Legionnaires to appeal to a broader base of ex-servicemen. It was underwritten by Harry Oppenheimer through an opaque trust fund. The Springbok Legion was initially formed by members of the 9th Recce Battalion of the South African Tank Corps the Soldiers Interests Committee formed by"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020569217729175956) 2026-02-08T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"9th February [----]. George Labram killed by Long Tom shell. George Labram was killed by in his room at the Grand Hotel by the last shell fired by the Boer Long Tom into Kimberley on the evening of [--] February [----] a mere six days before the town was relieved. Mr Sadler the manager of the hotel commented that he was in the act of changing dress and had raised his arm to divest himself of his coat when the shell came not through the window as reported but through the roof at the back and struck the corner of an adjacent room with sufficient impact to explode the shell which went through the"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020726882606395562) 2026-02-09T05:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Barberton Commando"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020922778619150623) 2026-02-09T18:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Commandant Camillo Ricchiardi and the Italian Corps 1900📷 In [----] Camillo Ricchiardi arrived in the South African Republic with a group of Italian volunteers travelling via Loureno Marques. In December [----] he joined the Krugersdorp Commando. On [--] January [----] he received official approval to form an Italian volunteer corps. The Italian Corps fought in Natal and later became part of the united foreign volunteer force. After the death of Colonel Georges de Villebois-Mareuil Ricchiardi was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the combined Uitlander Corps also known as the Foreign"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021117832826683890) 2026-02-10T07:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South African WAAF Telephone Exchange Operator serving in Egypt"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021118783281098870) 2026-02-10T07:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Port Elizabeth SABRE CRASH [--] July [----] 📷 Credit: Dean McCleland Collision over Port Elizabeth (Per Herald) Does anyone of you remember this Sabre crash in Port Elizabeth in [----] I was only born in December [----]. South African Air Force (SAAF) Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk [--] crashed near Port Elizabeth airport on July [--] [----] after colliding with another Sabre during flight. The pilot Lt HJW Bothma survived the incident. While SAAF flew USAF-loaned Sabres in Korea this crash involved SAAF-owned jets. Children scream as jet crashes in yard Women and children screamed and became hysterical when a"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021121886919274979) 2026-02-10T07:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A French Revolutionary sea battle on the Natal south coast: the French frigate Prudente vs HMS Daedalus on [--] February [----]. Summary: Action of [--] February [----] On [--] February [----] a minor naval engagement took place off the coast of present-day Natal South Africa during the French Revolutionary Wars. The British frigate HMS Daedalus encountered and pursued the French privateer frigate ** Prudente** which had been operating from le de France (Mauritius) as a commerce raider against British trade. After a five-hour chase Daedalus caught Prudente and delivered a decisive raking broadside disabling"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021174564567326777) 2026-02-10T10:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SAA Vickers Viking 'Mount Prospect' Wingfield Airport [----] Wingfield Aerodrome was one of the earliest established airfields in the Cape Town area and played a significant role in early aviation and military flying. Before formal aerodromes existed aircraft operated from open ground across the city. With the outbreak of World War II land at Wingfield was sold to the government by former Cape Town mayor David Pieter de Villiers Graaff leading to the creation of a permanent aerodrome. During the war it was used by the South African Air Force and later by the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm. Several"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021194509183320248) 2026-02-10T12:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A typical pic of West African Native Rating known as a Krooman during the Zulu Campaign there were [--] of these Ratings onboard HMS Active many awarded Clasps but the names were deleted and the Medals weren't issued. HMS Forester also had [--] of these Krooman onboard like those on the ' Active ' these names were also deleted from the Roll; consequently no Medals were issued. This Chap may have possibly been aboard one of these Ships. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021300167249379583 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021300167249379583"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021300167249379583) 2026-02-10T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On this day [--] February [----] let us remember with honor and pride members from our Generation who paid the ultimate sacrifice. [--] Feb 1974: 05525001E Sergeant Richard Johannes Proudfoot from [--] Air Depot died from cancer. He was [--]. [--] Feb 1976: 71564283BA Private Johan Pieter Botes from the Technical Service Corps was killed in a private motor vehicle accident in Vanderbijlpark. He was [--]. [--] Feb 1978: 72570187PE Lieutenant Johannes Hendrik Du Toit SM from [--] Reconnaissance Regiment attached to D Squadron Rhodesian Special Air Service was Killed in Action"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021451573495284055) 2026-02-11T05:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"At the Fort Klapperkop Heritage Site (Pretoria Gauteng) this Locomotive (model 6B No. 498) stands as a reminder of the golden age of South Africa's railways. It has a sinister history too. It was built in [----] and is the type of locomotive that transported British soldiers and supplies into the interior of South Africa and thus to the Boer Republics during the Anglo-Boer War (South African War) of 1899-1902. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844122189828372 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844122189828372"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021844122189828372) 2026-02-12T07:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Cuba and the MPLA before the Civil War in Angola. Cuba's first informal contacts with the MPLA dated back to the late 1950s. MPLA guerrillas received their first training from Cubans in Algiers starting in [----] and Che Guevara met MPLA-leader Agostinho Neto for the first high-level talks on [--] January [----] in Brazzaville where Cuba was establishing a two-year military mission. This mission had the primary purpose to act as a strategic reserve for the Cuban operation in eastern Congo. It was also to provide assistance to the Alphonse Massemba-Dbat government in Brazzaville and at Neto's request"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021844431112908984) 2026-02-12T07:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tea party photoshoot I had with my daughter just before I cleared out of the #SANavy"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1568496661973827589) 2022-09-10T07:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"British soldiers burn a Boer farm during the Scorched Earth policy Anglo Boer War"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1851144467337658842) 2024-10-29T06:10Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements
"The Unstoppable G5: A Bush War Legend A rare glimpse into history. Here we see a G5 towed howitzer in action during the Angolan Bush War (also known as the South African Border War). This weapon system was a game-changer for the South African Defence Force (SADF) in a conflict defined by long-range artillery duels. Interesting Fact: The G5 was developed in South Africa to counter the long-range Soviet artillery and rocket launchers such as the Katyusha used by opposing forces. Its incredible range and accuracy gave the SADF a significant tactical advantage proving vital in key battles like"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1957767137981829397) 2025-08-19T11:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The fact that South Africa was one of the first countries outside of the UK to develop and deploy its own radar technology during World War II is a profound yet often forgotten chapter of military and scientific history. âš¡ The SA Radar Project: A Secret Success The South African radar program was initiated out of necessity and national security. With the outbreak of World War II in September [----] the vital sea route around the Cape of Good Hope became a target for German U-boats and surface raiders. Britain while having developed the technology could not immediately supply radar sets to its"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1989385886530716128) 2025-11-14T17:32Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements
"2nd Squadron South African Air Force F-51 Miss Marunouchi at a base in Korea. National Archives"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/1991145630358454742) 2025-11-19T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A South African SF Operator in Egypt on [--] September [----] taking part in Exercise Bright Star [--] along with USA and other allies. Credit: Senior Airman Keegan Putman (US)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011353800813261161) 2026-01-14T08:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"32Bn on parade in 1993"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019655568533623102) 2026-02-06T06:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"These three photos were taken in the Italian hilltop town of Allerona on 16th June [----]. South African Armoured and Artillery units of the 6th South African Armoured Division were making their way north in pursuit of the retreating German Army. Allerona is a commune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region of Umbria"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021641429072703632) 2026-02-11T17:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"203 Bn Bushmen Chefs"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021674176420229225) 2026-02-11T19:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (MOTH) Memorial for the men from Bela-Bela (Warmbaths Limpopo) who served in the two World Wars (1914-1918 and 1939-1945) and the Border War (1966-1989). The memorial does not consist only of a needle (Obelisk) monument but also a decommissioned anti-aircraft gun. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844753365479472 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844753365479472"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021844753365479472) 2026-02-12T07:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lest We Forget. [--] February [----] On this day [--] February let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Sunset call. [--] Feb 1961: Private Johannes Hendrik Simes from the Army Service Corps died from a brain tumor in Hospital in Pretoria. He was [--]. [--] Feb 1976: 70414123BT Rifleman Johannes Jacobus Bruwer from [--] SAI was critically wounded in the lung on [--] February [----] in a friendly fire incident while setting up an ambush in Northern Owamboland. He was evacuated by air to [--] Military Hospital in Pretoria where he sadly Died of Wounds on [--] February"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021845323652448734) 2026-02-12T07:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ciskei Defence Force The Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) was established during March [----] from the [---] Battalion of the South African Defence Force (SADF). It was the defence force of Ciskei a bantustan that was controlled by the apartheid regime of South Africa. The CDF functioned as part of the [--] Battalion based near Lenasia outside Johannesburg. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021850317449486594 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021850317449486594"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021850317449486594) 2026-02-12T07:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"THE WRITING MIGHT BE CONSIDERED CONTROVERSIAL: (I am just copy / pasting the article - to be honest I also didn't know about this) Boer BackRiders - The Runners Who Outran History First African Modern Olympians You have probably never heard of Len Taunyane or Jan Mashiani. That is not an accident. In [----] these two men (Either Basotho or Tswana) crossed the finish line of the Olympic marathon in St. Louis United States becoming the first Black Africans to compete in the modern Olympic Games. One finished ninth. One finished twelfth. Both outperformed most of the field in brutal 32-degree heat"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019662109303271493) 2026-02-06T06:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"T-55Cuban Army in Angola 1988"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019695892283154467) 2026-02-06T08:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Formation of three [--] Squadron SAAF Mustangs on a strike mission over North Korea"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2019816290949677527) 2026-02-06T16:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just behind the municipal offices in Bela-Bela (Warmbaths Limpopo) is the grave of General Andries Pretorius' wife Christina. She died due to malaria but before her death her sons took her to the hot springs on the farm Het Bad in the hope that the water would help her to recover. Alas it did not. In [----] her grave and the graves of other important Voortrekker figures from the area were commemorated in the local cemetery which today is sadly in a neglected state. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020036391237718309 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020036391237718309"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020036391237718309) 2026-02-07T07:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The guard of honour at the opening of Parliament for PW Botha was provided by the State President's Guard which was established on [--] May [----]. This guard performed at the Opening of Parliament Parade in Cape Town on [--] February 1990"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020735436667166857) 2026-02-09T05:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South African WAAF Meteorological Air Observer photographed just after landing while handing over her parachute to a WAAF Survival Section Parachute Packer"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020912676948369916) 2026-02-09T17:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2011 - SAAF Air Capability Demo. Note the SA-8 Gecko missile system (SAM) brought back from Angola"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2020933995098411288) 2026-02-09T18:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Buccaneer S50 Ysterplaat [----] A South African Air Force Buccaneer S50 at Ysterplaat in [----]. At least one of these aircraft was modified to carry a nuclear weapon"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021139283768176791) 2026-02-10T08:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"10th February 1900: the funeral of George Labram. When Labram was killed on [--] February [----] Col Kekewich gave Labram a full military funeral that was attended by thousands. De Beers provided well for Labram's widow and son after his death with Mrs Labram receiving $500 per year for the remainder of her life and their 13-year-old son $1000 per year until he came of age. Great Britain also granted Mrs. Labram a once-off sum of [----] for the services her husband rendered during the siege. The importance of the role Labram played in the defence of Kimberley is probably best expressed in a letter"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021197418507743382) 2026-02-10T12:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Some photos from [--] Feb [----] as the SANDF practices for the [----] State of the Nation Address (SONA) by the President"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021461499223605390) 2026-02-11T05:49Z [----] followers, 17K engagements
"SA Special Task Force (SAPS) training along side members of the South African Special Forces (SANDF)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021660826105737426) 2026-02-11T19:01Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements
"Commander in Chief (The President) honors the down-to-earth heroes in the shadows. South African Special Forces operators are being recognized for their bravery and sacrifices. Their faces may be hidden but their valor is not"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021670003188064259) 2026-02-11T19:37Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements
"More footage of our SAPS Special Task Force (Taakies) at the Dubai SWAT Challenge 2026"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021843708774429099) 2026-02-12T07:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"12 February [----] Today in history [----] From the diary of Jan van Riebeeck. A lovely sunny and windless day. The forts doctor reported early in the morning to Van Riebeeck that another eight men had been admitted to the infirmary with severe stomach complaints and pain in their limbs. These men together with the others were according to him too ill to work. Van Riebeeck had reason for concern. The majority of the sick men occupied key positions. Work on the fort had virtually come to a standstill and available provisions were sufficient for only two more weeks. Fifteen sheep of various ages"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021846195660898512) 2026-02-12T07:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"From a few years ago"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021875447546441998) 2026-02-12T09:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Today February 12: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1847: Robert this British ship sprang a leak and had to be run ashore near the Lourens River mouth at Strand in False Bay in the Western Cape where it wrecked. Some of the houses in the area were reportedly built with its main cargo of teak from Burma. 1888: Mary Ann this wooden barque came into Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape for the captain to receive medical attention and for repairs to the vessel on January 6th. However on the 5th of February the vessel was condemned and put up to be sold on the 16th of February."
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2021892503570362548) 2026-02-12T10:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"13 February [----] Today in History [----] From the diary of Jan van Riebeeck A lovely sunny windless day. Van Riebeeck was especially pleased that two strong and healthy lambs arrived early in the morning. Some Saldanhars also came to the fort with livestock to trade. In total ten sheep one ox three cows and two calves were exchanged that day. The men of the fort approached Van Riebeeck to request that the general workload be reduced as they were receiving insufficient food and more than [--] men were already in the sickbay. Van Riebeeck agreed and encouraged them saying the return fleet was"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022176308864721277) 2026-02-13T05:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A [--] ship Hawk Mk120 flying over SONA [----] in Cape Town [--] Feb"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022182228835598398) 2026-02-13T05:33Z [----] followers, 27.9K engagements
"13 February [----] exactly [---] years ago efforts to end the Anglo-Boer War faltered when Lord Kitchener met with General Louis Botha to negotiate a ceasefire. Botha leading the Boer forces found the British conditions unacceptable insisting on terms that preserved his armys dignity and autonomy. The same day the battle of Wolwekuil was fought marking yet another confrontation in the protracted guerrilla campaigns that had defined the final phase of the war. The Anglo-Boer War which began in [----] had already devastated communities in the Transvaal and Orange Free State leaving thousands dead and"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022182992882356409) 2026-02-13T05:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] February: [----] SAS Maria van Riebeeck (Cdr S. v H. du Toit) sinks the 42-year-old SARH Tug Otto Siedle [--] nautical miles south of Cape Point. (Photo) The torpedo was guided home by simulated propeller noise from a device placed on the target. The acoustic torpedo struck home near the stern resulting in a colossal explosion and the tug sinking rapidly. [----] SAS Emily Hobhouse and SAS Johanna van der Merwe are utilised for SMOC [--]. The teacher was Cdr A. Howell. This was the largest SMOC to date with seven students including Cdr O.J. van der Schyff Cdr J. Rabe"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022186034901963182) 2026-02-13T05:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South African Olifant tanks are pictured moving up to the frontline prior to a major battle near Angola's Cuito River in the late 1980s"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022186623170228296) 2026-02-13T05:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today February 13: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1830: Lady Holland this wooden vessel struck a reef north-east of Dassen Island off the west coast in the Western Cape and wrecked. Its passengers and crew made it onto Dassen Island using the boats before being rescued. 1850: Childe Harold this sailing vessel wrecked on the south-eastern point of Dassen Island off the west coast in the Western Cape just after midnight. The captain was the only casualty who drowned trying to swim a line to shore. 1981: Otto Siedle (pictured below) this tug was scuttled by the SA Navy"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022257143529766921) 2026-02-13T10:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Wilma van der Bijl Miss South Africa with SADF female Soldiers in 1987"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022295838249140637) 2026-02-13T13:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In 1970sSoldiers of the 12th South African Infantry Battalion (12SAI) specializing in the use of horses 📷 and dogs stop by to check tracks of possible SWAPO activities during a mounted patrol in South West Africa"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022312904456806861) 2026-02-13T14:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] February: [----] The naval cargo ferry Blouberg is launched by Mrs Peggy Biermann at the Globe Engineering Works Cape Town for use between Cape Town and Robben Island. (Photo). [----] SAS Hugo Biermann submarine school is visited by State President Dr N. Diedericks and is shown the submarine simulator and training methods. (Photo). [----] Cdr A.A. Cole assumes command of SAS P.W. Botha (P1562). [----] The Delivery Protocols for the last two Valour class frigates SAS Spioenkop (Capt D. Faure) and SAS Mendi (Capt J.J. Schutte) are signed indicating that ADS had"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022550821909487836) 2026-02-14T05:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today February 14: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history We do not have any record of vessels wrecked on this date in South African waters. Perhaps St Valentine was protecting all those at sea to help get them home safely after all it is the day of love"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022618750835659237) 2026-02-14T10:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Mufasa0062 SOOOOOOOO JELLY Here in Bulgaria they dont have good fish :😠I grew up in Cape Town with snoek en brood as a staple. So miss a yellotail braai with some kreefies (served with home made lemon butter sauce made over the coals)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022726182395916785) 2026-02-14T17:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The battle of Thukela Heights consisted of a series of military actions lasting from [--] February through to [--] February [----]. Generals Lucas Meyer (left) and Louis Botha (right) exercised a joint command in this battle which was not altogether successful. General Sir Redvers Buller's British army eventually forced the Boer army to lift the Siege of Ladysmith after this victory. This battle was sometimes described as the biggest setpiece battle in the Southern Hemisphere until the Falklands Campaign. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022948799929373043"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2022948799929373043) 2026-02-15T08:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Rand Daily Mail [--] January [----] Cubans on the run in Angola says US report By GUY BERNARD WASHINGTON. - Angola's communist-backed government is in deep trouble say two young Americans who travelled [----] km through southern Angola in August and September. Bruce McColm and David Smith found active resistance for the MPLA Government is strong . all through the area with much of the population turning to Jonas Savimbi head of Unita. The MPLA took control of Angola last year after defeating Unita in a civil war. But fighting has been going on for the past year against Neto's Cuban-backed"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011504102912770367) 2026-01-14T18:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"14 Jan [----] : - The South African Cabinet decided that the South African Defence Force must withdraw from Angola with the exception of the Ruacana-Calueque area. - UNITA was driven from their positions at Santa Comba after a battle with FAPLA. - It was reported that FAPLA forces had progressed up to Capunda via the eastern road. - Paulo Tuba a member of the political bureau of the FNLA said Zaire Tunisia Cameroons and the Ivory Coast had aided FNLA but named none as a channel for US aid. He said there were no CIA agents training or working with the FNLA and also said "friends of goodwill" no"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011504264124780873) 2026-01-14T18:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Event by Gert Minnaar MV and [--] Mech Bn Gp - Gone but never forgotten Pro Patria Museum NPC Public Anyone on or off FacebookEvent by Gert Minnaar MV and [--] Mech Bn Gp - Gone but never forgotten Pro Patria Museum NPC Public Anyone on or off Facebook Wessie van der Westhuizen who organizes the Gauteng North shoulder scrubs and Leon van der Merwe from the Gauteng South shoulder scrubs came up with the idea last year to arrange a joint shoulder scrub at the Pro Patria Museum at Fort Schanskop at the Voortrekker Monument. They have now set Saturday [--] February [----] as the big day. The men from"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011508393865888093) 2026-01-14T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] The Cape Town surveyor Phillip Wrey completes a report to be tabled before the Cape Parliament later in which he delineates a revised border to the Walvis Bay Enclave which is advantageous to Britain and to the detriment of Germany. This report arises from a September [----] agreement reached between British and German authorities regarding the need for a more precise delimitation of the Walvis Bay Enclaves borders. The existence of this Enclave and Great Britains older rights to it had by that time been recognized by the German Empire. A"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011674269944615420) 2026-01-15T05:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On the [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Sunset call. [--] Jan 1979: 56110471PE Sergeant Nicolaas Lodewyk Pretorius from [--] Engineer Support Unit was found dead in Kroonstad with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head using his 9mm pistol. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 76574821BG Private Rodney Herbert Shaw from [--] Military Works Unit Stationary Department was found hanged at the Unit. No foul play was suspected. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: Two members from [--] Parachute Battalion were Killed in Action during"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011674792840069425) 2026-01-15T05:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South Africans from all walks of life and from different towns and cities went to serve in the Union Defence Force during the the two World Wars (1914-1918 & 1939-1945). Those who fell were commemorated on public memorials like this one in Alice (Dikeni Eastern Cape)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011681939825234040) 2026-01-15T06:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Brooklyn Cape Town [--] May [----] VE day parade at Air Force Station "
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011722798683865142) 2026-01-15T08:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Defenders of Rorke's Drift Private William Jones. B Coy 2nd Bn 24th Regt. William Jones was born in Bristol in [----]. Originally he worked in the footwear business but enlisted in [----]. He served in Mauritius and Burma (where he was promoted to Corporal and then reduced in Rank) He sailed to South Africa with the rest of his regiment and his pregnant wife. While serving in the Frontier war his wife became ill during childbirth and he was given leave to look after her but unfortunately she and the child died and he had to return to his regiment after burying them. For his conduct at Rorkes"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011724467500691636) 2026-01-15T08:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"15 Jan [----] : - Maj.-Gen. Viljoen issued withdrawal orders to all units in Angola. Withdrawal was not to start before [--] January and had to be completed by [--] January. - Elements of Battle Group Piper was assimilated into the newly formed Battle Group Taba at Caiundo. - Fidel Castro said Cuban soldiers would continue to fight In Angola as long as they were wanted by the MPLA regardless of any demand by African leaders for an end to foreign involvement. (New York Times [--] January [----] Binder). - US Senator Frank Church charged that Kissinger had imposed a US covert role in Angola over the"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011725885276111209) 2026-01-15T09:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"15 Jan 1982: - Two members of [--] South African Infantry Battalion were killed in action when a platoon from B Company was ambushed by PLAN insurgents. The platoon was camping at a watering hole and radioing in false grid references pretending to be on patrol. Late on the afternoon of [--] January [----] a local Owambo (who was in fact a SWAPO/PLAN recce scout) arrived with a bucket to "dig sand out of the watering hole". An hour later the patrol was ambushed by a group of about [--] SWAPO/PLAN insurgents. Most of the troops were not even close to their rifles. In the process of reaching for his"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011741933144547740) 2026-01-15T10:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"15 Jan [----] : - Lieutenant Arthur Walker earned the Honoris Crux Gold for his dedication and exceptional courage under fire while supporting ground forces with his Alouette gunship exposing it to heavy and continuous AAA fire to protect six Puma helicopters dropping assault troops. - A company of [--] Parachute Bn occupied Cuamato during Operation Vastrap. - A platoon of [--] Bn and [--] platoons of [--] Parachute Bn supported by [--] gunships attacked a FAPLA base north of Cuamato. - Two members from [--] Parachute Battalion were killed in action during a fierce contact with a numerically superior FAPLA and"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011743103481225575) 2026-01-15T10:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"May [--] [----] 📷 Republic Day Durban South Africa"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011750014138331535) 2026-01-15T10:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"15 Jan [----] : - Operation Askari ended with SADF battalions back in SWA/Namibia captured SA-9 missile system; FAPLA 53rd Brigade successfully defended Caiundo against 3-week air and ground assault; SADF lost total [--] men killed; at Cuvelai FAPLA and Cubans lost estimated [---] men killed and [--] tanks destroyed or disabled. - Saboteurs struck in Oshakati devastating a State-owned cooldrink factory owned by the First National Development Corporation (FNDC) with a powerful bomb seconds after midnight. Damage of between R300 [---] and R500 [---] was caused by the bomb which destroyed the factory's"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011750810871345328) 2026-01-15T10:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I am presuming these are SA NAVY Marines due to the Leading Seaman badge on the one member"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011841199997644859) 2026-01-15T16:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Photographed in Cape Town circa [----]. Lieutenants George Frederick John Hodson & James Patrick Daly 1st Battalion 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment. Both officers were destined to fall at iSandlwana 22nd January [----]. Photographs - John Young Collection"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011917176446263780) 2026-01-15T21:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sunday Express [--] January [----] Five trapped soldiers fought on till the end By CHRIS OLCKERS TRAPPED in a minefield five South African soldiers in a crippled Ratel kept firing until they were all killed Their guns were silenced only when a shell fired from a Russian-built T-54 tank scored a direct hit on the troop carrier. The story of the soldiers was told to Pressmen as South African troops were withdrawing from southern Angola this week after the completion of 'Operation Askari' in which tons of Russian-made arms were captured. Battle-weary troops returning after their victory over Swapo"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2011917547831246887) 2026-01-15T21:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On this day16 January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Sunset call. [--] Jan 1968: 65588774R 2/Lieutenant Brian John Poorter from [--] Squadron was killed when his AT-6 Harvard Serial No [----] suffered engine failure while on a routine low level training flight and crashed into trees on a plantation [--] miles East of Eston. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1976: 72285414BA Trooper Trevor Donald Bodhill from [--] Special Service Battalion was killed while traveling along the Chitado road in Southern Angola to set up a vehicle ambush"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012039600261185906) 2026-01-16T05:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"19 Sqn swift to the rescue Air Force Base Hoedspruit [--] Sqn responded to a rescue call out on Wednesday evening [--] January [----] at 22:00; to rescue guests staff members and management from Kambakull Lodge near Phalaborwa. This is amidst the ongoing floods in the Limpopo area due to heavy rainfall and inclement weather conditions over the week [--] [--] January [----]. The heavy rainfall has resulted in over flooding which has caused significant damage to infrastructure roads and destruction of property in some areas resulting situations where some members of the Limpopo community have been"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012045203461361790) 2026-01-16T06:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SANDF convoy in Vryburg"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012130933508571147) 2026-01-16T11:52Z [----] followers, 33.1K engagements
"Rand Daily Mail [--] January [----] Koevoet - thorn in Swapo flesh By CHRIS FREIMOND SPECIAL fighting units in modern warfare inevitably gain reputations for ruthlessness. Their secret operations lead to charges of atrocities and low standards of behaviour - often difficult if not impossible to prove or disprove. It happened to the French Foreign Legion in North Africa the Green Berets in Vietnam the Selous Scouts in Rhodesia . and is happening to the secretive South African Police special counter-insurgency unit Koevoet (Crowbar) in its war against Swapo guerrillas in the Angolan border area. So"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012173823760650423) 2026-01-16T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cape Times [--] January [----] How South African forces fought their way out of Swapo trap Africa Column Anthony Delius IT is not SWA/Namibia or Angola that Africa sees as the prize of the week-long battle that was fought between South African forces and Angolan Cuban and Swapo forces in the scrub forest area beyond the final flow of the Kunene River to the sea. It is belief in the Soviet ability to help the continent out of trouble. So the answer to South Africa's boast that Angola and Swapo have not yet felt the full power that the Republic can produce in the field is a muttered threat from"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012173951577858200) 2026-01-16T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cape Times [--] January [----] Last SA troops have left Angola PRETORIA. -The South African Defence Force said yesterday that it had completed the withdrawal of troops involved in a five-week campaign into Angola against SWA/Namibian guerillas. An SADE spokesman said the last of [--] [---] soldiers involved in Operation Askari had crossed the Angolan border into SWA/Namibia yesterday morning: Battle group Delta was the last to leave southern Angola. The SADF claims to have killed up to [---] enemy soldiers during the campaign deep into Angola aimed at heading off an annual offensive by guerillas of the"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012174081425064138) 2026-01-16T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"16 Jan [----] : - Impalas launched repeated airstrikes on a FAPLA base north of Cuamato before the base was taken by [--] Battalion.Feedback from Willem Koegelenberg: The base was taken by C Coy [--] Parachute Battalion. And not [--] - AIM reported that eleven basic commodities have been seen to be rationed. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012174191345242361 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012174191345242361"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012174191345242361) 2026-01-16T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the youngest soldiers to die in the Great War. David Schalke Ullundi Ross was born in Durban in January [----]. His father Colin George Ross is of Scottish descent and his mother Sarah Johanna (Van de Merwe) is of Afrikaner descent. At the recruitment office he lied about his age saying he was [--] and a half. On [--] February [----] he was enlisted in the second regiment of the 1st SA Infantry Brigade. His personal details show that he was 5ft 7inches tall (1.70m) belonged to the Church of England had a dark skin black hair and blue eyes. He lists his mother and his 10-year-old brother Colin"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012174763246989527) 2026-01-16T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"MARCH [--] 1510: WHEN THE PORTUGUESE WERE DEFEATED AT CAPE TOWN. This year marks the 516th anniversary of the defeat of the Portuguese under the command of their Viceroy of India Admiral Francisco de Almeida by the Uri-giri-goa ("Goringhaiqua") branch of the Khoikhoi at Salt River in what is today Cape Town. The battle was the first military encounter between Europeans and indigenous Africans in what is today South Africa. It resulted in a decisive victory for the Uri-giri-goa. Having succeeded in establishing Portuguese naval dominance over the Indian Ocean Ameida set sail for Portugal in"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012257109807714767) 2026-01-16T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"VISITS TO THE NAVAL MUSEUM: On Thursday [--] January the South African Naval Museum received the Chief of the SA National Defence Force General Rudzani Maphwanya and several senior guests including the deputy commander in chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vorobyov. The opportunity was used to view the Second World War Arctic Convoy exhibition and the Transformation exhibition. Both show the historic military links between the Soviet Union/Russia and South Africa through the years. This was in fact the first-ever CSANDF visit to our Naval Museum. General Maphwanya briefly spoke about"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012275412965916809) 2026-01-16T21:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1949: P10736 Signalman John Lamb Fraser from HMSAS Natal was accidentally killed while swimming at Salisbury Island in Durban. He dived into shallow water and broke his neck when his head struck rocks at the bottom. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1969: [-----] Constable Daniel Cooper from the South African Police who was serving in Rhodesia and based at Victoria Falls unfortunately contracted Cerebral Malaria and died two days after being"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012425111387681217) 2026-01-17T07:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Old video of candidates attempting the Parachute Course Selection #SANDF"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012429944228393348) 2026-01-17T07:41Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements
"In [----] Cape Town warmly received hundreds of British children evacuated from England. These children were part of the Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) scheme to protect them from the Blitz with many finding temporary homes and experiencing South Africa's hospitality for the duration of the War. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012431873163608418 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012431873163608418"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012431873163608418) 2026-01-17T07:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"17th January 1900; Sir Charles Warren crossed with his Division at Trichardts Drift.; Narrative Winston Churchill. In the interval while the South African Light Horse were preparing for the march I rode up to Gun Hill to watch the operation of seizing the near kopjes which stood on the tongue of land across the river and as nearly as possible in the centre of the horseshoe position of the enemy. The sailors were hauling their two great guns to the crest of the hill ready to come into action to support the infantry attack. Far below the four battalions crept through the scrub at the foot of"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012433176937844922) 2026-01-17T07:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Already qualified PARABATS are doing refresher training on drills before a jump #SANDF"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012434100057944249) 2026-01-17T07:57Z [----] followers, 24.9K engagements
"Today January 17: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1722: Amstelveen and Sampson these two Dutch East Indiaman were on a return journey from Batavia when they encountered storms along the southern African coastline. Reports vary but it is believed that they foundered in heavy seas somewhere off Southern Africas coastline most likely offshore potentially anywhere between Mozambique down to the Eastern Cape. It is speculated that only three men in total survived who were fortunate enough to be picked up a few hours after the ships were lost. 1972: Oceana Vlei (pictured"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012434990819139818) 2026-01-17T08:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"17 January [----] exactly [---] years ago a major confrontation unfolded at Mosega in present-day South Africa during the period known as the Great Trek. A Voortrekker commando led by Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit Maritz launched a coordinated surprise attack at daybreak against the Ndebele forces of King Mzilikazi. The operation targeted multiple Ndebele kraals in the Mosega region and resulted in the destruction of approximately [--] settlements with an estimated [----] cattle recovered. Historical accounts indicate that the Ndebele warriors were taken by surprise suffering heavy losses reportedly"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012435824445403461) 2026-01-17T08:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Actually we did NOT invent that It was a Hollywood actress who having drinks with the girls on a night out on the town did: Hedy Lemar She famously designed them on paper napkins. South Africa due to the Bush War needed to counter Russian / Cuban radio threats (EW) & protect our own Frequency space. So we took it to the "next level." South Africa did not invent frequency hopping but it significantly advanced its military application robustness and real-world deployment under extreme electronic warfare conditions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012503700988654067"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012503700988654067) 2026-01-17T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#SANDF Armour convoy A couple ROOIKATS"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012504649991872862) 2026-01-17T12:37Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visited South Africa including Cape Town in late [----] as part of an official tour of British African territories where he served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and discussed imperial defence. His visit included inspecting naval facilities in Simonstown (near Cape Town) and interacting with South African forces. Image outside the Cape Town Castle https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012512256290935226 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012512256290935226"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012512256290935226) 2026-01-17T13:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A SAMIL truck fitted with a ZU [--] [--] 23mm anti aircraft gun tells a fascinating story of adaptation during the Border War. Originally a Soviet designed weapon the ZU [--] [--] was widely used by FAPLA forces in Angola. Large numbers were captured during various operations and later repurposed by the SADF turning an enemy system into a practical solution for local conditions. Mounted on the back of trucks like the SAMIL these guns became highly mobile platforms often referred to as technicals. They offered flexible air defence against low flying aircraft and helicopters while also proving effective"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012513303310807094) 2026-01-17T13:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"8000 Followers THANK-YOU all South African Military history is rather fascinating & busy considering we are such a young nation"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012545946739961860) 2026-01-17T15:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"National Scouts /Hensoppers 📷The National Scouts were a military unit in South Africa created by the British authorities in [----] during the Second Boer War (11 October [----] [--] May 1902). Its membership consisted of former Boer Orange Free State and South African Republic military. They were recruited in significant numbers towards the end of the war from Afrikaner prisoners and defectors and were commonly known as hensoppers (Afrikaans for Hands-uppers) or joiners among the Boers.Many of their fellow citizens despised them as traitors so that the label of National Scout became a swear word."
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012770095001481294) 2026-01-18T06:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today with the M.O.T.H. Blaauwberg Cuca shellhole and with permission from the NSRI Melkbosstrand We fired [--] shots in memory of the Battle of Blaauwberg. The site is one of the landing sites where the British landed in [----] to invade a very vital trade and vantage point. This was the start of many battles. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012772927289069942 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012772927289069942"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012772927289069942) 2026-01-18T06:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF Pilot Captain Edwin Archibald Croeser Pienaar had [--] encounters with North Korean MiG-15 Jet Fighters claiming one damaged & sharing in the destruction of a second MiG 15"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012773883829489997) 2026-01-18T06:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The last Resting Place at Klaver Camp on top of Red Hill in Simonstown for South Africa's legendary World War Two K-9 Able Seaman Just Nuisance RN"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012795262637412850) 2026-01-18T07:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lesotho 📷 Operation Boleas 1998"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012917063560368292) 2026-01-18T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SANDF HELO OPs Looks like a supply run in support of the rain areas of SA today Note the ORYX is still in its white United Nations paint scheme"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012925473324405245) 2026-01-18T16:30Z [----] followers, 33.6K engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1963: Sergeant Jakobus Albertus du Plessis from the Army Service Corps died from cancer and pneumonia in [--] Military Hospital. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1978: 76927508SP Rifleman Antonio Cassamano from [--] Battalion was Killed in Action during a contact with the enemy forces when his patrol was ambushed at a waterhole near Omalapapa in Southern Angola. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 76456623BG Corporal Fritz August Ferreira from [--] SAI was killed when he"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012926193138286611) 2026-01-18T16:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] P1562 (Cdr E.I.B. Massey-Hicks - later named SAS P.W. Botha) in the first purely strike craft Special Forces support operation launches three Zodiac Mark V boats (Cmdt M. Kinghorn) carrying the Rhodesian SAS team Zebra Force (Maj G. Wilson) off Maputo in an attempt to complete the abortive raid done on [--] December [----]. Prior to sailing from Durban the improved boat ramps and boats were flown from the new [--] Reconnaissance Commando Base at Donkergat to Durban where they were taken on board P1562. The 4RC boats crews plus the Rhodesian SAS Zebra"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012953680744431787) 2026-01-18T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"South Africas Unique Role in Nuclear Disarmament📷 South Africa is the only country in history to have developed nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantled them. The program began in the 1970s during apartheid driven by regional security concerns and international isolation. By the 1980s South Africa had produced six nuclear bombs each with an estimated yield of 10-20 kilotons. In [----] under President F.W. de Klerk South Africa decided to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. The decision was influenced by the anticipated end of apartheid the countrys reintegration into the"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012956325420900506) 2026-01-18T18:32Z [----] followers, 28.5K engagements
"Chief of the South African Navy Vice Admiral Monde Lobese promoting the latest batch of Senior Naval Officers (R AdmJG & CaptSA Navy) at Admirealty House in Simon's Town this week"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2012994881585574218) 2026-01-18T21:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. May they rest in eternal peace. [--] Jan 1951: P/2250 Warrant Officer Class [--] Petrus Jacobus Jansen van Vuuren from the South African Corps of Military Police attached to [--] Ammunition Depot was killed after suffering multiple injuries in an accidental explosion in the workshop of Laboratory No [--] at [--] Ammunition Depot. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 75385482BC Private Martin Eugene Weideman from the South African Air Force died from natural causes in 1"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013128517966287354) 2026-01-19T05:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I have not seen either the R4 or R5 fitted with a scope I take it this is a Bisley shoot"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013139547979137038) 2026-01-19T06:40Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements
"@HomerPavlos I thought he was born in Philippopolis () Or modern-day Plovdiv in Bulgaria"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013174008351457659) 2026-01-19T08:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"14 Aug 1951: 2/Lieutenant Christiaan Lodewyk de Jongh Air Medal (US) from [--] Squadron South African Air Force was Reported Missing when his F-51D Mustang [---] disappeared while participating in an air strike against enemy targets near Pyongyang in North Korea. He was flying as No.2 in the third flight of a 64-ship mission and was last seen by his No.1 flying approximately [---] yards behind on his port side. On pulling up from a napalm strike 2/Lieutenant de Jongh called up on the radio and reported that he had been hit by FLAK and that he was heading out to sea but he doubted if he would make"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013180717732159598) 2026-01-19T09:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF F-51D Mustang [---] "MISS MARUNOUCHI" was living a charmed life until [--] October [----] when the aircraft suffered undercarriage failure while being flown by 2/Lieutenant Brian M. Forsyth Air Medal (US). The aircraft was back-tracking on the runway after a heavy landing when the right undercarriage oleo leg collapsed. Unfortunately the damage sustained was such that the aircraft could not be repaired. F-51D Mustang [---] "MISS MARUNOUCHI" was subsequently written off and reduced to spares. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013185214848090549"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013185214848090549) 2026-01-19T09:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hurricane over Cape Town c. [----] At the outbreak of the war SAAF Headquarters sent some of [--] Squadrons Hurricanes to Cape Town to strengthen the citys air defences. Based at Wingfield they carried out daily patrols along the coastal area. In the photograph the area now known as Century City is near the water pans on the right while Brooklyn Airfield (Ysterplaat) is visible at the centre. From the Collection of Ettiene du Plessis📷 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013250967962034241 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013250967962034241"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013250967962034241) 2026-01-19T14:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"American aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving at Cape Town in [----]. from Etienne Du Plessis collection"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013479871981187199) 2026-01-20T05:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause for a minute to remember the following young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1979: 74496027BG Trooper Gregory Ernst Raaff from [--] Special Service Battalion died of injuries at Oshakati Hospital after being accidentally crushed between two vehicles at Ruacana. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 74842519KV Rifleman Willem Adriaan Nel from the Soutpansberg Commando suffered a fatal heart attack and died while attending a weekend camp at the Messina Training Area. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: 77339554BG Corporal"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013479969100386728) 2026-01-20T05:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1963 - First Airshow at CFS Dunnottar in eight years. Harvard's a single Mirage and three Sabre's. Stars of the show that Saturday in August"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013489443349360925) 2026-01-20T05:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause for a minute to remember the following young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1979: 74496027BG Trooper Gregory Ernst Raaff from [--] Special Service Battalion died of injuries at Oshakati Hospital after being accidentally crushed between two vehicles at Ruacana. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 74842519KV Rifleman Willem Adriaan Nel from the Soutpansberg Commando suffered a fatal heart attack and died while attending a weekend camp at the Messina Training Area. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: 77339554BG Corporal"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013492155633881353) 2026-01-20T06:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF Sabre [---] (Q) LADY OF LORETTE flown by Lieutenant John Richard Morris with SAAF paint scheme still incomplete seen here being prepared for a bombing mission"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013551222838476861) 2026-01-20T09:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2 Squadron Sabre [---] (I) HELEN flown by 2/Lieutenant W.J. Grobler seen here in February 1953"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013554359146106974) 2026-01-20T10:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Pretoria Armoured Regiment in WW2. The regiment fought in Italy specifically in battles at Bagno Regio Sarteano La Foce Florence the Gothic Line and the Po Valley"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013599739594342614) 2026-01-20T13:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Albert de Roos and Henri Slegtkamp the heroes of Spioenkop 20th January [----] Hendrik Frederik Slegtkamp was born on [--] April [----] in Beverwijk Holland. In [----] after completing his military service and a short period with the Dutch Civil Service he emigrated to the ZAR as an employee of the NZASM for work connected with the Pretoria Lourenco Marques Railway line. During the Jameson Raid he served on the Boer side thereby gaining full ZAR citizenship. In October [----] he joined the Middelburg Commando under Commandant PF Trichardt. but within days he transferred to the German Commando under"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013614738320593364) 2026-01-20T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On the "road of death" from Menongue to Cuito Cuanavale. On the left is military translator Alexander Shishov next to him is Anatoly Pavlovich Davydovsky advisor to the head of the plate department (political commissar) of the 13th Airborne Assault Brigade. [----]. Copyright Union of Veterans of Angola 2005"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013649046884225512) 2026-01-20T16:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@soetsappies My theory: Work I suppose getting another job in South Africa's economy is . Literally hang onto what you have"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013699136101453938) 2026-01-20T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Today January 21: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1883: Thames this sail driven lighter struck the propeller of the SS Rothesay off Durban in KwaZulu-Natal and foundered"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2013935845980483656) 2026-01-21T11:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"THE BATTLE OF NYEZANE [--] JANUARY [----] On [--] January [----] on the same day as the battle of iSandlwana in the Anglo-Zulu War the British No. [--] Column under Colonel Charles Knight Pearson advancing along the coastal road to Eshowe from the lower Thukela River fought its way through an ambush laid by close to [----] Zulu under inKosi Godide kaNdlela who had marched from oNdini on [--] January and been reinforced along the way by smaller local contingents. No. [--] Column was in two divisions with the leading division escorting a straggling convoy of [--] wagons. As it began to ascend the track along a"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014051033614274610) 2026-01-21T19:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] In the 1870s Britain wished to consolidate all her southern African colonies in a confederation. One of the barriers to this aim was the powerful Zulu nation then bordering the Colony of Natal. During [----] in a move reminiscent of other expansionist powers in the 20th and 21st Centuries Sir Bartle Frere British High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape exaggerated a number of border incidents when Zulu had crossed into Natal and portrayed King Cetshwayo as a wicked inhumane and bloodthirsty tyrant. According to Frere a war would not be against"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014064632973963614) 2026-01-21T19:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Back Row standing from left to right: Brevet Major William Trevor Much 1st/24th; Captain Thomas Rainforth 1st/24th; Paymaster & Honorary Major Francis Freeman White 1st/24th (KIA); Deputy Commissary Augustus Hillier Ordnance Store Department; Captain Henry Hallam Parr 13th L.I. Aide-de-Camp to Frere; Quartermaster James Pullen 1st/24th (KIA); Lieutenant Francis Pender Porteous 1st/24th (KIA); Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Burmester Pulleine 1st/24th (KIA); Lieutenant George Frederick John Hodson 1st/24th (KIA); Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Edward Forestier Walker Scots"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014210535936463055) 2026-01-22T05:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3 Brothers serve. [--] SAKK Many families did"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014221078395015493) 2026-01-22T06:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@plzbepatient Dead Internet Theory is becoming more of a reality EVERY SINGLE DAY"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014238648867127332) 2026-01-22T07:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Soldiers of 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers on board ship to South Africa. The 2nd Battalion sailed on the SS Norman on 2nd December [----] and arrived at the Cape about the 19th and was sent round to Durban. Along with the 2nd King's Royal Lancaster Regiment 1st South Lancashire Regiment and the 1st York and Lancaster Regiment they formed the 11th Brigade under Major General Woodgate and part of the Vth Division under Sir Charles Warren. On the night of the 23rd Spion Kop was taken by General Woodgate the Lancashire Fusiliers being part of Woodgate's Lancastrian Division and remaining on the summit"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014258644997599738) 2026-01-22T08:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BasilTheGreat America Innovates China Replicates The EU Regulates There is a reason sterotypes exist"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014323985937236072) 2026-01-22T13:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"22 Jan [----] : - Three members from [--] SWA Engineer Regiment (SWATF) while attached to [---] Battalion (SWATF) were killed in action when their Buffel troop carrier detonated a double boosted Yugoslavian TMA-3 cheese mine on the Epupa road in Southern Angola. - [---] SWAPO terrorists and [--] members of the SA security forces have died in clashes in January so far. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014324223192228110 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014324223192228110"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014324223192228110) 2026-01-22T13:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Simonstown Docks 1971📷 The SAS President Kruger (C 72) was the lead ship of the South African Navys President-class frigates one of three in the class alongside SAS President Steyn and SAS President Pretorius. She was built in the United Kingdom and commissioned in [----]. The President-class ships were designed for surface and anti-submarine warfare and served as the South African Navys flagships operating primarily from Simonstown. Equipped with guns anti-aircraft weapons and anti-submarine systems President Kruger played a central role in naval exercises patrols and training. The ship along"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014392505912197281) 2026-01-22T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The SAS Vrystaat (F157) previously HMS Wrangler (R48) was a key part of the South African Navy's expansion following the [----] Simon's Town Agreement. After arriving in South Africa the SAS Vrystaat served in the South African Navy for [--] years before being placed in reserve due to corrosion issues. It was ultimately sunk as a target by a South African submarine in [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014409586866790455 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014409586866790455"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014409586866790455) 2026-01-22T18:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Maritz rebellion 📷The Maritz rebellion also known as the Third Boer War or the Five Shilling rebellionwas an armed pro German insurrection in South Africa in [----] at the start of World War I. It was led by Boers who supported the reestablishment of the South African Republic in the Transvaal. Many members of the South African government were themselves Boers who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War which had ended twelve years earlier. The rebellion failed with at least [---] out of [-----] rebels killed in battle another [---] dying during a retreat into"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014409809412362240) 2026-01-22T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Kalshi_Culture"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014432145045913704) 2026-01-22T20:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"23rd-24th January [----] Comprehensive map of the Spioen Kop battlefield. One problem though is that the "Boer advance" marked in red is actually the British advance"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014565457785766148) 2026-01-23T05:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today in history: January [--] [----]. From the diary of Jan van Riebeeck. A light north west wind started blowing at dawn. It also rained intermittently throughout the day. Due to the bad weather the hunt could not leave the bay during the morning. Van Riebeeck writes that they are nice If not fear had the upcoming night behind. The lions literally walked around the fort in troops during the night roaring that the earth is drifting so much. According to him it almost sounded at times as if they wanted to overthrow the fort's main entrance and walls as they roared. The reason for the"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014572918961823796) 2026-01-23T05:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN EAST AFRICA [----] SAF [---]. Men of a South African armoured car unit cleaning their heavy machine guns at Hobok"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014575547410485254) 2026-01-23T05:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1975: WP197 Woman Police Officer Marsha Odette Brown a South African National serving in the British South Africa Police CID Narcotics Division was accidentally killed in Salisbury while on official duty when a truck with an intoxicated driver skipped a red traffic light and collided with her motorcycle killing her instantly. She was [--]. Marsha was accorded a full Military Funeral and was Cremated on [--] January [----] the day she"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014606946746122444) 2026-01-23T07:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"23rd January [----] The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014680655796289566) 2026-01-23T12:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Battle of Sandfontein 📷The Battle of Sandfontein was fought between the Union Defence Force of South Africa and the German Empire on [--] September [----] at Sandfontein during the first stage of the South West Africa Campaign of World War I. It ended in a German victory. The outbreak of World War I led to the transfer of the British Imperial garrison from South Africa to France. Expecting the war to finish quickly many South Africans also departed for Europe aiming to take part in the combat. The Union Defence Force took the responsibility of independently protecting South Africa from a"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014948616675230134) 2026-01-24T06:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On this day [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1978: 70297262BT Private Cornelius Jacobus Borchardt from the Administrative Service Corps was killed in a military vehicle accident at Otjiwarongo. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 93743334PY Rifleman Gerald Wayne Williams from [--] SAI accidentally drowned during a training exercise at the Base. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: 78240264BG Trooper Eugene Margo Nel from [--] Vehicle Reserve Park was killed when his Buffel Troop Carrier overturned at"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2014955132383895988) 2026-01-24T06:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] Simon's Town is proclaimed a Municipality and George Ryall Budge is elected Mayor. [----] SAS Vrystaat visits Lisbon for two days whilst on her delivery voyage to South Africa. [----] Lt Cdr G.M. Rademeyer hands command of SAS Umkomaas M1499 to Cdr C.J. Moon. [----] SAS Emily Hobhouse (Cdr T.P. van Rensburg) Operation LOWE BLOWE The submarine fires the torpedoes that sinks the Target MV Harvest Pegasus (400 ton fishing trawler) at 10:31 the trawler sank in [--] minute [--] seconds [--] miles South West of Cape Point 35.12S 17.57E water depth 2000m this was"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2015147410629206194) 2026-01-24T19:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BoerHindoe Sux I hear you for Fav guitars and just ones "play right" I also have my fav guitar - It is literally a @marshallamps branded Les Paul - the MGAP (google it)"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2015504888084545936) 2026-01-25T19:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] SS Matheran a cargo liner was the first ship to be sunk by mines in South African waters after having struck two mines off Dassen Island on the West Coast. The mines were laid by the legendary German raider SMS Wolf which managed to claim three further ships in South African waters with its mines. Of the Matherans [--] crew one person was lost whilst the rest made it to the boats. (Photo). [----] Capt D. de Wet hands command of COMSMFLOT SAS Hugo Biermann (Submarine Flotilla) to Capt T.J. Honiball. After the Change of Command Capt D. de Wet presented"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2015527586458448262) 2026-01-25T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1965: Pioneer John Alexander Grant from the Army Service Corps died of stomach cancer in [--] Military Hospital. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1972: [--------] Private Gary Allen Jacobson from [--] Supply & Transport Technical Services Corps accidentally drowned at Durban Beach during a sports parade. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1977: 76906510SP Rifleman Sabino Luciano from [--] Battalion was killed in a shooting incident in the Woodpecker Residential Camp area"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2015662443570077904) 2026-01-26T05:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] The Ford class SDB SAS Oosterland (P3127) is launched from the Vosper Ltd. Yard in Portsmouth. [----] Naval Colours ceremony held for the last time on this morning as the SA Naval Marines prepare to hand the unofficially named Marine base SAS Makalani back to the SA Army. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015881847415382486 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015881847415382486"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2015881847415382486) 2026-01-26T20:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call.May they rest in eternal peace. [--] Jan 1981: 78012226PR Staff Sergeant Marius Jacobus Snyman from the South African Corps of Engineers attached to South West Africa Command died from leukemia in the Windhoek State Hospital. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1984: 80519424BG Corporal Johannes Adam De Beer from [--] SAI was Killed in Action when he stepped on a Soviet PMN-1 (Black Widow) Anti-Personnel Mine while on Patrol in Southern Angola. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1984:"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2016029929930904006) 2026-01-27T06:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On this day [--] January [----] South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts requested Parliament to approve the deployment of Union Defence Force troops to fight in Europe during World War Two reversing his [----] assurance that the countrys Military Forces would be confined to operations in Africa. The request marked a significant political and military turning point for the Union of South Africa. Up to this point South African troops had been heavily engaged in the East African North African and Madagascar Campaigns where they played a key role in successfully pushing Axis forces"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/2016047955367559584) 2026-01-27T07:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SerialKillerSeason #staringatme #SK"
[X Link](https://x.com/thyphoidjack/status/744232729013796864) 2016-06-18T18:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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Social category influence countries 26.2% travel destinations 11.23% finance 2.14% technology brands 1.07% automotive brands 1.07% financial services 0.53% currencies 0.53% luxury brands 0.53% social networks 0.53% gaming 0.53%
Social topic influence south africa #1583, history 9.09%, cape town #219, in the 7.49%, angola #352, the first 5.88%, the british 5.35%, war 3.74%, commando 3.21%, defence 2.67%
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"SADF soldier stand guards at the election booth in April [----] while a group of newly enfranchised South African waiting to vote"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"23 Dec [----] : - Four civilians were killed and sixty-one others including very young children were injured when a Soviet SPM limpet mine exploded outside the Sanlam Shopping Centre at Amanzimtoti while the Centre was crowded with holiday makers doing last minute Christmas shopping. The Limpet mine had been placed inside a refuse bin by MK operatives. One of these uMkhonto We Sizwe (MK) operatives Sibusiso Andrew Zondo (19) was later arrested in February [----] and the other two Phumezo Nxiweni (20) and Sipho Stanley Bhila (31) were shot dead during a shoot-out with Security Police. Zondo"
X Link 2025-12-23T14:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SHOULD I keep going with South African Military History only or go with more modern SANDF items like I have been doing for the last while I am not sure how you feel Please leave a comment: Is it nice to see the new generation doing it or should we stick with what happened in South Africa in the past https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017268023992705446 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017268023992705446"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:05Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
"June28 [----] The first contingent of Boer prisoners arrived abroad the SS Armenian and were transferred to internment camps set up at Darelle's and Burt Island. Over [--] months Bermuda would receive [----] Boer war prisoners of war"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Battle of Salt River (1510) Long before Cape Town existed the area around Table Bay was already a well-used and well-understood landscape. Salt River Lagoon and the nearby plains were occupied by San hunter-gatherers and Khoi pastoralist communities who moved seasonally with their cattle following grazing and water. For thousands of years this was a functioning indigenous world with its own systems of land use trade language and diplomacy. In [----] this landscape became the site of the first recorded military conflict between Europeans and indigenous people in what would later become South"
X Link 2026-02-01T07:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"CAPTION READS: On the silver plaque of the first FN rifle that was locally manufactured in South Africa are the words: The first light automatic rifle R1 that was fully manufactured in the Lyttelton Engineering Works and which was presented on [--] September [----] by His Excellency the Prime Minister Mr. J. J. Fouch to His Excellency Dr. H. F. Verwoerd Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa. This rifle is on public display at the National War Museum at Saxon World ( next to the Jhb Zoo) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017868598153293874"
X Link 2026-02-01T07:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Boer Commando in action during the First Boer War 1881"
X Link 2026-02-02T12:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"South African Soldiers returning after World War on parade passing through the Triumphal Arch in Adderley Street Cape Town 1918"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"February [--] 1976: South African forces begin a gradual withdrawal from central Angola toward the "Cunene line" as Operation Savannah begins to wind down due to a lack of international political support"
X Link 2026-02-04T09:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Short video of APLA combatants in Tanzania Video is entitled: VIVA THE AZANIAN PEOPLE'S VANGUARD"
X Link 2026-02-05T07:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Our soldiers during the SAMIDRC deployment (2025)"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:44Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements
"@zulu_brah I dont get your post So because SOME parts of Soweto were not kept up to standards by the inhabitants (the old adage: don't shit where you eat) - EVERYTHING in South Africa must be torn & broken down to those standards in Soweto I am sorry but that is some sheer kak logic"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The fact that South Africa was one of the first countries outside of the UK to develop and deploy its own radar technology during World War II is a profound yet often forgotten chapter of military and scientific history. The SA Radar Project: A Secret Success The South African radar program was initiated out of necessity and national security. With the outbreak of World War II in September [----] the vital sea route around the Cape of Good Hope became a target for German U-boats and surface raiders. Britain while having developed the technology could not immediately supply radar sets to its"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As most people on the group know Winston Churchill took part in the famous battle of Spion kop outside Ladysmith from 23-24 January [----] He was a lieutenant in the South African Light Horse and he acted as a courier on his own initiative to and from the summit at Spion kop and Gen Warren's headquarters. He made a statement about the scene: Corpses lay here and there. Many of the wounds were of a horrible nature. The splinters and fragments of the shells had torn and mutilated them. The shallow trenches were choked with dead and wounded. The Lancashire Brigade and particularly the Lancashire"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Horse Memorial Port Elizabeth 1955📷 The Horse Memorial is a provincial heritage site Port Elizabeth. It commemorates the horses that served and died during the Second Anglo-Boer War during which the British military imported large numbers of horses for mounted and transport duties. More than [------] horses died in British service in South Africa. Port Elizabeth played a central role in this history as the majority of these animals were landed at its harbour. Horses were shipped from several countries including the United States and Australia before being sent onward to the front. The memorial"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902) South Africa Commando from Krugersdorp in Transvaal Possibly Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek Politie (Zarp)"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Two [--] Squadron SAAF Ground Crew members catch up on local home news while in Korea from a newly-arrived South African Newspaper. In the background stands Mustang [---] THORIUM that survived the War and was returned to the USAF in December 1952"
X Link 2026-02-07T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF Pilot Captain Vincent Francis Kuhn Air Medal (US) with Oak Leaf Cluster completes [--] Combat Missions over North Korea"
X Link 2026-02-07T07:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Long Tom Vaal Krantz 6th February [----] One of the Long Toms at Ladysmith was taken forward for use during the action at Vaal Krantz. Prior to [--] February [----] an emplacement had been prepared for it on a hill called "Doringkop" (Thorn Hill). The gun arrived at Vaal Krantz on [--] February but could not be placed on the hill because one of its wheels had broken and the hill was too steep anyway. The Boers managed to get it to the top that night. It started firing at 05:15 the next morning. British return fire only managed to destroy one of its ammunition wagons but the setback was temporary. On"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Marmon Herrington Mk VI prototype in the South African National Museum of Military History Johannesburg (South African Reconnaissance Vehicle)"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ConCaracal Is Eskom looking for another tariff increase"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AFB YSTERPLAAT I am not sure about the type of aircraft on the flightline here"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Members of the 1st Battalion South African Irish chatting to South African WAAF's while on leave in Cairo"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] at the National Conference of the Springbok Legion [--] delegates from ex-Servicemens Branches and Soldiers Camp Committees all over the Union attended the First National Conference of the Springbok Legion held at Corona Lodge Johannesburg on February 5th and 6th [----] the areas represented were Johannesburg Springs Benoni Palmietkuil Cape Town and districts Durban Port Elizabeth East London Potchefstroom Premier Mine Kimberley Voor- trekkerhoogte. More than half the delegates were in uniform and about [--] per cent of those present were women. It was revealed by the secretary that the"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Smiling South African WAAF's Going on Leave"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"8 Feb [----]. : - 1st Field Brigade (Cape Field Artillery) was formed as an Artillery unit in Cape Town from 6th Battery Cape Field Artillery (Prince Alfred's Own). - 2nd Field Brigade (Natal Field Artillery) was formed as an Artillery unit in Durban from 7th Battery Natal Field Artillery. - 3rd Field Brigade (Transvaal Horse Artillery) was formed as an Artillery unit in Pretoria from the Transvaal Horse Artillery. - 4th Field Brigade was formed from elements of the 6th Artillery Regiment (1st 2nd and 3rd Batteries and the old Permanant Force Batteries which had previously made up the 1st Field"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"BATTLE OF CEZA MOUNTAIN (1888) This small engagement was the last time Zulu forces defeated the British in Zululand. At the outset of the uSuthu Rebellion the resident magistrate of Ndwandwe Richard Hallowes Addison resolved to arrest the uSuthu ringleaders on Ceza Mountain. Since this was still a civil matter the troops supporting the operation could only take action if Addison called on them to do so. On [--] June [----] Addison [--] Zululand Police under Commandant George Mansel and [---] of Mnyamanas Auxiliaries supported by [--] of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and [--] mounted infantry under Major"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Torch Commando The Torch Commando was a South African anti-apartheid organisation born out of the work of the Springbok Legion a South African organisation of World War II veteransfounded in [----] during the Second World War and the War Veterans Action Committee established with the involvement of Springbok Legionnaires to appeal to a broader base of ex-servicemen. It was underwritten by Harry Oppenheimer through an opaque trust fund. The Springbok Legion was initially formed by members of the 9th Recce Battalion of the South African Tank Corps the Soldiers Interests Committee formed by"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"9th February [----]. George Labram killed by Long Tom shell. George Labram was killed by in his room at the Grand Hotel by the last shell fired by the Boer Long Tom into Kimberley on the evening of [--] February [----] a mere six days before the town was relieved. Mr Sadler the manager of the hotel commented that he was in the act of changing dress and had raised his arm to divest himself of his coat when the shell came not through the window as reported but through the roof at the back and struck the corner of an adjacent room with sufficient impact to explode the shell which went through the"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Barberton Commando"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Commandant Camillo Ricchiardi and the Italian Corps 1900📷 In [----] Camillo Ricchiardi arrived in the South African Republic with a group of Italian volunteers travelling via Loureno Marques. In December [----] he joined the Krugersdorp Commando. On [--] January [----] he received official approval to form an Italian volunteer corps. The Italian Corps fought in Natal and later became part of the united foreign volunteer force. After the death of Colonel Georges de Villebois-Mareuil Ricchiardi was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the combined Uitlander Corps also known as the Foreign"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South African WAAF Telephone Exchange Operator serving in Egypt"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Port Elizabeth SABRE CRASH [--] July [----] 📷 Credit: Dean McCleland Collision over Port Elizabeth (Per Herald) Does anyone of you remember this Sabre crash in Port Elizabeth in [----] I was only born in December [----]. South African Air Force (SAAF) Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk [--] crashed near Port Elizabeth airport on July [--] [----] after colliding with another Sabre during flight. The pilot Lt HJW Bothma survived the incident. While SAAF flew USAF-loaned Sabres in Korea this crash involved SAAF-owned jets. Children scream as jet crashes in yard Women and children screamed and became hysterical when a"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A French Revolutionary sea battle on the Natal south coast: the French frigate Prudente vs HMS Daedalus on [--] February [----]. Summary: Action of [--] February [----] On [--] February [----] a minor naval engagement took place off the coast of present-day Natal South Africa during the French Revolutionary Wars. The British frigate HMS Daedalus encountered and pursued the French privateer frigate ** Prudente** which had been operating from le de France (Mauritius) as a commerce raider against British trade. After a five-hour chase Daedalus caught Prudente and delivered a decisive raking broadside disabling"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SAA Vickers Viking 'Mount Prospect' Wingfield Airport [----] Wingfield Aerodrome was one of the earliest established airfields in the Cape Town area and played a significant role in early aviation and military flying. Before formal aerodromes existed aircraft operated from open ground across the city. With the outbreak of World War II land at Wingfield was sold to the government by former Cape Town mayor David Pieter de Villiers Graaff leading to the creation of a permanent aerodrome. During the war it was used by the South African Air Force and later by the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm. Several"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A typical pic of West African Native Rating known as a Krooman during the Zulu Campaign there were [--] of these Ratings onboard HMS Active many awarded Clasps but the names were deleted and the Medals weren't issued. HMS Forester also had [--] of these Krooman onboard like those on the ' Active ' these names were also deleted from the Roll; consequently no Medals were issued. This Chap may have possibly been aboard one of these Ships. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021300167249379583 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021300167249379583"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On this day [--] February [----] let us remember with honor and pride members from our Generation who paid the ultimate sacrifice. [--] Feb 1974: 05525001E Sergeant Richard Johannes Proudfoot from [--] Air Depot died from cancer. He was [--]. [--] Feb 1976: 71564283BA Private Johan Pieter Botes from the Technical Service Corps was killed in a private motor vehicle accident in Vanderbijlpark. He was [--]. [--] Feb 1978: 72570187PE Lieutenant Johannes Hendrik Du Toit SM from [--] Reconnaissance Regiment attached to D Squadron Rhodesian Special Air Service was Killed in Action"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"At the Fort Klapperkop Heritage Site (Pretoria Gauteng) this Locomotive (model 6B No. 498) stands as a reminder of the golden age of South Africa's railways. It has a sinister history too. It was built in [----] and is the type of locomotive that transported British soldiers and supplies into the interior of South Africa and thus to the Boer Republics during the Anglo-Boer War (South African War) of 1899-1902. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844122189828372 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844122189828372"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Cuba and the MPLA before the Civil War in Angola. Cuba's first informal contacts with the MPLA dated back to the late 1950s. MPLA guerrillas received their first training from Cubans in Algiers starting in [----] and Che Guevara met MPLA-leader Agostinho Neto for the first high-level talks on [--] January [----] in Brazzaville where Cuba was establishing a two-year military mission. This mission had the primary purpose to act as a strategic reserve for the Cuban operation in eastern Congo. It was also to provide assistance to the Alphonse Massemba-Dbat government in Brazzaville and at Neto's request"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tea party photoshoot I had with my daughter just before I cleared out of the #SANavy"
X Link 2022-09-10T07:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"British soldiers burn a Boer farm during the Scorched Earth policy Anglo Boer War"
X Link 2024-10-29T06:10Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements
"The Unstoppable G5: A Bush War Legend A rare glimpse into history. Here we see a G5 towed howitzer in action during the Angolan Bush War (also known as the South African Border War). This weapon system was a game-changer for the South African Defence Force (SADF) in a conflict defined by long-range artillery duels. Interesting Fact: The G5 was developed in South Africa to counter the long-range Soviet artillery and rocket launchers such as the Katyusha used by opposing forces. Its incredible range and accuracy gave the SADF a significant tactical advantage proving vital in key battles like"
X Link 2025-08-19T11:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The fact that South Africa was one of the first countries outside of the UK to develop and deploy its own radar technology during World War II is a profound yet often forgotten chapter of military and scientific history. âš¡ The SA Radar Project: A Secret Success The South African radar program was initiated out of necessity and national security. With the outbreak of World War II in September [----] the vital sea route around the Cape of Good Hope became a target for German U-boats and surface raiders. Britain while having developed the technology could not immediately supply radar sets to its"
X Link 2025-11-14T17:32Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements
"2nd Squadron South African Air Force F-51 Miss Marunouchi at a base in Korea. National Archives"
X Link 2025-11-19T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A South African SF Operator in Egypt on [--] September [----] taking part in Exercise Bright Star [--] along with USA and other allies. Credit: Senior Airman Keegan Putman (US)"
X Link 2026-01-14T08:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"32Bn on parade in 1993"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"These three photos were taken in the Italian hilltop town of Allerona on 16th June [----]. South African Armoured and Artillery units of the 6th South African Armoured Division were making their way north in pursuit of the retreating German Army. Allerona is a commune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region of Umbria"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"203 Bn Bushmen Chefs"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (MOTH) Memorial for the men from Bela-Bela (Warmbaths Limpopo) who served in the two World Wars (1914-1918 and 1939-1945) and the Border War (1966-1989). The memorial does not consist only of a needle (Obelisk) monument but also a decommissioned anti-aircraft gun. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844753365479472 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844753365479472"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lest We Forget. [--] February [----] On this day [--] February let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Sunset call. [--] Feb 1961: Private Johannes Hendrik Simes from the Army Service Corps died from a brain tumor in Hospital in Pretoria. He was [--]. [--] Feb 1976: 70414123BT Rifleman Johannes Jacobus Bruwer from [--] SAI was critically wounded in the lung on [--] February [----] in a friendly fire incident while setting up an ambush in Northern Owamboland. He was evacuated by air to [--] Military Hospital in Pretoria where he sadly Died of Wounds on [--] February"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ciskei Defence Force The Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) was established during March [----] from the [---] Battalion of the South African Defence Force (SADF). It was the defence force of Ciskei a bantustan that was controlled by the apartheid regime of South Africa. The CDF functioned as part of the [--] Battalion based near Lenasia outside Johannesburg. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021850317449486594 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021850317449486594"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"THE WRITING MIGHT BE CONSIDERED CONTROVERSIAL: (I am just copy / pasting the article - to be honest I also didn't know about this) Boer BackRiders - The Runners Who Outran History First African Modern Olympians You have probably never heard of Len Taunyane or Jan Mashiani. That is not an accident. In [----] these two men (Either Basotho or Tswana) crossed the finish line of the Olympic marathon in St. Louis United States becoming the first Black Africans to compete in the modern Olympic Games. One finished ninth. One finished twelfth. Both outperformed most of the field in brutal 32-degree heat"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"T-55Cuban Army in Angola 1988"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Formation of three [--] Squadron SAAF Mustangs on a strike mission over North Korea"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just behind the municipal offices in Bela-Bela (Warmbaths Limpopo) is the grave of General Andries Pretorius' wife Christina. She died due to malaria but before her death her sons took her to the hot springs on the farm Het Bad in the hope that the water would help her to recover. Alas it did not. In [----] her grave and the graves of other important Voortrekker figures from the area were commemorated in the local cemetery which today is sadly in a neglected state. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020036391237718309 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020036391237718309"
X Link 2026-02-07T07:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The guard of honour at the opening of Parliament for PW Botha was provided by the State President's Guard which was established on [--] May [----]. This guard performed at the Opening of Parliament Parade in Cape Town on [--] February 1990"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South African WAAF Meteorological Air Observer photographed just after landing while handing over her parachute to a WAAF Survival Section Parachute Packer"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2011 - SAAF Air Capability Demo. Note the SA-8 Gecko missile system (SAM) brought back from Angola"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Buccaneer S50 Ysterplaat [----] A South African Air Force Buccaneer S50 at Ysterplaat in [----]. At least one of these aircraft was modified to carry a nuclear weapon"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"10th February 1900: the funeral of George Labram. When Labram was killed on [--] February [----] Col Kekewich gave Labram a full military funeral that was attended by thousands. De Beers provided well for Labram's widow and son after his death with Mrs Labram receiving $500 per year for the remainder of her life and their 13-year-old son $1000 per year until he came of age. Great Britain also granted Mrs. Labram a once-off sum of [----] for the services her husband rendered during the siege. The importance of the role Labram played in the defence of Kimberley is probably best expressed in a letter"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Some photos from [--] Feb [----] as the SANDF practices for the [----] State of the Nation Address (SONA) by the President"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:49Z [----] followers, 17K engagements
"SA Special Task Force (SAPS) training along side members of the South African Special Forces (SANDF)"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:01Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements
"Commander in Chief (The President) honors the down-to-earth heroes in the shadows. South African Special Forces operators are being recognized for their bravery and sacrifices. Their faces may be hidden but their valor is not"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:37Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements
"More footage of our SAPS Special Task Force (Taakies) at the Dubai SWAT Challenge 2026"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"12 February [----] Today in history [----] From the diary of Jan van Riebeeck. A lovely sunny and windless day. The forts doctor reported early in the morning to Van Riebeeck that another eight men had been admitted to the infirmary with severe stomach complaints and pain in their limbs. These men together with the others were according to him too ill to work. Van Riebeeck had reason for concern. The majority of the sick men occupied key positions. Work on the fort had virtually come to a standstill and available provisions were sufficient for only two more weeks. Fifteen sheep of various ages"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"From a few years ago"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Today February 12: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1847: Robert this British ship sprang a leak and had to be run ashore near the Lourens River mouth at Strand in False Bay in the Western Cape where it wrecked. Some of the houses in the area were reportedly built with its main cargo of teak from Burma. 1888: Mary Ann this wooden barque came into Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape for the captain to receive medical attention and for repairs to the vessel on January 6th. However on the 5th of February the vessel was condemned and put up to be sold on the 16th of February."
X Link 2026-02-12T10:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"13 February [----] Today in History [----] From the diary of Jan van Riebeeck A lovely sunny windless day. Van Riebeeck was especially pleased that two strong and healthy lambs arrived early in the morning. Some Saldanhars also came to the fort with livestock to trade. In total ten sheep one ox three cows and two calves were exchanged that day. The men of the fort approached Van Riebeeck to request that the general workload be reduced as they were receiving insufficient food and more than [--] men were already in the sickbay. Van Riebeeck agreed and encouraged them saying the return fleet was"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A [--] ship Hawk Mk120 flying over SONA [----] in Cape Town [--] Feb"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:33Z [----] followers, 27.9K engagements
"13 February [----] exactly [---] years ago efforts to end the Anglo-Boer War faltered when Lord Kitchener met with General Louis Botha to negotiate a ceasefire. Botha leading the Boer forces found the British conditions unacceptable insisting on terms that preserved his armys dignity and autonomy. The same day the battle of Wolwekuil was fought marking yet another confrontation in the protracted guerrilla campaigns that had defined the final phase of the war. The Anglo-Boer War which began in [----] had already devastated communities in the Transvaal and Orange Free State leaving thousands dead and"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] February: [----] SAS Maria van Riebeeck (Cdr S. v H. du Toit) sinks the 42-year-old SARH Tug Otto Siedle [--] nautical miles south of Cape Point. (Photo) The torpedo was guided home by simulated propeller noise from a device placed on the target. The acoustic torpedo struck home near the stern resulting in a colossal explosion and the tug sinking rapidly. [----] SAS Emily Hobhouse and SAS Johanna van der Merwe are utilised for SMOC [--]. The teacher was Cdr A. Howell. This was the largest SMOC to date with seven students including Cdr O.J. van der Schyff Cdr J. Rabe"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South African Olifant tanks are pictured moving up to the frontline prior to a major battle near Angola's Cuito River in the late 1980s"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today February 13: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1830: Lady Holland this wooden vessel struck a reef north-east of Dassen Island off the west coast in the Western Cape and wrecked. Its passengers and crew made it onto Dassen Island using the boats before being rescued. 1850: Childe Harold this sailing vessel wrecked on the south-eastern point of Dassen Island off the west coast in the Western Cape just after midnight. The captain was the only casualty who drowned trying to swim a line to shore. 1981: Otto Siedle (pictured below) this tug was scuttled by the SA Navy"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Wilma van der Bijl Miss South Africa with SADF female Soldiers in 1987"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In 1970sSoldiers of the 12th South African Infantry Battalion (12SAI) specializing in the use of horses 📷 and dogs stop by to check tracks of possible SWAPO activities during a mounted patrol in South West Africa"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] February: [----] The naval cargo ferry Blouberg is launched by Mrs Peggy Biermann at the Globe Engineering Works Cape Town for use between Cape Town and Robben Island. (Photo). [----] SAS Hugo Biermann submarine school is visited by State President Dr N. Diedericks and is shown the submarine simulator and training methods. (Photo). [----] Cdr A.A. Cole assumes command of SAS P.W. Botha (P1562). [----] The Delivery Protocols for the last two Valour class frigates SAS Spioenkop (Capt D. Faure) and SAS Mendi (Capt J.J. Schutte) are signed indicating that ADS had"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today February 14: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history We do not have any record of vessels wrecked on this date in South African waters. Perhaps St Valentine was protecting all those at sea to help get them home safely after all it is the day of love"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Mufasa0062 SOOOOOOOO JELLY Here in Bulgaria they dont have good fish :😠I grew up in Cape Town with snoek en brood as a staple. So miss a yellotail braai with some kreefies (served with home made lemon butter sauce made over the coals)"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The battle of Thukela Heights consisted of a series of military actions lasting from [--] February through to [--] February [----]. Generals Lucas Meyer (left) and Louis Botha (right) exercised a joint command in this battle which was not altogether successful. General Sir Redvers Buller's British army eventually forced the Boer army to lift the Siege of Ladysmith after this victory. This battle was sometimes described as the biggest setpiece battle in the Southern Hemisphere until the Falklands Campaign. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022948799929373043"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Rand Daily Mail [--] January [----] Cubans on the run in Angola says US report By GUY BERNARD WASHINGTON. - Angola's communist-backed government is in deep trouble say two young Americans who travelled [----] km through southern Angola in August and September. Bruce McColm and David Smith found active resistance for the MPLA Government is strong . all through the area with much of the population turning to Jonas Savimbi head of Unita. The MPLA took control of Angola last year after defeating Unita in a civil war. But fighting has been going on for the past year against Neto's Cuban-backed"
X Link 2026-01-14T18:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"14 Jan [----] : - The South African Cabinet decided that the South African Defence Force must withdraw from Angola with the exception of the Ruacana-Calueque area. - UNITA was driven from their positions at Santa Comba after a battle with FAPLA. - It was reported that FAPLA forces had progressed up to Capunda via the eastern road. - Paulo Tuba a member of the political bureau of the FNLA said Zaire Tunisia Cameroons and the Ivory Coast had aided FNLA but named none as a channel for US aid. He said there were no CIA agents training or working with the FNLA and also said "friends of goodwill" no"
X Link 2026-01-14T18:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Event by Gert Minnaar MV and [--] Mech Bn Gp - Gone but never forgotten Pro Patria Museum NPC Public Anyone on or off FacebookEvent by Gert Minnaar MV and [--] Mech Bn Gp - Gone but never forgotten Pro Patria Museum NPC Public Anyone on or off Facebook Wessie van der Westhuizen who organizes the Gauteng North shoulder scrubs and Leon van der Merwe from the Gauteng South shoulder scrubs came up with the idea last year to arrange a joint shoulder scrub at the Pro Patria Museum at Fort Schanskop at the Voortrekker Monument. They have now set Saturday [--] February [----] as the big day. The men from"
X Link 2026-01-14T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] The Cape Town surveyor Phillip Wrey completes a report to be tabled before the Cape Parliament later in which he delineates a revised border to the Walvis Bay Enclave which is advantageous to Britain and to the detriment of Germany. This report arises from a September [----] agreement reached between British and German authorities regarding the need for a more precise delimitation of the Walvis Bay Enclaves borders. The existence of this Enclave and Great Britains older rights to it had by that time been recognized by the German Empire. A"
X Link 2026-01-15T05:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On the [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Sunset call. [--] Jan 1979: 56110471PE Sergeant Nicolaas Lodewyk Pretorius from [--] Engineer Support Unit was found dead in Kroonstad with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head using his 9mm pistol. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 76574821BG Private Rodney Herbert Shaw from [--] Military Works Unit Stationary Department was found hanged at the Unit. No foul play was suspected. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: Two members from [--] Parachute Battalion were Killed in Action during"
X Link 2026-01-15T05:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South Africans from all walks of life and from different towns and cities went to serve in the Union Defence Force during the the two World Wars (1914-1918 & 1939-1945). Those who fell were commemorated on public memorials like this one in Alice (Dikeni Eastern Cape)"
X Link 2026-01-15T06:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Brooklyn Cape Town [--] May [----] VE day parade at Air Force Station "
X Link 2026-01-15T08:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Defenders of Rorke's Drift Private William Jones. B Coy 2nd Bn 24th Regt. William Jones was born in Bristol in [----]. Originally he worked in the footwear business but enlisted in [----]. He served in Mauritius and Burma (where he was promoted to Corporal and then reduced in Rank) He sailed to South Africa with the rest of his regiment and his pregnant wife. While serving in the Frontier war his wife became ill during childbirth and he was given leave to look after her but unfortunately she and the child died and he had to return to his regiment after burying them. For his conduct at Rorkes"
X Link 2026-01-15T08:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"15 Jan [----] : - Maj.-Gen. Viljoen issued withdrawal orders to all units in Angola. Withdrawal was not to start before [--] January and had to be completed by [--] January. - Elements of Battle Group Piper was assimilated into the newly formed Battle Group Taba at Caiundo. - Fidel Castro said Cuban soldiers would continue to fight In Angola as long as they were wanted by the MPLA regardless of any demand by African leaders for an end to foreign involvement. (New York Times [--] January [----] Binder). - US Senator Frank Church charged that Kissinger had imposed a US covert role in Angola over the"
X Link 2026-01-15T09:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"15 Jan 1982: - Two members of [--] South African Infantry Battalion were killed in action when a platoon from B Company was ambushed by PLAN insurgents. The platoon was camping at a watering hole and radioing in false grid references pretending to be on patrol. Late on the afternoon of [--] January [----] a local Owambo (who was in fact a SWAPO/PLAN recce scout) arrived with a bucket to "dig sand out of the watering hole". An hour later the patrol was ambushed by a group of about [--] SWAPO/PLAN insurgents. Most of the troops were not even close to their rifles. In the process of reaching for his"
X Link 2026-01-15T10:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"15 Jan [----] : - Lieutenant Arthur Walker earned the Honoris Crux Gold for his dedication and exceptional courage under fire while supporting ground forces with his Alouette gunship exposing it to heavy and continuous AAA fire to protect six Puma helicopters dropping assault troops. - A company of [--] Parachute Bn occupied Cuamato during Operation Vastrap. - A platoon of [--] Bn and [--] platoons of [--] Parachute Bn supported by [--] gunships attacked a FAPLA base north of Cuamato. - Two members from [--] Parachute Battalion were killed in action during a fierce contact with a numerically superior FAPLA and"
X Link 2026-01-15T10:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"May [--] [----] 📷 Republic Day Durban South Africa"
X Link 2026-01-15T10:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"15 Jan [----] : - Operation Askari ended with SADF battalions back in SWA/Namibia captured SA-9 missile system; FAPLA 53rd Brigade successfully defended Caiundo against 3-week air and ground assault; SADF lost total [--] men killed; at Cuvelai FAPLA and Cubans lost estimated [---] men killed and [--] tanks destroyed or disabled. - Saboteurs struck in Oshakati devastating a State-owned cooldrink factory owned by the First National Development Corporation (FNDC) with a powerful bomb seconds after midnight. Damage of between R300 [---] and R500 [---] was caused by the bomb which destroyed the factory's"
X Link 2026-01-15T10:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I am presuming these are SA NAVY Marines due to the Leading Seaman badge on the one member"
X Link 2026-01-15T16:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Photographed in Cape Town circa [----]. Lieutenants George Frederick John Hodson & James Patrick Daly 1st Battalion 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment. Both officers were destined to fall at iSandlwana 22nd January [----]. Photographs - John Young Collection"
X Link 2026-01-15T21:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sunday Express [--] January [----] Five trapped soldiers fought on till the end By CHRIS OLCKERS TRAPPED in a minefield five South African soldiers in a crippled Ratel kept firing until they were all killed Their guns were silenced only when a shell fired from a Russian-built T-54 tank scored a direct hit on the troop carrier. The story of the soldiers was told to Pressmen as South African troops were withdrawing from southern Angola this week after the completion of 'Operation Askari' in which tons of Russian-made arms were captured. Battle-weary troops returning after their victory over Swapo"
X Link 2026-01-15T21:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On this day16 January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Sunset call. [--] Jan 1968: 65588774R 2/Lieutenant Brian John Poorter from [--] Squadron was killed when his AT-6 Harvard Serial No [----] suffered engine failure while on a routine low level training flight and crashed into trees on a plantation [--] miles East of Eston. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1976: 72285414BA Trooper Trevor Donald Bodhill from [--] Special Service Battalion was killed while traveling along the Chitado road in Southern Angola to set up a vehicle ambush"
X Link 2026-01-16T05:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"19 Sqn swift to the rescue Air Force Base Hoedspruit [--] Sqn responded to a rescue call out on Wednesday evening [--] January [----] at 22:00; to rescue guests staff members and management from Kambakull Lodge near Phalaborwa. This is amidst the ongoing floods in the Limpopo area due to heavy rainfall and inclement weather conditions over the week [--] [--] January [----]. The heavy rainfall has resulted in over flooding which has caused significant damage to infrastructure roads and destruction of property in some areas resulting situations where some members of the Limpopo community have been"
X Link 2026-01-16T06:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SANDF convoy in Vryburg"
X Link 2026-01-16T11:52Z [----] followers, 33.1K engagements
"Rand Daily Mail [--] January [----] Koevoet - thorn in Swapo flesh By CHRIS FREIMOND SPECIAL fighting units in modern warfare inevitably gain reputations for ruthlessness. Their secret operations lead to charges of atrocities and low standards of behaviour - often difficult if not impossible to prove or disprove. It happened to the French Foreign Legion in North Africa the Green Berets in Vietnam the Selous Scouts in Rhodesia . and is happening to the secretive South African Police special counter-insurgency unit Koevoet (Crowbar) in its war against Swapo guerrillas in the Angolan border area. So"
X Link 2026-01-16T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cape Times [--] January [----] How South African forces fought their way out of Swapo trap Africa Column Anthony Delius IT is not SWA/Namibia or Angola that Africa sees as the prize of the week-long battle that was fought between South African forces and Angolan Cuban and Swapo forces in the scrub forest area beyond the final flow of the Kunene River to the sea. It is belief in the Soviet ability to help the continent out of trouble. So the answer to South Africa's boast that Angola and Swapo have not yet felt the full power that the Republic can produce in the field is a muttered threat from"
X Link 2026-01-16T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cape Times [--] January [----] Last SA troops have left Angola PRETORIA. -The South African Defence Force said yesterday that it had completed the withdrawal of troops involved in a five-week campaign into Angola against SWA/Namibian guerillas. An SADE spokesman said the last of [--] [---] soldiers involved in Operation Askari had crossed the Angolan border into SWA/Namibia yesterday morning: Battle group Delta was the last to leave southern Angola. The SADF claims to have killed up to [---] enemy soldiers during the campaign deep into Angola aimed at heading off an annual offensive by guerillas of the"
X Link 2026-01-16T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"16 Jan [----] : - Impalas launched repeated airstrikes on a FAPLA base north of Cuamato before the base was taken by [--] Battalion.Feedback from Willem Koegelenberg: The base was taken by C Coy [--] Parachute Battalion. And not [--] - AIM reported that eleven basic commodities have been seen to be rationed. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012174191345242361 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012174191345242361"
X Link 2026-01-16T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the youngest soldiers to die in the Great War. David Schalke Ullundi Ross was born in Durban in January [----]. His father Colin George Ross is of Scottish descent and his mother Sarah Johanna (Van de Merwe) is of Afrikaner descent. At the recruitment office he lied about his age saying he was [--] and a half. On [--] February [----] he was enlisted in the second regiment of the 1st SA Infantry Brigade. His personal details show that he was 5ft 7inches tall (1.70m) belonged to the Church of England had a dark skin black hair and blue eyes. He lists his mother and his 10-year-old brother Colin"
X Link 2026-01-16T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"MARCH [--] 1510: WHEN THE PORTUGUESE WERE DEFEATED AT CAPE TOWN. This year marks the 516th anniversary of the defeat of the Portuguese under the command of their Viceroy of India Admiral Francisco de Almeida by the Uri-giri-goa ("Goringhaiqua") branch of the Khoikhoi at Salt River in what is today Cape Town. The battle was the first military encounter between Europeans and indigenous Africans in what is today South Africa. It resulted in a decisive victory for the Uri-giri-goa. Having succeeded in establishing Portuguese naval dominance over the Indian Ocean Ameida set sail for Portugal in"
X Link 2026-01-16T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"VISITS TO THE NAVAL MUSEUM: On Thursday [--] January the South African Naval Museum received the Chief of the SA National Defence Force General Rudzani Maphwanya and several senior guests including the deputy commander in chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vorobyov. The opportunity was used to view the Second World War Arctic Convoy exhibition and the Transformation exhibition. Both show the historic military links between the Soviet Union/Russia and South Africa through the years. This was in fact the first-ever CSANDF visit to our Naval Museum. General Maphwanya briefly spoke about"
X Link 2026-01-16T21:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1949: P10736 Signalman John Lamb Fraser from HMSAS Natal was accidentally killed while swimming at Salisbury Island in Durban. He dived into shallow water and broke his neck when his head struck rocks at the bottom. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1969: [-----] Constable Daniel Cooper from the South African Police who was serving in Rhodesia and based at Victoria Falls unfortunately contracted Cerebral Malaria and died two days after being"
X Link 2026-01-17T07:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Old video of candidates attempting the Parachute Course Selection #SANDF"
X Link 2026-01-17T07:41Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements
"In [----] Cape Town warmly received hundreds of British children evacuated from England. These children were part of the Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) scheme to protect them from the Blitz with many finding temporary homes and experiencing South Africa's hospitality for the duration of the War. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012431873163608418 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012431873163608418"
X Link 2026-01-17T07:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"17th January 1900; Sir Charles Warren crossed with his Division at Trichardts Drift.; Narrative Winston Churchill. In the interval while the South African Light Horse were preparing for the march I rode up to Gun Hill to watch the operation of seizing the near kopjes which stood on the tongue of land across the river and as nearly as possible in the centre of the horseshoe position of the enemy. The sailors were hauling their two great guns to the crest of the hill ready to come into action to support the infantry attack. Far below the four battalions crept through the scrub at the foot of"
X Link 2026-01-17T07:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Already qualified PARABATS are doing refresher training on drills before a jump #SANDF"
X Link 2026-01-17T07:57Z [----] followers, 24.9K engagements
"Today January 17: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1722: Amstelveen and Sampson these two Dutch East Indiaman were on a return journey from Batavia when they encountered storms along the southern African coastline. Reports vary but it is believed that they foundered in heavy seas somewhere off Southern Africas coastline most likely offshore potentially anywhere between Mozambique down to the Eastern Cape. It is speculated that only three men in total survived who were fortunate enough to be picked up a few hours after the ships were lost. 1972: Oceana Vlei (pictured"
X Link 2026-01-17T08:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"17 January [----] exactly [---] years ago a major confrontation unfolded at Mosega in present-day South Africa during the period known as the Great Trek. A Voortrekker commando led by Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit Maritz launched a coordinated surprise attack at daybreak against the Ndebele forces of King Mzilikazi. The operation targeted multiple Ndebele kraals in the Mosega region and resulted in the destruction of approximately [--] settlements with an estimated [----] cattle recovered. Historical accounts indicate that the Ndebele warriors were taken by surprise suffering heavy losses reportedly"
X Link 2026-01-17T08:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Actually we did NOT invent that It was a Hollywood actress who having drinks with the girls on a night out on the town did: Hedy Lemar She famously designed them on paper napkins. South Africa due to the Bush War needed to counter Russian / Cuban radio threats (EW) & protect our own Frequency space. So we took it to the "next level." South Africa did not invent frequency hopping but it significantly advanced its military application robustness and real-world deployment under extreme electronic warfare conditions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012503700988654067"
X Link 2026-01-17T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#SANDF Armour convoy A couple ROOIKATS"
X Link 2026-01-17T12:37Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visited South Africa including Cape Town in late [----] as part of an official tour of British African territories where he served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and discussed imperial defence. His visit included inspecting naval facilities in Simonstown (near Cape Town) and interacting with South African forces. Image outside the Cape Town Castle https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012512256290935226 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012512256290935226"
X Link 2026-01-17T13:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A SAMIL truck fitted with a ZU [--] [--] 23mm anti aircraft gun tells a fascinating story of adaptation during the Border War. Originally a Soviet designed weapon the ZU [--] [--] was widely used by FAPLA forces in Angola. Large numbers were captured during various operations and later repurposed by the SADF turning an enemy system into a practical solution for local conditions. Mounted on the back of trucks like the SAMIL these guns became highly mobile platforms often referred to as technicals. They offered flexible air defence against low flying aircraft and helicopters while also proving effective"
X Link 2026-01-17T13:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"8000 Followers THANK-YOU all South African Military history is rather fascinating & busy considering we are such a young nation"
X Link 2026-01-17T15:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"National Scouts /Hensoppers 📷The National Scouts were a military unit in South Africa created by the British authorities in [----] during the Second Boer War (11 October [----] [--] May 1902). Its membership consisted of former Boer Orange Free State and South African Republic military. They were recruited in significant numbers towards the end of the war from Afrikaner prisoners and defectors and were commonly known as hensoppers (Afrikaans for Hands-uppers) or joiners among the Boers.Many of their fellow citizens despised them as traitors so that the label of National Scout became a swear word."
X Link 2026-01-18T06:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today with the M.O.T.H. Blaauwberg Cuca shellhole and with permission from the NSRI Melkbosstrand We fired [--] shots in memory of the Battle of Blaauwberg. The site is one of the landing sites where the British landed in [----] to invade a very vital trade and vantage point. This was the start of many battles. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012772927289069942 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012772927289069942"
X Link 2026-01-18T06:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF Pilot Captain Edwin Archibald Croeser Pienaar had [--] encounters with North Korean MiG-15 Jet Fighters claiming one damaged & sharing in the destruction of a second MiG 15"
X Link 2026-01-18T06:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The last Resting Place at Klaver Camp on top of Red Hill in Simonstown for South Africa's legendary World War Two K-9 Able Seaman Just Nuisance RN"
X Link 2026-01-18T07:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lesotho 📷 Operation Boleas 1998"
X Link 2026-01-18T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SANDF HELO OPs Looks like a supply run in support of the rain areas of SA today Note the ORYX is still in its white United Nations paint scheme"
X Link 2026-01-18T16:30Z [----] followers, 33.6K engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1963: Sergeant Jakobus Albertus du Plessis from the Army Service Corps died from cancer and pneumonia in [--] Military Hospital. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1978: 76927508SP Rifleman Antonio Cassamano from [--] Battalion was Killed in Action during a contact with the enemy forces when his patrol was ambushed at a waterhole near Omalapapa in Southern Angola. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 76456623BG Corporal Fritz August Ferreira from [--] SAI was killed when he"
X Link 2026-01-18T16:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] P1562 (Cdr E.I.B. Massey-Hicks - later named SAS P.W. Botha) in the first purely strike craft Special Forces support operation launches three Zodiac Mark V boats (Cmdt M. Kinghorn) carrying the Rhodesian SAS team Zebra Force (Maj G. Wilson) off Maputo in an attempt to complete the abortive raid done on [--] December [----]. Prior to sailing from Durban the improved boat ramps and boats were flown from the new [--] Reconnaissance Commando Base at Donkergat to Durban where they were taken on board P1562. The 4RC boats crews plus the Rhodesian SAS Zebra"
X Link 2026-01-18T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"South Africas Unique Role in Nuclear Disarmament📷 South Africa is the only country in history to have developed nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantled them. The program began in the 1970s during apartheid driven by regional security concerns and international isolation. By the 1980s South Africa had produced six nuclear bombs each with an estimated yield of 10-20 kilotons. In [----] under President F.W. de Klerk South Africa decided to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. The decision was influenced by the anticipated end of apartheid the countrys reintegration into the"
X Link 2026-01-18T18:32Z [----] followers, 28.5K engagements
"Chief of the South African Navy Vice Admiral Monde Lobese promoting the latest batch of Senior Naval Officers (R AdmJG & CaptSA Navy) at Admirealty House in Simon's Town this week"
X Link 2026-01-18T21:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. May they rest in eternal peace. [--] Jan 1951: P/2250 Warrant Officer Class [--] Petrus Jacobus Jansen van Vuuren from the South African Corps of Military Police attached to [--] Ammunition Depot was killed after suffering multiple injuries in an accidental explosion in the workshop of Laboratory No [--] at [--] Ammunition Depot. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 75385482BC Private Martin Eugene Weideman from the South African Air Force died from natural causes in 1"
X Link 2026-01-19T05:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I have not seen either the R4 or R5 fitted with a scope I take it this is a Bisley shoot"
X Link 2026-01-19T06:40Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements
"@HomerPavlos I thought he was born in Philippopolis () Or modern-day Plovdiv in Bulgaria"
X Link 2026-01-19T08:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"14 Aug 1951: 2/Lieutenant Christiaan Lodewyk de Jongh Air Medal (US) from [--] Squadron South African Air Force was Reported Missing when his F-51D Mustang [---] disappeared while participating in an air strike against enemy targets near Pyongyang in North Korea. He was flying as No.2 in the third flight of a 64-ship mission and was last seen by his No.1 flying approximately [---] yards behind on his port side. On pulling up from a napalm strike 2/Lieutenant de Jongh called up on the radio and reported that he had been hit by FLAK and that he was heading out to sea but he doubted if he would make"
X Link 2026-01-19T09:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF F-51D Mustang [---] "MISS MARUNOUCHI" was living a charmed life until [--] October [----] when the aircraft suffered undercarriage failure while being flown by 2/Lieutenant Brian M. Forsyth Air Medal (US). The aircraft was back-tracking on the runway after a heavy landing when the right undercarriage oleo leg collapsed. Unfortunately the damage sustained was such that the aircraft could not be repaired. F-51D Mustang [---] "MISS MARUNOUCHI" was subsequently written off and reduced to spares. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013185214848090549"
X Link 2026-01-19T09:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hurricane over Cape Town c. [----] At the outbreak of the war SAAF Headquarters sent some of [--] Squadrons Hurricanes to Cape Town to strengthen the citys air defences. Based at Wingfield they carried out daily patrols along the coastal area. In the photograph the area now known as Century City is near the water pans on the right while Brooklyn Airfield (Ysterplaat) is visible at the centre. From the Collection of Ettiene du Plessis📷 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013250967962034241 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013250967962034241"
X Link 2026-01-19T14:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"American aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving at Cape Town in [----]. from Etienne Du Plessis collection"
X Link 2026-01-20T05:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause for a minute to remember the following young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1979: 74496027BG Trooper Gregory Ernst Raaff from [--] Special Service Battalion died of injuries at Oshakati Hospital after being accidentally crushed between two vehicles at Ruacana. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 74842519KV Rifleman Willem Adriaan Nel from the Soutpansberg Commando suffered a fatal heart attack and died while attending a weekend camp at the Messina Training Area. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: 77339554BG Corporal"
X Link 2026-01-20T05:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1963 - First Airshow at CFS Dunnottar in eight years. Harvard's a single Mirage and three Sabre's. Stars of the show that Saturday in August"
X Link 2026-01-20T05:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause for a minute to remember the following young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1979: 74496027BG Trooper Gregory Ernst Raaff from [--] Special Service Battalion died of injuries at Oshakati Hospital after being accidentally crushed between two vehicles at Ruacana. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 74842519KV Rifleman Willem Adriaan Nel from the Soutpansberg Commando suffered a fatal heart attack and died while attending a weekend camp at the Messina Training Area. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: 77339554BG Corporal"
X Link 2026-01-20T06:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2 Squadron SAAF Sabre [---] (Q) LADY OF LORETTE flown by Lieutenant John Richard Morris with SAAF paint scheme still incomplete seen here being prepared for a bombing mission"
X Link 2026-01-20T09:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2 Squadron Sabre [---] (I) HELEN flown by 2/Lieutenant W.J. Grobler seen here in February 1953"
X Link 2026-01-20T10:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Pretoria Armoured Regiment in WW2. The regiment fought in Italy specifically in battles at Bagno Regio Sarteano La Foce Florence the Gothic Line and the Po Valley"
X Link 2026-01-20T13:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Albert de Roos and Henri Slegtkamp the heroes of Spioenkop 20th January [----] Hendrik Frederik Slegtkamp was born on [--] April [----] in Beverwijk Holland. In [----] after completing his military service and a short period with the Dutch Civil Service he emigrated to the ZAR as an employee of the NZASM for work connected with the Pretoria Lourenco Marques Railway line. During the Jameson Raid he served on the Boer side thereby gaining full ZAR citizenship. In October [----] he joined the Middelburg Commando under Commandant PF Trichardt. but within days he transferred to the German Commando under"
X Link 2026-01-20T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On the "road of death" from Menongue to Cuito Cuanavale. On the left is military translator Alexander Shishov next to him is Anatoly Pavlovich Davydovsky advisor to the head of the plate department (political commissar) of the 13th Airborne Assault Brigade. [----]. Copyright Union of Veterans of Angola 2005"
X Link 2026-01-20T16:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@soetsappies My theory: Work I suppose getting another job in South Africa's economy is . Literally hang onto what you have"
X Link 2026-01-20T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Today January 21: This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history 1883: Thames this sail driven lighter struck the propeller of the SS Rothesay off Durban in KwaZulu-Natal and foundered"
X Link 2026-01-21T11:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"THE BATTLE OF NYEZANE [--] JANUARY [----] On [--] January [----] on the same day as the battle of iSandlwana in the Anglo-Zulu War the British No. [--] Column under Colonel Charles Knight Pearson advancing along the coastal road to Eshowe from the lower Thukela River fought its way through an ambush laid by close to [----] Zulu under inKosi Godide kaNdlela who had marched from oNdini on [--] January and been reinforced along the way by smaller local contingents. No. [--] Column was in two divisions with the leading division escorting a straggling convoy of [--] wagons. As it began to ascend the track along a"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] In the 1870s Britain wished to consolidate all her southern African colonies in a confederation. One of the barriers to this aim was the powerful Zulu nation then bordering the Colony of Natal. During [----] in a move reminiscent of other expansionist powers in the 20th and 21st Centuries Sir Bartle Frere British High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape exaggerated a number of border incidents when Zulu had crossed into Natal and portrayed King Cetshwayo as a wicked inhumane and bloodthirsty tyrant. According to Frere a war would not be against"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Back Row standing from left to right: Brevet Major William Trevor Much 1st/24th; Captain Thomas Rainforth 1st/24th; Paymaster & Honorary Major Francis Freeman White 1st/24th (KIA); Deputy Commissary Augustus Hillier Ordnance Store Department; Captain Henry Hallam Parr 13th L.I. Aide-de-Camp to Frere; Quartermaster James Pullen 1st/24th (KIA); Lieutenant Francis Pender Porteous 1st/24th (KIA); Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Burmester Pulleine 1st/24th (KIA); Lieutenant George Frederick John Hodson 1st/24th (KIA); Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Edward Forestier Walker Scots"
X Link 2026-01-22T05:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3 Brothers serve. [--] SAKK Many families did"
X Link 2026-01-22T06:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@plzbepatient Dead Internet Theory is becoming more of a reality EVERY SINGLE DAY"
X Link 2026-01-22T07:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Soldiers of 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers on board ship to South Africa. The 2nd Battalion sailed on the SS Norman on 2nd December [----] and arrived at the Cape about the 19th and was sent round to Durban. Along with the 2nd King's Royal Lancaster Regiment 1st South Lancashire Regiment and the 1st York and Lancaster Regiment they formed the 11th Brigade under Major General Woodgate and part of the Vth Division under Sir Charles Warren. On the night of the 23rd Spion Kop was taken by General Woodgate the Lancashire Fusiliers being part of Woodgate's Lancastrian Division and remaining on the summit"
X Link 2026-01-22T08:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BasilTheGreat America Innovates China Replicates The EU Regulates There is a reason sterotypes exist"
X Link 2026-01-22T13:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"22 Jan [----] : - Three members from [--] SWA Engineer Regiment (SWATF) while attached to [---] Battalion (SWATF) were killed in action when their Buffel troop carrier detonated a double boosted Yugoslavian TMA-3 cheese mine on the Epupa road in Southern Angola. - [---] SWAPO terrorists and [--] members of the SA security forces have died in clashes in January so far. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014324223192228110 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014324223192228110"
X Link 2026-01-22T13:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Simonstown Docks 1971📷 The SAS President Kruger (C 72) was the lead ship of the South African Navys President-class frigates one of three in the class alongside SAS President Steyn and SAS President Pretorius. She was built in the United Kingdom and commissioned in [----]. The President-class ships were designed for surface and anti-submarine warfare and served as the South African Navys flagships operating primarily from Simonstown. Equipped with guns anti-aircraft weapons and anti-submarine systems President Kruger played a central role in naval exercises patrols and training. The ship along"
X Link 2026-01-22T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The SAS Vrystaat (F157) previously HMS Wrangler (R48) was a key part of the South African Navy's expansion following the [----] Simon's Town Agreement. After arriving in South Africa the SAS Vrystaat served in the South African Navy for [--] years before being placed in reserve due to corrosion issues. It was ultimately sunk as a target by a South African submarine in [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014409586866790455 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014409586866790455"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Maritz rebellion 📷The Maritz rebellion also known as the Third Boer War or the Five Shilling rebellionwas an armed pro German insurrection in South Africa in [----] at the start of World War I. It was led by Boers who supported the reestablishment of the South African Republic in the Transvaal. Many members of the South African government were themselves Boers who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War which had ended twelve years earlier. The rebellion failed with at least [---] out of [-----] rebels killed in battle another [---] dying during a retreat into"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Kalshi_Culture"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"23rd-24th January [----] Comprehensive map of the Spioen Kop battlefield. One problem though is that the "Boer advance" marked in red is actually the British advance"
X Link 2026-01-23T05:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today in history: January [--] [----]. From the diary of Jan van Riebeeck. A light north west wind started blowing at dawn. It also rained intermittently throughout the day. Due to the bad weather the hunt could not leave the bay during the morning. Van Riebeeck writes that they are nice If not fear had the upcoming night behind. The lions literally walked around the fort in troops during the night roaring that the earth is drifting so much. According to him it almost sounded at times as if they wanted to overthrow the fort's main entrance and walls as they roared. The reason for the"
X Link 2026-01-23T05:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN EAST AFRICA [----] SAF [---]. Men of a South African armoured car unit cleaning their heavy machine guns at Hobok"
X Link 2026-01-23T05:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1975: WP197 Woman Police Officer Marsha Odette Brown a South African National serving in the British South Africa Police CID Narcotics Division was accidentally killed in Salisbury while on official duty when a truck with an intoxicated driver skipped a red traffic light and collided with her motorcycle killing her instantly. She was [--]. Marsha was accorded a full Military Funeral and was Cremated on [--] January [----] the day she"
X Link 2026-01-23T07:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"23rd January [----] The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat"
X Link 2026-01-23T12:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Battle of Sandfontein 📷The Battle of Sandfontein was fought between the Union Defence Force of South Africa and the German Empire on [--] September [----] at Sandfontein during the first stage of the South West Africa Campaign of World War I. It ended in a German victory. The outbreak of World War I led to the transfer of the British Imperial garrison from South Africa to France. Expecting the war to finish quickly many South Africans also departed for Europe aiming to take part in the combat. The Union Defence Force took the responsibility of independently protecting South Africa from a"
X Link 2026-01-24T06:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On this day [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1978: 70297262BT Private Cornelius Jacobus Borchardt from the Administrative Service Corps was killed in a military vehicle accident at Otjiwarongo. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1979: 93743334PY Rifleman Gerald Wayne Williams from [--] SAI accidentally drowned during a training exercise at the Base. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1981: 78240264BG Trooper Eugene Margo Nel from [--] Vehicle Reserve Park was killed when his Buffel Troop Carrier overturned at"
X Link 2026-01-24T06:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] Simon's Town is proclaimed a Municipality and George Ryall Budge is elected Mayor. [----] SAS Vrystaat visits Lisbon for two days whilst on her delivery voyage to South Africa. [----] Lt Cdr G.M. Rademeyer hands command of SAS Umkomaas M1499 to Cdr C.J. Moon. [----] SAS Emily Hobhouse (Cdr T.P. van Rensburg) Operation LOWE BLOWE The submarine fires the torpedoes that sinks the Target MV Harvest Pegasus (400 ton fishing trawler) at 10:31 the trawler sank in [--] minute [--] seconds [--] miles South West of Cape Point 35.12S 17.57E water depth 2000m this was"
X Link 2026-01-24T19:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BoerHindoe Sux I hear you for Fav guitars and just ones "play right" I also have my fav guitar - It is literally a @marshallamps branded Les Paul - the MGAP (google it)"
X Link 2026-01-25T19:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] SS Matheran a cargo liner was the first ship to be sunk by mines in South African waters after having struck two mines off Dassen Island on the West Coast. The mines were laid by the legendary German raider SMS Wolf which managed to claim three further ships in South African waters with its mines. Of the Matherans [--] crew one person was lost whilst the rest made it to the boats. (Photo). [----] Capt D. de Wet hands command of COMSMFLOT SAS Hugo Biermann (Submarine Flotilla) to Capt T.J. Honiball. After the Change of Command Capt D. de Wet presented"
X Link 2026-01-25T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men and women from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call. [--] Jan 1965: Pioneer John Alexander Grant from the Army Service Corps died of stomach cancer in [--] Military Hospital. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1972: [--------] Private Gary Allen Jacobson from [--] Supply & Transport Technical Services Corps accidentally drowned at Durban Beach during a sports parade. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1977: 76906510SP Rifleman Sabino Luciano from [--] Battalion was killed in a shooting incident in the Woodpecker Residential Camp area"
X Link 2026-01-26T05:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. [--] January: [----] The Ford class SDB SAS Oosterland (P3127) is launched from the Vosper Ltd. Yard in Portsmouth. [----] Naval Colours ceremony held for the last time on this morning as the SA Naval Marines prepare to hand the unofficially named Marine base SAS Makalani back to the SA Army. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015881847415382486 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015881847415382486"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOR THEM THE LAST POST HAS SOUNDED On [--] January [----] let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Final Roll Call.May they rest in eternal peace. [--] Jan 1981: 78012226PR Staff Sergeant Marius Jacobus Snyman from the South African Corps of Engineers attached to South West Africa Command died from leukemia in the Windhoek State Hospital. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1984: 80519424BG Corporal Johannes Adam De Beer from [--] SAI was Killed in Action when he stepped on a Soviet PMN-1 (Black Widow) Anti-Personnel Mine while on Patrol in Southern Angola. He was [--]. [--] Jan 1984:"
X Link 2026-01-27T06:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On this day [--] January [----] South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts requested Parliament to approve the deployment of Union Defence Force troops to fight in Europe during World War Two reversing his [----] assurance that the countrys Military Forces would be confined to operations in Africa. The request marked a significant political and military turning point for the Union of South Africa. Up to this point South African troops had been heavily engaged in the East African North African and Madagascar Campaigns where they played a key role in successfully pushing Axis forces"
X Link 2026-01-27T07:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SerialKillerSeason #staringatme #SK"
X Link 2016-06-18T18:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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