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As a non-racial military veterans organisation, the SA Legion has long remembered the tragic loss of the SS Mendi [14] in which more than 600 Black South African soldiers died. [15] The Legion's UK Branch, made up of former South African servicemen and women, has also held a memorial service near the site of the sinking. [16]
The Department of Military Veterans is a sub-department of the Department of Defence that is responsible for providing support and services to veterans of the South African military, including veterans of the armed wings of anti-apartheid movements (Umkhonto we Sizwe and APLA).
The uMkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans' Association (MKMVA) was an auxiliary political organisation affiliated to South Africa's African National Congress (ANC). It was founded in 1996 to represent the interests of individuals who had participated in the armed struggle against apartheid as members of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the ANC's armed wing.
A military veteran is defined by the act as "a South African citizen who rendered military service to any of the military organisations, which were involved on all the sides of South Africa’s liberation war from 1960 to 1994, those who served in the Union Defence Force before 1961 and those who became members of the South African National Defence Force after 1994, and have completed their ...
American Veterans for Equal Rights; Army and Navy Union; Association of the United States Army; Aztec Club (organized by officers of the Mexican War) Blinded Veterans Association; Catholic War Veterans; Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association; DAV; Fleet Reserve Association; Forty and Eight; Grand Army of the Republic (dissolved 1956)
South African Army South African Navy South African Air Force South African Military Health Service: Headquarters: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa: Website: dod.mil.za: Leadership; Commander-in-chief: President Cyril Ramaphosa: Minister of Defence and Military Veterans: Angie Motshekga: Chief of the SANDF: General Rudzani Maphwanya: Personnel ...
The Memorable Order of Tin Hats (M.O.T.H.) was founded in 1927 by Charles Evenden as a brotherhood of South African former front-line soldiers. The ideal is to help comrades in need, either financially or physically; and to remember all servicemen who have answered the Sunset Call, both in war and peacetime.
This category includes organizations of or for veterans, based in South Africa or for veterans of that country's armed forces. Pages in category "South African veterans' organisations" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.