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South African special forces carried out a number of combat operations during the Rhodesian Bush War, the South African Border War, and the Mozambican Civil War. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The Special Forces Brigade's current structure [ 11 ] is the result of extensive restructuring related to the integration of the South African National Defence Force ...
The South African Defence Force (SADF) (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. Shortly before the state reconstituted itself as a republic in 1961, the former Union Defence Force was officially succeeded by the SADF, which was established by the Defence Act (No. 44) of 1957.
As of 2016, the number of commando brigades have been expanded to 16 to deal with the new threats, including two in the gendarmerie force brigade. [21] These include: 1st Airborne Commando Brigade; 2nd Commando Brigade; 3rd Commando Brigade; 4th Commando Brigade; 5th Mountain and Commando Brigade; 7th Commando Brigade; 9th Commando Brigade ...
Field Artillery Branch (Citizen Force) (1913–34) – incorporated into SAA SA Field Artillery (1915–19) SA Heavy Artillery (1915–19) SA Field Artillery (1923–34) - incorporated into SA Artillery
8 South African Division was established as an Armoured Formation on August 1, 1974, consisting of 81 Armoured Brigade, 82 Mechanised Brigade and 84 Motorised Brigade. It was, in many respects, a mirror of 7th South African Infantry Division .
SADF 7th Division original structure c. 1974 SADF original 7 Division patch badge 1970's It appears from Colonel Lionel Crook's book on 71 Brigade [ 5 ] that two of 7 Division's three brigades were redesignations of 17th and 18th Brigades. 71 Motorised Brigade was the former 17 Brigade, 72 Brigade was the former 18 Brigade, and 73 Brigade was a ...
62 Mechanised Infantry Battalion Group was a unit of the South African Army (SADF); although it was classed as mechanized infantry, it was a combined arms force consisting of a Mechanised Infantry Battalion forming the core of the group, Main Battle Tank Squadron, Armoured Car Squadron, Air-defence Battery, Engineer Squadron, Artillery Battery, specialists i.e. EW, MAOT, etc. and all the ...
SADF era Natal Command Commando structure. For Territorial forces a structure of "groups" was established during the 1980s. Each of these regional groups fell under the authority of a Command and exercised operational control over a number of units, mostly Commandos. Natal Command had three Groups (originally four) under command.