@@cboffard8350Rubbish! As an ex SAP member I call BS! Had you mentioned that at your interview, you wouldn't have been employed. And now you must remember that unlike the SADF, the SAP were much like the SS in that they were the political military wing of the Nats. And even so, that kind of speech was prohibited. Hou op kak praat.
South Africans did not fight as a united front in WW1. Many sympathized with the Germans who had materialy supported the boers in the Boer War. A large number of former boer troops marched north and joined the Germans in modern day Namibia - then German South West Africa. For this reason, some of the early fighting of WW1 took place in Africa between these two forces, with the British ultimately being victorious. It must be said that it was only a partial boer force that fought with the Germans, but they did exist and battles were fought with German SWA then being annexed into South Africa. The naval base at Windhoek remained South African territory until the advent of full democracy in South Africa in 1994.
I know several men in the military, that is from ages ago all the way back to the second Anglo Boer war. There are no winners in any war. Just survivors who are mentally messed up. Violent at home running their homes like a military operation. My dad turned out like that and both my ex-husbands were just as messed up. Apartheid I never fathomed. I could not reconcile the 2. Christianity and Apartheid. This until I was a student at Rand Afrikaans University.RSA treads on thin ice today. I learnt a lot about things in this video. We still strive for freedom in a still very divided land.❤
When this video was made, none of the top bras spokes could forseen of how the army will be and how it will look in the year 2024.... A true riller...... 😢😢😢
Don’t think the English wanted the Irish to fight for Franco in the Spanish civil war. Your proverbs were more about assigning blame than having any intrinsic wisdom.
One can't be proud of our military today. It became an insult to us that served a once proud strong military in South Africa. Old vet, 1986/87 and military camps there after...
The fight was against USSR communism terrorism infiltration into South African not against apartheid. Apartheid was more like cowboys wanting to be cowboys and Indians wanting to be indians things were in agreement and cosy between different races in South Africa thought by most likely born in South Africa that's how it was and the west wasn't instrumental in dismantling apartheid it was the USSR and the international Communism agencies. The USA called their separateness segregation.
