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SA Border War Archive
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A curated collection of media from the South African Border War and the Rhodesian Bush War
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South African's 7 SAI Infantry Battalion member with Floppa, sometime after 1973

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An armed Rhodesian citizen
A repurposed British-designed Saracen APC - Walvisbay, Namibia
101 Battalion stationed near Ondangwa (60km from the Angolan border) - 1985
G6 Howitzer, or G6 Rhino, making easy work of the sandy Namibian trails
The Ratel ZT3 crew that took out 4 Cuban/FAPLA Soviet-supplied T-55 tanks at the Lomba River, during Operation Modular on 10 September 1987.

Major Hannes Nortman, Johan Jacobs, Neels Claasen and gunner Darren Nelson.
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The then newly developed Ratel ZT3 had a ‘black box’ which recorded crew actions when the missile system was selected – and this stunning bit of history of South African servicemen in action was forever recorded.
40mm Bofors gun
61 Mech Charlie squadron in the Angolan bush during Operation Moduler - 1987
Ystervark (Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun) crew from 32 Battalion with the external 800-liter fuel drop tank of a Soviet MiG-23ML which they shot down in 1987
Rhodesian and South African forces at the forward airfield during Operation Uric in early September 1979
South African paratroopers from 1 Parachute Battalion (known locally as Parabats) serving in Rhodesia in the late 1970’s
An English Electric Canberra B(I).12

Rhodesian B.2 Canberras together with South African B(I).12 Canberras carried out attacks on insurgents in Mozambique (usually armed with Alpha cluster bombs), several raids on Zambia, and attacks upon multiple insurgent bases in Angola.