Koevoet (Green Boots)

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Description: Short video made from various Koevoet (South West African Police Counter Insurgency Unit) photos and video clips. Koevoet (Afrikaans for crowbar) was a police counter insurgency unit in South-West Africa (now Namibia) during the 1970s and 1980s. They were the most effective unit (in terms of personnel lost versus enemies killed) deployed against SWAPO fighters (seeking Namibian independence from Apartheid South Africa). South-West Africa (now Namibia) was a South African protectorate since the end of World War II, but since the 1960s there was a growing struggle for independence from former colonial powers across the entire African continent. In the Southern African region this usually took the form of armed guerrillas (or insurgents as they are called today) support with weapons and training from communist states such as the Soviet Union and China, both seeking to expand their influence in strategically important and mineral rich region. The apartheid government had watched with great concern as these low intensity wars ousted former colonial powers in neighbouring states replacing them with communist backed regimes, first it was Mozambique and Angola in 1975 followed by Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1980. Fearing a similar fate for South-West Africa (Namibia) and eventually South Africa, the South African government did not relinquish control over South-West Africa (Namibia) in contravention of a UN Security Council resolution 435 of 1978. Koevoet was a 3000-man force consisting of Ovambo tribesmen and about 300 white officers and white SADF non-commissioned officers (NCOs). It was organized into 40-man platoons equipped with mine resistant Casspir wheeled armored personnel carriers (including one informally armed with a 20mm cannon) and a supply truck. They rotated one week in the bush for one week at camp. It was the 1978 brainchild of then Colonel Hans Dreyer (later a Major-General in the SADF) to develop and exploit intelligence and was based on the Portuguese Flechas and the Rhodesian Selous Scouts. Koevoet was based in Oshakati and suffered 153 killed in action and several hundred more wounded. They killed more than 3,681 alleged SWAPO insurgents which resulted in a 1:25 or one to 25 kill ratio.
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mcleodnl ::: Favorites Baie dankie ;-) Ek is by die koevoet wees :-) Those hot days in the Casspir were no fun hahaha. But thank God for the armour! 07-08-16 16:04:35 __________________________________________________
monsider ::: Favorites The song "Green Boots" is just a watered down cover version of Rhodesian folksinger John Edmonds' classic "Black Boots" which he wrote about the Rhodesian Police Support Unit back in the 1970s. 07-07-17 02:29:19 __________________________________________________
TurkishZepher ::: Favorites Dankie an al die seuns en pa's en oupa's wat vi my baklei het. Die blanje blou sal altyd daar wees. 07-07-05 16:33:37 __________________________________________________
toane ::: Favorites Hi, I am sorry to say the agression shown by the all states/countries against SA, which is based on protection of the whites. I am a solid to APARTHIED. I believe in mixed coexistance for all. Interational relationships and marriage. This world cannot exist as singular/secular racist attitudes to each other. 07-06-10 14:01:40 __________________________________________________
HailColumbia ::: Favorites I can't believe that Eugene de Kock is spending the rest of his life in jail for killing a few ANC/SWAPO terrorist scum. We in America need someone like him to sort out the Muslim terrorists and Aztlan maniacs. 07-06-02 14:04:40 __________________________________________________
Blacksmith1964 ::: Favorites When Koevoet was the law in SA it was a safe place. Look at it now. It's a terrible place. Koevoet needs to come back. Now. 07-05-28 20:01:51 __________________________________________________
Cuteboer ::: Favorites Van Afkak tot Bosbefok. 07-05-25 17:48:20 __________________________________________________
fishclint ::: Favorites If anyone has any photos relating to the SADF or other SA Armed Forces, could they please post them on my SADF Photos website at groups.msn. com/SADFphotos 07-05-05 11:16:42 __________________________________________________
SrpskiMetak ::: Favorites great video! anyone know where i can download the Green Boots song? 07-03-28 00:47:47 __________________________________________________
luuko656 ::: Favorites ons is in die kak 07-03-15 06:41:03 __________________________________________________