@@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.
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...... 😢😢😢
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...
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.
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.❤
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.
Jan Hougart holding the landmine up @ 27min 21 Sec during is 32 days. What a blast from the past!
Today the army is a absolute circus 🎪
chew some hard bones those days veteran 1969 for 15 jrs in pf.
As if you were the only one....Kak praat nie !!!!
Never pledged to upheld apartheid, we served the government of the day and it was a seamless transition from the National Party to the ANC gov.
We upheld apartheid, don't kid yourself. It was obvious then and now.
@@cboffard8350 yep .. drank the koolaid the government of the day was serving.
you did dont lie to yourself,
100%
@@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.
We had a great country 😢
Long gone now.. now we live in homes that look like prisons. And it WILL get worse
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...... 😢😢😢
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...
If two Irish men are fighting, you can be sure a English man visited one of the two the previous day. - Irish proverb
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.
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.❤
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.
"Some call it communism I call it Judaism" - Stephan Wise
Half told truths
Not very accurate historically.
Ag my ou Suid Afrika, jou mooie plek. Afrika is a Tuff country papas
We had such a great country!
Terrible ones!