SGT. Dean Viljoen team leader of Koevoet team Zulu Delta with some of his team members having a look at enemy weapons they picked.

Koevoet Casspir on ops

Koevoet Casspir

Koevoet loading up

Readying for patrol at Ongandjera (ZN?)

Gunner position (left side front) in a Casspir… Standard issue was a FN-MAG mounted hand operated turret, the two handle bars that allowed you to rotate the turret can be easily seen here, to fire the MAG you basically had almost like a bicycle brake lever that allowed u to fire the weapon

Koevoet morning parade at Ongandjera, Namibia

Koevoet at Ongandjera, Namibia

Inside of a Koevoet Casspir

Ruggie Erasmus

Koevoet teams gathering to move out on patrol in the vast Ovambo hinterland.

Hunting from inside the Casspir

Ruggie Erasmus

A lucky hunt with the prey in front of the Wolf grill.

Hard times requires even harder men. South Africa sent Colonel Eugene de Kock and brigadier Hans Dreyer. Picture taken in area of operations, Ovamboland.

Koevoet on ops in South West Africa, 1980’s

Koevoet team in the bush

Pete Stassen with Frans’s beloved Ford F250 that Frans called Percy. A hoofman gave the bakkie to Frans after SWAPO PLAN attacked the hoofmans kraal, Frans and his team ZF went and smacked SWAPO around for attacking the kraal. Frans got a SAP number for the bakkie from the office for fuel and spare parts seeing he was using it for work but the…Read More

Koevoet teams

#Ongandjera #Koevoet SAP-COIN Base 1985 – Wynand Viljoen

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#Koevoet unit returns with dead terrs strapped to Casspirs

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Alouette III circling above a Casspir during a Koevoet operation

Koevoet members on a South African Wolf Turbo MRAP during the Border War, 1980’s

#Koevoet Zulu Tango fighting team out in the bush

#Koevoet in #Casspir with dual mounted Browning M1919’s

#Koevoet in contact – fring from #Casspir

#Koevoet unit in bush with a #Wolf vehicle

#Koevoet #Casspir after hitting a mine

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Slain #PLAN combatant is brought back to the #Koevoet base at #Tsandi. Uukwaluudhi 7 April 1989

#Koevoet gunner checks his Browning machine-guns on the #Wolf armoured personnel carrier before embarking on an early-morning patrol from #Oshakati. April 1989

Sunset return to base of #Koevoet in #Casspir and Wolf vehicles. 1988

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#Koevoet #Casspir

#Koevoet Camo

Arn Durand’s #Koevoet team in hostile territory, stopping to helping a young elephant calf back to it’s mother, Kavango, Southwest Africa circa. 1980s

Durand survived 127 enemy contacts with SWAPO during his 6 year career with Koevoet in Southwest Africa, including three separate landmine explosions. He has written two books about his com…Read More

#Koevoet personnel inspect a captured #SA-7 after a contact with SWAPO PLAN insurgents in southern Angola 1984.

Made in Russia. The 9K32 Strela-2 (Russian: C?????, “arrow”; NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail) is a man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude surface-to-air missile system with a high explosive warhead and passive infrared homing gui…Read More

#Koevoet patrol taken near #Rundu in the Kavango region of South West Africa/Namibia 30/08/1988.

A highly effective but highly controversial paramilitary Police force, Koevoet (meaning “crow bar”) abbreviated Operation K or SWAPOL- COIN (South West African Police Counter Insurgency) was a major paramilitary organisation under South Afr…Read More

#Koevoet in Ovamboland #Casspir

#Koevoet aka Crowbar, South Africa’s former CT and border police unit. Team Zulu Foxtrot achieved 100 kills for no loss in 1981 #Casspir

#Koevoet #Casspir

Ian Richardson (RIP) A #Koevoet legend in his own right. Being treated by his team, ZN ops medic.

A #Koevoet #Casspir falls victim to a SWAPO/PLAN land mine in SW Africa