Inspector Alan Stock (crouching), Patrol Officer Alan Murray, Constable David and Section Officer Dave Lawson on PATU duties at Karanda in the northeast, 1973

Freefall paratroops deploy from a C-47 Dakota

A PATU stick, Centenary East, 1975.

RLI, National Parks and BSAP personnel display captured Russian weaponry, Zambezi valley, 1966.

Flechas on parade – Angola

Óscar Cardoso providing training on the handling of a 7.62mm FN MAG light machine gun to a Flecha Bushman

Awarding of decorations to the Flechas of the province of Uíge, wearing the famous camouflage beret instituted by PIDE inspector Alves Cardoso

Member of the Rhodesian Grey’s Scouts during the Rhodesian Bush War

Soviet specialist of the FAPLA anti-aircraft missile brigade “Kvadrat” Vladimir Volodin in Cuito Cuanavale. 1984

M. I. Konovalenko with his subordinates in the ANC MK “Kakulama” camp. From left to right: military topography specialist, mine and explosives specialist, group senior, air defense specialist (Strela-2M), artillery systems specialist (Grad-P, mortars), hand-to-hand combat instructor. Angola, 1987. Photo from M. Konovalenko’s archive

Arrival at the airport of Malanje for the celebration of the
75th anniversary of the ANC of ANC President Oliver Tambo
(right in the center). On the left is the provincial commissioner
of Malanje (governor of the province), member of the Politburo
MPLA-PT Colonel João Ernesto dos Santos “Liberdade”. In the group of accompanying persons is the…Read More

At the Kakulama camp. M. I. Konovalenko (left) and his subordinates: John Nkadimeng, member of the ANC National Executive Committee and Secretary General of SACTU, Godfrey Ngwenya, commander of the MK forces in Angola from 1983 to 1989 and future Commander-in-Chief (since 2005) of the SADF, Hagger McBerry, who since 1997, with the rank of…Read More