South African
Jim Reeves
Warrant Officer 2nd Class Jim Reeves, 5 Reconnaissance Commando. "Jim Reeves" (nom de guerre) was born in the Portuguese Colony of Cape Verde Islands on 13 August 1959. At age 18, he volunteered to join the South African Defence Force, shortly after the Portuguese...
Don Brown
Chris Garland
Chris Garland served with distinction with the Rhodesian Light Infantry before joining the SADF as an officer at 121 Zulu Bn (he speaks Zulu fluently). After that, he joined 101 Bn, the Romeo Mike Bn, of the SWATF. In the early 1990s he retired as a Lt Col.
“Tekkies” le Roux
André Goosen
Gert Jacobus “Kitcha” Kitching
Lucus Kilino
MaurÃcio António
Koevoet
Koevoet, Afrikaans for crowbar, also known as Operation K or SWAPOL-COIN) was the counterinsurgency branch of the South West African Police (SWAPOL). Its formations included white South African police officers, usually seconded from the South African Security Branch...
Duncan Rykaart
Retired after commanding the South African 5 Recce Regiment, then with Executive Outcomes in Angola, The first commander for EO in Sierra Leone, then founded his own company with some interesting contracts in Libya, then in Sudan against US backed troops
Eric McNelly
Johan Christiaan Gericke “Roes” Terblanche
James William “Jim” Lafferty
Peter Baxter
Peter Baxter was the youngest (18 years & 3 months old) Regular Officer Commissioned off a Regular Officer Cadets Course in the Rhodesian Army. This cadet course was extremely lucky to have the training in classical warfare done when Rhodesia had 2 troops of T55...
Infantry School
The Infantry School was established as a self accounting unit on 1 October 1963. On 1 January 1964 the new Infantry School opened its portals in Oudtshoorn. During January 1974 the training of National Service Infantry Leader Group started at this facility.