During the morning of Monday, October 4, 1971, a vehicle from the 3rd Company of the 14th Hunters Battalion (3rd/BCac14) of the Military Region of Mozambique (RMM), while carrying out a routine patrol on the route between the Marrupa barracks and the Metarica Island...
Post Timelines
3 Dec 1987
Cuban soldier Osmani Bermúdez Argüelles is KIA in mine explosion (6 of his colleagues died along with him). He was part of a reinforcement column that was heading to Cuito Cuanavale
28 Apr 1976
Colonel Breytenbach issued the first formal order for deployment – Operational Order No. 1, aimed at preventing FAPLA from occupying Mpupa and the area south to Calai - Operation Tombotie
3 Apr 1976 Mavinga
32Bn Sergeants Roxo, Sierro and Ribeiro were despatched on 3 April to bring these leaderless FNLA groups under control and patrol the terrain as far north as Mavinga. Operation Budgie
17 Feb 1976 Serpa Pinto
FAPLA captured Serpa Pinto and continued to advance southwards. Combat Group Piper, which was still holding Caiundo, was ordered to pull back to South West Africa immediately, but their route would take them through Savate. During the withdrawal, the Bravo Group...
26 May 1981 – Road Xangongo / Lubango
A combined Operation Domino involving 32 Battalion, 44 Parachute Brigade and Special Forces was conducted to set up vehicle ambushes on the road between Xangongo and Lubango and destroy stormwater drains on the road from Xangongo to Ongiva.
17 Feb 1980 Chiede
A company each from 1 SA Infantry and 8 SA Infantry were deployed as stopper groups, three kilometres apart, east of the Santa Clara–Namacunde road. Two platoons from 32 Battalion were assigned to patrol the area north of Chiede, with another two operating further...
6 Jan 1980 Omupande
32Bn Bravo Company’s second platoon made contact with 30 SWAPO at a waterhole two kilometres east of Omupande, a known FAPLA stronghold. Later that day, a five-minute mortar bombardment was launched against the same platoon from the direction of Omupande, followed an...
5 Jan 1980 Ongiva
A SWAPO base 13 km west of Ongiva was attacked from the air and on the ground. SAAF Puma helicopters flying in advance stopper groups withdraw from the area due to heavy anti-aircraft fire, while radio problems forced two gunships called in for support to turn back to...
4 Jan 1980 Ongiva
32 Battalion’s Alpha, Bravo and Charlie companies joined forces with a company from 1 Parachute Battalion to seek and destroy SWAPO’s Northern Front headquarters, believed to lie west of Ongiva. Operation Zulu
20 Nov 1983 Menongue
Daniyal Gukov - Soviet Battalion Advisor to FAPLA flew to Menongue for further travel to Cuito Cuanavale, to the location of the FAPLA 16th Infantry Brigade.
4 Feb 1980 Chiede
32Bn Echo and Foxtrot companies, as well as two reconnaissance teams with the call signs WR and ZG, enter Angola with Echo deploying over a ten-kilometre area east of Chiede, Foxtrot covering a similar sized area to the south, and the two recce teams airlifted by...
13 Apr 1979 Okatope
Corporal G.J. "Rhian" Rix a Section Leader, Section 1, Platoon 3 of the 11th Kimberley Commando was killed in action on 13 April 1979 near Okatope, south of Ondangwa
28 Jan 1984 Cassinga
32Bn Charlie Company tracked and made contact with a group of 40 SWAPO eight kilometres east of Cassinga. The firefight left two members of the platoon wounded. Operation Opsaal
23 Jan 1984 Cassinga
32Bn Charlie Company engaged a group of SWAPO building a bunker 15 km east of Cassinga. In the absence of air support against SWAPO’s mortars and recoilless guns, the platoon was forced to break contact and withdraw fairly quickly, one member suffering serious wounds....
27 Jan 1984 Cuvelai
On 27 January, while probing towards Cuvelai to determine if the enemy had reoccupied the town, 53Bn Alpha Company came upon a GAZ truck loaded with 23mm ammunition, probably abandoned by the task force responsible for clearing the town during Operation Askari. The...