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On Sunday, 1 May 1988: Smaller force deployed
Unita deployed three battalions east of the remaining Fapla toehold on the east bank at Tumpo to guard against a break-out attempt, and to protect the engineers laying a barrier minefield between the Dala and the Tumpo. When the time came for 82 SA Brigade to withdraw, a rather smaller force was deployed in support of the Unita battalions and to continue the mining.... |
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 South African intelligence picked up clear signs that Fapla was building up forces in the 6th Military Region at Cuito Cuanavale early in 1987. Daily shipments of equipment from the Soviet Union increased Fapla’s overall tank strength to over 500 and included T-62 and T-55 tanks, BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles. Mig-23 fighters, SU-22 ground attack aircraft, Mi-24, Mi-25, and Mi-35 combat helicopters, and Mi-8 and Mi-17 assault helicopters increased the Angolan Air Force fleet to about 80 fighters and 123 helicopters.
Fapla was concentrating the strongest and best-equipped force yet in the Cuito Cuanavale area, clearly demonstrating their intend to launch a major offensive against Unita’s base areas in south-eastern Angola during 1987. Unita requested support from the South Africans to assist in stopping this offensive, an agreement to this effect being reached on 1 May 1987.
 Intending a low-profile intervention with minimum forces, the SADF only initially committed to liaison teams and artillery support on the ground, while using reconnaissance teams and particularly 32 Battalion (a SADF unit formed out of Angolan ex-FNLA guerrillas with white South African officers) for monitoring, delaying and harassment purposes.
It was soon clear that a significantly bigger commitment of South African forces would be required to stop the offensive.
20 SA Brigade was formed and Operation Moduler kicked off in August 1987, with the purpose of stopping the Fapla offensive…
 The scene is set for some of the most intense and largest series of battles of South African forces since World War 2!
Join us as we re-fight this series of battles with 6mm (1/300th scale) miniatures. Watch this space as the first contact between conventional SADF and FAPLA forces occurs once again...
For further information on our re-fights or to join in future games, please do not hesitate to contact me:
Johan Schoeman
Cell: +27 +(0)72 409-6271
Email: johan@warinangola.com
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| Thabazimbi Commando
Thabazimbi Commando [Afr: Thabazimbi-Kommando] was established in 1964 at Thabazimbi in the then Northern-Transvaal, and was organised under the Group 29 Headquarters at Ellisras, in the Far North Command during the SADF-era. It formed part of the Commando System as a whole, which was a mostly voluntary, part-time force of the SA Army, often deployed in support of and under the authority of the South African Police. The Commando deployed a platoon to the SWA Border in 1978 and again in 1980, but was mainly used for rural area force protection as well as cordones and search operations, and assisting the local police in stock theft control. The unit was disbanded with the remainder of the commandos after President Mbeki announced the disbanding of the commando system in 2003. |
| 3 Field Ambulance Unit
Field Ambulance Units can date their origins back to 21 Oct 1899 when the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps was established in King William's Town in the present day Eastern Cape, then known as the Cape Colony. 3 Field Ambulance Unit (3 FAU) [Afr: 3 Veldambulans-eenheid] was re-formed as a Citizen Force unit in Cape Town to support 71 Mot Bde, one of the newly organized SA Army formations, in 1974. On 25 Jan 1976, 3 Field Ambulance was installed in the hospital at Pereira de Eça where it provided an important service due to its central location so much closer to SWA and was particularly suited to take over the work after 1 Forward Field Hospital was closed down. Invaluable help could also be provided to a great number of refugees. The unit was moved to Grootfontein on 15 Feb 1976. 3 FAU was eventually combined with 12 FAU and 20 FAU to form 3 Medical Battalion Group on the Bn Grp's establishment on 5 Nov 1981. |
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| South African Personnel Services Corps - PSC
Humani Servi Homini - Serve Mankind in a Humane Way |
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 | | I am now the PROUD owner of "War in Angola - The Newsletters Vol 1" (Original Digital Print # 4). Thanks Johan, it is more than I suspected and I will treasure this book for years to come. For those of you who were thinking of ordering it, it is worth every cent. Although I have read the newsletters as they were published, I am re-reading them, but this time I do not have to wait a week to finish the story. Thanks again Johan and I can not wait for Volume 2 to come out, please put my name on the... |
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