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    Natal Command was a Command of the South African Army. It was headquartered in Durban, South Africa. By the 1980s, it was responsible for the security...
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    19 deaths and 217 injuries. In the 1985 the Amanzimtoti bombing on the Natal South Coast, five civilians were killed and 40 were injured when uMkhonto...
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  • with the rank of colonel commanded 32 Battalion from 1978 – 1982 in the Bush War. He commanded 20 Brigade and Natal Command. Before being appointed as...
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    included: Regiment Congella Regiment Hillcrest Regiment Highveld Regiment North Natal Regiment Pretorius Regiment Skoonspruit Regiment Springs Regiment Vanderbijlpark...
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    regional commands. These included Cape Command (with its headquarters at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town), Orange Free State Command, Natal Command, Witwatersrand...
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  • Brigade (South Africa): HQ Pietermaritzburg 1st Royal Natal Carabineers: Pietermaritzburg 2nd Royal Natal Carabineers: Ladysmith The Umvoti Mounted Rifles:...
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    Commands Eastern Province Command (Port Elizabeth) Eastern Transvaal Command (Nelspruit) Natal Command (Durban) Northern Transvaal Command (Swartkop, Pretoria)...
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  • Chris Le Roux (category People from Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal)
    Commanding Natal Command from 18 February 1995. He was promoted to rank of major general on 1 January 1996 and remained GOC Natal Command until 31 March...
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  • outbreak of World War II, he served as Major General and commander of Natal Command and later as commander of 5th South African Brigade in North Africa...
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    The Ingobamakhosi Carbineers (formerly Natal Carbineers) is an infantry unit of the South African Army. The regiment traces its roots to 1854 but it was...
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    Commands Eastern Province Command (Port Elizabeth) Eastern Transvaal Command (Nelspruit) Natal Command (Durban) Northern Transvaal Command (Swartkop, Pretoria)...
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    Natal Command. The unit was then the Armoured Car Reconnaissance regiment of 8 SA Division and was then part of 84 SA Brigade based in Durban, Natal....
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    Mozambique. It also provides foreign election security when needed. Overall command is vested in an officer-designated Chief of the SANDF (CSANDF). Appointed...
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    (formerly the Natal Mounted Rifles) is a reserve armoured regiment of the South African Army. The original and accepted parent unit of the Natal Mounted Rifles...
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  • Johannesburg. 15 – Three bombs explode on the beach front outside the Natal Command HQ in Durban. 19 – A bomb causes R60,000 worth of damage to the KwaMashu...
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    The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed...
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    the Zulu 121 Battalion at Jozini, Natal Command, the Swazi 111 Battalion at Amsterdam, Northern Transvaal Command, the Venda 112 Battalion at Madimbo...
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  • for redress, side by side with submission to the fact of mortality. Natal Command chronicles the poet's despair as he watches his father die and his fatherland...
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    In April 2022, days of heavy rain across KwaZulu-Natal in southeastern South Africa led to deadly floods. Particularly hard-hit were areas in and around...
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    an urban counterinsurgency role when 2 Parachute Battalion deployed to Natal as part of Operation Eardrum to quell the violence. The Brigade took part...
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  • treasurers takes place in Gran, Norway. An explosion occurs outside the Natal Command HQ on Durban's beachfront. April 2 – SWAPO violates the border war cease-fire...
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  • from the artillery. He was a qualified SAAF Pilot. He served as OC Natal Command. Carl Leisegang took part in the Second World War as an Officer Commanding...
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    The Witwatersrand Command was a Command of the South African Army. It was one of the ten regional commands, which, with the Walvis Bay Military Area, made...
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    on 1 October 1972. On 1 January 1975, this unit was relocated to Durban, Natal, where it continued its activities as the airborne specialist unit of the...
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    The Natal Mounted Police (NMP) were the colonial police force of the Colony of Natal created in 1874 by Major John Dartnell, a farmer and retired officer...
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    Sep - Oct 40) 2nd Transvaal Scottish (From 4 Sep - 21 Nov 40) 2nd Royal Natal Carbineers (From 9 Sep - 3 Oct 40) 1st Regiment Botha (From Sep - Nov 40)...
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    Anglo-Zulu War (category 1879 in the Colony of Natal)
    Cetshwayo now found no defender in Natal save the bishop of Natal, John Colenso. Colenso advocated for native Africans in Natal and Zululand who had been unjustly...
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    Northern Transvaal Command was a command of the South African Army. It was active from 1959 to mid 2000 when it was disestablished.[citation needed] Formerly...
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    of Natal. The Contingent saw action during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. The Natal Mounted Police was created in 1873 to bolster the defenses of Natal. It...
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    Africa Command was a command of the South African Army. South West Africa Command was one of the South African Defence Force's regional commands, which...
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