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Back in the day, the SADF were used to tackle unrest in African townships and bantustans
On 4 Sep 1981:
- Operation Protea ended with 438 SWAPO/FAPLA killed, including the four Russians, and 46 captured. The SADF lost 14 men and 61 wounded.
In the 80s, a group of former Rhodesian Army soldiers joined the SADF - many of them recruited by Col. Jan Breytenbach to serve under 44 Parachute Regiment as Pathfinders. Among them were British and American troops too. They were at that time humorously referred to as 'The Philistines' because they were foreigners.
