32 Battalion (sometimes nicknamed Buffalo Battalion, Three-two battalion or Portuguese: Os Terríveis for The Terrible Ones) was an elite light infantry battalion of the South African Army founded in 1975, composed of black and white commissioned and enlisted personnel. It was disbanded on 26 March 1993.

2018年11月14日 · Her father was among a group of Angolan soldiers who fought for apartheid South Africa’s notorious 32 Battalion. They were settled here with their families in 1989 at the end of the Border War, when Namibia gained independence and …

2018年11月14日 · At the end of the Border War, Angolan members of 32 Battalion were moved to Pomfret. As the midday sun beats down on the desert town of Pomfret in the North West province, 29-year-old...

2019年5月16日 · Having been deployed to the East Rand as a peacekeeping force, 32 Battalion committed a string of human-rights abuses, including rape and extrajudicial killings. The disgraced unit was disbanded in 1993 after a commission of inquiry exposed the extent of the atrocities.

2018年11月19日 · In the crumbling town of Pomfret in North West Province, 85-year-old Eli Viwango, an Angolan veteran of apartheid South Africa’s notorious 32 Battalion, pulls himself up off a broken plastic chair in his immaculately tidy front …

2018年11月14日 · Her father was among a group of Angolan soldiers who fought for apartheid South Africa’s notorious 32 Battalion. They were settled here with their families in 1989 at the end of the Border War,...

2019年1月25日 · Welcome to Pomfret, home to the retired soldiers of apartheid South Africa’s once-feared 32 Battalion, an elite fighting unit of Angolan mercenaries and white South African soldiers who fought the apartheid regime’s Border War.

Pomfret’s roads still have names like General Liebenberg Avenue and Askari Street, reflecting its origins as a South African Defence Force (SADF) base. In 1989 it was given over to the veterans...

32 Battalion (32 Bn, sometimes nicknamed Buffalo Battalion or Os Terriveis - Portuguese for The Terrible Ones) [Afr: 32 Bataljon (32 Bn)] was a special infantry battalion of the SA Army, composed of black and white officers and NCO's.

Drawing on newly declassified documents from the South African Department of Defence Documentation Centre, this dissertation traces the history of 32 Battalion, starting with their emergence from the Cold War conflicts in southern Africa, through their deployment by the SADF, to their eventual relocation and disbanding in South Africa.