South African Army
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Oct 26, 2026
Dan CorderHOST
So I was well read on that particular quiz item.
Dan CorderHOST
I figured my parents had kept it because my grandfather was a World War II veteran from the South African army.
Dan CorderHOST
So this was a big turning point that meant we didn't end up on the Nazi side, which my grandparents would not have been okay with.
Dan CorderHOST
Anyway, I thought you might find it interesting.
Damien DossinGUEST
feel? You know, obviously, I had some friends who went straight out of high school before they went to study and they did two years.
Damien DossinGUEST
And so, you'd see them when they'd get a pass and, you know, they talk to you about how tough it was in a basic training in the South African army.
Damien DossinGUEST
It was no joke.
Damien DossinGUEST
You know, months and months of being on your barracks and up at all hours of the day and night.
Stephanie MillerHOST
He
Chris LavoieHOST
escaped South Africa to avoid conscription in the South African army.
Chris LavoieHOST
Yeah.
Chris LavoieHOST
That's why he came here.
Stephanie MillerHOST
No, Elon, the traitors are the ones who want to hand Ukraine to Putin.
Chris LavoieHOST
He escaped South Africa to avoid conscription in the South African army.
Chris LavoieHOST
Yeah.
Chris LavoieHOST
That's why he came here.
speaker_9GUEST
So yes, I'm very close to my father.
speaker_22GUEST
All of these boots got a history behind them because they came from SA Army supply stores and guys like us that donated them.
speaker_22GUEST
But all of them were in the army, all these boots.
speaker_22GUEST
If the boots could speak, you would have stories you wouldn't believe.
speaker_8UNKNOWN
have
Darren SimpsonHOST
Sumire is a soldier of the South African Army.
speaker_8UNKNOWN
Yes.
Darren SimpsonHOST
How cool is this?
Peter HainGUEST
But the world at the moment's a very troubled place.
Peter HainGUEST
I always remember my dad when I was young in Pretoria saying to me, you know, the, the, the, the Nazis have been defeated in the Second World War, and he fought for the South African army in Italy during the Second World War and was wounded.
Peter HainGUEST
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has come in through the United Nations.
Peter HainGUEST
Countries in Africa are getting independence.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
So I've come to realize probably says a lot about how I see the world because I don't want to do things that I find morally untenable.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
And this was in this case was when The South African army was deployed against South Africans.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
It was starting to be used in the sort of low-key civil war in South Africa.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
And the army was getting deployed to townships to essentially do riot control.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
So I've come to realize probably says a lot about how I see the world, because I don't, uh, want to do things that I find morally untenable.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
[chuckles] Um, and this was, in this case, was when the, the South African army was, was deployed against South Africans.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
You know, was, was starting to be used in the sort of low-key civil war in South Africa, and the army was getting deployed to townships to, essentially do riot control.
Theo ErasmusGUEST
It was very contentious.
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