South African Defence Force

You know, um, and plus like they wanted to fight the South Africans, you know.

And then fifty thousand Cubans showed up to fight the SADF.

You know, and it was, "Hey, we're...

You know, look at, look at, look at this, look at this racist oppressor state." You know, like, "We're, we're, uh, you know, the, the Warsaw Pact, you know, believes in, in liberating people, you know, in, in the Global South, um, or the colored world.

And that defense industrial complex had capabilities which allowed it to stand toe to toe with the best that the rest of the world had.

And Nelson Mandela was confronted with the reality that he had to wind down the South African Defense Force, shut down South Africa's nuclear weapons capability, and then find something to do with this industry.

And he was under huge pressure from the international community to shut down the industry.

Because this industry, everybody realized that the South African defense industry could become a major competitor to the Western defense industries.

The subsection is called Counter-Revolution in South Africa.

However, there were some within the National Party and the apartheid state institutions who held the view as originally advanced by the Ossava Brandvach that regardless of the changes that took place from 1994, the communists and their allies, including the ANC, remained a strategic enemy that had to be defeated and destroyed by These constituted themselves into an organized counter-revolutionary group, which included important elements from the Defense Intelligence Division of the South African Defense Force, determined to continue the fight against the communists and their allies, especially the ANC.

Here, we must explain that the apartheid intelligence agencies did a thorough and extensive job of infiltrating their agents throughout South African society.

Naturally, this included the ANC and the rest of the democratic movement, as well as segments of South African society, including the universities, the media businesses, civil society organizations, and so on.

So they've had many… These military

veterans from the SADF.

Yes, from the SADF.

So they would ask somebody to come and speak about the border war.

And they do it three or four times a year.

what we are going to

do.

We are against any human rights violation that happened in the past, if it was the SADF or if it was the landmine attack in the north.

Since then, Mapunguwe Hill has been dug, studied, dated, tested and retested.

By the end of the 20th century, Mapunguwe had come to share the farm with the South African Defence Force.

Today, this building houses South Africa's most valuable cultural artefacts, collected at Mapunguwe.

These artefacts, unknown to the public, have been stored here for more than 60 years.

An apartheid doctor shock has died in Canada at the age of 87, as confirmed by News 24, which ultimately means that disgraced Dr. Aubrey Levine will never face the South African Commission for his crimes.

Levine, as the history books show, ran state-sanctioned shock therapy experiments on gay SADF conscripts in the 1970s, then fled South Africa in 1995 before the TRC could call him to testify.

Levine presided over the ultra-secretive War 22 at One Military Hospital in Pretoria.

Survivors allege that he heavily drugged and shocked victims in a supposed attempt to try and cure homosexuality.

A second charge over their role in supplying and procuring and manufacturing the actual poison was dropped.

Researcher Oli Bobensie told the commission that it was Jan Wognar, who was a lawyer representing the former SADF generals, who had approached Mbeki asking for the arrests to be suspended.

Then there's Jackie Selebi, the former police commissioner, a former exile like Mbeki, steeped in paranoia, who had been told by Wognar's circle that the NPA was preparing to arrest 37 senior ANC members and government figures, including Mbeki and Selebi himself.

That fear helped to trigger two decades of instability inside the NPA, an instability that today connects directly to the Madlala Commission and which has exposed how deep the ties go between government intelligence services, police, politicians, and organized crime in South Africa.

Death.

The TRC investigated the matter of Besson's enterprise, which he claims was to develop a defensive chemical and biological capability for the South African Defense Force during apartheid.

makes it sound like he was supposed to develop chemical and biological defenses against invaders, attackers, enemies, other countries.

The TRC investigated the matter and held a hearing and in its final report totally rejected that notion.