Durban North Commando Explained

Unit Name:Durban North Commando
Type:Infantry
Role:Light infantry
Size:One battalion
Command Structure:South African Infantry Corps
Army Territorial Reserve
Garrison:Durban North

Durban North Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South African Territorial Reserve.

History

Operations

With the SADF

During the State of Emergency in the 1980s, this commando was tasked with protecting strategic facilities. The unit was primarily tasked in quelling township riots.[1] [2]

The unit resorted under the command of the SADF's Group 10.

First Indian officer in the Commandos

Vikram Singh of Tongaat became the first Indian officer in the commandos in 1984.[3]

With the SANDF

Amalgamation and Disbandment

This unit was amalgamated with the Durban South Commando in 1994.

The amalgamated unit along with all other Commando units was disbanded after a decision by South African President Thabo Mbeki to disband all Commando Units.[4] [5] The Commando system was phased out between 2003 and 2008 "because of the role it played in the apartheid era", according to the Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula.[6]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: States of Emergency in South Africa: The 1960s and 1980s | South African History Online . 7 January 2019 . 24 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180724123526/https://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/state-emergency-south-africa-1960-and-1980s . dead .
  2. Web site: War and Resistance . 7 January 2019 . 7 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190107180955/https://www.csvr.org.za/publications/1566-war-and-resistance . dead .
  3. http://scnc.ukzn.ac.za/doc/Periodicals/Fiat_Lux/Fiat_Lux_1980_1990s/Fiat_Lux_1988_1989_v23/Fiat_Lux_1989_v23_5_Jan/Pages_from_Fiat_Lux_1989_v23_5_Jan-3.pdf
  4. Web site: Rationalisation in the SANDF: The Next Challenge . 5 March 2015 . 1997 . Col L B van Stade, Senior Staff Officer Rationalisation, SANDF . Institute for Security Studies . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160316204323/https://issafrica.org/pubs/asr/6no2/vanstade.html . 16 March 2016 .
  5. Web site: About the Commando system . 2008-01-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071206150052/http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/rural_safety/eng/pages/no2e.htm . 2007-12-06 .
  6. Web site: de Lange. Deon. South Africa: Commandos Were 'Hostile to New SA'. Cape Argus. 5 March 2015. subscription .

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