Items related to The covert war: Koevoet operations Namibia 1979 - 1989
Synopsis
This is the detailed history of the elite policing unit operated by the South African forces on its Namibian border during the 1980s. The unit was handled by the top secret Project Koevoet ('crowbar') to provide operational intelligence by capturing and interrogating insurgents, but its commander came to realise that Namibia was different from the Rhodesian situation. So, the team reverted to basic police work, building informer networks, recruiting black police officers and skilled trackers. In its ten-year existence Koevoet fought in 1,615 encounters and took 3,225 prisoners. But after heroically repelling SWAPO's invasion of Namibia in April 1989, the unit was ignominiously disbanded and its black members disgracefully abandoned.
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About the Author
Peter Stiff is a London-born, South Africa-based author of numerous books on military and political affairs relating to contemporary Southern Africa.
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- PublisherGalago Publishing Pty Ltd
- ISBN 10 1919854509
- ISBN 13 9781919854502
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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