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Koevoet ([ˈku****],
Afrikaans for crowbar, also
known as
Operation K or SWAPOL-COIN) was the
counterinsurgency branch of the
South West
African Police...
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carry out a
specific task or to deal with a
particular area of crime.
Koevoet,
translated into
English as 'crowbar', but
officially known as the Police...
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Koevoet in
South West Africa,
which the
Security Branch had
helped establish (). Many of the
white officers at C1 were
drawn from
Koevoet or the...
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Koevoet.
Koevoet was
initially an
autonomous unit
under the
nominal authority of the SAP
Security Branch, but
became part of
SWAPOL in 1985.
Koevoet worked...
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Pretoria was
forced to
demobilize some 1,600
members of
Koevoet (Afrikaans for crowbar). The
Koevoet issue had been one of the most
difficult UNTAG faced...
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African and
South West
African Special Forces units such as 32
Battalion and
Koevoet. One of
these was the
Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), a unit that carried...
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until 1980). Some
historical military units, such as
South West Africa's
Koevoet, were only
defined as
police for
political reasons. In Russia, the modern...
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Pienaar announced he was
suspending the
activities of the
Koevoet paramilitary force. The
Koevoet issue was one of the most
difficult UNTAG had faced. This...
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Africa and
joined the
security branch in Oshakati. In 1979, he co-founded
Koevoet, an SAP
counterinsurgency unit
tasked with
combating the People's Liberation...
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operating bases. It also deplo****
specialist counter-insurgency
units such as
Koevoet and 32 Battalion,
trained to
carry out
external reconnaissance and track...
