Caprivi - Finger into Africa

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Al J Venter is a true reporter of the highest quality. Always a great job on these doco's. Still going strong today God bless him.

[@familycarstens2379]

My home from 1977 to 1979. A beautiful part of Africa and stunning people. I miss my Barakwenha tribe folks. Thank you for sharing your bit of paradise with me.

[@Therongunner]

@06:45, got treated in that very for my measles between 87 and 88. I'm told my maternal aunties and uncles took me there on a regular basis from the near by area of Nsundwa. Without it I would have certainly died at tender of 2 or 3 years old.

[@amandalandman7785]

Geraldine Taute is my sussie. Sy is oorlede in 2014. Sy was beeldskoon, kreatief en te goed vir die wereld. Mis haar elke dag. 7 Des 1959 - 20 Mei 2014. Ek is ontsettend dankbaar vir die kosbare video!!!

[@78XT500]

Rowena Pienaar who worked with Geraldine and I were married in 2018. Rowena still talks about Geraldine

[@iamagoblin]

served there in 1986. SA Marines based in Wenela then Impalila island. amazing experience!

[@Cruise-d7o]

Used to do mine sweeping on that long dirt road from Katima to Wenela base👍and some river patrol with my rubber duck 👍Miss the tiger fishing 👍and the elephants (Mpacha sapper 85/86)

[@iamagoblin]

@@Cruise-d7o I remember doing early morning sentry cover for the mine sweepers! 😊

[@Cruise-d7o]

@@iamagoblin Good memories that will never be forgotten 👍I still remember the warm water Donkey inside Wenela base😂and that German commander (can't remember his name)... Hippo Island was the "once a month picnic spot"for cold beer and braai👌 Mopani restaurant @Katima was the place to go for a great man-size steak 👍 too many memories to mention....Impalila island-remember the old Basecamp there as well"Campers Paradise"👍And Rasta the rastafarian that stayed next to the Savuti channel near Chobe 🌿

[@nessyndeshi]

Futzek you mzungus

[@Cruise-d7o]

Atleast can we talk about good old memories,not replying to loozers without hope for their futures,or their kids futures 😜😂😂😂so zip'it😉乁║ ˙ 益 ˙ ║ㄏ乁[ᓀ˵▾˵ᓂ]ㄏ┐(´(エ)｀)┌╮(＾▽＾)╭😂

[@neilart0118]

My home from 1987 till 1997..brilliant footage and memories

[@StumpyComedyAct]

Wasn't supposed to be your home you guys went and took it for no reason.

[@AB-xf7li]

@@StumpyComedyAct Wrong... You have a very simple view of humanity and human nature Might makes right

[@StumpyComedyAct]

@@AB-xf7li exactly! you took the might of your weapons went to somebody else's country and made it your own and we all supposed to think you're right?

[@AB-xf7li]

@@StumpyComedyAct Yes, we are right. You clearly don't study history or have any understanding of human nature. Do you think humans just stay where they are?

[@silvertongue3003]

A B are you honestly trying to explain logic to an idiot, but hey it seems like it can still become interesting here so I'm just gonna sit back and contemplate how ignorant people can be.. Please don't rip his intellect apart to quick, he seems to be even funnier when he believe he's manipulating you and the conversation.. 🤣

[@NickSchoonwinkel]

Ons was daar in 1976. Regiment de Wet en was by Kwando gestasioneerd. Ons het die streek boks-kampioenskappe gewen by Katima Mulilo(beteken maak dood die vuur). Toe ons daar aan geland het as burgermag. Het ons vir so +- 14dae heropleiding gedoen en die opleidings-span was onder Sjoe-Sjoe - Lt. Hudson. Het het ons goed gejaag.

[@joerodriguez3988]

served there in 1978....3SAI mortars @ Impalila island.....squeaky beach was my favorite on the Chobe river side....had to throw grenades in the water first to clear away the hippos and crocodiles

[@Oumaletta]

My eerste bostrip was op Katima vanaf 18 Maart 1968 (Brush)

[@driesdeklerk6880]

1st 3 month border duty 1976 from 1 sai. Volunteerd for 24 month duty, starting march 77 as tso 3 (tiffies) we awaited the dreadfull attack - aug 78 on katima Back to states 3 months earlier - thank you God! Stressfull time with my wife and 1 year son. Yet we had great times as well. Also experienced 10 year flood - water for africa!

[@JamesWilliams-hy5jd]

Was in KATIMA 1968 SAP served under comand of Col Van Eden. He died on the kapline. Good and sad Times

[@Shazibenga]

Good video and narration

[@cynthiamwampole2509]

History captured.

[@robinskena2973]

Lol that lil house in schuckmansburg is still around...my uncle recently posted a pic of it on Facebook

[@TjakaErasmus]

I was in Caprivi in 1982 with 201 Battalion (Bushmen), but I killed SWAPO in Angola north from Ongiva.

[@Jamal_dont_mess]

I know probably you were doing your job but if I may ask how do you feel now when you killed you own black brothers who were forced into fighting because illegal occupation of their country?

[@TjakaErasmus]

​@@Jamal_dont_mess 1) They were Communists and it felt good to kill them. Even today I'll kill a Communist without remorse. The colour of their skin is irellevant. 2) South West Africa, a German colony, was handed to South Africa as protectorate by the United Nations after the Second World War and was not occupied illegally; 3) War against Communism is justified anywhere, anytime.

[@ZemanTheMighty]

@@TjakaErasmus I'd buy you a beer if we ever met. Cheers from joburg

[@ritilishndimulunde4133]

@@TjakaErasmus you are an animal

[@TjakaErasmus]

@ It works for the corrupt political elite ...

[@pierrehorak6400]

My tuiste Januarie 1980 to Desember 1982. Bring terug baie heimwee

[@cecilmichaelpaulsen1489]

I served with 3SAI at Kwando base in 74 for 3months Sept to end Nov) before we were transferred to Rundu.

[@tecumsehcristero]

1980s south Africa was so badass

[@matthew1882]

Politics aside, the South African army from 1975-1994 was one of the top fighting forces in the world. World class equipment, innovative tactics and a military doctrine quite unlike any other made them feared.

[@mfecanegukurahundi24]

@@matthew1882 Yes indeed; the South African army was admired and respected by every country in the world.

[@pincerpiet]

Daar in die begin, waar hulle uit die Zambesi klim (Eilande het brulsand gehad), ek sweer dit was die plek waar ek snags nog met my Eland pantserkar waggestaan het. Katima basis self - ek onthou dit anders - is daar fotos erens (sal vir jou 'n bier koop!)? Ek onthou 'n pad verby dit, die basis was omhein, by die ingang as mens inkom links 'n waghuis waar ons tydens wagstaan geslaap het, 'n paradegrond regs (links ook). As mens inkom kyk mens vas in die menasie. Agter die menasie was die troepekwartiere waar die rooi oog geval het (het op die plek geslaap waar dit geval het - maar in 1980). Regs van die regterkantse paradegrond was ons tente. Agter die waghuisie was 'n spreiligtoring en die onderdakke waar die pansterkarre gestaan het. En die plek was droog, gin so groen soos op die film nie. Net die bos was groenerig. Patrollie ry - was 'n mengsel van Elande en Bedfords. Dekselse helmet headset van die Elande het my ore altyd rooi gedruk en die klank oor die kommunikasie radio het baie te wense gelaat, mens moes jou ore soms baie spits om ordentlik te hoor. Het nog die Kaprivi halfmaraton gehardloop, T-hemd gewen, was tweede of derde.

[@kurtdekker]

For English readers, it's worth translating the above. Fascinating!

[@GoodVideos4]

Many people in civilian life haven't even heard of police soldiers. To them, the police would just be what one sees in civilian life, like in police uniforms and driving police cars. I first heard about them when I was a child from my mother, as my grandpa was a policeman. I would imagine them in combat wearing civilian police uniforms. I saw police soldiers, Koevoet, when I was on the border, Owamboland, in 1985/6.

[@johngoosen1962]

Different story if you grew up in a police household during the 80's 😉

[@christiaanhollander7933]

The Name Is Kufut not koevoet witch means crowbar kufut was not just police and kufut battalion but also you had gatherer side partys like 201 example who fought a lot with our national pride of suidwestafrika kufut..

[@GoodVideos4]

Well, it is ALWAYS called koevoet. And, it is 'which' not 'witch'.

[@christiaanhollander7933]

@@GoodVideos4 you pronounce it as kufut not koevoet i bet a son of a former member should know second off i am from suidwest we call em kufut our national pride..

[@GoodVideos4]

Whatever! Kufut and Koevoet still sounds like it is pronounced the same. I also know about it meaning crowbar. They aren't around anymore, anyway. Maybe Koevoet is Afrikaans, and Kufut is English.

[@PierreWheeler]

Uit al die youtube kanale is die een beslis my gunsteling. Dankie vir die awesome kyk stof!

[@stylz1]

Fascinating.

[@simoncorbett3003]

Today in this area Rhino and elephant have been brutally slaughtered for ivory. The blacks supply the Chinese. There is no rule here now and the problems that ensue.

[@Therongunner]

Simon, you're talking out of arsehole.

[@mzee5533]

That’s the fact Simon and most of the poachers are from Namibia Angola and Zambia they are always killed by Botswana Soldiers

[@bravolima7394]

@@Therongunner And you're obviously using yours in an unhealthy way. Find a chick dude. Lose weight, take up a hobby, have a surgical procedure....whatever. Leave men alone man !!

[@Alex-yk1cn]

Just came across this video, I served with 701BN 1982-83. When was this video shot? I recognise a few faces there even though the video isn’t clear.

[@jbk138]

This was shot in 1981

[@Alex-yk1cn]

@@jbk138 cheers, thought it was 81 or 82 (701 was still in tents). Were you there?

[@jbk138]

​@@Alex-yk1cn Yes - from Aug 80 to Dec 81, Intelligence photographer for 70, stationed in Katima but was lucky to have travelled all over & visited most of the bases - we accompanies the Al Venter during the making of this documentary - I appear briefly in the background.

[@WillemDeBeer-dc9ut]

Baie waar het my eerste krok stert geeet wat uit die kunne uit Kom as jy met die Pont oorgaan na katima ons het die bungers daar gebou met sand sake een ou het n gun daar op gesit wat uit hout uit gesny was ex 7sai 19 75 tot 19 87 was deel van ops savannah mooi dag ve julle keep the boing going

[@gladyslustgirdle3004]

Critall Windows! They spread everywhere.

[@AliHassan-hb1bn]

You will never see foreigners like Cubans. All are conquerors but Cuba

[@brianbayer4868]

Cubans are liberators,long live Castro and all those fallen brave men who died for my liberation,you are not forgotten.

[@PeterNgola]

All are conquerors Especially Cuba You are correct Ali

[@augustomundombe829]

VIVA El Comandante Comrade Fidel Castro! HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE EL COMANDANTE! PATRIA OU MOERTE; VENCEREMOS! Long live Cuba Long live Angolan-MPLA-FAPLA the winners against the DEVILS Racists South AfriKKKa Apartheid~English~Boers and USA of KLU~KLUX~KLAN~CIA~POO~POO.

[@Ghoulza]

@@brianbayer4868 Cuba came in to take over angola.... they left thanks to SA, or angola namibia and other would be nothing more than pawns of Russia... pity you morons have no clue who you really should thank

[@makara80]

The then Soviet Union _commanded_ Castro to deploy Cuban military forces as their proxy to secure/establish Soviet interests in Angola and the region generally. Amazing how many foam-flecked Marxists believe that that sort of policy is A) defensible and B) not _imperialism_ by another name... ;)

[@katoyimaenriqoup7366]

Where is this Alex Kudumo?

[@theresasmuts9896]

Snakes in the tunnels,lol.

[@andrewngwenya8150]

Politics turning brother against brothers

[@danroley7850]

are you a Gay Commie? FU.

[@bwenky]

Kovoet vs swapo

[@louvendran7273]

@Richard Kambinda That it is. We who lived through it know and breathed it. No amount of lies or trolling can ever hide the truth.

[@Jamal_dont_mess]

@@danroley7850 So you want him to agree with you way of thinking?stop calling people communist simply because they differ with your way of thinking. We did not fought for communism but to be able lead ourselves as blacks together with white who agree with us,not those who see blacks as inferior.

[@bravolima7394]

@@Jamal_dont_mess Yep. The ANC proved that under the ZUMA era...right ?? Self enrichment for those in leadership is a way of setting an example ?? What do you want us to agree with ? A return to the stone age while you envy and worship the corrupt in Government, even when you're 1 step away from starvation ?? But then....maybe you're one of those who is a politically connected cadre in total benefit from the corrupt, lying Guavement ! Don't stress dude.... it won't last forever. The greed is so extensive and mindless that eventually SA is going to be under its creditors control !! You'll despise the ANC when that day arrives :)

[@thandekaletlalo8192]

Yes of course South Africa was a dirty finger in every African food plate.

[@tonywilliams49]

According to this documentary SA won had the better fighters and were on the right side of history. What BS.

[@quovadis7119]

The documentary was made while the conflict was still happening, you dumb twat. Nowhere did anybody claim they won. I was there for 3 months myself You pos.

[@makara80]

...you didn’t actually bother to watch this insightful documentary did you Tony. Instead you simply read the video’s title and _presumed_ ... ;)

[@matthew1882]

@@makara80 it was made in 1981, the conflict wouldn't end for another 8 years. How could they know the outcome when they made the film?

[@makara80]

@@matthew1882 I never claimed otherwise!

[@christobosman5710]

Tony , were you their or are you just want to sound clever , if you were you would know that you are talking shit , leave the comments for people who was there , and crawl back to your crib