SWATF

SWATF is an abbreviation for the South West African Territorial Force. It was the forerunner of the Namibian Defence Force and was basically an extension or auxiliary of the South African Defence Force to combat the SWAPO insurgency. It was formed on 1 August 198 from Southwest Africans serving as personnel in SADF units.

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It was part of the Department of Defence of SouthWest Africa. It was headed by an Administrator general who was always a SADF general. Their was the SWATF/SADF Joint Committee for Planning, Liaison and Co-ordination. As a "joint" command the SWATF was responsible for logistics, finances and administration while the SADF was responsible for military operations. It was broadly divided along two lines:

South West Africa: South-West Africa is the former name (1884-1990) of Namibia under German (as German South-West Africa, Deutsch S?d-West Afrika) and (from 1915) South African administration when it was conquered from the Germans during World War I. Following the war, the Treaty of Versailles declared the territory t...

Namibia: The Republic of Namibia is a country in southwestern Africa, on the Atlantic coast. It is bordered by Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south. It gained independence from South Africa in 1990, and as such it is one of the youngest nations in the world. Its...

South African Defence Force: The South African Defence Force (SADF) was the South African armed forces from 1957 until 1994. The former Union Defence Force was renamed to the South African Defence Force in the Defence Act (No. 44) of 1957. The SADF was superseded by the South African National Defence Force in 1994....