South Africa started raising eyebrows early on due to its apartheid policies and refusal to transition South West Africa to independence.
In 1964, United Nations Security Council Resolution 191 was adopted, reiterating previous requests made by the UN security council and further condemning apartheid with an arms embargo.
In 1970, UN Security Council Resolution 282 was adopted further emphasizing the previous arms embargo.
By 1977, after the Operation Savannah interventions into Angola and the heavy handed approach during the 1976 "Soweto uprising" the United Nations had had enough.
Resolution 418 was unanimously adopted and now the arms embargo was mandatory.
The embargo was not quite as effective as was hoped. Due to its slow escalating nature, in the decade preceding, many methods had been established to circumvent it.
Local production had a good head start, as could be seen from excellent locally designed and manufactured weaponry.
The Eland, Ratel, Buffel and Casspir were just a couple of many world class locally produced armaments that would be locally designed and produced... as they say necessity is the mother of invention.
The Eland MK7(first produced in 1962)
Responsible for so much carnage in Operation Savannah.
By User:Katangais , CC BY 2.5, Link
The Ratel (first produced in 1976)
The Buffel(first produced in 1978)
By Bob Adams from George, South Africa - Buffel armoured personnel carrier, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
The Casspir(first produced in 1979)
By Borisgorelik , CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Later smuggling, utilization of foreign specialist and manufacturing under license would all be methods employed to circumvent the arms embargo.
Ultimately South Africa would end up falling behind, especially in the fighter aircraft department with a clear loss of air superiority to the MIG-23's in the closing years of the war.
Previous posts in this series can be found at the bottom of this post:
The South African Border War - 1976, The end of a chapter and the beginning of a new phase.
The South African Border War - Mines, Mines did I say mines?
The South African Border War - Enter the Ratel
The Buffel was a beast. I remember when my dad was serving in the army he would every now and again take me for a spin in one. Driving in The Buffel eating ration packs, i can still taste it. Good memories.
Looks like we had the same experience as a kid. ;) Great profile, I'm now following you.
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Love the photos and make me think back of a time in my life long long ago!!
very,beautifull,babe
@gavvet,
"The Buffel" I know it :D We are using this vehicles in our country internal war against terrorism! Great article and thank you very much for sharing it with us!
Cheers~
I've personally driven in the bottom three vehicles, remembering the awe as a kid in driving in one of these magnificent machines. I know the Ratel and Buffel are still in commotion in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). Not sure about the other two?
Fascinating stuff for this import to South Africa. I saw my first Casspir in 1991 somewhere in Southern Africa and was duly intimidated, then the denizens climbed out and I was seriously intimidated. Thanks for an informative post which brought back humbling memories.
yea thats nice
@gavvet Haha, i have very different memories of the Casspir, fond memories of being chased around ape Town Campus in the late 80's and feeling the tingling of the pinch from rubber bullets, I still have 2 indentation on my lower buttocks. lol.
I dont get it what was the point of this war?
people still ask that
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"The Buffel" I know it :D We are using this vehicles in our country internal war against terrorism! Great article and thank you very much for sharing it with us!
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A lot impressive, destroying anything machines. Its a pity countries have to show their muscles by machines which could kill thousands of people. In many cases harmless civilians..... will there be a solution, or is the war business to big ....
I agree with you. Peace lovers cannot stand to see them. They are equal to destruction.
A great update @gavvet ...it's a truism that necessity is the mother of invention...although am not a supporter of wars but the then SA govt made a great invention in weaponry... Good one ...upped...
Thanks 4 share
@gavvet - War is not good but, as an engineer, I can not help admiring the splendid machines of war in your post. I think I have seen on Casspir in the Apartheid museum in Jo'burg if memory serves me correctly. It became quite infamous because it was associated with Police brutality I think?
Thanks for this blog - made the engineer in me wake up and take notice. Upvoted full.
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@vm2904
Those big machines, in certain countries, are associated with a powerful way to be safe inside when perpetrating a brutality action against others. Peace lovers cannot consider them of good use against humanity. Who ever created them were just cowards.
Huh Those Days.
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Very terrible, weapons destroyer paramusuh war, .hi @gavvet, I really like your post about adam ,, when you post again.
Thank you.
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@gavvet South African war that I know not in 1964.
but from 1966 until the end of 1989.
Which one is true !
thank you for posting this
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Wonderful post. the only way to help yourself is to help others. Save your money and save others .
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The Eland MK7 very great created local Supplier of armor vehicle.
Very informative details on from excellent locally designed and manufactured weaponry
@gavvet i give you my respect on your great article and Upvoted.
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actually the UN resolution in 1945 was in my opinion not real, because they can not realize to the whole world. the proof of all the continents in this world is not fully independent, but only the continent of europe. The UN is incapable of granting the right to all nations in its entirety.
good poste thank you
embargo is a spanish word? @gavvet...
Embargo is a Spanish word. It means taking over something, like a house. In this case, it could be "an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country."
thanks for share
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great article buddy
again we learned about the past war in our father's and grand father's time.
of course, this is the one and best way to protect their own country as well as citizens through terrorism attacks.
But as we know that day by day, technology are getting so advanced that country possess the destructive weapons then no body will try to make against them because of disastrous weapons .
thanks buddy
your article remember my grand father story. But the bad news is that my grandpa is no more to share something like these with me.
keep posting sir
love your work and salute you
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Very very good post
Nice. Thanks for sharing
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@gavvet - Oh my goodness, this is an in-detailed article about border wars of African region Sir. Wars are killing innocents, but sometimes war made countries. Sir, 'The Buffel' imported from SA for our military Sir. Love your article & nice you shared it <3 :*
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Interesting story. But I can not stop thinking about the irony of life.
nice post
great posting ,upvoted
Truly terrifying machines, a neighboring town's police department received some very scary war equipment.
Interesting post @gavvet . Thanks for sharing.
Great post about security council, thanks for sharing.
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impressive article about 'The United Nations Security Council Resolutions'. well detailed & nice information @gavvet
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination - Nelson Mandela.
Lots of impressive vehicles in the national security these will destroy any enemy in a few seconds only so any country who have that type of weopans in his security
Its good post.
War is not good, but it shows the ingenuity of people when the need arises to survive.
Very important post
Good post