The names in this database will include male and female South African and Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) casualties from WW1, WW2, Korea, the Border War and Rhodesian Bush War, as well as soldiers/sailors/ airmen and police officers who died in service serving their country. (Grensoorlog of Bosoorlog in Afrikaans). After five years of South African military rule, the territory was granted to South Africa as a C-class mandate by the League of Nations in 1920.After World War II, the League of Nations dissolved and the South African government of Jan Smuts hoped to be able to take over the territory. Bambatha Rebellion / Rand Revolt / Korea / Border War / Non World War / Police Casualties … A Site about the South African Bushwar of 1966 till 1989. The roots of the conflict can be traced back to World War I, when South … The opposing forces consisted of the Angolan MPLA, SWAPO fighting for the liberation on Namibia, and Cuban, Soviet and other East Bloc advisors. It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia … The South African Border War usually refers to the conflict that took place from 1966 to 1990 in South-West Africa (now Namibia) and Angola between South Africa and its allied forces on the one side and the Angolan government, the South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) and their allied forces on the other.. The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. The South African Border War (1966 – 1989) along the now Namibian border with Angola carries with it the same sense of pointlessness when you read about the first soldier lost and the last soldier lost as it was with the 1st World War. The roots of the conflict can be traced back to World War I. It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia … Reading South African accounts of the 23-year long Border War between South Africa and the Angolan liberation movement UNITA on the one hand, … The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. In 1915 South Africa invaded and conquered the then German South-West Africa on behalf of the Allied Forces.