MOSSEL BAY NEWS - A parade will be held this Sunday, 12 May, at 10:00 at the Mossel Bay Cenotaph at the Point in memory of soldiers from the Mossel Bay area who died in the Border War.
Member of the local MOTH (Memorable Order of Tin Hats) Blaize Away Shellhole, Mel Wainwright, said: "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.
"It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO).
"MK was never involved. What people forget is that both Russia and Cuba were involved. The South African Border War resulted in some of the largest battles on the African continent since World War II and was closely intertwined with the Angolan Civil War.
"We honour all soldiers who fought this war for South Africa. Thus we will be having a parade in their memory."
The following soldiers from the Mossel Bay area sacrificed all in the Border War: G Gainsford, JR Mathee, BZ Gericke, A Kees.
Wainwright provided a poem:
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
"Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning
"We will remember them."
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