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And the first reports on a covert SAP counter-insurgency unit known as Koevoet ( "crowbar") surfaced in May
4. The National Party, Apartheid and the Anatomy of Repression in South Africa, 1948-1994 1994
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"SWAPO ... has an immense fear of Koevoet ... when our government hear the word Koevoet, they immediately think about a coup," Smit added.
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SAP counter-insurgency unit known as Koevoet ( "crowbar") surfaced in May 1980 along with a hit list of people to be assassinated by this unit.
African National Congress Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1960
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Throughout the 1980s, such covert South African units as Army Special Forces, the police counter in surgency force known as Koevoet (Crowbar), and the Portuguese-speaking "Buffalo" Battalion ran a campaign of assassination and sabotage against the African National Congress and other Soviet-backed groups based in Black Africa.
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Former Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrilla, Chechela Machitje, 37, told the hearing near Thokoza on the East Rand that he personally participated in attacking IFP members at the Thokoza stadium after the IFP, assisted by the SA Defence Force's 32 Battalion, popularly known as Koevoet, had attacked Thokoza residents for two days in
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He said a police unit made up of former members of a Namibian counter-insurgency force called Koevoet (Crowbar) would be broken up in the same way.
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Other black Namibians were hired by white-run security forces in a unit called Koevoet, meaning crowbar, and its fighters were paid bonuses for what became known as "cash for corpses."
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Donna Bryson 2012
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Africa, several hundred members of the local communities served in the notorious "Koevoet" (Afrikaans for "crowbar") unit of South
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It was at first extensively used by the infamous "Koevoet" police counterinsurgency unit in northern Namibia during the apartheid era and later also by the Southwest African Territory
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"Koevoet", which was based in then South West Africa (now Namibia) and operated mainly in Angola.
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