Inside of a Koevoet Casspir

Ruggie Erasmus

Koevoet teams gathering to move out on patrol in the vast Ovambo hinterland.

Hunting from inside the Casspir

Ruggie Erasmus

A lucky hunt with the prey in front of the Wolf grill.

Hard times requires even harder men. South Africa sent Colonel Eugene de Kock and brigadier Hans Dreyer. Picture taken in area of operations, Ovamboland.

Koevoet on ops in South West Africa, 1980’s

Koevoet team in the bush

Pete Stassen with Frans’s beloved Ford F250 that Frans called Percy. A hoofman gave the bakkie to Frans after SWAPO PLAN attacked the hoofmans kraal, Frans and his team ZF went and smacked SWAPO around for attacking the kraal. Frans got a SAP number for the bakkie from the office for fuel and spare parts seeing he was using it for work but the…Read More