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| name = Operation Safraan |
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| location = Zambia |
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| target = Various PLAN bases |
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| date = March 1979 |
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Revision as of 06:33, 10 March 2013
| Operation Safraan | |
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| Part of South African Border War | |
| Location | Zambia   Siabalengu Operation Saffraan (Zambia) |
| Target | Various PLAN bases |
| Date | March 1979 |
Operation Safraan was a series of South African Defence Force raids from the Caprivi Strip area during the South African Border War. South African forces entered south-western Zambia attacking PLAN bases.[1] These bases around Sinjembele and the Njinje forest[2], were found to have been vacated but the facilities were destroyed disrupting future border infiltrations.[3] The raid into Zambia resulted in SWAPO being asked to leave the country.[4] Conducted on 7 March 1979 concurrently with Operation Rekstok; it followed Operation Reindeer and preceded Operation Sceptic.
The name means "saffron" in Afrikaans.
Further reading
Steenkamp, Willem. South Africa's Border War 1966 - 1989. Ashanti Publishing, 1989.
Hamann, Hilton. Days of the Generals. Zebra Press, 2001.
References
See also
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