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Pens en pootjies (in Afrikaans) and other South African films. This is a chronology of major films produced in South Africa or by the South African film industry.There may be an overlap, particularly between South African and foreign films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either South African produced or strongly associated with South African ...
The Jakkals is a small, agile weapon carrier and utility vehicle for airborne units of the former South African Defence Force and current South African National Defence Force. The Jakkals can be deployed by land, lifted by helicopter, air dropped and delivered via aircraft . Weapons mounted on the Jakkals include the 106mm M40 recoilless rifle ...
This is a list of equipment of the South African Army. It includes equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, artillery, air defence systems, as well as future equipment. Due to how large and secretive the South African Army is, it is currently almost impossible to ...
It is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi by Athol Fugard, and is a South African/UK co-production. Set in the Alexandra slum in Johannesburg , South Africa , it stars Presley Chweneyagae as David/Tsotsi (meaning "criminal" - see also Tsotsitaal ), a young street thug who steals a car only to discover a baby in the back seat.
Dubbed in Afrikaans. 13 episodes. Limekiln-Templar Productions. Universal Television. Dubbed from the American series Street Hawk, about a police officer who fights crime on his all-terrain attack motorcycle. Die Strate van San Francisco. Dubbed in Afrikaans. 5 seasons, 121 episodes. QM Productions.
Ratel IFV. The Ratel is a South African infantry fighting vehicle. It was the first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle to enter service worldwide [ 10] and was built on a modified MAN truck chassis. [ 1] The Ratel was designed in response to a South African Army specification for a light armoured vehicle suited to the demands of rapid offensives ...
South Africa's arms industry dates back to 1968 and was established primarily as a response to the international sanctions by the United Nations against South Africa due to apartheid, which began in 1963 and prevented the country from acquiring foreign combat systems until 1990. [38]
Dick Cruikshanks as Piet Retief in the 1916 silent film, "The Voortrekkers" (or "Winning a Continent" in the USA).. The first film studio in South Africa, Killarney Film Studios, was established in 1915 in Johannesburg by American business tycoon Isidore W. Schlesinger when he traveled to South Africa against his family's wishes after he read about the discovery of gold in Witwatersrand and ...