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21 South African Infantry Battalion : ウィキペディア英語版 | 21 South African Infantry Battalion
21 South African Infantry Battalion is an infantry battalion of the South African Army. The unit has its origin as 21 Battalion, an apartheid era unit used to train black South African men as soldiers. == History == In 1973 the apartheid government decided to train black soldiers.〔Engelbrecht, A Guide to the SANDF, 2007, Chapter 9C, p.8〕 On 21 January 1974, the Army Bantu Training Centre was established Baviaanspoort, north of Pretoria.〔 Sixteen recruit would begin basic training in March 1974 with another 38 men joining in August, now trained by the sixteen initial recruits. In April 1975, authority was given for blacks to attest in the then-Permanent Force.〔 On December 1, 1975, the Army Bantu Training Centre became a self-accounting unit and moved to Lenz, south of Johannesburg.〔 The centre was then renamed 21 Battalion on the 21st birthday of the South African Infantry Corps in 1975.〔〔 Press releases during 1977 would emphasise that these black soldiers would not be trained for South African combat roles.〔 By 1978, the Chief of the South African Army begun to implement plans to establish 21 Battalion as the training school for black soldiers of different ethnic groups.〔 The plan was for these recuits to serve in ethnic units in the current regional commands with their eventual adoption into the black homeland armies.〔〔 Plan was for Lenz unit to train over eight years, up to eighteen black battalions then distribute them into these regional battalions.〔 Initial units were the Zulu 121 Battalion at Jozini, Natal Command, the Swazi 111 Battalion at Amsterdam, Northern Transvaal Command, the Venda 112 Battalion at Madimbo and the Shangaan 113 Battalion at Impala near Phalaborwa.〔 The size of the battalion ranged from 35 men in 1975, reaching over 400 to 515 men in 1979.〔
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