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43 South African Brigade

Field	Value
unit_name	43 SA Brigade
image	43 SA Brigade.jpg
image_size	300
dates	2 April 1997–present
country
branch	South African Army
role	To provide a combat ready Brigade Headquarters for the employment by CSANDF as required.
command_structure	Chief of Army (administrative)
HQ SANDF (operational)
motto	Combat Power
colors	Green and Black
identification_symbol	Mechanised Infantry Fist
identification_symbol_label	Emblem

HQ SANDF (operational) 43 South African Brigade is a formation of the South African Army. It was established on 2 April 1997 at Wallmannsthal, Gauteng as 43 Mechanised Brigade and then changed to 43 South African Brigade in 1999. Administratively, the headquarters answers to the Chief of the Army. Operationally and for force training, the formation takes instructions from the Joint Operations Division. Units and subunits are attached as required for the task at hand. When not required, those units remain part of their respective type formations.

History

The history of the brigade dates back to the late 1990s when HQ 43 Mechanised Brigade HQ provided the Headquarters of the Combined SADC Task Force and commanded the intervention stage of Operation Boleas in Lesotho in September 1998.

In 2009 43 SA Brigade provided the Military Component Force HQ for the SADC Standby Force during Exercise GOLFINHO.

Mandate

Its mandate is: "To provide combat-ready land forces for the pursuance of national defence and the prevention of war, failing which, to jointly and preferably multinationally, swiftly and decisively achieve national security goals and collaboratively promoting peace and stability internally and externally in concurrence with international obligations to contribute to the development and upliftment of South Africa, its people and the African continent."

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Dress Insignia

Leadership

References

"43 Brigade: About Us".
(2007). "A guide to the SANDF - unpublished manuscript".
"43 SA Brigade 15 Year Span". Dod.mil.za.
(8 January 2015). "Senior SANDF promotions". DefenceWeb.
(25 February 2015). "SANDF officers in court". The New Age.

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