My South African and Homelands collection

I have developed a passion for South African and Homeland combat uniforms and webbing and my collection is growing at a steady pace

The first item I'm going to post here is a Transkei camouflage shirt, its cut is very similar to the Rhodesian shirts with scalloped flaps and it is printed in a variant of the lizard camouflage pattern. These shirts still come cheap but I found it well made and i'm even considering using this type of camouflage for hunting. The shirt was made by Sun.

Now I'm waiting to receive a jacket and trousers in the same pattern.

Here are the pictures:

Nice bit of kit you have there, do you have the matching pants?

Would you like to send me a pm on this-I can help-I have a lot in this area
In Lisbon on the 20/21/22 october
Bren

I have a pair of trousers and a matching jacket coming from the US that I bought last month and it will probably arrive next week.

Brencan, do you have a pair of Namibian lizard trousers? I have some shirts coming from South Africa but did not found any matching trousers.

Finally got myself a South African P70 pistol holster for my South African webbing and uniform collection!

One peculiar detail with this pattern is that many items have press studs that engage in the press studs in the combat belt to fix the items in place.

Here are some pictures I took today to show the present state of my mixed P61 and P61-64 SADF webbing set, it comprises:
- P61-64 belt
- P61 magazine pouch
- P61 radio/magazine pouch (I think it was not used with radios anyway but the name pops up frequently)
- P61 yoke
- P61-64 kidney pouches
- P61 poncho/cape carrier
- P61-64 canteen pouch
- P61 canteen

Here are some pictures of my SADF P70 webbing set, it is currently assembled with R1 (FN FAL) magazine pouches. Still need to get some more bits to it

Finally received my Transkei jacket and trousers! I got it at the same time as the shirt and it took one month more to arrive.

Here are some pictures:

Plain SADF belt:

SADF belt with press studs to fix various pouches:

South African Police combat belt, this type of belt was also used by the South West Africa Police and namely the Koevoet. The belt had grommets that allowed a P70 yoke to be mounted on it.

Here is a P70 canteen with a special lid that was issued together with the respirator:

Nice Collection Pedro

Thanks Loski!

Here is a P61 variant of the left radio/magazine pouch with different fittings, do not know how it was fitted or the purpose of this configuration. What intrigues me is the hook at the back and the lack of C-hooks to fix the pouch in the belt.

This is my latest addiction, a South African Police camouflaged sergeant brassard:

Got another SAP brassard, I really love this type of camouflage!

South African Police long sleeved shirt, what made me happy was that this one even has camouflaged buttons in similar colors!

This is my South African M83 paratrooper helmet, it belong to a South African made batch:

This is a South African P61-64 poncho/cape carrier, the webbing color is greener and the metal fittings have plastic protective coating.

South African R4 (Galil) rifle sling:

South African P61 kidney pouches:

South African Police 2nd camouflage pattern made in 1976:

Recently got this South African Defense Force 32 Bn camouflage beret in mint condition! This one is from order War era.

One of my newest acquisitions, thanks to Ripcord!

South African Police camouflage cap, same model used by the Koevoet during the Border War, the camouflage is the so called 2nd SAP pattern in spite of the existence of 2nd type items predating the so called 1st type.

South African Police 1st camouflage pattern bush hat.

This is a bush hat made in the so-called 1st pattern camouflage that was issued to the South African Police at least since the early 70's with some items being dated 1970 and 1971.

This type of camouflage was used by the SAP when deployed to Rhodesia and also in the early stages of the Border War.