Warfare & Defence

Between 1981 and 1995 a top-secret chemical and biological warfare programme titled Project Coast was established and maintained in apartheid South Africa. The activities of Project Coast were treated as emblematic of the perversities of a former time - one that should never be repeated.

Each operation has its own story and its own heroes. Operation Swivel, is the first operation where in the first qualified SA Paratroopers took part in. Operation Hurdle, must have been the first operation to investigate USSR involvement into Southern Africa, by a South African Army element.