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  1. Koevoet

    Koevoet ([ˈkufut], meaning crowbar, also known as Operation K or SWAPOL-COIN) was the counterinsurgency branch of the South West African Police (SWAPOL). Its formations included white South African police officers, usually seconded from the South African Security Branch or Special Task Force, and black volunteers from Ovamboland. Koevoet was patterned after the Selous Scouts, a multiracial Rhodesian military unit which specialised in counter-insurgency operations. Its title was an allusion to the metaphor of "prying" insurgents from the civilian population.Koevoet was active during the South African Border War between 1979 and 1989, during which it carried out hundreds of search and destroy operations against the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN). Koevoet's methods were controversial, and the unit was accused of committing numerous atrocities against civilians. Over the course of the war, it killed or captured 3,225 insurgents and participated in 1,615 individual engagements. Koevoet was disbanded in 1989 as part of the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 435, which effectively ended the South African Border War and ushered in South West African independence as Namibia.

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  1. Koevoet

    Koevoet, also known as Operation K and officially denoted as the South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Unit, was a paramilitary-trained police counter insurgency unit in South-West Africa during the Namibian Independence War.. The unit is considered one of the most effective fighting forces deployed against communist-backed SWAPO guerrillas during apartheid, although it remained notorious for committing acts of brutality against civilians.

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  1. Koevoetnoun

    Koevoet is an Afrikaans word for a steel digging tool used by South African farmers to make post holes when erecting barbed wire fencing. It may be up to six foot long and around an inch or more in diameter, with both ends pointed, or one end pointed and the other flattened to square holes. The center of the shaft may be wrought into a hexagonal section to aid in gripping the tool. A koevoet is raised high in the vertical, and then thrown with force into the ground. It gets it onomatopoeic name from the percussive sound produced as the instrument enters the soil (koe — kú), followed by the sucking sound as the tool is pulled back out (voet — phút).


    Submitted by bane3140 on June 12, 2022  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of koevoet in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of koevoet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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