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== Lebowa Camouflage Patterns ==
 
== Lebowa Camouflage Patterns ==
  
* The Lebowa Defence Force was issued a very distinctive camouflage pattern featuring large reddish-brown and grass green spots on a sandy background.
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* The Lebowa Defence Force was issued a very distinctive "giraffe" camouflage pattern featuring large orchre and olive green spots on a sandy background.
  
 
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Revision as of 18:50, 31 January 2011

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Lebowa was a tribal homeland in the northeastern region of Republic of South Africa from 1971 until 1994.[1] The region was set aside for Northern Sotho-speaking people, and granted nominal self-rule in 1972. KwaNdebele was reincorporated into South Africa on 27 April 1994, becoming part of the Limpopo province.

Lebowa Camouflage Patterns

  • The Lebowa Defence Force was issued a very distinctive "giraffe" camouflage pattern featuring large orchre and olive green spots on a sandy background.

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  1. The African Homeland, or bantustan, was a territory specifically set aside for black Africans of a specific ethnic or tribal group during the apartheid era.