Transkei Special Forces Uniform Set Bush Hat, Shirt & Pants Original (SADF)

  
Vintage Transkei Defense Force (Special Forces) Army Camouflage uniform. This includes pants, shirt and bush hat with head band and special forces beret badge. See photos great original uniform used by most Transkei troops.

Period correct shirts, pants and hat from the 1980s. This unit has strong South African and Rhodesian ties! Pit to pit 25 to 26 inches (chest 52 inches). Sleeve length 9 23 inches.

Label intact on shirt - Size XL to XXL. The Transkei Defence Force (TDF) was established in 1981 from the South African Defence Force's (SADF) 141 Battalion.

The TDF was the defense force of the Republic of Transkei, a nominally independent bantustan during South Africa's Apartheid era. In 1994, when Transkei was dissolved, the TDF was incorporated into the SADF.

The South African government declared Transkei "independent" in 1976, along with three other homelands: Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei. These homelands were not recognized by any other country, and limiting African political rights to them was widely opposed. In 1986, South African citizenship was restored to people born outside the four "independent" homelands.

In 1994, the homelands were reabsorbed into South Africa and became part of the new Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.