Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze

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Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze
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Awarded by the State President
Country Flag of Bophuthatswana (1972-1994).svg Bophuthatswana
TypeMilitary long service medal
EligibilityAll ranks
Awarded forTen years service and good conduct
StatusDiscontinued in 1994
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Established1982
BDF pre-1994 & SANDF post-2002 orders of wear
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The Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze was instituted by the State President of the Republic of Bophuthatswana in 1982, for award to all ranks as a long service medal for ten years service and good conduct. [1] [2]

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The Bophuthatswana Defence Force

The Bophuthatswana Defence Force (BDF) was established upon that country's independence on 6 December 1977. The Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Bophuthatswana Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). [3] [4] [5]

Institution

The Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze was instituted by the State President of Bophuthatswana in 1982. It is the junior award of a set of three medals for long service and good conduct, along with the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold and the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Silver. [1] [6] [7]

Bophuthatswana's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the Republic of South Africa and these three medals are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Good Service Medal, Gold, the Good Service Medal, Silver and the Good Service Medal, Bronze. [6]

Award criteria

The medal could be awarded to all ranks for ten years service and good conduct. [1]

Order of wear

Since the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date. [6]

Bophuthatswana Defence Force until 26 April 1994

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South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

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The position of the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze in the order of precedence remained unchanged, as it was on 27 April 1994, when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted in April 1996 for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again when a new series of military orders, decorations and medals was instituted in South Africa on 27 April 2003. [6]

Description

Obverse

The Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze is a medallion struck in bronze, 38 millimetres in diameter and 3 millimetres thick at the rim, with a 4 millimetres wide raised rim and displaying the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Bophuthatswana. The suspender depicts the horns of the Malete (African buffalo). [8]

Ribbon

The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and dark yellow, with three 4 millimetres wide green bands, spaced 5 millimetres apart in the centre. [1]

Discontinuation

Conferment of the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze was discontinued when the Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 South African Medal Website - Bophuthatswana Defence Force (Accessed 30 April 2015)
  2. ↑ Republic of Bophuthatswana Constitution Act, 1977
  3. ↑ South Africa Homeland Militaries, May 1996 (Accessed 1 May 2015)
  4. ↑ Peled, Alon (1998), A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States , Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp.  50f, ISBN   0-8014-3239-1
  5. 1 2 Warrant of the President of the Republic of South Africa for the Institution of the "UNITAS MEDAL-UNITAS-MEDALJE", Gazette no. 16087 dated 25 November 1994.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Republic of South Africa Government Gazette Vol. 477, no. 27376, Pretoria, 11 March 2005, OCLC   72827981
  7. ↑ Uniform: SA Army: Former Forces Medals - Bophuthatswana Defence Force (BDF)
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