Transkei Defence Force Medal

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Transkei Defence Force Medal
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TypeMilitary medal for merit
Country Flag of Transkei.svg Transkei
Presented bythe State President
EligibilityAll ranks
StatusDiscontinued in 1994
Establishedc. 1976
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TDF pre-1994 & SANDF post-2002 orders of wear
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The Transkei Defence Force Medal was instituted by the State President of the Republic of Transkei for award to all ranks as a military medal for merit. [1] [2]

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The Transkei Defence Force

The Transkei Defence Force (TDF) was established upon that country's independence on 26 October 1976. The Republic of Transkei ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Transkei Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). [3] [4] [5]

Institution

The Transkei Defence Force Medal was instituted by the State President of Transkei. While the medal is known to have been instituted and awarded, no warrant has yet been traced and, as a result, the date of institution is not known. [2] [6]

Award criteria

The medal could be awarded to all ranks as an honour for military merit. The medal is considered as Transkei's approximate equivalent of South Africa's Military Merit Medal. [1] [7]

Order of wear

Since the Transkei Defence Force Medal 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. The order of precedence was revised in April 1996, when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe. [7]

Transkei Defence Force until 26 April 1994

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South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

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South African National Defence Force from April 1996

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The position of the Transkei Defence Force Medal in the order of precedence remained unchanged, as it was in April 1996, when a new series of military orders, decorations and medals was instituted in South Africa on 27 April 2003. [7]

Description

Obverse

The Transkei Defence Force Medal is a medallion struck in nickel-silver, 38 millimetres in diameter and 3 millimetres thick at the rim, displaying the official emblem of the Transkei Defence Force. [8]

Reverse

The reverse displays the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Transkei, with the words "TRANSKEI DEFENCE FORCE MEDAL" around the perimeter above. [9]

Ribbon

The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide, with a 4 millimetres wide red band and a 4 millimetres wide white band, repeated in reverse order and separated by a 16 millimetres wide dark blue band.

Discontinuation

Conferment of the Transkei Defence Force Medal was discontinued when the Republic of Transkei ceased to exist on 27 April 1994. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 South African Medal Website - Transkei Defence Force (Accessed 30 April 2015)
  2. 1 2 Republic of Transkei Constitution Act, 1976, Act no. 15 of 1976
  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 9 Republic of South Africa Government Gazette Vol. 477, no. 27376, Pretoria, 11 March 2005, OCLC   72827981
  7. ↑ Uniform: SA Army: Former Forces Medals - Transkei Defence Force (TDF)
  8. ↑ Reverse of the Transkei Defence Force Medal
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