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727:"PIET BOTHA - A SOUTH AFRICAN PATRIOT"
295:Valerie Norma van der Riet née Geerdts
917:List of South African military chiefs
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1060:Solly Shoke
1015:Willem Louw
773:Wits Rifles
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