The Battle of Savate by Piet Nortje

Author:Piet Nortje
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The inside story of 32 Battalion’s most celebrated battle, one of the key conflicts of the Border War. As the author conducted interviews with 32 Battalion members and their families, as well as FAPLA soldiers, this book gives the perspective of the men involved in the battle. The author also writes from personal experience: he served in 32 Battalion from 1979 to 1987 and was present on the day of the battle.
ISBN: 978-1-77022-780-4
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2015-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

At 22:12 it was reported by radio to Omauni that Muller’s body had been found lying face down in a trench, but there was still no sign of Corporal Eduard Engelbrecht or the other missing troop. There are a few versions of how Muller was killed. The most plausible, however, is Bouwer’s:

The morning after the Savate battle the bodies of the dead 32 Battalion members were to be repatriated to Rundu. They were all placed in line in the shade next to a clump of little bushes next to each other. I was preparing everything to put them into the body bags so that they could be flown down by the Puma, and Ron Gregory and myself went through all the wounds that we saw on everybody to assess what had happened to them.

One of them was Charl Muller’s body. He had a wound in one of his legs, in one of his hands and also an entry wound at the back of his head and the exit wound through his face. At the time we were surmising how these guys had actually been shot, looking at the wounds, and Ron Gregory told me that he was told by somebody who was close to Charl that both Charl and a comrade were wounded and both fell down while they were in the open. The other person, I do not know who it was, could not move. Charl grabbed him by his uniform behind the neck and started dragging him back to the trench or depression that they were sheltering in from the continuous fire they were under. In the process of turning his back towards the front, dragging his comrade, a shot came from behind, hitting him in his head and exiting through his face. This is what killed him. When he was hit in the hand I can’t say, it could have been during the same fusillade that killed him. [The hand wound was sustained earlier in the battle, according to Taylor.]

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