Motorised Infantry Battalion - August 1976

Battalion HQ ( 7 + 51)
Support Company, consisting of Coy HQ (2+7) and
     admin platoon
		QM section (1+19)
		transport section (1+6)
     assault pioneer platoon
		platoon HQ (1+5)
		three sections (0+5)
     mortar platoon
		platoon HQ (2+8)
		four sections (0+3)
			two detachments (0+4)
          			one 81mm mortar
     machine-gun platoon 
		platoon HQ (1+2)
		three sections each (0+9)
         ( Vickers .303" was phased out around 1980)
     anti-tank platoon
		platoon HQ (2+4)
         	missile section
			section HQ (0+4)
				six detachments(0+2)
         ( jeep-mounted ENTAC, phased out in the late 1970s)
        	106mm section
			section HQ (0+4)
			six detachments(0+3)
         ( jeep-mounted 106mm recoilless gun with .50" spotting rifle on the
	  gun)
         ( doctrine allowed for the weapon to be dismounted and used
	  independant of the vehicle)
     recconaisance platoon
		platoon HQ (1+3)
		three sections(0+4)
Three rifle companies (A, B, and C)
   company HQ (2+22)
   mortar section
	section HQ (0+4)
	three detachments(0+2)
	       	one 60mm mortar
   three rifle platoons
	platoon HQ (1+5)
	three sections (0+10)
        (section weapons were FN FAL rifles and FN MAG machine-gun until
         about 1980)
Signals troop ( SA Corps of Signals personnel)(1+21)
Light workshop troop (Technical Services Corps)(0+26)

total personnel (35+711)

vehicles :

0,5t (land rovers) : 40
0,75t (land rovers) : 30
1t (land rovers) : 13
3t (Bedford trucks until replaced by Samil 20s around 1981) : 50
5t : 2
ambulance : 1
ferret scout cars : 7
motorcycles: 9
trailers : 74