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This is a list of wars involving the Union of South Africa and its successor, the Republic of South Africa.

Conflict South Africa
and allies 		Opponents Results Prime Minister (1912–94)
President (1994–) 		Losses
World War I
(1914–1918 A.D.) 		List of wars involving South Africa France
British Empire United Kingdom
  • List of wars involving South Africa Canada
  • List of wars involving South Africa Australia
  • List of wars involving South Africa New Zealand
  • List of wars involving South Africa India
  • List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
  • List of wars involving South Africa Newfoundland

Russia Russia
List of wars involving South Africa Italy
List of wars involving South Africa United States
List of wars involving South Africa Serbia
List of wars involving South Africa Montenegro
List of wars involving South Africa Belgium
List of wars involving South Africa Japan
List of wars involving South Africa China
List of wars involving South Africa Romania
List of wars involving South Africa Portugal
List of wars involving South Africa Brazil
List of wars involving South Africa Hejaz
List of wars involving South Africa Greece
Armenia Armenia
Saudi Arabia Nejd and Hasa
Thailand Siam

List of wars involving South Africa Germany
List of wars involving South Africa Austria-Hungary
List of wars involving South Africa Ottoman Empire
List of wars involving South Africa Bulgaria
List of wars involving South Africa Transvaal 		Victory
  • End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires
  • Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
  • Establishment of the League of Nations
Louis Botha
9,726 dead[1]
Russian Civil War[2]
(1918–1920) 		Russia White Movement
United Kingdom United Kingdom
List of wars involving South Africa United States
France France
List of wars involving South Africa Japan
List of wars involving South Africa Italy
List of wars involving South Africa China
List of wars involving South Africa Canada
List of wars involving South Africa Australia
List of wars involving South Africa India
South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Czechoslovakia
List of wars involving South Africa Poland
List of wars involving South Africa Greece
List of wars involving South Africa Romania
List of wars involving South Africa Yugoslavia
List of wars involving South Africa Estonia 		List of wars involving South Africa Russian SFSR
List of wars involving South Africa Far Eastern Republic
List of wars involving South Africa Latvian SSR
List of wars involving South Africa Ukrainian SSR
List of wars involving South Africa Commune of Estonia
List of wars involving South Africa Mongolian Communists 		Defeat (limited involvement)[2]
  • Allied withdrawal from Russia
  • Defeat of the White Movement
Unknown
Rand Rebellion
(1921–1922) 		South Africa South Africa CPSA Government victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
Jan Smuts
153 dead[3]
(both sides)
Bondelswarts Rebellion
(1922) 		South Africa South Africa
  • South West Africa
 Bondelswarts Government victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
 100 dead, 468 wounded (Bondelswarts)
World War II
(1939–1945) 		List of wars involving South Africa Soviet Union
List of wars involving South Africa United States
List of wars involving South Africa United Kingdom
List of wars involving South Africa China
France France
Poland Poland
List of wars involving South Africa Yugoslavia
List of wars involving South Africa Greece
List of wars involving South Africa Netherlands
List of wars involving South Africa Belgium
List of wars involving South Africa Luxembourg
List of wars involving South Africa Denmark
List of wars involving South Africa Norway
List of wars involving South Africa Czechoslovakia
List of wars involving South Africa Canada
List of wars involving South Africa Australia
List of wars involving South Africa New Zealand
List of wars involving South Africa India
List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Philippines
Ethiopian Empire Ethiopia
Brazil Brazil
List of wars involving South Africa Mexico
Mongolian People's Republic Mongolia 		List of wars involving South Africa Germany
List of wars involving South Africa Japan
List of wars involving South Africa Italy
List of wars involving South Africa Romania
List of wars involving South Africa Hungary
List of wars involving South Africa Bulgaria
List of wars involving South Africa Slovakia
List of wars involving South Africa Croatia
List of wars involving South Africa Finland
List of wars involving South Africa Thailand
List of wars involving South Africa Iraq 		Victory
  • Collapse of the German Reich
  • Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
  • Creation of the United Nations
  • Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
  • Beginning of the Cold War
6,840 dead
1,841 missing
14,589 prisoners
Greek Civil War
(1944–1945)[4] 		Kingdom of Greece Cairo Government
List of wars involving South Africa United Kingdom
South Africa South Africa 		Greece ELAS Victory
  • Treaty of Varkiza
None
Korean War
(1950–1953) 		List of wars involving South Africa South Korea
List of wars involving South Africa United States
List of wars involving South Africa United Kingdom
List of wars involving South Africa Canada
List of wars involving South Africa Turkey
List of wars involving South Africa Australia
Ethiopian Empire Ethiopia
List of wars involving South Africa Philippines
List of wars involving South Africa New Zealand
List of wars involving South Africa Thailand
Greece
List of wars involving South Africa France
List of wars involving South Africa Colombia
List of wars involving South Africa Belgium
South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Netherlands
List of wars involving South Africa Luxembourg 		List of wars involving South Africa North Korea
List of wars involving South Africa China
List of wars involving South Africa Soviet Union 		Stalemate
  • The Korean Armistice Agreement
  • North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled
  • UN invasion of North Korea repelled
  • Chinese invasion of South Korea repelled
  • Korean Demilitarized Zone established
  • Little territorial change at the 38th parallel border
D. F. Malan
34 dead[5]
9 prisoners
Rhodesian Bush War
(1965–1979) 		List of wars involving South Africa Rhodesia
List of wars involving South Africa South Africa 		ZANU
Mozambique FRELIMO
ZAPU
List of wars involving South Africa ANC 		Stalemate
  • Lancaster House Agreement, internationally recognised independence for the Zimbabwe
B. J. Vorster
Unknown
Mozambican Civil War
(1979–1985)[6] 		RENAMO
List of wars involving South Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia
List of wars involving South Africa South Africa 		Mozambique FRELIMO
List of wars involving South Africa ANC 		Stalemate (limited involvement)
  • Non-aggression pact (Nkomati Accord)
P. W. Botha
Unknown
South African Border War
(1966–1989)[7] 		List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Portugal
UNITA
FNLA 		List of wars involving South Africa SWAPO
SWANU
MPLA
List of wars involving South Africa Cuba
List of wars involving South Africa ANC
List of wars involving South Africa Zambia 		Stalemate
  • Withdrawal of foreign forces from Angola
  • Namibian independence from South African rule
2,038 dead[8]
Natal Civil War
(1987–1994)[9] 		List of wars involving South Africa IFP List of wars involving South Africa ANC Stalemate[9]
  • Violence subsided following 1994 elections
Unknown
Operation Boleas
(1998) 		List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Botswana 		Lesotho LDF rebels Victory
  • Suspected coup d'état in Lesotho quelled
Nelson Mandela
11 dead[10]
Battle of Bangui
(2013) 		List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Central African Republic 		Central African Republic Séléka Disputed[11]
  • François Bozizé successfully escorted to safety,Rebel advance towards South African base repelled
Jacob Zuma
15 dead[12]
M23 Rebellion
(2013) 		List of wars involving South Africa DR Congo
List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Tanzania
List of wars involving South Africa Malawi 		M23 Victory
  • M23 rebels surrender, disarm and demobilize
None
ADF Insurgency
(2014–present) 		List of wars involving South Africa DR Congo
List of wars involving South Africa Uganda
List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Tanzania
List of wars involving South Africa Malawi 		ADF Ongoing
  • UNF Intervention Brigade intervention from 2014
1 dead
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
(2017–present) 		List of wars involving South Africa SADC
List of wars involving South Africa South Africa
List of wars involving South Africa Mozambique
List of wars involving South Africa Tanzania
List of wars involving South Africa Angola
List of wars involving South Africa Botswana
List of wars involving South Africa Rwanda
List of wars involving South Africa Malawi
List of wars involving South Africa Lesotho
 List of wars involving South Africa Ansar al-Sunna
List of wars involving South Africa Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 		Ongoing
  • involvement of South African Special forces from July 2021
Cyril Ramaphosa
1[13]
  1. ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2013–2014 Archived 2015-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, page 48. Figures include identified burials and those commemorated by name on memorials.
  2. ^ a b Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 15, Nr 4, 1985, pp. 46-48. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  3. ^ Bendix, S. (2001) Industrial Relations in South Africa. Claremont: Juta. p. 59
  4. ^ See Air operations during the Greek Civil War#South African Air Force
  5. ^ "Casualties of Korean War" (in Korean). Ministry of National Defense of Republic of Korea. Archived from the original on 2013-01-20. Retrieved 14 February 2007.
  6. ^ South Africa agreed to withdraw its support for RENAMO in 1984. However, South Africa only withdrew from the Mozambican Civil War in 1985. For more information, see War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa, edited by Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan, pp.104-115
  7. ^ Note: South Africa was already involved in combating SWAPO insurgents in 1966, but intervention in Angola started in 1975 with Operation Savannah.
  8. ^ "SA Roll of Honour: List of Wars". Justdone.co.za. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  9. ^ a b Taylor, Rupert. "Justice denied: political violence in Kwazulu‐Natal after 1994." African Affairs 101, no. 405 (2002): 473-508.
  10. ^ "'A fractious lot': Anatomy of (another) coup in Lesotho". Daily Maverick. 3 July 2015.
  11. ^ References:
    • Helmoed Römer Heitman. [1]
  12. ^ "CAR battle claims another SANDF soldier". Enca. South Africa.
  13. ^ "Remains of SA soldier killed in Mozambique handed over to family". africanews.

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