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Silver Service Medal
TypeMilitary long service medal
Awarded forTwenty years exemplary service
Country Silver Service Medal South Africa
Presented bythe President
EligibilityAzanian People's Liberation Army cadres
Campaign(s)The "struggle"
StatusDiscontinued in 2003
Established1996
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APLA 1996 & SANDF post-2002 orders of wear
Next (higher)
APLA precedence:
  • Gold Service Medal
SANDF precedence:
  • Service Medal in Silver
Next (lower)
APLA succession:
  • Bronze Service Medal
SANDF succession:
  • Medalje vir Troue Diens and Bar, 20 years

The Silver Service Medal was instituted by the President of the Republic of South Africa in April 1996. It could be awarded to veteran cadres of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, for twenty years exemplary service.[1]

  1. ^ South African Medal Website - Liberation armies (Accessed 30 April 2015)

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