TfP Supports Exercise Golfino

The two Lusophone member states, Angola and Mozambique proposed that the exercise be called GOLFINHO, the Portuguese for Dolphin an animal coming to the aid of humans.

About 8000 troops from 12 SADC countries deployed to the Free State and Northern Cape for the first regional military exercise in a decade. The SADC Brigade did deploy a brigade consisting of troops from Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, SA, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Ex Golfinho did take place at Lohatlha, simultaneous naval manoeuvres, including amphibious operations was held off Walvis Bay in Namibia.

The exercise was played out in five stages:
Stage 1: Mobilisation
Stage 2: Intervention
Stage 3: Marrying up drills
Stage 4: Peace keeping operation
Stage 5: Demobilisation.

TfP partners ACCORD and ISS were both extensively involved in the preparations leading up to the exercise and both participated in the exercise itself. AFDEM was also involved, both from the perspective of identifying candidates for the civilian standby roster, and as civilian role players.