Medal for Long Service, Bronze
TypeMilitary long service medal
Awarded forTen years faithful service
Country Ciskei
Presented bythe President
EligibilityAll Ranks
StatusDiscontinued in 1994
Established1988
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CDF pre-1994 & SANDF post-2002 orders of wear
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The Medal for Long Service, Bronze was instituted by the President of the Republic of Ciskei in 1988, for award to all ranks for ten years faithful service.[1][2][3]

The Ciskei Defence Force

The Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) was established upon that country's independence on 4 December 1981. The Republic of Ciskei ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Ciskei Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).[4][5][6]

Institution

The Medal for Long Service, Bronze was instituted by the President of Ciskei in 1988. Ciskei's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the Republic of South Africa and the Medal for Long Service, Bronze is the approximate equivalent of the Good Service Medal, Bronze.[2][3][7][8]

Award criteria

The medal could be awarded to all ranks for ten years of faithful service.[1]

Order of wear

Main article: South African military decorations order of wear § Order of wear

Since the Medal for Long Service, Bronze was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date. The position of the Medal for Long Service, Bronze in the official order of precedence was revised twice after 1994, to accommodate the inclusion or institution of new decorations and medals, first in April 1996 when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003.[1]

Ciskei Defence Force until 26 April 1994

Independence Medal (Ciskei) Medal for Long Service, Bronze President's Medal for Shooting

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

Faithful Service Medal Medal for Long Service, Bronze Queen's Medal for Champion Shots in the Military Forces

South African National Defence Force from April 1996

Faithful Service Medal Medal for Long Service, Bronze Bronze Service Medal

The position of the Medal for Long Service, Bronze in the official order of precedence remained unchanged upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003.[1]

Description

Obverse

The Medal for Long Service, Bronze is a disk struck in bronze, 38 millimetres in diameter and 3 millimetres thick with a raised rim, displaying the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Ciskei.[3][7]

Reverse

The reverse is plain with a raised rim and the inscription "IMBASA YENKONZO ENDE" in three lines.[9]

Ribbon

The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide, with an 8 millimetres wide brown band and a 3 millimetres wide white band, repeated in reverse order and separated by a 10 millimetres wide blue band in the centre.[3][7][9]

Discontinuation

Conferment of the Medal for Long Service, Bronze was discontinued when the Republic of Ciskei ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Republic of South Africa Government Gazette Vol. 477, no. 27376, Pretoria, 11 March 2005, OCLC 72827981
  2. ^ a b Republic of Ciskei Constitution Act, no. 20 of 1981
  3. ^ a b c d South African Medal Website - Ciskei Defence Force (Accessed 30 April 2015)
  4. ^ South Africa Homeland Militaries, May 1996 (Accessed 1 May 2015)
  5. ^ Peled, Alon (1998), A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 50f, ISBN 0-8014-3239-1
  6. ^ a b Warrant of the President of the Republic of South Africa for the Institution of the "UNITAS MEDAL-UNITAS-MEDALJE", Gazette no. 16087 dated 25 November 1994.
  7. ^ a b c Uniform: SA Army: Former Forces Medals - Ciskei Defence Force (CDF)
  8. ^ a b Ciskei Defence Medal for Long Service Full size Archived 23 June 2014 at archive.today
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