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SETTING UP SAFTI
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Works beginning on the site of ‘A’ Company barrack lines.
A view of the first Institute HQ buildings from the MT Lines.
the School of Signals, the School of Section Leaders, the School of Support Weapons, the
SAF Commando School, the School of Military Intelligence, the School of Military Medicine,
the School of Advanced Training for Officers, the School of Physical Training, the Officer
Cadet School and an Olympic-size swimming pool, to mention a few. In the 1990s, when the
new SAFTI Military Institute (SAFTI MI) was being built in the adjoining Track 48 area, these
in turn gave way to a completely different layout and design to house various new facilities
associated first with Infantry HQ and later the Training and Doctrine Command for which
even more dramatic modifications were made.
In 1966, the first facilities that came up were those indispensable to training the first intake—
‘A’ and ‘B’ Company barracks and their office blocks, each around a parade ground; the Medical
Centre and sickbay; the first main parade ground, the Quartermaster complex including the
motor transport (MT) park and fuel pumps; the provisional ammunition magazines (which