Koevoet
See also: koevoet
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Afrikaans Koevoet.
Proper noun edit
Koevoet (uncountable)
- (historical) A specialized South African police unit during the apartheid era that operated primarily in what is now Namibia.
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From koevoet (“crowbar”), as a metaphor for how insurgents would be pried out of the civilian population.
Proper noun edit
Koevoet
- (historical) A specialized South African police unit during the apartheid era that operated primarily in what is now Namibia.