A number of South African attacks on Botswana government troops and violations of Botswana territorial sovereignty have taken place since the beginning of 1981, reflecting the intensification of South African aggression against the Front Line States throughout the region.
The Botswana government has protested to South Africa about a number of incidents involving South African soldiers on its border. Botswana again protested officially to South Africa following an incident on 26 February when two white men in camouflage uniforms were said to have shot and wounded a villager and driven off in his vehicle.
The SWA Territory Force headquarters in Windhoek was later reported to be investigating.
Several further incidents took place in mid-March on the border at Ngoma bridge, in the Chobe game park, when, according to a further protest note from the Botswana President's Office, men dressed in army uniforms fired from the Caprivi Strip at the Botswana Defence Force. The BDF had refused to meet soldiers who had arrived in troop carriers, armoured cars and a helicopter at the Caprivi side of the bridge on 18 March, and had threatened to launch an attack unless they were met by a senior BDF officer, to discuss an incident in which one of their own side had allegedly been killed.
