President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni dubbed Commander in Chief of the UPDF yesterday passed out 6237 Local Defence Personel (LDP) after completing basic military training at Recruits Training School (RTS), Kaweweta.
Kaweweta is the location of the “Oliver Tambo School of Leadership”, an installation of the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF).
The school was established in 1989 to house freedom fighters (Umkonto we Sizwe) of the African National Congress (ANC), the installation, over the years turned into a training camp for both the ANC from South Africa and the National Resistance Army (NRA) from Uganda.
By 1994, it housed 3,000 South African soldiers, of whom 14 died of natural causes and are buried at Kaweweta.
