Badge State President's Guard (NCG) South West Africa (2nd version)

The State President's Guard (Afrikaans: Staatspresident Wag Eenheid) was the previous name of the National Ceremonial Guard, a guard unit for the South African State President and guard of honour at ceremonial occasions. Until and throughout State President Charles Robberts Swart's term of office, no permanent Guard existed. On his retirement from office on 31 May 1967, plans were made for the Guard to appear in public for the first time. The unit was established officially on 1 May 1967 and an effort was made to train the specially selected servicemen who would form this guard of honour. Special uniforms were manufactured. Due to the State President elect's illness, the Guard could only make its first public appearance eight months later at his State funeral. President P. W. Botha changed the name of the unit to the "State President's Unit" in 1983, and later 1994,the ceremonial uniform was changed to the regular service uniform used by the rest of the defense forces. It has been through some changes of name as well as being temporarily disbanded ahead of negotiations that led to the first democratic elections in 1994 and is now called the National Ceremonial Guard (NCG)