Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold

• Name — Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold • Presenter — the State President • Country — Bophuthatswana • Type — Military long service medal • Eligibility — All ranks • Awarded For — Thirty years service and good conduct • Status — Discontinued in 1994 • Established — 1982 • Precedence Label — BDF pre-1994 & SANDF post-2002 orders of wear • Higher — * BDF precedence: • Independence Medal • SANDF precedence: • Good Service Medal, Gold • Lower — * BDF succession: • Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Silver • SANDF succession: • Long Service Medal, Gold • Image2 — * Illustration — x29px • Caption2 — Ribbon bar

The Bophuthatswana Defence Force (BDF) was established upon that country's independence on 6 December 1977. The Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Bophuthatswana Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

The Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold was instituted by the State President of Bophuthatswana in 1982. It is the senior award of a set of three medals for long service and good conduct, along with the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Silver and the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze. Bophuthatswana's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the Republic of South Africa and these three medals are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Good Service Medal, Gold, the Good Service Medal, Silver and the Good Service Medal, Bronze.

Since the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date. • Bophuthatswana Defence Force until 26 April 1994: • Illustration — Independence Medal (Bophuthatswana) • Illustration — Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold • Illustration — Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Silver • Official BDF order of precedence: • Preceded by the Independence Medal. • Succeeded by the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Silver. • Bophuthatswana official national order of precedence: • Preceded by the Police Star for Merit. • Succeeded by the Medal for Faithful Service in the Prisons Service, Gold. • South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994: • Illustration — Good Service Medal, Gold • Illustration — Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold • Illustration — Long Service Medal, Gold • Official SANDF order of precedence: • Preceded by the Good Service Medal, Gold of the Republic of South Africa. • Succeeded by the Long Service Medal, Gold of the Republic of Venda. • Official national order of precedence: • Preceded by the Prisons Medal for Faithful Service, Silver of the Republic of Transkei. • Succeeded by the Police Star for Merit of the KwaZulu Homeland. The position of the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold in the order of precedence remained unchanged, as it was on 27 April 1994, when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted in April 1996 for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again when a new series of military orders, decorations and medals was instituted in South Africa on 27 April 2003.

Conferment of the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Gold was discontinued when the Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.