[3][4][5] The Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze was instituted by the State President of Bophuthatswana in 1982.

[6] The medal could be awarded to all ranks for ten years service and good conduct.

[1] Since the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze 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.

The position of the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze 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.

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