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Senior Offisiere in Bevel - Senior Officers in Command
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Senior Officers including Generals Viljoen and Geldenhuys discuss farm security, strategy and Commando Defence Units against farm attacks and murders back then, which are so prevalent in South Africa today since 1994 numbering in excess of 3000 murders since the Commando Defence Units were disbanded by the current ANC government. This action left the farmers defenceless and have reduced the farmer numbers from 120 000 farmers prior to 1994 to less than 37 000 today in 2011 effecting massive price increases on the supermarket shelves due to the resultant shortage of foodstuffs presently available. This also happened in Zimbabwe under the Marxist Mugabe Regime... |
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General Viljoen received a degree in military science in 1955 and joined the South African Army in 1956. In 1974 he was made the Director General of Operations at the army headquarters and he subsequently became Principal Staff Officer to the chief of the defence force. In 1977 he became Chief of the Army and in 1980 the Chief of the overall Defence Force.He was the senior officer in the campaign in Angola in 1975-1976. Viljoen planned the Battle of Cassinga, the first major airborne assault by South African forces. Although he was at the time Chief of the Army, he was present at the scene of battle,typical of what has been described as a swashbuckling front-line leadership style that made him revered among whites. |
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General Johannes ('Jannie') Geldenhuys SSA SD SOE SM (born 1935) was a South African military commander. He joined the South African Army as an infantryman in 1954. He commanded South West Africa Command from 1977 to 1980 and was briefly the first GOC South West Africa Territory Force in 1980 before being promoted to Chief of the Army. He served as Chief of the SA Defence Force from 1985 to 1990, and was a member of the negotiating team which ended the 23-year-long Border War in 1989. |
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General Andreas ('Kat') Liebenberg SSA SD SOE SM MMM (1938-1998) was a South African military commander. He joined the South African Army as an infantryman in the early 1960s. In the early 1980s, he was a sector commander in the Border War in South West Africa. He served as GOC Special Forces from 1982 to 1985, as Chief of the Army from 1985 to 1990, as Chief of Defence Force Staff for a few months in 1990, and then as Chief of the SA Defence Force from 1990 to 1993. He was a member of the defence committee of the Transitional Executive Council which supervised the South African government during the final months leading up the first democratic election in 1994. |
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General Malan was earmarked for high office from early on in his military career; one of the many courses he attended was the Regular Command and General Staff Officers Course in the United States of America from 1962 to 1963. He went on to serve as commanding officer of various entities, including South-West Africa Command, the South African Military Academy and Western Province Command. In 1962 Malan married Magrietha Johanna van der Walt; the couple had two sons and one daughter. In 1973 he was appointed as Chief of the South African Army and three years later as Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF). As Chief of the SADF he implemented many administrative changes that earned him great respect in military circles. During this period he became very close to P.W. Botha, the then Minister of Defence and later Prime Minister. General Malan passed away on the 18th July 2011. |
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Roland de Vries joined the South African Army in January 1963, qualified as an officer in January 1964 and retired as the Deputy Chief of the South African Army in April 1999. De Vries served loyally for more than 37-years in the South African Defence Force (SADF) in various training and operational positions. It was an exciting and fulfilling career in which he enjoyed commanding magnificent military institutions such as 61 Mechanised Battalion Group, the South African Army College, 7 South African Division and the Joint Training Division of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). He had the honour to could have participated in various military operations in the former Rhodesia, South West Africa (now called Namibia) and Southern Angola. Some of these were well known operations such as Protea, Modular and Prone in Southern Angola, respectively in 1981, 1987 and 1988. The latter two mentioned high intensity conventional battles subsequently led to the peace accord being signed between South Africa, Angola and the Cubans in New York on 22 December 1988. His work in the army entailed actively participating in the development of the Ratel infantry combat vehicle and its subsequent combat system and doctrine through the seventies. He played an important role through his military career in the development of operational concepts and military doctrine for mobile conventional warfare within the Southern African context. To this end his book on mobile warfare (Mobile Warfare – a perspective for Southern Africa) was published in South Africa, whilst still being a colonel in August 1987. Roland led the Transformation Team of the newly created South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in 1997 in developing a new integrated Leadership, Command and Management Concept for the Department of Defence. In 1997 he was appointed Chief of Joint Training and in 1998 as Deputy Chief of the SA Army. This role entailed developing a new military strategy for the SA Army as well as planning and managing the army’s transformation process. Roland is married to Henriette and they have four children Roland (Jnr), Elmarie, Melanie and Pieter. Melanie, who is married to Jason Boschin, resides in Perth. Roland currently manages his own business, but remains engaged in advisory support for corporate security services and the transformation initiatives of armies in Africa. His memoirs entitled Eye of the Firestorm was published in May 2013. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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