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South African Military Academy
The South African Military Academy is based on similar principles to that of the military academy system of the United States (United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy United States Air Force Academy). The academy is a military unit of the South African National Defence Force (''SANDF'') housing the ''Faculty of Military Science'' of the University of Stellenbosch. It provides officers of all the arms of service an opportunity to earn a BMil or more advanced degrees. See . History The academy was established on 1 April 1950 under the auspices of the University of Pretoria and the South African Military College (now the South African Army College) in ''Voortrekkerhoogte'' (now Thaba Tswane), with the goal of elevating students to a BA (Mil) or BSc (Mil) degree to meet the intellectual challenges of modern war. In 1954 the newly elected National Party Minister of Defence, Frans Erasmus, wanting to establish the military academy as a separate, independent, all-se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Border War
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). The South African Border War resulted in some of the largest battles on the African continent since World War II and was closely intertwined with the Angolan Civil War. Following several years of unsuccessful petitioning through the United Nations and the International Court of Justice for Namibian independence from South Africa, SWAPO formed the PLAN in 1962 with material assistance from the Soviet Union, China, and sympathetic African states such as Tanzania, Ghana, and Algeria. Fighting broke out between PLAN and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Lemmer
Lieutenant General Ivan Lemmer (born 11 January 1931) was a former South African Army officer, who served as Chief of Staff Logistics. Army career Lemmer joined the Permanent Force in 1950 and subsequently served as a transport and training officer at and the (Kroonstad Kroonstad (Afrikaans directly translated "Crown City") is the third largest city in the Free State (after Bloemfontein and Welkom) and lies two hours' drive on the N1 from Gauteng. Maokeng is an area within Kroonstad, and is occasionally used ...), respectively. In 1964 he was appointed as Officer Commanding and later at Army Headquarters. He was the during 1977 and in 1978 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed on July 1st as Deputy-Chief of Staff Logistics. He retired from the SADF with pension in 1989. Awards and decorations * * * * * * * References 1931 births Possibly living people South African generals Place of birth missing {{Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A J De Castro
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G B Pharo
G, or g, is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''gee'' (pronounced ), plural ''gees''. History The letter 'G' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ' C' to distinguish voiced from voiceless . The recorded originator of 'G' is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, who added letter G to the teaching of the Roman alphabet during the 3rd century BC: he was the first Roman to open a fee-paying school, around 230 BCE. At this time, ' K' had fallen out of favor, and 'C', which had formerly represented both and before open vowels, had come to express in all environments. Ruga's positioning of 'G' shows that alphabetic order related to the letters' values as Greek numerals was a concern even in the 3rd century BC. According to some records, the original seventh letter, 'Z', had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Mbatha
Lieutenant General Lawrence Mbatha is the current Chief of the South African Army. He was appointed to this position in April 2020, before being appointed Chief of the Army he was the General Officer Commanding of the South african National Defence Force training command and before that he was the 19th Commandant of the South African Military Academy. Military career He joined Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1984 and completed courses in Angola and Zimbabwe. He became part of the South African National Defence Force in 1994 when all the forces were integrated. In 2003 he served as Officer Commanding of the Army Support Base in Johannesburg, followed by an appointment as Personal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Army (2007) before serving as Officer Commanding of the South African Army Gymnasium in 2011. He became Commandant of the South African Military Academy The South African Military Academy is based on similar principles to that of the military academy system of the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindile Yam
Lt General Lindile Yam (born on 8 August 1960) is the former SANDF Chief of staff and the former Chief of the South African Army. Career He joined Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC, in 1981 and became part of the South African National Defence Force in 1994 when all the forces were integrated. He served as an Officer Commanding of the 13 South African Infantry Battalion from November 1994 to November 1997. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1995 for a Global Security Strategy Course. He served as the 18th Commandant of the South African Military Academy from 2009 to 2011. He was promoted to major general and was appointed as the 3rd GOC South African Army Infantry Formation on 1 November 2011. He formally took over command on 2 March 2012 at a parade at the SA Army College in Thaba Tshwane Thaba Tshwane is a military base (or military area) in Pretoria, South Africa. Units and facilities The oldest building in the complex is the Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Christian
Rear Admiral Derek Christian is a South African Navy officer, currently serving as Deputy Chief of Joint Operations Division (Special Forces) as from 1 April 2016. He is the former Director of Naval Logistics. Military career After completing school at Grey High School in Port Elizabeth he joined the Navy in 1975. He completed a degree at the Military Academy and then joined the Strike Craft flotilla before volunteering for submarines in 1980. He attended the US Naval War College from 1996 to 1997. After returning to South Africa he was appointed as the Naval Attache in Washington. He became the 17th Commandant of the South African Military Academy in 2006 and was promoted to rear admiral (junior grade) from May 2006. In April 2009 he was posted to Naval Headquarters and assumed the post of Director Naval Logistics in 2011. He was appointed Deputy Chief of Joint Operations in April 2016 and appointed acting Chief of Joint Operations in October 2016. , he was due to retir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawana Manyama (c. 1935 - August 4, 2016) American artist known for creating the Ark, an 86-foot-long, three-story high ship she built in Newark
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Tawana may refer to: *Tswana an ethnic group in Botswana *List of rulers of Tawana People * Tawana Brawley rape allegations * Tawana Kupe Zimbabwean-South African academic *Kea Tawana Kea Tawana (c. 1935 – August 4, 2016) was an American artist known for creating the ''Ark'', an 86-foot-long, three-story high ship she built in Newark, New Jersey, starting in 1982. For decades she had collected salvaged wood, stained glass, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solly Mollo
Solly is a given name, nickname (often of Solomon) and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Solly Granatstein, American television producer * Solly Krieger (1909–1964), American world champion middleweight boxer * Solly Pernick, American stage technician * Solly Shoke (born 1956), South African general Nickname * Solly Drake (born 1930), American retired Major League Baseball player * Solly Hemus (born 1923), American retired Major League Baseball player, manager and coach * Solly Hofman (1882–1956), American Major League Baseball player * Solomon Joel (1865–1931), English financier who made his fortune in South Africa * Solly March (born 1994), English footballer * Solly Sherman (1917–2010), American National Football League quarterback * Solly Smith (1871–1933), Mexican-American world featherweight boxing champion * Solly Tyibilika (1979–2011), South African rugby union footballer * Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (1904–1993), British public servant, zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Simpson-Anderson
Vice-Admiral Robert Claude Simpson-Anderson (born July 1942 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a former Chief of the South African Navy (1 September 199231 October 2000) He joined the Navy in 1964 and completed a BMil. In 1977 he commanded the Navy's first Strike Craft, . In 1978 he completed an MBL via Unisa. In 1984 he became the OC of , the Strike Craft Flotilla and in 1986 as a Commodore, the Officer Commanding of the South African Military Academy in Saldhana. At the end of 1990 he was promoted to rear admiral and posted as Chief of Naval Support. Awards and decorations In 1999 Vice Admiral Simpson-Anderson was awarded the Order of the Star of South Africa The Order of the Star of South Africa is a South African National Order that consisted of seven decorations in two military and five non-military classes. The order was discontinued on 2 December 2002. Institution The Order of the Star of South ... (Silver). His list of awards includes: * * * * * * * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Van Loggerenberg
Lieutenant General Jan van Loggerenberg was a former South African military commander, who held the post of Chief of the South African Air Force. He joined the Air force in 1954 and obtained a BMil degree from the South African Military Academy, earning the Student of the Year award in 1957. In 1959, he was appointed a flying instructor at Central Flying school. He joined 1 Squadron and 2 Squadron before moving to 24 Squadron flying Buccaneers. He also attended a Canberra conversion course in England. In 1971, he was appointed Military Attache to Paris, France. On his return to South Africa, he was appointed the head of the South African Military Academy and thereafter Light Aircraft Command. He was appointed Chief of Staff operations in 1979. In 1984, he was appointed Director: Operations of the SADF and in 1988 he was appointed Chief of the Air Force. Awards and decorations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * See also *List of South African military chiefs *S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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