Major General Roy Cecil Andersen (born 12 May 1948 in Johannesburg) is a South African businessman and a retired Reserve

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in the South African Army from the

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. He matriculated from Northview High School and graduated from

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Military career

He was commissioned into the Artillery in 1966 at 14 Field Regiment in

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where he served under the then Officer Commanding- Cmdt C.L. Viljoen. He commanded the Transvaal Horse Artillery from 1976 to 1979 and participated in Operation Savannah both as regimental Commander and Air Observation Post Officer. He was thereafter appointed as Senior Staff Officer Artillery and subsequently Senior Staff Officer Operations of

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. He was promoted to the rank of Major General in October 2003, as Chief Defence Reserves for the

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Civilian career

He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (SA) in 1972 and as a Certified Public Accountant in 1975 in

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. He served as Executive President of the

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from 1992 until 1997. He is currently a Director of Nampak.

Honours and awards

Medals

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References

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