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Brigadier Johan Potgieter SM (() 14 May 1935 – () 4 January 1976) was a South African Army officer from the artillery who served as OC School of Artillery, SA Military College, Director Artillery, SA Military Academy and later Orange Free State Command. He was appointed the OC 2 Military Area from late 1975 in Operation Savannah.
He joined the South African Army as a part-time Citizen Force soldier in 1931 in the Prince Alfred's Guard [1]: 93 and later became a full-time Permanent Force member. He served in World War II with the 2nd South African Division and with Wits Rifles in Italy. [1]: 93 Maj Gen Jacobs was Army Chief of Staff from 1963 to 1965. [2] [1]: 93
He was promoted to major general and was appointed as the 3rd GOC South African Army Infantry Formation on 1 November 2011. [1] He formally took over command on 2 March 2012 at a parade at the SA Army College in Thaba Tshwane. He was promoted to lieutenant general and assumed command of the South African Army in January 2016. [3]
South Africa: A Country Study. U.S. Department of the Army Pamphlet. Vol. 550– 93. (also possibly is a 1971 edition) Siegfried, Stander (1985). Like the Wind, The Story of the SA Army. Cape Town: Saayman & Weber. Volker, W. Victor (2010). Army signals in South Africa: the story of the South African Corps of Signals and its antecedents ...
Approximately 150 000 students of all ranks received training at the Army College during the war. Several branches had also become schools in their own right and had moved to premises across South Africa. For example, Signals moved Potchefstroom becoming the Signals Training Centre.
In 1946, an Engineer Training Wing was established at what was then the Military College, now the SA Army College. In 1964, the post of GSO2 Engineers was filled full-time by a Regular Force Officer. In 1948, the Wing was moved to Potchefstroom, where it became the Engineer Wing of the SA Army Artillery and SA School of Armour.
After Union in 1910, Chapter IV of the South Africa Defence Act, 1912, made provision for the South African Military College. In the Annual Reports of the Department of Defence and Executive Commands for the year ended 30 June 1913, the College was referred to as "an institution or group of institutions, known as the South African Military Schools."
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.
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