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2 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
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75 JAAR O NO O RW O N NE
75 YEARS UNDEFEATED
V o l 38
IN H O U D •
Feesjaar-boodskappe van
Minister van Verdedi-
ging, H SAW en voorsit-
ter van Krygkor.............. 4
SACP/ANC terror plan un­
masked............................ 7
SA Air Force Museum
opened by
Min Pik Botha................ 9
Kersfees ook n tyd van
vrede en geluk in
die SAW........................... 10
General public is thinking
of you!’ ............................ 11
Christmas Day at Salisbury
Island.............................. 12
Happy faces at
SASZONNEBLOM........ 13
Face to face with real
Father Christmas'.......... 13
World’s oldest pilot talks to
Paratus........................... 14
Oud-valskermsoldate van
oorsee spring in Siiid-
Afrika.............................. 18
Buitelandse attachés be-
soek Bloemfontein........ 19
Brig Otto neem leisels oor
in die Vrystaat................ 19
Delville Wood a symbol of
sacrifice and courage.... 20
Adj min Breýtenbach be-
socik die Operasionele
GeWed............................ 24
Order of the Star of South
Africa for attaché........... 24
Centre for relaxation and
meditation opened........ 25
• Opinions expressed in this issue do not necessarily present the offi­ VOORBLAD: Ons is gereed!
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CONTENTS
New products.................... 32
• POSTAL ADDRESS SA Leërvrouekollege neem
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SAW word 75: Wat 'n fees-
• STREET ADDRESS:
jaar!................................ 39
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OVS ................................ 44
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Verjaardag gevier met
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SUBSCRIPTIONS Impressive passing-out
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R14 — 12 months
Indian war veterans visit
R25 — 24 months Naval Base Durban........ 49
R36 — 36 months
Paraguayan officer happy
and GST (postage in­ in SA Navy...................... 50
cluded) Martello Tower - tough
FOREIGN little treasure.................. 51
Palace Barracks - a cen­
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(surface mail)
1 Valskermbataljon deeglik
R35 — 12 months
met wildbewaring.......... 52
(airmail)
Oranjejeug verenig vrou
agter die soldaat............ 52
SA Blacks misled and mur­ Marietjie herenig met haar
dered by theV\NC.......... 25 'soldat’............................ 53
Boere se durf en samewer- SA vlieeniers van beste in
king keer terroriste by wêreld............................. 54
diegrens........................ 26 Crossword Puzzle............. 55
Kol Peter McGregor Forward March!................ 56
tre e a f............................. 28 Project Anchor.................. 58
Bybels aan Swart werkers Opgeloste knelpunt.......... 59
oorhandig...................... 31 Sportmanne onderneem
Leerdamesvereniging ver- lang staptoer.................. 60
eer mev Margot Malan... 31 SPORT............................... 64
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dié eenheid oorhandig is. (Arti-
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PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987
 • 75 JAAR ONOORWONNE • 75 YEARS UNDEFEATED
75 jaar se trots
(Boodskap deur genl Magnus Malan, Minister van Verdedlging)
ie Suid-Affrikaanse W eerm ag is op 1 Julie van jaar 75 jaar oud. Binne d ie breér tydsbestek
D van die Suid*Afrii(aanse gesiciedenis is 75 ja a r ’n ko rt tydsverloop. Dit is e g te r in dió tyd-
p erk d at Suid-Afrika en Suid-Afrikaners in ’n sm eitkroes van konfiik, versoening en binding as
s ta a t en nasie g es taite gekry en volle wasdom b ereik iiet.
Net soos die Suid-Afri-
kaanse Weermag in die afge-
lope 75 jaar ’n integrerende
deel van die Suid-Afrikaanse
samelewing was, is sy geskie-
denis ook dié van Suid-Afrika.
Dit het twee jaar ná sy tot-
standkoming midde in ’n Re-
beliie gestaan, en is terselfder-
tyd in 'n wêreidoorlog gedom-
pel.
Dit aiies het gebeur terwyi
die Unieverdedigingsmag nog
in sy kinderskoene gestaan
het as ’n weermag waarin ge-
vestigde Britse militêre tradi-
sies met dié van die Afrikaner-
voik sinvoi geïntegreer moes
word. Dit moes plaasvind op 'n
tydstip toe die herinnering van
die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog
nog diep in die voiksgeheue
ingesny het.
Maar die Unieverdedigings­
mag het, ondanks die hewige
politieke stryd in die volksge-
ledere, sy beslag gevind en
met onverdeelde iojaiiteit sy
gegewe taak uitgevoer. Dit het
groot oorwinnings op die slag-
veld behaai en in 1918 met on-
derskeiding uit die stryd ge-
tree. In 1939 is dit in soortge-
lyke omstandighede tot die
stryd opgeroep, maar weer
eens het dit sy opdrag getrou
en lojaal uitgevoer.
Hierna was daar die Ber-
lynse Lugbrug (1948) en Korea
in die vroeë vyftigerjare. In die
sestigerjare het dit voor nuwe
uitdaginge te staan gekom en
moes dit aanpas by die ver-
eistes van onkonvensionele
oorlogvoering. Dit is deeglik
beproef in die Angolese Bur-
geroorlog (1975 - 1976) en in
die stryd teen terrorisme.
Dit sou nouliks moontlik
wees om in enkele sinne reg te
laat geskied aan ’n kleurryke
geskiedenis soos dié. 0ns kan
hoogstens besin oor die bly-
wende kenmerke en betekenis
daarvan. Eerstens is dit 'n ge­
skiedenis wat getuig van on-
gelooflike aanpassingsver-
moë in u iters m oeilike
omstandighede. Maar dit is
ook 'n getuigskrif vir onver­
deelde Iojaiiteit wat bokant
PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
Genl Magnus Malan.
politieke geskille uitstyg. Meer
nog: dit is die verhaal van die
Suid-Afrikaner se vegters-
gees, sy onwrikbare wil om te
oorleef en sy waagmoed.
In tyd van oorlog en in vre-
destyd kon dit aan die een
kant homself deurentyd ver-
nuwe en aanpas by die eise
van omstandighede; aan die
ander kant was dit die vaste
LESSE VAN 75 JAAR (Boodskap deur genl Jannie Geldenhuys, H SAW)
EDURENDE 1987 sal ons
G die totstandkoming van
die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag
(SAW) 75 jaar gelede herdenk.
Ofskoon ons die SAW se stig-
tlng op 1 Julie 1912 uiteraard
as 'n belangrike historiese ge-
beurtenis voor die gees kan
roep, strek die herdenking van
1987 veel verder. Van groter
belang is alles wat die SAW in
die afgelope 75 jaar meege-
maak het: sy groei en ontwik-
keling, sy welslae en terug-
slae, sy optredes in tye van
oorlog en vrede en sy rol in die
nasionale ontwikkeling van
Genl Jannie Geldenhuys.
die Republiek van Suid-Afrika.
Vir die SAW gaan dit egter
ook nie bloot om 75 jaar se
huldeblyke nie. Weliswaar kan
ons op 'n kleurryke geskiede­
nis aanspraak maak, maar
anker van die Suid-Afrikaanse
nasie: onbeweegllk en on-
versteurbaar in sy Iojaiiteit
teenoor sy land, grondwet en
nasie.
v e n as the South African
E Defence Force reaches
its 75th milestone and
can African Defence Force will en­
look back with pride, we are
already on the threshold of a
new era.
The South African Defence
Force stands once again in a
time of great change which
makes great demands on not
only its physical prepared­
ness, but also on its spiritual
and moral fibre. More than
ever, the South African De­
fence Force must do its duty in
the face of an onslaught
aimed mainly at the socio­
economic and psychological
breakdown of South Africa.
This does not make the role
of the South African Defence
Force less important. In fact, it
is by its very example that the
South African Defence Force
daarby mag ons nie volstaan
nie. Soos enige ander vakdis-
sipline moet die Geskiedenis
(en veral Krygsgeskiedenis)
analities beoefen word as ’n
1 9 1 2 -1 9 8 7
has retained public confi­
dence and inspired and moti­
vated the public not to buckle
under the pressure of hostile
propaganda. And the very
characteristics which over the
years have become trade­
marks, as it were, of the South
sure its success in the future:
loyalty, national pride, fighting
spirit, the will to win and moral
fearlessness.
The South African Defence
Force is after 75 years as pre­
pared and flexible as ever.
Therefore we need have no
fear of the dangers and on­
slaughts of the future - even If
South Africa's former allies in
two world wars turn their
backs, and even if isolation is
total.
Never has South Africa
found it necessary to call in
the help of an ally to protect
her territory. After all, we have
the South African Defence
Force - still champions!
ter saaklike wetenskap met
praktiese toepassings en as 'n
leerskool waaruit waardevolle
lesse geleer kan word.
In die afgelope 75 jaar het
ons sekerlik bale uit ons ge­
skiedenis geleer. Duidelike
lesse is aan ons en ons voor-
gangers opgedring en ons er-
varings het die grondslag ge-
vorm vir nuwe doktrines, be-
leidsbepaling, strategiese en
taktiese formulerings, organi-
satoriese strukturering en be-
planning, en mannekragaan-
wending, om maar net ’n paar
aspekte te noem.
In hierdie opsig is die ge­
skiedenis natuurlik nie die
enigste riglyn nie. Die heer-
sende situasie en eise van die
omstandighede is faktore wat
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in ag geneem moet word. Nog-
tans kan ons ’n filosofiese be-
nadering opbou uit ons kennis
van en insig in die SAW se ge-
skiedenls.
My filosofie is dat ons nie
historiese gebeure in ons ge-
Cmdt P.G. Marais.
11 FIELD POSTAL
UNIT HONOURED
4 4 Field Postal Unit
II was recently hon­
oured at the first ever in­
door medal parade held at
the South African Army
College in Voortrekker-
hoogte.
For ten years' uninterrupted
service in the Operational
Area, 11 Field Postal Unit was
awarded a citation, read by the
Chief of the SADF, Gen Jannie
Geldenhuys, at the parade.
The unit, run by service vol­
unteer postal office workers
and national servicen^en, has
created an indispensable link
between the fannily, home and
the troops in the field and thus
made a considerable contri-
6 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
skiedenis per se meet onder-
soek nie, maar eerder die on-
derliggende beginsels en dryf-
vere meet probeer blootíd.
Terwyi onsdie feitevandie ge-
skiedenis aanvaar, moet ons
kritles staan teenoor die fak-
tore wat die verioop van die
geskiedenis bepaai het: strate-
giese en taktlese oorwegings,
evaiuerings, besluite en op-
tredes. Metanderv\^oorde; hoe
artnershÍD ensures success
(Message from Cmdt P.G. Marais, Chairman o f Armscor)
h e relationship i>etween tlie South Afri­
T can D efence Force and Armscor is m ore
than m erely th a t of a client and a supplier. It
is a partnership ensuring the e ffe ctive de*
fen ce of the Republic of South Africa.
bution to ensuring a high mor­
ale among the fighting men.
The citation includes the
words: “The long hours of
selfless and arduous labour in
support of the battle by mem­
bers who often serve in a
totally voluntary capacity mer­
its high praise and is suitably
recognised by way of this cita­
tion."
Several members of 11
Field Postal Unit received
medals at the parade. They
were;
John Chard Decoration
(Clasp for 30 years’ service)
W01 J.J. Blumenthal.
John Chard Decoration (20
vertoik ons die SAW se geskie­
denis, en wat is ons gevolg-
trekking? En liierby kom die
vraag: wat het ons uit die ver-
lede geieer en hoe gaan ons
dit in die toekoms toepas?
Dit is myns insiens die ge-
slndheid waarmee ons die
75ste bestaansjaar van die
SAW moef vier. Met die 75ste
gedenkviering van die SAW
wil ek dan ten siotte elkeen in
Gen Jannie Geldenhuys, Chief
of the SADF, awards Cmdt Ru­
dolf van Heerden, OC 11 Field
Postal Unit, with a citation
honouring the unit's ten years'
uninterrupted service in the
Operational Area.
years' service) Cmdt R. van
Heerden.
John Chard Medal (12
years’ good service) Maj G.R.
Conradie, Maj H.P. van Vree-
den, S Sgt J.S. Beukes and
S Sgt C.J.J.G. van Zyl.
Pro Patria Medal: Lt E.F.
Furter, Lt P.J. Nel, Lt W.J. Pi-
tout, 2Lt G.P. Solomon, 2Lt
G.G. Jacobs, Sgt I.P. Rauten-
bach, CpI N.D. Graham, L CpI
R. Cordier, L CpI M. McBride
and L CpI R.C. Opperman.
C SADF Commendation
Certificate: MrW.T.B. Ridgard,
Postmaster General (accepted
by Mr Van Rensburg, Deputy
Postmaster-General).
hierdie organisasie opreg be-
dank vir huile lojaie diens en
die eensgesindheid waarin
hulle hul piig nagekonn het. Ek
wil die hoop uitspreek dat ons
van 1987 nie net ’n herden-
kingsjaar sal maak nie, maar
ook ’n jaar van besinning en
nuwe denke. Mag ons in hier­
die jaar diep delf in ons ge­
skiedenis en waardevolle
lesse daaruit put.
Following the implementa­
tion of the United Nations
Arms Embargo in 1977, Arms­
cor as it is structured today,
was formed to meet the vary­
ing armaments requirements
of South Africa.
From somewhat humble be­
ginnings a bond, based on
mutual respect and admira­
tion, has developed between
Armscor and the SADF over
the years. As the SADF is its
major customer, Armscor
places much value on this re­
lationship and is proud to be a
member (albeit a relatively
young one) of the South Afri­
can Defence Family.
The contribution the SADF
makes to this partnership is vi­
tal - as the end user it plays an
essential role in defining the
various weapon systems it
uses, for Armscor to develop
and manufacture.
In meeting these require­
ments, Armscor takes pride in
having played a part in supply­
ing the necessary hardware
which has made the SADF the
formidable force it is today, a
force which is virtually unpa­
ralleled on the African conti­
nent.
At the same time, the SADF
can lay claim to being able to
deploy weapon systems which
can be rated with the best
available anywhere in the
world - and in certain in­
stances, even better.
Armscor has enjoyed its as­
sociation with the SADF and
wishes it well on its 75th anni­
versary.
We look forward to an even
happier association during
the next 75 years!
1 9 1 2 -1 9 8 7
 While South Africans were preparing for a peaceful Christmas
H IL E m o st S o u th
W Africans w ere pre­
paring to spend a
p e a c e fu l C h ris tm a s w ith
th eir fam ilies, elem ents both
inside and outside our coun>
try w ere threatening to dis­
turb th e p ea c e w e associate
w ith C h ris tm a s , said th e
S ta te P resident, Mr P.W. Bo­
tha, in an address broadcast
by SABC Television on 12 De­
cem ber 1986.
In order not to promote the objectives
of these elements, regulations had been
announced regarding the release of cer­
tain security related information by the
media.
Mr Botha said he noticed that, as in the
past, we also now find that hostile propa­
ganda is being spread throughout the
world. "I wish to use this opportunity to
inform you that our security forces have
over the past 24 hours been compelled to
conduct certain preventative security
measures. These security measures were
aimed at the SACP/ANC structures that
are involved in the planning, co-ordi-
nation and execution of revolutionary vi­
olence. It was aimed at those forces under
the direction of the SACP/ANC terrorist-
alliance which has as its aim the foment­
ing of revolution in our country.
"The ANC itself acknowledges that they
have, during the past two years, suffered
severe setbacks in Mozambique, Swazi­
land, Lesotho and Botswana. The ANC
thus admits that it is operating from our
neighbouring states, and is misusing the
territories of those states for the perpetra­
tion of violence in the RSA.
"The security action to which I want to
refer, is based on irrefutable information
that has been assembled and evaluated
with great care and self-sacrifice. Re­
cently published regulations regarding
the media should also be viewed in the
light of this information."
T HIS information concerned:
• Firstly, the intended terror planned
by the terrorist alliance for December
1986 and for 1987. In ANC pamphlets, for
instance, 16 December 1986 was consid­
ered as the appropriate occasion to step
up terror and murder.
• Secondly, there is the so-called
structures of this alliance in neighbouring
states and within South Africa. Of special
importance is the unholy alliance's so-
called Politico-Military Council described
by itself as its "war council”.
"Overall control is centred in Lusaka
with regional command structures and
so-called "machineries ' in neighbouring
states which are responsible for the ex­
ecution of acts of violence and subver­
sion,’’ said Mr Botha.
SACP/ANC terror
plans unmasked
"Thirdly we have intelligence regarding
the identities of a large number of per­
sons who are known to us, who are serv­
ing in those structures and who are in­
volved in questionable activities. It is
clear from irrefutable intelligence that
units of murderers inside our country are
controlled by the structures in our neigh­
bouring states. These were therefore not
actions directed against innocent per­
sons and bystanders. They were aimed at
the SACP/ANC collaborators manning the
structures, and the structures them­
selves. They were also directed against
those who allow themselves and their or­
ganizations - especially the UDF - to be
misused and misguided by the forces of
terror.
"The emphasis of the actions was par­
ticularly on the underground units speci­
fically responsible for acts of sabotage,
murder and terror. No one should accuse
us of flights of fantasy. The results of
those bloody inhuman acts are visible for
all to see. Our actions were made possible
by vital information received from
sources and agents on all levels within
the ANC as well as from recently arrested
terrorists and ANC deserters."
r Botha continued that further in­
M formation included a number of key
ANC documents:
• The one document contains reports
of ANC commissions compiled for its
June 1985 conference, which were re­
cently re-affirmed as guidelines for ac­
tion.
• The second ANC document contains
the major resolutions and recommenda­
tions of the abovementioned conference.
• The other document was distributed
from Lusaka in October 1986 following a
joint meeting of the ANC’s National Ex­
ecutive Committee and its so-called Poli­
tico-Military Council concerning this or­
ganisation’s planning for 1987. At that
meeting the ANC's top structure recon­
sidered the decisions taken at the 1985
conference and authorised the continu­
ation of violence.
The ANC planning set out in these
documents inter alia comprises the fol­
lowing:
• The expansion of murder, sabotage
and arson to White residential areas and
urban centres.
• The expansion of murder, arson and
intimidation to White farms in rural areas,
including the laying of landmines on farm
tracks.
• Attempts to make more effective use
of the UDF as a mass organisation in their
efforts to foment revolution.
• Action against the citizens of the na­
tional and independent states.
In this regard it is, for example, specifi­
cally stated that Chief Minister Buthelezi
of KwaZulu and his supporters should re­
ceive special attention, pointed out Mr
Botha.
• Attempts to cause division among
Whites.
• Involving the Progressive Federal
Party youth groups and the End Cons­
cription Campaign in a so-called "broad
democratic front”.
• Encouraging dialogue between
South African delegations and the ANC in
Lusaka.
• Making use of neighbouring states
as springboards for further acts of mur­
der and terrorism in the Republic of
South Africa.
• Plans to incite revolution in the RSA
before, on and after 16 December 1986 by
way of extensive acts of sabotage and
mass actions.
r Botha said from the contents of
M these documents it is clear beyond
all doubt that the ANC is now striving to
divide our Black communities, and to in­
cite them against the Whites, and to en­
courage the committing of acts of viol­
ence against Whites, even if these were to
include large-scale bloodshed. In this
process the ANC places a high premium
on underground structures that have to
execute this barbaric plot.
“The State cannot allow overt and
underground structures created for the
execution of violent revolution, to func­
tion undisturbed-neither within, norout-
side the country. There should be no
doubt whatsoever regarding the real aim
of these acts of revolutionary violence.
"Oliver Tambo recently explained it in
the following way:
‘We are revolutionaries, and our busi­
ness is to make revolution. . . All revol­
utions are about state power. Our's is no
exception . . . Our bottom-line is the rev­
olutionary seizure of power. ’
"Some individuals and organisations
knowingly or unknowingly contribute to­
wards the enhancement of the ANC's
status and pcJsition. Any meeting with a
South African organisation is viewed as a
victory for the ANC.
• Continued on p 47
PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987
 BELtS
KENNERSKEUSE SED ÊR T 1825

8 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987 BARREnS 17138A

 SAAF Museum opened
by Minister Botha
t a sm all parade flan ked by a irc ra ft of a bygone era, M r
A R.F. Botha, M inister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Patron of
the SAAF Museum and Honorary Colonel of 3 Squadron, of­
ficiated a t th e reopening of th e SAAF Museum workshop a t
Lanseria Airport.

The Minister also expressed a special
word of welcome to the sole remaining
pioneer of military aviation in South
Africa, Maj Gen Kenneth van der Spuy. At
the age of 94, Maj Gen van der Spuy is the
patron of the friends of the SAAF Museum
Society.
In his speech, the Minister outlined the
aims of the SAAF Museum.
(a) To collect, preserve, restore and ex-
Two of the guests at the opening of the
Museum, Mr F.J. de Virion and Mr Z.J.
Fudakowski, enjoy a drink and a chat at
the reception held after the parade.
hibit articles and records pertaining to
the heritage and traditions of the SAAF
and Military aviation associated with it.
(b) To interest and educate the general
public, particularly the youth, in military
aviation,
(c) To undertake research into and to
accumulate and disseminate information
and knowledge relating to the history and
traditions of the SAAF.
After his speech Mr Botha officially
opened the SAAF Museum workshop. A
bust of Maj Gen van der Spuy, by Mike
Edwards, was also unveiled by the Minis­
ter.
The museum itself has several out­
standing exhibits. Included in these are
the tiny model aircraft built by members
Maj Gen Kenneth van der Spuy, patron of
of the staff, to the giant twin enginéd
Lockheed Lodestar. There are also nu­ the friends of the SAAF Museum, gave a
short speech after a bust of him had been
merous other interesting aircraft on dis­
unveiled by Min R.F. Botha (right). Behind
play, each of which represents an import­
them stands Cmdt A.E. Smit, OC of the
ant chapter in the history of the SAAF.
Museum.
The DH Vampire, for instance, is familiar
to many as the first jet propelled aircraft
to enter SAAF Squadron service.
Another such aircraft is the Canadair There are many more interesting dis­
Sabre, which was used by 2 Sqn to sup­ plays, each one a tribute to the pioneers
port the UN forces in Korea in 1951. 2 Sqn of South African Military Aviation history.
received citations from the South Korean- The museum affords the visitor a glimpse
and USA Presidents for their illustrious into the past, when those magnificent
services. Also on display from this chap­ men in their flying machines first took to
ter in the history of the SAAF are flying the South African skies. A fitting tribute
jackets, medals and badges. indeed.

Mr R.F. Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, addresses the parade at the reopening of the SAAF Museum workshop at Lanseria. With him
are Maj Gen A.J.S. van der Lith, Chief of Air Staff Operations and Cmdt A.E. Smith, OC of the SAAF Museum.

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1967 9

 pragtlge K e r^xw m stengem aak en wer-

Kersfees ook ’n sler. Olé boom b g M te n k ë a ir m nr

C hristo Pe^jm, die íjyrg e in era te r van
Krugersdorp, nadat die vroue m n die Sui-
ëerkruisfontís op sy dorp die vers«»k to t
hom gerig het.

tyd van vrede Die S uiderkruisfonds se vroue het ook

fsgdeur die hospilaal gerorg v ir versie-
rings en geskenkpakkies v ir manne wie se
ouers te ver w c»n om die dag saam met
hulte ta kon deurbríng.

en geluk in Die hospitaal het ook gesorg v ir ander

w rm a a klikh « te soos 'n K e r^ a ríy tjie v lr
die ho sp ita a lp e re o n ^l se kteingoed en ’n
ete ¥ir die sw art pereoneei.

die SA Weermag
K ERSFEES Is ^ wir vraug-
ite m mm Im t
d ie SA S e s o iil d a t e fc e
wmË mm e m t ©# » n -
rtw red® in lilé tfá nfe » f se­
t t o p s km i wmm tri«, g@mi ver>
a o r i is.
Aan almaí w at op diens was, is 'n tieer-
like Kersete v o o r ^ it en die manne op
patroltle Is ook nie wergeet nle. Met hul
tenigkeer is daar ook aan húite 'n smaak-
like ete voorgesit.
Die A djunk-m inister van Verdediging,
m nr W ynand B reytenbach, het die
grensgebiede besoek om pereoontík
boodskappe aan die manne oor te dra.
’n Ander groepie Weermagiede ¥ir wie
Kerefees m inder vreugdevol was, is die
siekes in die m llltêre hospiíaie. Maar daar
is ook moeite gedoen om húl v e its p daar
m eer aangenaam te maak.
By t M ilitêre Hospitaaí in P retoria het
die S uiderkruisfonds soos gewoonlik ONDER: Die kinders het Ketswader inge- ’n Dankie-mentjie v ir Kersvader vir ’n
pakkies aan die sisk soWate oortiandig en wag tm hy by hul K e rs ^rty tp e by 1 Mi- reuse-gmkenkpakkie. Die kinders van die
in die voorportaal van die hospitaai is ’n litêm Hospitaai ’n draai gemaak het om personeel van 1 Militêre Hospitaai het
geskenke u it te deei. heerlik Kersparty gehou saam met
Kersvader, Micky Muis, 'ntomertaarendie
snaakse At IJebtm.

'f
10 PWWTus • jMmjmr i» 7
m«ia<Éía'Ma-«Éa tp 'n q

SOUTHERN CROSS FUND’S MESSAGE:

‘General public is
thinking of you!’
IN true C hristm as spirit, m em bers of tiie S outiiem Cross Fund
handed g ift parcels to patien ts a t 1 M ilitary Hospital and their
m essage to a ll w as: “The general public is thinking of you!”
After raising funds in excess of R14 mil­ Another “useful goodie ” in the pack­
lion in the 1985/86 financial year, it was age was a sponge buff puff.
clear South Africans were contributing “We have found that National Service­
generously towards the Fund’s cause, men make use of it for general cleaning The Mayor of Krugersdorp, Mr Christo
said Mrs Elizabeth Albrecht, the National purposes and use it on patrols to moisten Peyper, with patients of 1 Mil Hosp. He
President. dry cracking lips, ” said Mrs Albrecht.
donated the hospital's Christmas tree.
“When they use the items in the par­
cels, 1 hope the men will remember it
comes from the people of South Africa,”
she said.
Speaking at a small function in the hos­
pital, Mrs Albrecht said the Fund was
“moving with the times". And referring to
rising terrorism inside the country, she
said the Fund had changed its baste
motto from "working for the men on the
border" to “working for men in uniform".
“We try to look after men on the bor­
ders inside South Africa as well, ” she
said.
Gifts distributed to patients included
‘The Southern Cross Bag’, a small zip-up
hold-all. Inside were “useable ” items
such as a pen knife, comb, writing pad,
key ring and shoe brushes.

ONDER: Ná ’n jaar se harde werk is n

heerlike Kersete net die antwoord. Die
swart personee! van 1 Militêre Hospitaal is Christmas spirit came to 1 Military Hospital when members of the Southern Cross Fund
deur die tiospitaal getrakteer en die disse presented gifts to patients. Mrs Elizatieth Albrecht, National President of the fund stands
tiet in almal se smaak geval. Die Bevel- third from right with Brig A.P. Coetzer, OC of the hospital.
voerder van die hospitaal, brig A. P. Coet-
zer, tiet almal by dié geleentheid ook 'n
voorspoedige 1987 toegewens.
It was the Southern Cross Fund’s ele­ ranged a set of mirrors for his con­
venth Christmas visit to 1 Military Hospital venience.
in their nineteenth year of service to Na­ “It means a lot to them, to see secure
tional Servicemen. “We are no strangers people from outside coming to their bed­
to the patients, in fact each floor at the side,” said Mrs Theron,
hospital has its own “foster mother’,” said And in full support of Mrs Theron’s
Mrs Albrecht. statement, a National Serviceman, Pte
Giving hours of their time each week, Cedric Jones, who was sharing a ward
the women of the Fund visit patients, with three other young men, said the la­
helping them wherever possible. Mrs An- dies “give us something to look forward
nekie Theron, a businesswoman in Pre­ to. I’ll never forget the time I needed some
toria, is a typical “foster mother’. deodorant because my girlfriend was visi­
“Through my contacts and through facto­ ting. I mentioned it to one of the ladies
ries it is easier for me to organize gifts for and the next day they sorted me out. ”
servicemen,” she said.
Spending two to three hours with pa­
tients every Wednesday evening, Mrs
Theron helps to supply patients with
soap, face cloths and other necessities.
Once she supplied a needy patient with a
portable radio. She recalls a National Ser­
viceman last year who was unable to
move because of his injuries, and ar­
it
PARATUS • JANUAaJE 1987 11
 By Amn Jonathan Cleland

CHRISTMAS DAY AT SALISBURY ISLAND *

A fine example of
cameraderie, friendship
m iS T M A S HAY a t S alis- NE of the Naval fur>ctions that was
C b u iy Isia m f in 0 u fte n w as
Oil® M M w ill! flie usual Am am i
O
manned with particular dedication
was that of the SAS Scorpion Main Signal
Office (MSO Scorpkm). Able Seaman
fe s tiv ity , a s w eH as ra m e m te r-
Grant Leversha was doing his first camp
k m w lia t O iris tm a s P a f is a il after com pleting his National Service in
alN H it. July 1985. In civilian life Grant holds the
A s is Wm c a s e in a tif w eH -nin position of Corporate Financial Ffepre-
m ilita iir e s fa M ls itm e iit, how - sentative and the degree of responsibility
afforded to Grant through his civilian
fo m in g ttefa* e v e i^ d a f liiity a s if work h » ensured that he continues his Sea Sagren Naidoo of SAS Jalsena (22),
It w m m a n o ttie r dasf.” camps as a signal operator. was on duty at the main gate to the base.

A t the SAS Jalsem, a training unit

where Sndian volunteers undergo basic
tra in in g the itie n on duty mere Invited to
tjrin g th e ir imm ediate fam ilies fo r a mag­
n ifice n t Christm as lunch at the unit. The
meal was “ on the house" for men on duty
and their guests. Any other relatives or
friends who also wanted to enjoy the
meal, had to pay a nominai charge of
R5.00 per head.
The officer of the day at the SAS Jal­
se m on Christm as Day was S Lt Gavin
Price, who actually volunteered to per­
form his duty on Christmas Day so that
fellow duty officers whose fam ilies lived
up country could go home for the festive
season - certainly a fine example of the
friendship and cameraderie that exists
among these young men. S Lt Price ob­
tained two videos to help while away the
24 hours’ duty on what was inevitably a
quiet day.
T tie four Officers of the Day over the
festive season at SAS Jalsena were a ll Na­
tional Servicemen, like S Lt Price. The
other officers were Ensign Jan Olwagen
and Midshipmen Nick Smith and Werner The three men who manned the Main Signal Office at SAS Scorpion on Christmas Day
Hadley. were, from left. Able Seaman Glen Dale, Sea Richard King and Able Seaman Grant
The young man who welcomed us at Leversha.
the base. Sea Sagren Naidoo, lives in
Umhtatuzana near Chatsworth. Sea Nai-
doo’s only complaint was that “there was About working on Christmas Day, There was, of course, a strike craft on
not as much traffic as usual". Grant had nothing but positive com­ standby in case of an emergency, but
ments. “Doing camps in you home-town most of the ship’s company were relaxing
is privilege enough for me,” says Grant. "I and having a good time in the true spirit
can’t complain about my position, so of Christmas cheer.
working on Christmas Day is ju s t part of It is often a sobering thought that while
the deal." most of us were enjoyirig the festive sea­
Grant's colleagues at MSO Scorpion son, there were some dedicated men
felt the same way as he did, although they keeping the cogs of the SA Navy on Salis­
are Permanent Force members. Both Sea bury Island well-oiled and prepared, as al­
Richard King and Able Seaman Glen Dale ways.
are from the Cape and even being so far
away from their families didn't mind work­
ing on Christmas Day. They are both hop­

it
ing to be posted down to the Cape some
time in the New Year. None of the three
men at MSO are m arried.

S Lt Gavin Price, the Officer of the Day on

Christmas Day at the base.

12
 Happy
faces
atSAS
Zonneblom
very successful Chrlst-
mas party was heki at
the Silvermine sports fields
for the staff of the SAS Zon­
neblom's children. Children
from all over SAS Zonneblom
gathered with their parents to
await the arrival of Father
Christmas. Seen here are Lt
S. Fourie, organiser of the
party, and U Cdr M. Norton
with a group of children from
their unit.

Face to face with ‘real Father Christmas’

ITH smites stretching
W from ear to ear and ex­
citement reaching fever pitch,
the youngsters of the 2 Mili­
tary Hospital Créche received
their presents from Father
Christmas at the créche’s arv-
nual Christmas tree held at the
hospital.
Father Christmas arrived in
a hardly recognisable Army
jeep, ft was brightly decorated
in the true spirit of Christmas,
with red and white mistletoe
and bells painted on the card­
board panels covering it. It
was decorated to look like a
snow sleigh.
Father Christmas was actu­
ally WOl A.H. MacKenzie. He
was previously the Regimental
Sergeant Major at Natal Medi­
cal Command. He has since
retired.
Seen here are some of the
children who enjoyed the oc­
casion and who were rather
awe struck at coming face to
face with the “real Father
Christmas”.

PARATUS • JANUABie 1987 13

 MAJ GEN KENNETH REID VAN DER SPUY

Fighter pilot, prisoner in Russia, O fficer Commanding of five

d ifferen t units, founder m em ber of tlie Soutii A frican Air
Force, pioneer in aerial photography and aerial com bat,
author, veteran of tw o World W ars and a tru e gentlem an.

ny of the aforementioned aptly

A describes one of the South Afri­

can Defence Force’s oldest and
most legendary figures, Maj
Gen Kenneth Reid van der Spuy.
Maj Gen van der Spuy, born in Stellen­
World’s
oldest
bosch on 18 t^arch 1891, is the only sur­
viving member of a group of ten men who
were selected in 1913 in Kimberley to be
trained as pilots under the direction of
British aeroplane designer, Compton Pa­
terson, in one of his earliest models, the
Paterson Biplane. Of the original ten, only
six eventually passed out as qualified pi­
lots.
“Training was done on a very crude ba­
pilot The fruits of many years of service in the
military. Maj Gen van der Spuy shows off
his decorations.
sis in those days,” recalls Maj Gen van

talks
der Spuy. “I received my licence after
only one hour and forty minutes flying
time. ”
This is a far cry from the Intensive train­
ing undergone by today’s pilots. However,
judging by the stories related by Maj Gen
van der Spuy, it was just as tough.
On one occasion during a training
flight, the General and Paterson were in­
volved in a crash from which they were
both lucky to escape with their lives. An
to PARATUS
unperturbed Paterson, armed with a pair of pliers, was rallying the men around to
help rebuild the wreck which only fifteen
minutes earlier had almost claimed his
life.

t the -outbreak of the First World

A War, Maj Gen van der Spuy was
transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and
posted to 2 Squadron. He served in
France on reconnaissance duties.
His initiation into aerial combat was in
Sois Sons in France when he encoun­
tered an enemy aircraft while on a routine
flight. A dog-fight ensued. After both pi­
lots had unsuccessfully tried to shoot
each other down and had run out of am­
munition, they waved good-buy and flew
their separate ways.
On returning to base, the maintenance
crew checked the plane for damage, and
after scrutinous investigation failed to
find a single bullet hole in the fuselage.
It was during one of these reconnais­
sance flights that the General, a keen
photographer, took a few photographs of
the enemy lines. His superiors were most
impressed with the information that such
photographs could provide and ordered
that similar photographs be taken on all
flights. Aerial photography was born.
The original group of ten men who were to undergo training as pilots in South Africa The General’s initiative and ingenuity
under the direction of Compton Paterson, Maj Gen van der Spuy is seated second frorh were once again evident with his revol­
left. utionary idea of mounting a machine gun

14 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

 By P te G. P en to p o u lo s
Photos: Sm n A.B. In g ram

onto the framework of the piane instead

of firing hand-held weapons, which was
customary in those days.
“Originally we used sawn off shot-guns
and revolvers in dog-fights. We filled the
shot-guns with nuts and bolts or anything
else which we thought would sufficiently
damage an enemy plane in order to take it
out of the sky. This was rather cumber­
some and very inefficient, and more often
than not we did more damage to our own
planes than anything else.”
Pilots in those days also resorted to
throwing darts overboard, but these had
little effect on the helmets of the men in
the trenches.
"It was then that I decided to mount a
Lewis Gun by means of leather straps at­
tached to the struts of the wings. It was
suspended in front of the gunner and he
could manoeuvre it much more easily. It
also meant that he could fire out along
the wings and not damage the propellor
by shooting it full of holes.”
He also recalls the long days they spent
in the air. They took off at dawn and re­
turned to base only for refuelling and a
quick cup of tea, before flying off again.
This went on until nightfall.
“Times were tough in those days, and
we had not only the enemy to contend
with but the army and navy as well. They
referred to aircraft as a "new fang led toy’’
which were only good for frightening the
cavalry’s horses. ”
However, it was not long before the Air
Force's true worth was recognised and BELOW: A photograph of Maj Gen van Maj Gen van der Spuy seated at the con­
the co-ordination of air, land and sea der Spuy's original Aviators' Certificate. trols of the replica of the Paterson Bi­
forces changed the face of warfare for Note the num ber-he was the 803 rd pilot plane which was constructed in 1981. The
good. ever trained by the Royal Aero Club of the Paterson Biplane was the machine in
United Kingdom. which he first learnt to fly in 1913. (Photo
Diamond Fields Advertiser)

N 1915 he was recalled to assist Gen

/ *’ , .
I Botha in his German South West Africa
campaign. The Royal Air Force could not
spare any of their aircraft for the cam­
/ ■,. t ///ffj' /ffi' paign. so the Union Defence Force had to
/ '/ . / ,f!l /
V >' '• ///• make alternative arrangements.
In the French town of Boc, Maj Gen van
der Spuy succeeded in obtaining four
f: ;.. Canton Unne water-cooled engines which
were then mounted in planes designed by
/ ./fe e í« /
the Frenchman Henri Forman. The new

m
machines were named The Forman All
Steel Aeroplane. These were used
„ i
- ! .’/r' /■’j rff'/r throughout the German South West
' »r- / V. / //
'■XP' p- Africa campaign and according to the
tHí aer:> :-i.s -&0 k General, were the finest in use at the time.
Although the South African Air Force
was only officially instituted in 1920, these
four Forman All Steel Aeroplanes, and

• Continued on p 16

PARATUS • JANUAHIE 1987 15

 W orld’s oldest
pilot talks
to PARATUS
• Continued from p 15
their use in South West Africa in 1915,
were the seeds from which our own pow-
erfui Air Force germinated.
In 1918 Maj Gen van der Spuy com­
manded Allied air units in Northern Rus­
sia in the rank of lieutenant colonel. In
April 1919 the general In charge of the Be-
reznik front ordered that a group of eight
aircraft of the Russian Air Force and Lt
Col van der Spuy in a Sopwith Camel go
on a reconnaissance and bombing mis­
sion on an important enemy headquarters
forty miles into Bolsnevik territory. During
the flight things did not go smoothly. The
bombers were constantly flying out of for­
mation, getting behind or lost, (t got so
bad that Lt Col van der Spuy decided to
go ahead on his own.
He arrived at his objective, dropped his
bombs and then turned sharply to shower
the headquarters with machine gun fire.
Suddenly his engine cut out and only the
shrill whistling of the wind through the
wires was audible.
He managed to glide to within twenty
miles of a British base when he was
forced to make a crash landing. His plane
overturned, trapping him underneath it.
The petrol tanks had burst, covering him
and the plane in fuel. The fire risk was
great and Russian soldiers had already
appeared on the opposite bank of a
nearby river.
Somehow he found the strength to
wriggle free and made a beeline for the
forest nearby.
April in Northern Russia is early spring.
Snow and ice still covered much of the
countryside, and that which had melted
made the ground soft and marshy. With­
out any food or weapons, he had to make
his way through the forest in his quest for
freedom.
That night he returned to the river to try
and find a large piece of ice on which he
could float downstream to the Allied base.
In his search along the river, he acci­
dently found himself right in front of a
communist camp. He crawled past this
new threat on his stomach.
His nocturnal adventures were not yet
over. Further along he found another
river. Fortunately this one had a bridge so
he would not have to swim its icy waters.
What he had not considered was that it
might be guarded. Suddenly he was con­
fronted by two ominous looking Russian
guards.
He pulled his greatcoat tighter and in
his best Russian accent, wished the
16 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
Maj Gen van der Spuy plays with his dog while Mrs Una van der Spuy tends the roses in
their immaculate garden
A photo of Maj Gen van der Spuy when he
was still a captain.
guards a pleasant evening and carried on
walking. The guards stood there open
mouthed as they watched the old “Rus­
sian farmer" walk off into the forest.
The next morning, while crossing a
road, he was accosted by a group of Rus­
sian cavalrymen. He was a Russian pris­
oner.
After two years in a number of different
Russian prisons and a diet of hot water
and black bread, Kenneth Reid van der
Spuy was set free. Back home he had
been declared missing, presumed dead. It
was with much emotion and joy that he
was reunited with friends and family.
o r the next thirteen years he worked
F with Gen Sir Pierre van Ryneveld es­
tablishing the South African Air Force. A
lot of assistance was received from the
Royal Air Force in the way of aircraft,
maintenance staff and machinery. It was
also necessary in the early stages to im­
provise. The huge crates that the aircraft
arrived in were the original offices of the
SAAF.
Between 1933 and 1938, he was the
commander of Natal, Cape Province, Ro­
berts Heights (now Voortrekkerhoogte)
and Transvaal Commands respectively. In
1937, he commanded the South African
Coronation Contingent,
In 1939 he became South Africa's liai­
son officer in London, responsible among
other duties, for the purchase of military
equipment for the SAAF. He returned to
South Africa in 1941 as Director General
Technical Services until his retirement in
1945. Maj Gen van der Spuy now lives in
the town of his birth, Stellenbosch, with
his wife Una. Their home is a picturesque
wine estate called Old Nectar. The garden
is immaculately maintained by the
couple. Una has the distinction of having
no fewer than nine books on horticulture
to her credit.
At the National Museum of Military His­
tory there is a display of the major gener­
al's uniforms and numerous decorations,
including the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire (Commander/CBE), the
Military Cross and the French Croix de
Guerre avec palmes.
It is truly an honour for the South Afri­
can Defence Force to have a man of the
calibre of Maj Gen van der Spuy amongst
its ranks. He is the personification of the
expression. An Officer and a Gentleman.
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langs besoek. B ehalw e die
besoek aan ’n a a n ta l m iiitére
eenhede h et die besoekers
o o k m e e r v a n d ie s ta d
Bloem fontein g eleer.
Volgens kmdt J. Malan, die Suid-
Afrikaanse begeleidingsoffisier, is
die besoek deel van die jaarlikse ak-
tiwiteitsprogram wat die SAW vir
mitítêre attachés aanbied. !n 1986
was Bloemfontein vir die eerste
keer ook op die program. So-
doende word die land, sy mense en
soveel moontlik binne mílitére ver-
band aan die mense bekend gestel.
So n program siuit gewoonlik n
Die attaches is dear kol C.E. le Roux van 1 Valskermbataljon tydens tiuf besoek besoek aan die Grens ook in. 1986
aan Bloemfontein met n toer deur die eenheid vergas. Hulle het onder andere se program het byvoorbeeld be-
die Gedenkmuur en die nuwe Opieidingstak besoek. soeke aan die grensgebied. Walvis-

ESOEKERSGROEP

Oud-valskermsoldate
van cAe Intem asio-
n a le V a ls k e rm s o i*
datebo nd h et 1 Valskerm ba*
ta ljo n besoek as gaste van

van oorsee kom

d ie Bioemf onteinse
V a ls k e rm d o e k . D ie besoe­
kers w a t uit Frankryk, Arne-
rika en Kanada afkom stig

spring op SA bodem
w as, h et die kans gekry om
op S uid'A frikaanse bodem ’n
sprong uit te voer en die
v ieu els van 1 V aiskerm batal-
jon t e ontvang.
n Kransleggingseremonie is op Die volgende dag was die hoogte- Ná die sprong is die groep na die
die paradegrond van 1 Valskermba­ punt - die sprong! Die oudste pragtige tuin van die gesin Von Ma­
taljon gehou. Kranse is gelê ter ere springer, kol Lemaitre, was 74 jaar litz gebring waar hulle hul vieuels
van gesneuwelde valskermsoldate oud. Die sprong het sonder enige van geni maj Du Plessis ontang het.
van 1 Valskermbataljon. ’n Krans is voorvalle verloop. Die plaas Thorn- Dit is gevier op die Franse manier -
gelê deur geni maj M.J. du Plessis, grove van mnr P.J. von Malitz, van met bottels sjampanje.
Hoof van Leërstaf Personeel, wat pas Bloemfontein, Is vir die geleentheid
afgetree het; kol André Lemaitre vaii aan 1 Valskermbataljon beskikbaar
Frankryk en kol Donald Strobaugh gestel.
van die VSA. GenI maj Du Plessis het
’n krans gelê namens die Valskerm-
soldatebond van Suid-Afrika, kol
C.E. le Roux namens 1 Valskermba­
taljon en kpl T. Kluyts namens die
Valskermdoek van Bloemfontein.
Ná die kranslegging is die gaste
deur die eenheid onthaal. Diegene
wat belanggestel het om die vol-
gende dag te spring, kon uitrusting
gaan trek en het valskermopleiding
in die eenheid se ultra-moderne
valskermopleidingstak ontvang. Dié
nie-springers is op ’n toer deur die
eenheid geneem.
Die aand is die groep deur die bur-
gemeester van Bloemfontein, prof
Voet du Plessis, onthaal. Daarna is
met die besoekers uitbeweeg na Lek-
kerhoekie, De Brug, waar hulle met ’n
Suid-Afrikaanse vieisbraai onthaal is.
Dié wat belanggestel het, kon die
aand daar in die veld slaap. Die res is
terug na die hotel. Van die Franse besoekers.
18 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
Buítelandse attachés
baai, Oos-Transvaal, Middeiburg en
Potchefstroom ingesluít.
Die program verskil elke jaar. Die
attachés word só die kans gegun
om mense van elke streek en alle
vlakke van die samelewing te ont-
moet. Hulle kan dus ’n eie mening
van die land as geheel vorm.
Die besoekersgroep het ingestuit
kol G.S. Carrsaco van die Chileense
Lugmag, die vrou van kapt E. Guz­
man van die Chileense VIoot <wat
ongelukkig nie self kon kom nie),
kol P.V. Ovieda van die Para-
Brigadier (hiernog kolonel) Reg Otto
en mev Kobie Otto.
n Krans is hier ter ere van die gesneuwelde valskermsoldate van 1 Valskerm-
bataljon gelé deur kol Donald Strobaugh van die VSA, kol André Lemaitre van
Frankryk en geni maj M.J. du Plessis van die SAW.
guaanse Leer, kdr en mev Hsuan
Pen-lai van die VIoot van die Repu-
bliek van China, kdr C. Raysbrook
van die VSA-Vloot en maj L.J.
Sw^antiver van die VSA Lugmag,
Hulle is vergesei deur kmdt J.
Malan en kmdt M.M. Martins van
die SAW, wat as begeleidingsoffi-
siere opgetree het.
Tydens hul besoek het hulle die
Pantserskoot. 1 Suid-Afrikaanse In-
fanteriebataljon en 1 Valskermba-
taljon besoek. Oaarby het hulle ook
die stad Bloemfontein te siene
Brig Otto neem die
leisels in OVS
M ’n m an soos brig W illie to t genI m aj en die nuw e Be-
O M eyer op te volg as Be-
velvoerder van Kommande-
m ent OVS, verg ’n uiters be-
k w am e m an, ’n bale goeie
leie r en ’n uitstekende m ilita* gestel as die Bevelvoerder van Konr>-
ris. D it is m oeilik om so ’n
persoon te vind, m aar hulle
het horn gekry: kolonel Reg
O tto! (Brig M eyer is bevorder
gekry en die Militêre Fort-museum,
die Oorlogsmuseum en die Vroue-
monument, Nasionale Museum en
die Sand du Plessis-teater besoek.
Die dames wat die besoekers­
groep vergesei het, het die geleent-
heid gekry om wanneer hul mans
die militêre basisse besoek het, op
’n alternatlewe besienswaardig-
heidstoer deur Bloemfontein te
gaan.
Die eerste aand waarop die at-
tachés en hul vroue in Bloemfon­
tein was, is hulle deur die Bloem-
fonteinse stadsraad onthaal - in die
Bloemfonteinse dieretuin! Dit was
’n regte bosveld-atmosfeer in die
hart van die stad. Met die gebrul
van leeus en ander naggeluide in
hulle ore. kon hulle die Suid-Afri­
kaanse spesialiteit geniet - braai-
vleis.
velvoerende G eneraal SWA
G ebiedsm ag.)
Kol Otto is met ingang 1 Januarie
1987 met die rang van brigadier aan-
mandement OVS. Hy is ’n oud-bevel-
voerder van die Pantserskool en 1
Spesiale Diensbataljon en dus ’n ou
bekende in Bloemfontein en die Vry-
staat.
Hy het sy Weermagloopbaan in
1963 begin as tweede luitenant by 1
SDB in Bloemfontein waarna hy nie
lank daarna nie verplaas is na
Grahamstad en in 1966 na die Leër-
kollege in Pretoria.
Hy het weer na Pantserskool in
Bloemfontein gekom en was ook by 2
Pantserkarregiment in die jare 1967
tot 1969. In 1970 is hy terug Pretoria
t o e n a d ie G e s a m e n t l i k e
Gevegsmagte en in 1973 begin hy
werk by Direkteur Pantser by die
Leerhoofkwartier in Pretoria. In 1974
word hy die tweede in tievel van 2
SDB op Zeerust met die rang van ma-
joor en in 1975 en 1976 het hy weer
na Bloemfontein gekom waar hy by
Pantserskool ’n offisierinstrukteur
was.
In 1977 word hy die Bevelvoerder
van 1 SDB met die rang kommandant
en in 1980 word hy die Bevelvoerder
van Pantserskool met die rang kolo­
nel. In 1984 is hy terug na Pretoria
verplaas en het hy by die Direkteur
van Projekte gewerk tot met sy hui-
dige bevordering.
PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 19
DELVILLE WOOD COMMEMORATIVE MUSEUM

LISTENING TO THE FAR-OFF CALL OF A WORLD IN DISTRESS, IM­

PLORING AID IN THE NAME OF MANKIND, OF NATIONAL FREEDOM
AND OF WORLD PEACE, THEY RESPONDED TO THE APPEAL AND
MARCHED TO THE BATTLEFIELDS ON LAND, SEA AND IN THE AIR.
These words greet visitors to the South African Delville Wood Com­
memorative Museum in the Somme area of Northern France. The Mu­
seum was inaugurated by the State President, Mr P.W. Botha, on Ar­
mistice Day 1986.
O South African
aw a re of his coun­
try ’s history should
m iss th e opportunity, should
he be visiting Europe, of
m aking a detour to the RSA’s
only N ational W ar M em orial,
a t D elville Wood in the Pic­
a rd y d is tric t of N o rthern
France.
The Memorial, now augmented by a
Commemorative Museum telling the story
of South Africa’s contribution to the
cause of freedom in two world wars and in
the Korean War, Is a monument to the
memory of 25 000 South African volun­
teers, men and women of all races and The South African Delville Wood Commemorative Museum
creeds, who laid down their lives in those
conflicts. Minister of South Africa, Gen J.B.M. Hert- the display was in any case quite inad­
A full report on the official inauguration zog, in 1926. equate to illustrate the heroic deeds per­
of the Commemorative Museum was pub­ The seeds from which the museum formed by South Africans in battle, not
lished in the December 1986 edition of sprang were planted at that time, for the only at Delville Wood but also in other
Paratus. In this edition, Paratus deals museum started as a small display in a theatres, campaigns and wars.
with the museum itself. The original mem­ room of the caretaker's cottage. Seen by For many years parties of war veterans
orial was unveiled by the then Prime very few of the visitors to the memorial, returning from pilgrimages to the battle-

Part of a bronze panel by Jo Floos, portraying South Africa s participation in various campaigns during World War I. Four panels by
South African artists are featured among other items on display in the museum.
Scenes of DeMlle Wood after the historic
battle during the Somme Offensive of
1916. Of 3 500 men of the SA Infantry
Brigade who were ordered to take and
hold the Wood at all costs, three officers
and 140 other ranks marched out after six
days. Some 700 South Africans lay dead
in the Wood (many bodies have still not
been found), while 2 600 had t>een evac­
uated wounded. The rest had been cap­
tured when their ammunition ran out.

1912-1987

fields of Europe complained about the
lack of factual information. Senior offi­
cials of the Commonwealth War Graves
still cham pions Commission repeatedly urged the pro­
vision of tourist facilities and that the dis­
Steeds kam pioene play in the caretaker's cottage k>e im­
proved upon and placed In a proper mu­
seum, thus bringing Delville Wood into
line with other memorials in the area.
These recommendations gave impetus
to the formation of a representative plan-
• Continued on p 22

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 21

 DELVILLE WOOD COMMEMORATIVE MUSEUM

DELVILLE "MUSEUM": 1. Bastion Buren: Office; 2. Bastion Katzenellenbogen: German

South West Africa and Gentian East Africa Campaigns; 3. Bastion Nassau: DeMlle Wood;
4. Bastion Oranje: Second World War; 5. Bastion Leerdam: United Nations and informa­
tion centre; 6. Entrance; 7. Gallery: German South West Africa and German East Africa
Campaigns; 8. Gallery: Delville Wood; 9. Gallery: First World War; 10. Gallery: Second
World War and Korean War

• Continued from p 21
ning body, a fund-raising committee of
five distinguished military veterans under
the chairmanship of the Hon Mr Justice
M.T. Steyn, and the building of this fine
tribute to the valour of South African
arms - a shrine to the Immortal Dead from
South Africa who at the call of Du^ made
the Great Sacrifice on the battlefields of
Africa, Asia and Europe, on the Sea, and
in the Air.
TERRAIN
London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The
site of the South African trenches is still
partially visible. On the western side a
commemorative plaque marks the posi­
tion of the South African headquarters. A
second plaque indicates the place where
the South Africans entered the Wood.
Old shell-holes, now overgrown with
brambles, are still to t>e seen. A single
homtieam is all that remains of the orig­
inal dense wood. The trees that now grow
in the wood were planted later.
MUSEUM DESIGN
he design of the Museum is based on
T the Castle of Good Hope in Cape
Town, the first permanent fortification incourtyard. The engraved tjorder sur­
South Africa. Its pentagonal shape forms
part of the South African Defence Force
emblem.
The five bastions of the Museum bear
the names of their counterparts in the
Castle in Cape Town: Buren, Katzenellen-
t>ogen, Nassau, Oranje and Leerdam.
Their names are derived from the titles of
the Dutch Stadtholder, the Prince of
Orange.
The architecture of the building har­
seum and is visible through the glass pan­
els from all angles within.
GLASS PANELS
he first view on entering the Museum
T through the main entrance, is an en­
graved glass window depicting Delville
Wood after the battle. The inscription at
the twttom of this panel Is taken from the
speech delivered by Gerteral J.B.M. Hert-
zog at the inauguration of the South Afri­
can National War Memorial on 10 Octot>er
1926.
Battle honours awarded to the South
African forces during the two world wars
and the Korean War are engraved on the
large windows looking out on to the
rounding them depicts South Africa’s na­
tional flower - Protea cynaroides - and
the flower emblems of the four provinces:
Disa uniflora for the Cape, Crinum bulbis-
permum for the Orange Free State, Stre-
litzia reginae for Natal and Gerbera jame-
sonii for Transvaal.
BRONZE PANELS
he passages linking the bastions

D
e l v i l l e wood, as the supreme
symbol of South Africa's sacrifice
monises with the other structures on site,
the South African National War Memorial
T house the bronze panels featuring
the works of four prominent South Afri­
and courage, occupies an eminent place and the Cross of Consecration. can artists: Danie de Jager, Mike Ed­
of honour in the country’s military history. The latter, occupying a central position wards, Tienie Pritchard and Jo Roos.
The Museum, the War Memorial aruJ the in the complex, is sheltered by the mu­ The panels depict South Africa’s in-
Wood are separated from the cemetery
(where 151 South Africans are buried), by
D e lv ille W ood
the Longueval-Ginchy road.
The path leading from the cemetery to
the Museum passes under the central
arch of the National War Memorial. The
Memorial was erected to commemorate
all South Africans who died during the
1914-18 war on French soil as well as on
other fronts. Later it was also consecrated
to the memory of those South Africans
who lost their lives in the Second World
War when they answered the call to de­
fend the cause of liberty and democracy.
Surmounting the monument is the sta­
tue of Castor and Pollux clasping hands
in friendship - a symt>ol of all the peoples
of South Africa who are united in their de­
termination to defend their common
ideals.
The central arch t>ear5 the inscription:
"Their Ideal is our legacy, their sacrifice
our inspiration ”.
The broad avenue leading from the
cemetery to the National War Memorial
and the Museum is lined with a double
row of South African oak trees grown
from acorns from Stellenbosch in the
Cape Province. They have their origin in
acorns brought from France to the Cape
by the early colonists.
Beyond the Museum is the Wood where
the historic battle took place. Here are DELVILLE "MAP": A Caretaker’s cottage; B. Entrance to the Wood and Memorial; C.
signposts bearing names like: "Strand Memorial; D. Cross of Consecration; E. Cross of Sacrifice; F. The only surviving tree; G.
Street, Regent Street, Bond Street, Bu­ Site of the South Africans' HQ; H. Point of entrance on 15 July 1916; /. Memorial Mu­
chanan Street ", well-known streets of seum.

22 PAHATUS • JANUARY 1987


Tienie Pritchard highlights South Africa's contribution to World War II and the Korean War in this bronze panel.
volvement in the two world wars and the
Korean War, The message conveyed by
these panels is South Africa's prepared­
ness to assist her Western Allies in their
struggle to protect the freedom of the
Western World. The participation of all
South Africans, regardless of colour or
creed, in combat units or auxiliary ser­
vices, constitutes the theme of these
works of art,
THE BASTIONS
UREN, the first of the five bastions,
B houses the administrative office of
the Museum, The other four contain ex­
hibits,
Katzenellenbogen depicts South Afri­
ca s participation in the First World War
and highlights the South West African,
East African and Senussi campaigns as
well as operations in Palestine,
Nassau portrays the Battle of the
Somme, with special reference to Delville
Wood.
Oranje highlights South Africa's par­
ticipation in the Second World War in
Abyssinia, Somaliland, North Africa and
Italy, including air and maritime opera­
tions.
Leerdam houses South Africa's contri­
bution to military operations of the Free
World, particularly the Berlin Airlift and
the Korean War fought under the aegis of
the United Nations. Video films on South
Africa’^ participation in the two world
wars and the abovementioned operations
are also shown here.
The items on display are exhibited
against a background of four large batiks
created by South African Louis Steyn.
T .i -J^'
A e> ^ f
í ^ " » .-'
í!.i- r
The first batik depicts South African
soldiers setting out to destroy enemy
radio stations in German South West
Africa during the First World War,
The second batik portrays the statue of
the Virgin which, on 15 January 1915, was
dislodged from its plinth on the tower of
the Basilica in Albert as a result of a bom­
bardment, The statue did not fall, but
hung at a precarious angle from the
1912-1987
still cham pions
Steeds kam pioene
church tower. The sight of the hanging
Virgin gave rise to the popular belief
amongst the soldiers that when the Virgin
of Albert fell, the war would end in defeat
for the Allies. Despite the attempts of
French and British engineers to secure
the statue. It eventually fell on 16 April
1918.
The third batik vividly reminds one of
the devastation caused by modern war­
fare during the Italian Campaign In which
South Africa's 6th Armoured Division
served under command of the 5th United
I’
.
, :E i
ï*'' * •
"
States Army.
South Africa's contribution to joint in­
ternational military action is portrayed in
the last batik. In 1950 she was one of four­
teen countries that answered the call of
the United Nations to assist South Korea
against communist aggression,
CROSS OF CONSECRATION
he Cross of Consecration is situated
T in the centre of the Museum com­
plex, It is a symbol of the sacrifice and
ideals of members of the South African
forces who volunteered for service in the
defence of the Free World. This cross,
bearing the inscription: For their faith
and for freedom they died " replaces the
Cross of Sacrifice - a common feature in
war cemeteries of the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission, of which South
Africa is a member.
PAINTINGS
he South African soldiers commem­
T orated by this Museum hailed from
the four provinces: the Cape Province,
Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal.
The character of these four provinces is
portrayed in four landscapes by Eben van
der Merwe. South Africa is a land of con­
trasts: the open plains of the Orange Free
State against the magnificence and maj­
esty of the Drakensberg mountains of Na­
tal; the cities of the Transvaal, Pretoria
and Johannesburg seem to have sprung
from the surrounding hills and veld,
whilst the soft light and muted colours of
the Cape are reminiscent of Europe, the
land of origin of early South African immi­
grants.
PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 23
 Deur kapt André van de Venter

Dit gaan goed met

manne aan Grens
** M N die Operasionele Gebied van Suidwes>Afrika
■ word daar nie voete gesleep en gekla nie. Die
■ manne is geesdrlfftig oor hui taaic en i>aie par*
aat. My geheei indruk is dat dit goed gaan en die
manne hui taak uitstekend verrig.” Mnr Wynand Breytenbach, Adjunk-minis-
ter van Verdediging.
Só sê die nuwe Adjunk-minister In 'n boodskap aan ouers met
van Verdediging, mnr Wynand seuns aan die grens het mnr Brey­
Breytenbach, ná sy onlangse be- tenbach gesê ouers moet met hul
soek aan verskeie basisse in Suid- seuns se terugkeer na die huis sê
wes-Afrika. Hy is op sy toer van drie dat hulle dankbaar en trots is vir dit
dae vergesel deur die Hoof van die wat hul seuns doen.
Leer, It geni A.J. Liet)enberg, en het
eenhede in Caprivi, Kavango,
CMambo, Koakoland en die Militêre
Gebied Walvisbaai besoek.
Mnr Breytenbach sê hoewel kon-
tak met Swapo in die noorde van
Suidwes sterk afgeneem het van-
weë die professionaliteit en doel-
treffendheid van die Suid-Afri-
kaanse Weermag, voorsien hy nie
'n vinnige einde aan die oortog nie.
Swapo se peil van opieiding en toe-
rusting verbeter steeds en daar kan
verwag word dat terroriste weer van
die komende reënseisoen gebruik
sal maak om die land binne te sy-
pei.
Die welslae wat die Weermag in
sy stryd behaal, kan onder meer
toegeskryf word aan dinamiese
leierskap. “0ns kom n lang pad
met die oorlog en die manne het
bale geleer en bale ondervinding
opgedoen,” het mnr Breytenbach
gesê.
Tydens sy besoek is hy ook getref
deur die uitstekende spanwerk van
die manne - ongeag van hul ras of
kleur, sê mnr Breytenbach. Die
LT GEN Ê.R. GLEESON, Chief of Defence
Staff, pictured with Cdr Hsuan Peng-lal,
Assistant Armed Forces Attaché of the
A WORTHY
vrouens naby die gevegsituasie ver-
dien ook lof vir die wyse waarop
hulle hul mans in moeilike omstan-
Repubiic of China in the RSA.
Cdr Hsuan was awarded the Order of
The Star of South Africa at a function in
RECIPIENT
dighede ondersteun.
Die aanpasbaarheid van die
the SA Navy Mess, Pretoria, on 15 De­
cember 1986. Lt Gen Gleeson, on malt­
ing the presentation, said the Com­
OF ORDER
Suid-Afrikaanse soldaat onder mander is a worthy recipient of the Or­ also an important second factor and that
enige omstandighede, hetsy bos óf der In view of the outstainiing quality of is that he Is the representative of a coun­
his service In South Africa since he ar­ try that has ahirays been a good friend of
woestyn, is opmerklik en die trots
rived here in January 1984. ours," Lt Gen Gleeson added.
waarmee die manne hul toerusting With Cdr Hsuan In South Africa are his
“All the duties of an attaché in a for­
hanteer, het hom ook opgeval, het eign country are of military importance, wife, Grace, and their children, Charles
die Adjunk-minister gesê. but In Commartder Hsuan's case there Is (10) and Cathy (8).

24 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

Misled, A
murdered
bvANC
Members of the State President’s Guard enjoy a cup of tea in front of the new coffee-bar
facility. Pictured centre, Lt Thys van der Merwe, Chaplain of the Unit during 1986, who
had an important role to play in the opening of the coffee-bar.
Centre lor relaxation and meditatbn opened
lik e it w hen a plan com es
I to g e th e r !” . . . H o t th e
w ords off tia n ib a l Sm ith o f
‘A -Team ’ fam e but th e sigh o f re ­
lie f th a t cam e from L t Thys van
d er M erw e a fte r 20 m onths o f
planning a c o ffe e b ar fo r th e
S ta te P resid en t’s Guard.
After moving into new barracks in April
1985 the Unit “sorely needed an informal
centre for relaxation and meditation” and
it was left to Lt van der Merwe to begin
“organizing things”.
And unlike the cigar smoking boss of
the TV serial, the hero behind the story of
the new SP Guard coffee-bar was quiet in
his method - one of the qualities that saw
him gain many allies in his quest. Lt van
T least 28 South African B lacks who w e re m isled into
joining the banned African N ational Congress w ere
elim inated for “subversion” a fte r th e ir “eyes had
opened”, according to a press release by th e Com m issioner
of th e South African Police, Gen P.J. C oetzee, on 18 Decem ­
ber 1986.
Information gained by the Security
Branch of the South African Police in co-
operatfon with ex-terrorist members of
the African National Congress, shows that
there are training and detention camps of
the ANC in neighbouring states where
der Merwe was Chaplain of the Unit last
year.
“It meant seeking donations to dec­
orate what used to be a pay office.” And
true to the Biblical expression, seek and
ye shall find’, the lieutenant began knock­
ing on doors and within weeks the first of­
fers of aid began coming in.
Curtains for the coffee-bar were do­
nated, then came a hi-fi system. Bravo
company at the Unit made a cash dona­
tion of R300 and the local Eldoraigne
congregation of the NGK ‘waded-in' with
material support.
Finally, the Chaplain General made a
R1 000 donation to the cause and in De­
cember 1986 the Unit’s coffee-bar opened
its doors for the first time.
conditions and living standards are ap-
paiing, said Gen Coetzee.
Young South Africans are lured, under
false pretenses of a beter education, and
even university studies, to leave the coun­
try. But as soon as they leave the country
and arrive in the training camps of the
ANC, they are redely awakened to the real
facts.
Housing, food, medical and other fac­
tors, as well as the attitude of their Rus­
sian and Cuban instructors, leave much
to the imagination. Malaria, food-poison­
ing and venereal disease are common
sights in these camps. Any complaints by
these young misled “freedom-fighters”
are seen as a motion of discontent in the
ANC itself, and the fate of those persons
questioning the ANC’s real aims is
predictable. These so called dissidents
are executed by the ANC, or placed in
their detention camps, and only a few
ever see the outside world again.
One of the most well known detention
camps is Camp Quatro.
Today there are still parents who be­
lieve their children, who joined the ANC,
are happily living under the wings of this
organisation outside South Africa, But
many of these children are missing and
most of them have, because of the appal­
ling conditions in these camps, died
there. Some have even committed suicide
because of the conditions they had to live
in.
Most of these so called "freedom fight­
ers" whose eyes had opened, were elimi­
nated by the ANC for “subversion”.
“We can only hope and trust that those
young South Africans who are about to be
misled will see the real picture, denounce
the ANC and chose a peaceful road in
South Africa," said Gen Coetzee.
Due praise came from the Chaplain
General - in person - who interrupted a
busy afternoon schedule to conduct the
official opening.
Maj Gen C.P. Naudé had words of
praise for Lt van der Merwe and thanked
everyone who had contributed to “a most
worthwhile cause”.
Like the hero of that famous TV series,
Lt van der Merwe faded into the back­
ground, completing his National Service
shortly after his work on the coffee-bar
was over. He signed out of service in De­
cember 1986.
“It pleases me to know that I have done
something constructive during my Na­
tional Service and that young men in the
years ahead will benefit from the generos­
ity of others," he said.
PARATUS• JANUARIE 1987 25

Die dodelike draadheining wat langs die
Suid-Afríkaanse grens met Zimbabwe op-
gerig is. Dié geëlektrifiseerde heining is
bedoel om ongewenste persone uit te hou
en het reeds drie lewens geëis.
ie u itstekende sam ew erking w a t tussen die W eerm ag
D
en die plaasiike boeregem eenskap iangs die noorde-
iik e grens m et Zim babw e bestaan, sal verseker d at die
ve rw ag te toenam e in terroristebedryw ighede gedurende
1987 die iioof gebied sal kan word.
'n Besoek aan Soutpansberg Militêre
Gebied (SMG) deur ’n groep persmanne
het getoon dat maatreeis soos ’n geelek-
trifiseerde heining, goed opgeleide sol-
date, 'n gedugte reaksiemag maar veral
die paraatheid en die onwrikbare wil van
die grensboere, dit vir voornemende
terroriste baie moeilik gaan maak om oor
die grens te kom en terreurdade in die Re-
publiek te pleeg.
Dat die boere langs die Limpoporivier
gereed Is vir enige gebeurlikheid, is ge-
wis. Volgens kol Swannie Swanepoel, Be-
velvoerder van SMG behoort bykans al
die mans aan die Kommandomag en is
die vrouens opgelei in wapenhantering.
Onlangs is ook begin om plaaswerkers op
te lei in skietkuns sodat hulle met plaas-
beskerming kan help.
Sowat 300 radio’s is aan boere in die
gebied uitgereik om hulle betyds van
moontlike gevaar te kan waarsku. SMG is
in subgebiede verdeel wat elk ’n leier het
met wie daar vinnig geskakel kan word
om optrede te koórdineer.
26 PAHATUS • JANUARY 1987
Deur kap t André van de V enter
Boere se durf en
samewerking keer
terro’s by grens
Verdere maatreëls wat getref is, is die
omheining van plase en die oprigting van
helder iigte. Die eerste boere kry ook bin-
nekort spesiale voertuie wat omgebou is
om beskerming teen land myne teverleen.
NR Willie Esterhuyse van die plaas
M Overvlakte in die Weipe-omge-
wing, wie se plaas aan die Limpoporivier
gelee is, het die gevoel van die boere die
beste opgesom toe hy gesé het dat die
mense ná die eerste reeks iandmynvoor-
valle in 1985 baie bang was, maar ná die
deeglike opleiding van die Weermag het wag word om elke boer elke dag op sy
dié gevoel van vrees oorgegaan in een plaas te beskerm nie. Dié taak moet deur
van versigtigheid. die boer self gedoen word.
Hy het die samewerking met die Weer- Soos die ander boere in die streek Is
mnr Esterhuyse gewis nie van plan om sy
plaas as gevolg van die veiligheidsituasie
te verlaat nie. Die sweet van die afgelope
ses jaar om sy katoen- en koringplaas op
te bou tot wat dit vandag is, was nie ver-
geefs nie.
Indien hy sou wegtrek, sal dit nie wees
as gevolg van terreurdade in die gebied
nie, maar eerder oor die groot finansiele
las. Gelukkig verleen die Staat n hel-
mag geloof as “ uitstekend" en daarop ge- pende hand in die vorm van ’n bed rag van
wys dat hoewel hulle boere is en nie sol- R500 per maand vir elke gesin op 'n
date nie, kan dit nie van die Weermag ver- grensplaas, 80 persent substdie op land-
Mynveespanne is verantwoordehk om
paaie in die grensgebied te vee vir
moontlike landmyne voordat die
plaasiike inwoners met gerustfieid
daar kan beweeg.
Vir die vroue in die noordelike grensgebied is dit geweer in die een hand en baba in die ander. Mev Ronelle Erasmus (links) en mev
Elene Esterhuyse is saam met hul kroos afgeneem.

mynbestande voertuie en gaan daar ook

binnekort n teerpad a! langs die grens-
draad gebou word.

en van die grootste probleme waar-

E mee kol Swanepoel te kampe het, is
die ontvolking van die grensplase en
daarmee saam ook die instroming van in-
vi/oners uit Zimbabwe wat kom werk soek
in die Republiek. Volgens berigte lewe
sommige van dié mense in haglike toe-
stande en van hulle het so ver as Bula­
wayo gekom om werk te soek.

Ongeveer 30 000 mense kruis jaarliks

die grens vanuit Zimbabwe en hoewel
hulle weer teruggestuur word, verskaf dié
beweging van mense n ideale dekmantel
vir ANC-terroriste om Suid-Afrika te infil-
treer.
Wat SMG se taak verder bemoeilik, is
die feit dat sowat die heSfte van die plase
in die streek onbewoon is en terroriste
daarom makliker ongemerk kan deurbe-
weeg.
Tydens die besoek is die dodeiike ge-
elektrifiseerde heining cos van Beitbrug
ook aan die pers gewys. Die draadheining
wat opgerig is om onwettige immigrante
en terroriste te ontmoedig om die grens Die Hoof van die Leer, It geni A.J. Liebenberg, het verskeie basisse aan Suid-Afrika se
oor te steek, het die afgelope twee jaar noordelike grensgebied besoek om Kers- en Nuwejaarsgroete oor te dra. Hierspreek hy
reeds drie iewens geeis. die manne van 7 SAI Bn en Hillcrest-Kommando toe.

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 27

 Deur It S tella Blom

Sy verhaal verdien Foto: s sers Leonie Rourke

plekkie in museum
WAS d it n ie v ír d ie u itb reek van
d ie oorlog n ie , sou P e te r M i­
c h a e l John M cG regor waarsicyn-
lik vandag ’n onderw yser ge-
w ees h et soos sy pa en oupa
voor horn. N á 45 ja a r in d ie SA
Lugm ag h e t icoi P e ter M cG regor
van d ie Lugm agm useum by LMB
S w artko p d ie tu ig n eerg elê. Sy
verh aai kan s e lf ’n p ie k k ie in die
m useum vui.

Ná die voltooiing van sy skoolloopbaan

het kol McGregor horn in 1941 as leerling-
vlieënier by die SA Lug mag aangesluit en
op 13 Maart 1942 is die gesogte vleuels
aan sy bors gesteek. Dit was die begin van
n kteurryke ioopbaan vot hoogtepunte.
In (talie moes koi McGregor as deal van
24 Eskader, 'n bomwerpereskader, die
Duitsers flous deur hulle te laat glo dat
die aanval sou' kom uit die “ soft under­
belly" van Europe soos Churchill dit ge-
stel het. Dié taktiek was suksesvoi.
In 1948 het kol McGregor aan die Ber-
lynse Lugbrug deelgeneem aan boord
van die Dakotas. Meer as 8 000 ton vrag,
meestal steenkoo!, is tydens 2 500 vlugte
vervoer.
In 1957 het hy, toe nog 'n kaptein, saann
met majoor, later geni maj, Cockbain be­
gin werk aan ’n lugverdedigingstelsel, Kol
McGregor was verantwoordelik vir die
operasionele aspekte en genl maj Cock­
bain vir die tegniese aspekte. Hulle het
die land deurkruis op soek na geskikte
posisies vir radarstasies. Hieruit het die
Lugverdedigingskool by LMB Waterkloof
ook sy ontstaan gehad.
Koi McGregor het ook gedien as SSO
Inligting en SSO Beplanning by die Lug-
maghoofkwartier.
Hy kan met reg sé hy was al op bale
plekke. Hy het sy basiese vliegopleiding
met Tiger Moths by 6 Lugskool te Pot-
chefstroom en 5 Lugskool te Witbank on-
dergaan voordat hy na 22 Lugskool te
Vereniging is waar hy gevorderde oplei-
ding op Hart- en Hind-opleidingsvliegtuie
ondergaan het. Hy het ook 'n draai ge-
maak by 66 Lugskool te Youngsfield en
26 Lugskool te Pietersburg waar hy met
die tweemotorige Oxfords gevlieg het.
N Julie 1943 is kol McGregor na die
INoorde waar hy ook ’n tydjie aan 70
Operasionele Opieidingseenheid digby
die Suezkanaal verbpnde was voordat hy
na 24 Eskader verplaas is.
Die oorlog het ’n groot indruk op horn
gemaak. Sy eerste operasie was in sy eie
Vliegtuie is waarmee kol Peter McGregor horn die afgelope 45 jaar besig gehou het. Eers
het hy hulle gevlieg en later was d it sy taak om hulle van regoor die land vir die Lugmag­
museum te “ red'\
woorde 'n “piece of cake”. Die tweede
een nie. Hy moes aanskou hoe sy bevel-
voerder se vliegtuig afgeskiet word.
Kol McGregor het baie vriende in die
oorlog verloor. Toe hy eenmaal van 'n va-
kansie in Alexandria terugkeer, was sy
bed die enigste in die tent. Tydens sy af-
wesigheid het ses Marauder-vliegtuie op-
gestyg - net twee het teruggekeer.
Maar aangename herinneringe is daar
ook, soos die verdwalery in 1942. By 44
Lugskool te Grahamstad was kol McGre­
gor verantwoordelik daarvoor om leer-
lingnavigators rond te vlieg om hut ver-
moens te toets.
Op een so ’n viug was die ligte van
Grahamstad nie die ligte van Grahamstad
nie en die bemanning het besluit om die
kus te soek. Dit kon hulle weens digte
wo Ike ook nie vind nie en daar moes
rondgevlieg word totdat die son weer sy
gesig gewys het. Met die eerste sonlig het
hulle ’n spoorlyn raakgesien en dit gevolg
tot by ’n klein stasietjie. Hulle was egter
nog steeds niks wyser nie, want die stasie
se naambord is deur ’n boom verskuil.
'n Lae verbyvlug op 20 voet het aan die
lig gebring dat die stasie “Sheldon” heet,
maar het 'n enkele man op die stasie ook
amper ’n hartaanval besorg! Ná ’n vlug
van vyf uuren 15 minute en met net sowat
tier) gallon brandstof in die tenk oor, het
die manne veilig tuis geland.
ie Lugmagmuseum by LMB Swart­
D kop is egter kol McGregor se troetel-
kind, Hy was so begeester met die idee
dat hy ná sy “eerste aft rede” in 1977 te­
ruggekeer het om te help met die redding
van historiese items en sowat 74 vliegtuie
uit damme en landerye regoor die land.
En al gee die kolonel nou die leisels oor
aan kmdt Tony Smit, het hy nog steeds
raad met die finansiering van die be-
plande nuwe museum. Sy plan: “Verklaar
Swartkop tot onafhanklike staat en open
’n casino!”
Kol McGregor se program ná sy aft rede
iyk nie veel rustiger nie. Eerstens is daar
tuis baie herstelwerk en die kolonel, wat
ook al sy hand aan die pen geslaan het,
beplan verskeie artikels. Hy beplan ook
om ’n regte “probleem-ouer” te word
deur soveel as moontlik te kuier by sy ses
kinders en 14 kleinkinders wat in die ver-
lede dikwels gekla het dat hulle hom
skaars ken.

28 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

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 SA Leërdamesvereniging
vereer mev Margot Malan
IP ’n fleselllge aawl in ’n r#s-
'taurant in ¥erw®enH^i^
stad is mew M m r^t M alan,
n o te van d ie M in ister van Ver*ie-
diging, onlangs deur die SA
L e ë rd a m e s v e re n ig in g m et ’n
eresp e id jie vereer.
Mev Helena Liebenberg, presi-
dente van die Vereniging, het tydens
die oorhandiging gesê mev Malan
verdien die speldjie vir "haar toege-
wydheid en bereidw illigheid om lei-
ding te neem, en opofferings te maak
vir die LDV in dié omstandighede ge-
weef om haar man se destydse aan-
steiling as Hoof van die Leer”.
Mev Malan het daarna gesê die
Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag het vir
twintig jaar (sedert die eerste terro-
riste-aanval naby Grootfontein) nie
die knie voor die Kommunisme ge-
buig nie. Sy het die rot van die vrou in
die Weermag geprys, asook die eg-
genotes van bevelvoerders in die
SAW.
Al die dames Is op ’n heerlike ete
by die restaurant getrakteer en 'n
spesiale vertoning van die waterorrel Mev Helena Liebenberg (regsf oor­
is gereël. Die aand is afgesluit met ’n handig die speldjie aan mev Margot
paar nommers deur die SA L e ir- Malan.
orkes.

Grootste
Geskenk
vir swart
werkers
“ 1 ^ IE W&ora van G®d is » is e r
■ # die grootste gesiieidt w at
’n mmns mmt iemand lean gee.
Nmi ta n ons efce Vrydag Byi»el
in die IteA lees en do Ic B fM sta*
SÓ het mnr Jack Matshaba, 'n hoofman Een van die kokke by die restaurant gee ’n bietjie raad aan m e w Margot Malan
by die TDK-Opleidingsentrum in Voor- (links) en Helena Liet)enberg — (Foto: Wrn P. Schedler)
trekkerhoogte, gesê toe hy onlangs ’n By-
bel in sy eie taal van brig H.S. Castleman,
Direkteur Tegniese Dienste, ontvang het.
Altesame 113 Bybels, in vyf verskillende
tale, is aan die Swart werkers van die een-
heid oorhandig. Van die 113 Bybels is 72
in Tswana, 25 in Sotho, ses in Zoeloe en
vyf elk in Noord-Sotho en Tsonga.
Die oorhandiging is moontlik gemaak
deur donasies van burgeriikes en lede
van die eenheid. Die projek is deur maj J.
van Wyk. van TO Skool, gereél. Hy het die
hoop uitgespreek dat meer eenhede die
voorbeeld van TD Skool sal volg.
Ds Kobus M uller, kapelaan van Kom-
mandement Noord-Transvaal, het aan die
werkers gesê dat ’n Bybel die enigste bly-
wende besitting is wat ’n mens aan i&-
mand kan skenk.
"D ie Bybel stei ’n mens in staat om die
Lig en die Pad te vind en dan onder alle
omstandighede te Lewe, ” het hy gesê.
Drie Bybels is deur brig Castleman aan
die drie hoofmanne van die eenheid,
Brig H.S. Castleman, Direkteur Tegniese Dienste. oorhandig ’n Bybel aan mnr
mnre Matshaba, Jan M atiiepe en Samuel
B a io fi, as simbool van oorhandiging aan Jack Matshaba, terwyl die twee ander hoofarbeiders, mnre Samuel Baloyi
almal gegee. (regs) en Jan Matiiepe, toekyk.
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 SPOGGERIG
EN UNIEK!
DIE spoggerige nuwe vaandel van die SA Leër>
vrouekoliege op George het op 21 November 1986
vir die eerste iceer trots op die paradegrond in die
sicadu van die Outeniquaberge gewapper.

ieverhaal van die vaan­

D del, g etro u aan die

beeld van die Kollege, is
een van vroulike voor-
keur en deursettingsvermoë. Die
bevelvoerder van die eenheid,
kol Telana van Zyl, vertel glimlag-
gend van die lang en moeilike
pad wat die vaandel moes loop
voordat dit op 21 November 1986
amptelik deur die Staatspresi-
dent, mnr P.W. Botha, aan die
eenheid oorhandig is.
Met die ontwerp van die vaan­
del vir die Kollege het die vroue
aangedring op 'n rooi vaandel in
p la a s van die vo o rg e ste ld e
oranje vaandel. Die vaandel
moes immers pas by hul eenheids-
kleure!
Die regte symateriaal waarop
die vaandel geborduur moes
word, moes gevind word en kol
Van Zyl het self ingespring om
geskikte materiaal te vind.
Dit was met groot dankbaar-
heid en 'n sug van verligting van
eenheidskant af, dat die ontwerp
van die vaandel op 10 Oktober
1984 finaal deur die Minister van
V e r d e d ig in g , g e n i M a g n u s
Malan, goedgekeur is.
Die vaandel wat die SA Leërvrouekollege unlek maak, wapper vIr die eerste keer
Ná dié lang ontwerpfase kon
saam met die Suld-Afrlkaanse vlag op die paradegrond. Lt C. Ehlers is die vaandei-
die werk begin, ‘n Inwoner van draer.
George en ’n bekende in bor-
duurkringe, mev Nancy Kitshoff,
is verantwoordelik vir die hand- voorgelê. En die kolonel het nog maak die Kollege uniek in dié sin
geborduurde kunswerk. Maar kol ’n plan in haar mou gehad. Almal dat dit die eerste keer in die ge-
Van Z yl, ’n o u d -n a a ld w e rk- moes dieet om op die vaandelpa- skiedenis van die SA Weermag is
onderwyseres, wou geen kanse rade op hul beste te lyk en die dat ’n nie-vegtende vroue-een-
waag nie en het self toesig gehou snoepwinkel se deure is gesluit! heid 'n vaandel ontvang het.
oor die vordering van die projek. Die vaandel, wat geskenk is Die helderrooi vaandel het
Toe het die groot oefen nog deur die stadsraad van George, baie simboliese waarde. In die

34 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

 D«ur It S t»ll« Blom. Foto,s: s sers Leonie R ourk*

rade besktyf as “ een van die

mooiste parades ooit” .
Die wyding van die vaandei is
waargeneem deur die eeníieids-
l<apelaan, ds U.P. IVIallierbe,
waarna die vaandei deur die
Staatspresident aan die eenlieid
oorhandig is.
Om te verseker dat mnr Botha
die oorhandiging sou kon waar-
neem, is hy al vóór November
1985 genooi om dit te doen - ’n
uitnodiging wat die Staatspresi­
dent en sy vrou met graagte aan-
geneem het aangesien liulie se-
dert die totstandkoming van die
Kollege in 1971, die werk wat
daar gedoen is met groot belang-
stelling gevoig het.

M nr P.W. Botha het ’n beroep gedoen op alle studente van die Kollege om hulself
voortdurend beskikbaar te stel vir die doel waarvoor hulle aanvankllk na die Kollege
M NR Botha het in sy toe-
spraak gesê die stigting

gekom het, naamllk om diens te lewer. By m nr Botha is die Hoof van die SA Weermag,
genl Jannie Geldenhuys en die Hoof van die Leer, It geni A.J. Liebenberg. • Vervolg op bl 36

SALV Kol
se eie
vaandei
in gebruik
geneem
middel is ’n Seruria Florida of
“ Blushing Bride” in wit en goud.
Dit sim boliseer die teerheid,
broosheid en ongeskondenheid
van die ontluikende vrou. Hierdie
blom word omring deur ’n krans
proteas in rooi, ligroos, wit en
groen. Die woorde “ Este Parati”
- Wees Gereed - is in swart op ’n
goue lint aangebring. ’n Bree
goudfraaiing en ’n goue koord
rond die vaandei af.
Dit was vir almal duidelik dat al
die harde werk van die eenheid
die moeite werd was. Talle oud-
studente van die Kollege wat ook
by die Kollege saamgetrek het vir
die vaandelparade en ’n reunie,
het die vaandelaanbiedingspa-

Met groot trots word die nuwe vaandei

deur die strate van George gedra.

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 35

 SALV Kol
neem éie
vaandel in
gebruik

• Vervolg van bl 35

van die Kollege het ’n nuwe tyd-

vak in die Weermag ingelui.
“ Sedert die einde van die
Tweede Wêreldooriog liet die
vrou in uniform grootiiks van die
toneel verdwyn. Deur hierdie
nuwe inisiatief hier op George
kon vroulike Burgermagvrywilli-
gers weer die geieentlieid benut
om miiitêre diens in uniform te
verrig.
“ Daarmee is ook die grondslag
gelê vir die grootskaaise werwing
en aanwending van vroulike mi-
litêre personeel in alle vertak-
kinge van die Staande Mag.
“ Vandag word die vrou in uni­
form oor ’n wye spektrum van be-
roepe in ons Weermag aangetref.
Die vertroue wat in hulle gestei
word, blyk onder meer uit die feit
Ses van die bestes! Van links na regs staan std T.M. Jordaan, wat as die beste skut
aangewys Is; o kpl J.E. Rossouw, die beste orkeslld; std H. Smuts, die beste sport-
vrou; o kpl A.J. Barkema, wat die verdienstelikheldstrofee ontvang het en o kpl H.
Smit, wat as die beste ie ie r aangewys Is. Heel regs Is o kpl M. de Villlers, die algehele
beste student vIr 1986.
dat taiie senior stafposte deur van die Kollege om hulself steeds
vroue-offisiere bekiee word. beskikbaar te stel vir die doel
“ Ter stawing hiervan kan ek waaroor hulle aanvanklik na die
net noem dat vroue ongeveer Kollege gekom het, naamlik om
tien persent van militêre perso- diens te lewer.
neel in die Weermag uitmaak en
in 65 beroepsrigtings aangewend
word,” het mnr Botha gesê. ie jaarlikse voorstellingspa-
Mnr Botha het ’n beroep ge-
doen op huidige en oud-studente
D rade van studente het op Sa-
terdag, 22 November, plaasge-

Dle Kollege se koor het die Staatspresldent en sy gevolg al singende onder die vlagpaal Ingewag.

36 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

 Die vaandel word met groot sorg vir die wydingseremonie voorberei.

O l<pi M. de Viiliers is aangewys as die

aigeheie beste student vir 1986. GenI
m aj M.J. du Plessis, die eerste Bevei-
voerder van die Koiiege, oorhandig die
Eiize Botha-lrofee aan haar. Die trofee
uit inheemse hout is 'n replii<a van die
Kollege se hoofgebou.

vind. Ouers en vriende het van

dwarsoor die land gekom om te
aanskou hoe die meisies ’n vol
jaar afrond.
By hierdie geleentiieid het geni
maj M.J. du Plessis, die eerste
Bevelvoerder van die Kollege, die
studente daarop gewys dat die
toekoms ’n uitdaging is, maar dat
daar ook else aan hulle gestel sal
word ten opsigte van hul mense-
verhoudinge, militêre gereedheid
en geestelike weerbaarheid.
Hy het ook daarop gewys dat
die geestelike krag van 'n volk
kom uit die vrou van die volk. Hy
het daarom die studente gemaan
om dit hul taak te maak om daar-
die geestelike krag te kry, uit te
bou en te behou.
Daar was groot opgewonden-
heid en vrolikheid toe die stu­
dente vir die laaste keer van die
paradegrond afgem arsjeer en
uitgetree het.
Maar daar was tog ook 'n tikkie
weemoed. Soos kol Van Zyl dit
stel: “ Sender die studente is die “ ESTE PARATI” - Wees gereedt Getrou aan die Koiiege se lease staan die studente
Kollege soos ’n verlate huis.” op aandag tydens ’n Indrukwekkende parade.

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D e u r It S te lla B lo m
OP 1 Julie 1987 is die Suid-Afril<aanse Weermag 75
jaar oud. Omdat dit so ’n buitengewone gebeurte-
nis in die gesl<iedenis van die SAW is, sal daar ge-
durende die jaar deurlopend aktiwiteite plaasvind
om hierdie besondere verjaarsdag te vier.
a a r is veral drie hoogte-
D
punte wat nie misgeloop
moet word nie. In Kaapstad
word 'n parade beplan
waarin die SA VIoot en die
SA Kaapse Korps die oorheersende roi
speel.
Op 1 Julie gaan 'n afgeskaalde bri-
gade-oefening en vuurkragdemonstra-
sie met lugsteun te Potchefstroom
plaasvind. Dan is daar ook nog die op-
windende Durbanse Taptoe wat al 'n
tradisie geword het.
Die voorlopige feesprogram, onder-
worpe aan veranderinge, lyk indrukwek-
kend. Nuwe besonderhede sal waar no­
dig in Paratus gepubliseer word.
Januarie
IR Januarie beplan die SA Leer ver-
V skeie aktiwiteite. Op Nuwejaarsdag
sal KD Skool sy stigtingsdag herdenk en
op 16 Januarie is daar ’n medalje- en
vlagstrykparade by HK Kmdmt N-Tvl. Die
voigende dag vier 115 Bn sy verjaarsdag
en by SAKK Opieidingseenheid word 'n
geselligheid vir offisiere en onderoffi-
siere aangebied. Op 24 Januarie is daar
'n vaandelparade by Randburg-Kom-
do en op 28 Januarie is daar inter-
Die SA W 75-vlag wat spesiaal ontwerp is vir die vieringe van die 75 ste beslaansjaar
van die Suid-Afril(aanse Weermag in 1987, is deur geni maj Phil Pretorius (links)
Hoofdirekteur Mannekragontwikkeiing by Afdeling Personeel, aan die Hoof van die
SA Weermag, genI Jannie Geldeniiuys, oorhandig. Cent maj Pretorius is hoofkoordi-
neerder van die SAW se feesjaarvieringe.
1 9 1 2 - 1987
kompanie-atletiek by SAKK Opieidings­
eenheid. Op 30 Januarie is daar ’n gesa-
mentlike tee met gaste by Kmdmt N-Tvl
HK.
Die SA Lugmag begin sy feesprogram
op 12 Januarie met 'n parade by Klippan
BMP. Op 14 Januarie Is daar n ver-
welkomingsfunksie by HLRS en op 19
Januarie hou LMB Potchefstroom n ope
dag. Op 23 Januarie vier 42 Eskader sy
verjaarsdag by LiVIB Potchefstroom en
by SVS Dunnottar word n soiodans aan­
gebied. 'Die voigende dag hou MRG ’n
dans en by Klippan BMP is daar 'n ouer-
naweek. Op 30 Januarie is daar 'n pa­
rade by LMB Ysterplaat en 'n ver-
welkomingsfunksie by LMB Mpacha. Die
voigende dag is daar ook n ver-
welkomingsfunksie by WLK en by die
SALM Kollege is daar 'n beveivoer-
dersparade.
Februarie
N Februarie begin die Leer se bedry-
I wighede met n vlaghysparade op 1
Februarie by HK Kmdmt N-Tvl. Op 6 Fe­
bruarie is daar 'n formele ete te Modder-
fontein-Komdo en die voigende dag is
daar n verbymars en uitstalling by Wes-
rand-Komdo. Daar is ook 'n pretdraf by
21 Bn. Op 14 Februarie hou Regt Sasol-
burg 'n formele gasteaand en Kempton-
park-Komdo oefen sy Vryheid van die
Stad uit met 'n onthaai daarna. Op 20 Fe­
bruarie is daar 'n formele ete vir offisiere
en onderoffisiere by 1 SAKK Opieidings­
eenheid en die voigende dag is daar 'n
ouerdag en dans by Wit Pro Eenh. 21 Bn
het dieselfde dag ook 'n ouerdag. Op 22
Februarie is daar 'n kerkparade by B 4
TVD. Van 25 tot 28 Februarie bled Kmdmt
WP HK 'n militêre taptoe aan. Op 27 Fe­
bruarie is daar ’n formele ete by Eden-
vale Regt asook by 81 Pant Div. HK
Kmdmt N-Tvl het dieselfde dag 'n gesa-
mentlike tee. Van die begin van Febru­
arie tot die einde van November bied die
Lh Orkes musiekuitvoerings In Johan­
nesburg se parke aan.
Vir Februarie beplan die Lugmag ook
Lugmagdae by verskeie basisse. Op 1
Februarie is daar ’n ouerdag by SVS
Dunnottar. Op 6 Februarie word Lug­
magdae gehou by Hoedspruit, HLRS,
Langebaan en Potchefstroom. Op 11 Fe­
bruarie bied HLRS n konsert aan en op
27 Februarie is daar 'n parade en medal-
jeparade by die SALM Kollege.
• Vervolg op bl 40
PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 39
 WAT ’N
FEES!
• V e rv o lg van bl 39
Die VIoot se program vir F eb ru arie b e­
gin op d ie e e rs te dag van die m aand met
n v o o rs te llin g s p a ra d e by die SA Vloot-
K o lle g e in G ordo nsb aai. Op 19 Februarie
is d a a r ’n voo rstellin gsp arad e by III HBE
in S im on stad en op 25 Februarie is d aa r
'n fa m ilie d a g om OVK se verjaarsd ag te
vier.
D ie SAG D bied v a n a f 1 tot 10 Feb ru ­
arie u itstallings aan in Port Elizabeth.
M a a rt
IR M a a r t b e p la n d ie Leer
V v la g h y sp a ra d es by e enh ede, kerk-
d ie n s te , o u e rd a e en e enh eidsbeken d-
stellin gs, sportdae m et genooide gaste
en e te n s ty d -k o n s e rte by HK Kmdmt N-
Tvl. Km dm t Wit het n statiese uitstalling
by d ie O orlog-m useum en 1 Konstr Regt
bled ’ n g eslo te n aw eekspo rtbyeenko m s
a a n . 35 GSE bied 'n jeep -d em o n strasie
a an tyd e n s die Kroonstad-skou en 4 VRP
h et n ke rk p ara d e . Op 6 M aart is d a a r 'n
fo rm e le e te by 21 Bn en op die volgende
d ag n eem 72 M ot Bde deel aan 'n kerk­
p a ra d e en die SAIR o efen die reg van
V ry h e id van Barberton uit. Op 12 M aart
is d a a r n m e d a ljep a ra d e by SAW Hon-
d es e n tru m .
O p 14 M aa rt is d aa r n form ele e te vir
die M O TH S van Kensington by 73 Mot
Bde e n op 18 M aa rt Is d aa r inter-Kom p-
b o n delspo rt by 1 SAKK OpI Eenheid. Op
20 M a a rt Is d a a r 'n sportdag met siviele
s p a n n e by die SAW H ondesentrum , 'n
g a s te -a a n d vir sakelui by HK Km dm t
N-Tvl en 'n form ele ete by Atlas-Kom do.
Die v o lg e n d e d ag is d a a r prysskiet m et
die o p en in g van die skietbaan by Piet
R etief-K om do en n G eden kdiens by
V T H -W es NG kerk vir 47 0 p m Esk. Op 27
M a a rt is d a a r ’n form ele ete vir A O ’s en
s e rs a n te by Yskor/VdBIjl-Kom do. Op 28
M a a rt is d a a r ’n gholfdag en alg e m en e
sport by G p Hk 18 en die volgende dag Is
d a a r ’n 71 M ot Bde, RW P gedenkdiens.
O p 6 M a a rt is d aa r 'n dans by LM B Pot-
c h e fs tro o m e n o p H M a a r t ’n ope d ag by
STO. O p 18 M aa rt is d a a r ’n b oered ag by
K lipp an BM P en op 20 M aa rt 'n sportdag
by W L K . Op 21 M aart is d a a r 'n fa m ilie ­
dag by HLRS. Op 27 M aa rt is d aa r 'n p a­
rade by SA LM K ollege asook by SVS
D u nn ottar. By LMB Potchefstroom is
d a a r 'n dans en by LM B M pacha word
d a a r tot 30 M aa rt 'n avontuurkam p vir
SA L M kinders te O m ega aang ebied.
Vir 14 M aa rt beplan die vIoot ’n fam i­
lie d a g by die SA VIoot Kollege op
G o rd o n s b a a i. O p 18 M aa rt vier die Duik-
b oo tflo ttlelje sy ag ttlen d e verjaarsd ag in
S im on stad en op 20 M aart Is d a a r 'n
fu n k sie vir a fg e tre d e o fflslere w at in die
G o o d w o o d -are a diens gedoen het by die
40 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
VIootbasis in Kaapstad. Dulkbootflot-
tie lje -k a s k e n a d e s w o rd o o k in Si­
m onstad beplan en skepe van VIoot
Km dm t-Oos sal Eland PE besoek.
Die SAGD O pieidlngsentrum (SAG-
DOS) bied op 7 M aart n ouerd ag aan en
op 20 M a a rt ’n g aste-aand.
A p ril
N April Is d a a r 'n o nthaal vir die bur-
I g e m e e s te r en s ta d s ra a d
O udtshoorn d eu r GP HK 4, fo rm e le etes
va n
en 'n g as te -a a n d asook 'n vlagh ys- en
vlagstrykparades vir g en oo ide g aste by
Km dm t N-Tvl en by die G enieskoo l Is
d aa r ’n o uerdag vir die F eb ru arie 87-In­
nam e. Op 1 April is d aa r n v aand elaan -
bleding by Regt WP en 71 Bde RWP het
'n v a a n d e lp a ra d e en u ito efenin g van die
reg tot vryheid tot K aapstad.O p 3 April Is
d a a r 'n o u e rn a w e ek by SALV Kol en Ger-
m lston-Kom do neem d ee l aan die uitoe­
fening van die vryheid van die stad. Op 4
April is d a a r 'n e en h eld sd an s by 21 Bn
en op 6 April lew er 8 Pant Div en 84 Mot
Bde 'n kanonsaluut vir Stigtingsdag by
d ie Uniegebou en in Durban.
Op 1 April is d aar ook n eenheids-
verja a rs d a g by die SAW Hondesentrum .
61 B W kp het op dieselfde dag 'n m edal­
je p a ra d e . Op 10 April bied 1 Konstr Regt
’n m llitêre bal aan In N igel se stadsaal.
Op 11 April v ier 4 SAI Bn sy verjaarsdag
m et die uitoefening van vrye toeg an g en
'n vuu rkragdem onstrasie en van 11 tot
12 April Is d a a r ’n bokstoernool by 1
SAKK OpI Eenh. Op 18 April is d a a r n
v oo rstellin gsp arad e by 1 SAKK OpI
Eenh en 'n sportdag by Regt Sasolburg.
Op 23 April Is d a a r n m e d a ljep a ra d e met
siviele g aste by 4 SAI Bn en die vol­
g en de dag is d a a r ’n m e d a lje p a ra d e by
Log Km dm t Hke en 'n C TH -verjaarsdag-
d inee by 71 M ot Bde. Op 25 April is daar
'n dinee by CTH, 'n m ilitêre bal by Eden-
v a le Regt en 'n e enh eidspo rtd ag by Wit
Ondh Eenh. Op 26 April is d aa r 'n
h erden klng sd lens by Km dm t WP, 'n
k a n o n n ie rs h e rd e n k in g s d ie n s by NW
Km dm t en 'n h erdenklngsdlens by CTH.
O p 27 April Is d aa r 'n eenheidskerkpa-
rade by 21 Bn.
Die Lugm ag bied op 3 April 'n formele
e te aan by HLRS en op 10 April is d a a r n
m e d a lje p a ra d e by LMS-VTH. Die vol­
g en d e dag is d a a r 'n w elw lllends-
h eid stee by LMB M pacha. O p 16 April Is
d aa r n voorstellin gsp arad e by STO en
op 18 April bled LMB Y s te rp laa t die Ty-
g erbergtro fee-spo rtdag aan. Op 23 April
Is d a a r 'n voo rstellin gsp arad e by SALM
K ollege en d ie volgende d ag Is d a a r n
p arad e by SVS Dunnottar en ’n Lugmag-
bal by die SALM Kollege.
Op 3 April is d a a r 'n V lo ot-m edaljepa-
rade in Sim onstad en SAS Inkonkoni,
Durban, vier sy v e rja a rs d a g . Op 5 April is
d a a r 'n kerkdiens in Durban vir OVK. Op
6 April neem W VK d e e l aan die SAW -pa-
rade in K aapstad.
Op 5 April n eem SAG D OpI Sen deel
a an ’n kerkp arade en op 6 April begin
die Kaapse Fees In Kaapstad. Op 22
April is d aar n voorstellin gsp arad e by
SAG D OpI Sen.
M ei
N M ei beplan d ie L eer 'n w apende-
I m onstrasie, 'n vlagstryking, die Mi-
litére T aptoe, 'n voo rstellin gsp arad e en
'n d an kseg g in gsd iens. D a a r sal ook 'n
71 Bde-dinee w e e s en 35 GSE gaan aan
d ie V a ls riv le r-r o e ib o o tr e g a tta d e e l-
neem . 35 GSE en d ie G enieskool beplan
ook 'n dank- en toew ydingsdiens.
Op 1 Mel is d a a r 'n m ilitêre bal by
K em ptonpark-K om do, ’n voorstellings­
p arad e by Leërgim , ’n Div-konferensie
en form ele ete by 8 Pant Div en G e n ie ­
skool vier sy eenh e id s v e rja a rs d ag . Op 4
M e i is d a a r ’n v a ls k e r m s p rin g e r-
herdenkingsdag by 44 Valsk Bde. Op 8
M ei is d aar ’n o uerdag by 1 Konstr Regt
en die volgende d ag Is d a a r ’n ouerdag
by Km dm t N-Tvl, ’n gholfdag by Alber-
ton-Kom do, 'n v a a n d e lp a ra d e en pa-
rad e-u ito efen ing van d ie Vryheid van die
S tad d eu r Krugersdorp-K om do asook ’n
m e d a lje p a r a d e by W a k k e rs tro o m -
Komdo. Op 16 M ei Is d a a r ’n form ele ete
vir offisiere by 1 SAKK OpI Eenh en op 20
M ei neem Km dm t N atal deel aan die
Royal N atal-Landbouskou op P ieter­
m aritzburg. Op 22 M ei Is d aa r ’n ouerdag
by G enieskool en die volgende dag
n eem Kmdmt WP d ee l aan die u ito efe­
ning van die Vryheid tot Bellvllle, Riet-
fontein-K om do het ’n p ara d e en ontvang
die Vryheid van E d en vale en 21 Bn het ’n
p arad e-u ito efen ln g van die Vryheid van
Sow eto. Op 25 M ei is d a a r ’n CTR for­
m ele d inee by 71 M ot Bde. Op 29 M el het
Km dm t N-Tvl ’n g es a m en tllk e tee met
gaste. Op 30 M ei het Km dm t WP ’n for­
m ele e te vir o nd eroffisiere, Gp Hk 18 het
’n film prem iëre en by W it Sein Eenh is
d a a r ’n ouerdag. O p 31 M ei neem 8 Pant
Div en 84 M ot Bde d ee l aan ’n Repu-
b liekd ag -kan on salu ut by die Uniegebou
en in Durban. 2 Vd G enie Regt het ’n
herdenklngsdlens.
By SVS Dunnottar Is d a a r ’n aero ba-
tiese kom petisie op 1 M ei. Op 3 M ei is
d a a r g ed en kd ien ste by LMB Potchef­
stroom , Klippan B M P, LMB Ysterplaat,
LMB M pacha en SVS Dunnottar. Op 6
M ei bied HLRS ’n konsert aan en op 15
M ei is d aar ’n m e d a ljep a ra d e by die
SALM Kollege. O p 22 M el hou Klippan
BM P konsert en LM B Rundu het ’n dans.
Van 25 Mei tot 29 M ei is d a a r pluim bal by
SVS Dunnottar en op 29 M ei is d a a r ook
’n p arade daar.
Die VIoot bep lan vir M ei 'n roeiregatta
in Sim onstad en skepe van OVK sal
R ichardsbaai b eso ek. O p 29 Mei is d aar
’n voo rstellin gsp arad e by die SA VIoot
K ollege op G ordo nsb aai en die u ito efe­
ning van die V ryheid van G ordonsbaai.
Op 30 Mei o efen SAS Wingfield sy Vry­
heid van G oodw ood uit.
Die SAGD n eem van 22 tot 30 M ei deel
a an die Pietersburg-skou en op 28 Mei
neem hy ook d eel aan die T ap toe in
G oodw ood. Op 30 M ei is d a a r 'n vlag-
stryking w aarb y die b u rg e m e e s ter van
Fochviiie b etro kke is.
J u n ie
IR Junie beplan die L eër aktiw iteite
V soos n form ele ete by die SALV Kol,
d ee ln a m e aan die Z oeioeiand se Land-
bouskou, ’ n pretdraf by HK 7 Inf Div
asook fam ilie d a e by e e n h e d e in Km dm t
N-Tvl. 'n D ansaan d vir m llitêre-publieke
skakeling, een h e id s p a ra d e s , je u g d a e in
VTH, o rkesop tredes by skoie en span-
bou m et p ublleke skakeling word ook
b eplan. Op 5 Junie neem die Adj-m in van
V erded lging die opening van W ltbank-
Komdo HK w a a r en d aa r is n g as te -a a n d
by Gp Hk 41. Op 6 Junie het Log Km dm t
Hke n k e rkp arad e. Op 12 Junie is d a a r 'n
W in terbal by M odderfontein-K om do en
op 19 Junie ’n (orm eie ete by W P Ondh
Eenh. Die volgende dag is d a a r ’n os-
braal en 'n fee s v le rd a g te F onteinedai
d eu r 47 Opm Eskn en Kmdt 0 -T v l het 'n
deu rm ars d eu r N elspruit, 'n s ta tie s e uit-
staiiing en bondelsport. Op 21 Jun ie is
d aa r 'n SAW H S-kerkp arade en 'n 84
T V D -kerkparad e. Op 27 Junie is d a a r ’n
g as te -a a n d by Gp Hk 41 en die volgende
dag het Krugersdorp-K om do 'n k e rk p a ­
rade. Op 30 Junie neem 10 LA Regt deei
aan die u ito efenln g van Reg tot Vryheid
van K aapstad, Tuibach en W o lseley.
Die Lugm ag beplan van 3 Junie tot 8
Junie n stu d en teb eso ek aan LiVIB M pa-
cha. Op 12 Junie is d a a r 'n m ed a ljep a -
rade by Klippan BM P, n form ele e te by
WLK en n voo rstellin gsp arad e van die
B randbestrydingskool by SVS Dunnot-
tar. Op 19 Jun ie hou IVIRG n dans en 402
VOE het sy h alfjaardans. Klippan BMP
het ’n form ele ete en SVS D u nn ottar het
n prestige m usiekaand. Op 25 Jun ie is
d a a r 'n voorstellin gsp arad e by die SALM
K ollege, ’n afskeidsfunksie vir N D P 'S by
SVS D u nnottar en by Ellisras B M P ’n
dans.
Vir 19 Jun ie beplan die VIoot 'n voo r­
stellin gsparade in Sim onstad. Op 26 Ju­
nie word d a a r 'n aandfunksie a ang ebied
by die VIootbasis in K aapstad vir plaas-
like hoo gw aard lgh eid sbekleërs. Op 28
Junie is d a a r 'n kerkdiens vir d ie SA
VIoot K o lleg e op G ordonsbaai. Op 30 Ju­
nie is d a a r ’n m iddagete by die Kollege
en OVK bep lan 'n uitstalling in die stad-
saal, 'n vlaghys en -stryk en die V Io o tb a ­
sis in Durban hou 'n fam iliedag.
Die SAG D neem van 1 tot 7 Junie deel
aa n die Eshow e-skou en op 20 Jun ie is
d a a r 'n vlaghysing op Potchefstroom . Op
26 Junie hou SAGO OpI Sen ’n kom m is-
sieparad e.
J u lie
N Julie g aa n 2 SAK K Bn 'n vlaghysing
I op S o m erset-W es w aarn eem , d ie Dur-
banse T ap to e g aa n a ang ebied word, skap en 'n gholfdag in Durban.
Km dm t N-Tvl hou fam ilie d a e by e e n ­
hede, e ten styd kon serte in VTH -stad-
s a a l, v la g h y s- en v la g s try k p a ra d e s , -strykin gsp arade, 'n fam ilie d a g by die
sportb yeen ko m ste en 'n kerm is te W'SK.
L G eveg 8 hou 'n ope dag en ’n noen-
m aal en G enieskoo l hou 'n fo rm e le ete
in o ffis ie rs - en o n d e ro ffis ie rs k lu b s
asook n g es lo te n aw eekspo rtbyeen-
koms. Op 1 Julie is d aar 'n form ele
DIE INLIGTING in hierdie samevatting van die SAW se verjaardagvieringe In
1987 is nie noodwendig volledig nie. 0 n s publiseer egter die inligting soos
dit teen druktyd bekend was. Dit sal in die loop van die jaar waar nodig aan-
gepas word.
gas te -a a n d by Kmdmt 0 -T v l, 'n vlagh y­
sing, bondelsport en in fo rm ele -e te by
die SALV Kol en NW Km dm t neem deel
aan die SA W e e rm a g d a g p a ra d e . Kmdmt
SW A en MG W alvisbaal n eem ook aan
dié p arade d eel. By Regt V anderbijipark
is d aa r 'n ope dag met n o nthaal vir ge-
nooide gaste. Op 3 Julie is d a a r 'n mi-
litê re b al by Y s k o r-V a n d e rb ijlp a rk -
Komdo en d ie volgende d ag v ier Kmdmt
OVS Leërdag m et ’n feesrugbyw edstryd.
Op 5 Julie is d aa r n dan kdien s by WP
Ondh Eenh asook by Km dm t OVS.
Km dm t SWA neem d ee l aan 'n gesa-
m entlike k e rkp arade en d a a r is ook 'n 82
TVD k e rkp arad e. Op 13 Julie neem
Kmdmt N-Tvl d eel aan d ie Delvillebos-
ged enkd ien s en op 16 Julie vind die
SAW 7 5 -m e d a lje p a rad e p laas by Kmdmt
O-Tvl.
By die Lugm ag word Julie begin met
’n sportdag by W LK, ’n eten suu rko nsert
by Klippan BM P, 'n p ara d e van Kmdmt
OP by LMB Port Elizabeth, SAW -dag by
LMB Potchefstroom , n boom plantdag by
LMB M pacha en g es a m en tlik e SAW-
fee s v le rin g e by LMB Bloem sprult, wat
duur tot 4 Julie. Op 2 Julie is d a a r ook 'n
m e d a ljep a ra d e by LMB Durban en 'n
v ie u e lp a ra d e by SVS Dunnottar. Op 3 Ju ­
lie is d aa r n p ara d e by LM B Hoedspruit,
n W in terdans by LMB Y s te rp laa t en n
bal m et Km dm t O P by LM B Port Eliza­
beth. Op 4 Julie is d a a r 'n sport- en
gesinsdag by 5 Lugdepot en by LMB
G rootfontein is d a a r ’n sportdag en ske-
m erkelk. Op 10 Julie is d a a r 'n voorstel­
ling sparad e by STO en op 15 Julie 'n p a­
rade by LMB Bloem sprult. Op 17 Julie
hou HLRS n gesinsdag en SVS Dunnot­
ta r 'n solodans. Op 24 Ju lie is d aa r ’n for­
m ele g a s te -a a n d by LM S-VTH en op 29
Julie is d a a r ’n konuert by 5 Lugdepot.
Op 31 Julie is d a a r 'n form ele e te by Klip­
pan BM P en parades by SVS Dunnottar
en die SALM Kollege.
Die VIoot b ep lan vir Ju lie 'n funksie In
W alv is b a a l vir d ie p la a s lik e gem een-
Op 4 Julie hou OVK ’n uitstalling in die
sta d s a al van Durban, 'n vlaghys en
VIootbasis in Durban en ’n ro eireg atta.
Van 9 tot 18 Julie neem O VK d ee l aan die
Durbanse T ap to e en op 11 Julie besoek
die nuwe skepe van W VK Knysna en oe-
fen die Vryheid van Toegan g tot die dorp
uit.
O p 1 Julie neem d ie SAGD d eel aan 'n
deu rm ars d eu r Potchefstroom en op 3
Julie is d aa r 'n vlaghysing by Kmdmt
OVS err op 4 Julie ontvang 4 M ed Bn die
Vryheid van Bloem fontein teryw l die SA
Legioen ’n K a valkad e hou. Op 17 Julie is
d a a r n v a a n d ela a n b ie d in g by 1 Med Bn
Gp.
A u g u s tu s
N A ugustus n eem Kmdmt Verre-
I Noord d eel aan die Letaba-skou en
die M esslna-skou. D a a r is ook 'n winter-
sportdag en 'n N oordelike Suidelike Ka-
d etkom petisie. 2 SAKK Bn hou ook ’n
w lntersp ortd ag en by Kmdmt OP is d aar
’n uitstalling vir N D P ’s van die Augustus
1987-inn am e. In Augustus'Septem ber
word die KVA v e rja a rs d a g d in e e a a n g e ­
bied by 71 M ot Bde terw yl L G eveg 8 ’n
m ilitére dans a anb ied. Op die laaste
Sondag van Augustus is d aar ’n forma-
s ie -k e rk p a ra d e by 44 Valsk Bde. Die
G enieskool en 35 G SE bled g edurende
die m aand ook rugby-klubkam pioen-
skappe aan. Op 1 Augustus vier 71 Bde
sy ve rja a rs d a g en 71 Mot Bde bied 'n
v e rja a rs d a g d in e e aan. Op 5 Augustus is
d a a r 'n W lntersportdag by Kmdmt N-Tvl
en die volg end e d ag is d a a r ’n boom­
p lan td ag by 4 SAI Bn. Op 7 Augustus hou
84 TVD ook ’n boom plantdag, 84 Mot Bde
hou 'n fo rm e le e te en saam m et 72 Mot
Bde word 'n bal gehou. Van 7 tot 8 Au­
gustus n eem die Leergim d eel aan die
ja a rlik s e skou op Heidelberg. Op 8 Au­
gustus het W it Hk Eenh 'n statiese uit­
stalling by die Oorlogm useum en by 8e-
cunda-K om do is n m ed aljep arad e. Op
14 Augustus n eem alle form asies van 8
Pant Div d eel aan n boom plantdag en
die volgende dag is d a a r ’n g aste-aand
by 1 SAKK OpI Eenh, 'n SAW -gim khana
by SAW B ered e Sentrum en op 16 Au­
gustus n eem 4 V R P d eel aan ’n kerkpa­
rade. Van 17 tot 24 Augustus vind die
SAW HS inte rn a s io n ale w erkersbond-
kom petisie p laas by Kmdmt 0 -T v l. Op 19
Augustus is d a a r 'n W lntersportdag by 1
SAKK OpI Eenh en die volgende dag is
d a a r 'n h erden king sd iens by 71 Bde
asook by 71 M ot Bde. Van 20 tot 21 Au­
gustus is d a a r 'n Div-sportdag te Durban
vir alle form asies van 8 Pant Div. Op 21
Augustus is d a a r ook 'n g aste-aan d by
Km dm t N-Tvl. Op 27 Augustus Is d aar 'n
vla g strykparade m et siviele gaste by 4
SAI M eg en d ie volg end e dag is d aar ’n
ges a m en tlik e tee by Kmdmt N-Tvl. Op 29
Augustus bied 1 SAKK OpI Eenh 'n
gas te -a a n d aan vir AO's en senior on-
deroffisiere.
Op 30 Augustus hou Bethal-Kom do 'n
kerkp arade.
Op 7 Augustus is d a a r 'n boom plant­
dag by SVS D u nn ottar en op 13 Augus­
tus 'n voo rstellin gsp arad e by die SALM
Kollege. Op 15 Augustus is d aar ’n ouer-
d ag by HLRS en 'n sportdag by STO. Op
20 Augustus hou LMB M pacha bierfees
• Vervolg op bl 42
PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 41
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Eanh.
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 Durban
Naval
Dockyard’s
OC leaves
IV IL IA N and service per­
C sonnel from SA N aval Dock­
yard Durban atten d ed a fa re w e ll
cerem ony on th e occasion of
th e departure o f th eir O ffice r
Com m anding recently.
Capt J.R.W. Dart left for a new posting
after having served 7 years at tfie Dock­
yard’s helm.
The function w^as held at the Dockyard
Officers’, Warrant Officers’ and Senior
Ratings’ Club and Captain and Mrs Vivian
Dart were given a send-off befitting the
occasion, which will be remembered by
all for some time,
Lt Cdr D.B. van Heerden, the Acting Of­
ficer Commanding, gave a brief validic-
tory speech in which he recalled high­
lights and events which have occured
since the Dockyard was inaugurated by
Mrs Dart.
Souvenir presentations on behalf of
Dockyard Department staff were then
handed to Captain and Mrs Dart. The
Captain responded by thanking everyone
Die wenner, 2 It I.W. Sinclair van 1
Valskermbataljon, besig met sy 18
optrekke.
44 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
Captain and Mrs J.R.W. Dart in ttie Dockyard Officers’, Warrant Officers' and Snr Rat­
ings’ Club, prior to leaving the Dockyard. Lt Cdr D.B. van Heerden (background) is the
Acting Officer Commanding.
for their best wishes and went on to say
that, without the splended support that he
had received from his staff during his
time the Dockyard would never have
achieved its present highly esteemed
status.
On conclusion of the presentations and
having had time to sample the excellent
club catering facilities, Capt Dart was
then politely escorted outside the Club to
1 Valskermbataljon
se troepe fiksste
1
VALSKERM B ATALJO N in
B loem fontein h e t bewys
dat hy in 1986 die fiksste troepe
in K om m andem ent OVS opgeiei
h et to e dió eenheld die eerste
drie plekke verow er h et in 'n
kom petisie om die fik s s te troep
aan te w ys. Die w enner van die
kom petisie dring deur na die
Leérspele.
Die fiksste man in die Kommande-
ment is 2 It I.W. Sinclair, van D-Kom-
panie in 1 Valskermbataljon. Tweeds
was It C. Buchanon en derde sktr G.
Whitby, albei ook van 1 Valskermba­
taljon.
Die eenhede wat deelgeneem het,
is 1 Valskermbataljon, 1 Spesiale
Diensbataljon, 1 Suid-Afrikaanse In-
be transported away on a custom-con-
verted fieldgun carriage, ably towed by an
enthusiastic team of Dockyard officers
who had previously performed so well in
the Navy Pulling Regatta.
Capt Dart, having safely survived this
novel excursion, has now assumed his
new appointment as Senior Staff Officer
on the staff of Flag Officer Commanding
Naval Command East.
fanteriebataljon, 2 Veldgenieregi-
ment, Pantserskool en Genleskool,
wat elk drie deelnemers in die stryd
gehad het. Die kompetisie het be-
staan uit batterytoetse (optrekke,
opstote en opsitte), 2,4 km hardloop
en 15 km stap.
Die deelnemers het bogemiddelde
standaarde gehandhaaf en die beste
in elke afdeling was: 2 It Sinclair (18
optrekke en 90 opstote), It C. Bucha­
non (102 opsitte), spr J.J. Panse-
grouw (2 Veldgenieregiment - 2,4 km
in 9,9 min) en KO P.F. Sass (Pant­
serskool, 15 km in 1,40 min, 37 sek).
 By Pte S.B. Cohen
Photo: Pte G.D. Cohen

everywhere
r STUART BOYD shares his office
M in the Simon s Town Dockyard with
more badges on the wall than there are
days in the year. Well, almost ,, , some
350 of them at the last count,
Mr Boyd has been the Senior Tele­
phone Technician in charge of the techni­
cal side of the Navy telephone exchange
for twenty years. Since 1966 he has also
been collecting ships' badges. Ever since
that time. Royal Navy ships' crew would
present the telephone exchange with
their pennant when paying for their trunk
calls,
Mr Boyd was captivated enough to be­
gin his own collection. He began taking
plasticine moulds off the badges on
ships, off badges out of hotel lobbies,
from badges owned by friends , , . any­
where he could lay his hands on one. He
presently has 350 badges of which 80 are
South African, "All of these 350 badges
that I have," says Mr Boyd, "are of ships
that have visited Simon's Town or Cape
Town,"
Mr Boyd adds: "What really interests
me is the history of ships,” His interest in, to chase me out of the house,” he laughs.
and knowledge of, the nautical world has
Mr Stuart Boyd of the Naval teleplione excharige in his office where a large portion of his
mammoth collection of badges is housed.
made him something of an authority in
the Naval Dockyard,
Tradition has it that every time a ship
undergoes repairs in the dry docks of the
Naval Dockyard, the crew of the ship paint
their badge on the dry dock wall. In addi­
tion, they are required to touch up two
other badges. Often, these badges are so
faded that Mr Boyd has to be consulted in
order to determine what the colours
should be.
For his moulds, Mr Boyd no longer
uses warmed-up plasticine, “Things have
progressed quite a bit,” he says. Now­
adays he uses re-usable rubber, "It smells
quite a lot and sometimes causes my wife
Once he has made the badges, he also
paints them,
Mr Boyd has been a member of the Na­
tional Sea Rescue Institute for 16 years
and has even combined the designs of
various badges to come up with an orig­
inal NSRI one,
"I'd like to be in contact with people
who do this as a hobby, or people who
have an interest in this subject," says Mr
Boyd, who can be contacted at P 0 Box
134, Simon's Town, 7995, He is also inter­
ested in exchanging Naval badges for Air
Force or Army ones.
But do not for a moment think that Mr
Boyd will be diminishing his collection. Of
the 350 badges presently in his collection,
he has already made copies of 200 of
them!

Verjaardag
gevier met
spogkoek
IT was 'n verjaardagkoek met n ver-
D skil wat seinman Martin Schmidt op
sy 21ste verjaardag by die werk aange-
bring het. Die koek was met 'n preslese
weergawe van sy eenheid — 1 SWA Sein-
regiment — se kenteken versier. Dit het
natuurlik al sy kollegas gaande gehad en
die uiteinde was dat daar net foto’s van
die koek geneem is en niemand daarvan
geëet het nie! Hier word Martin gelukge-
wens deur kol R,J, van Broekhuizen en
stafsers W, Webber, Die ma wat met haar
versierwerk haar betrokkenheid by haar
seun se diensplig bewys het, is niemand
anders nie as die bekende omroepster,
Cynthia Callard, van die SWAUK se En-
gelse Diens,

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 45

 Mr A. Rajbansi takes the salute as his Guard of Honour and the proud new ratings march past.

Impressive passing*out
parade at SAS Jalsena
SAS JALSENA, the
he was far more than many of those present In his address, Mr Rajbansi stated that

T Naval Training Base

on Salisbury Island in

dian m en are in itially trained

had first imagined.
The precision and timing of the exer­
cises was quite obviously thanks to the
Durban, is w here young already
In­ legendary working relationship at
the SAS Jalsena between the young men
the men passing out at the parade were
testimony to the efficiency and dedication
that has characterized the base since its
inception in 1974. Afterwards Mr Rajbansi
presented several awards and decora­
w hile undergoing voluntary and their superiors. tions, including two Pro Patria medals
N ational Service (VNS). and six Ten Year SADF Good Service
It was there, too, that these men com­ Bronze medals.
Mr Rajbansi addresses the parade. Also Mrs Rajbansi presented many of the
pleted the 19-week Basic Training with an on the podium were Chief of the Navy,
impressive Passing-out parade recently. newly qualified men with awards for
V Adm Glen Syndercombe, R Adm Paul worthy achievements during their basic
Proudly watching the newly qualified men Wijnberg, COMNAVEAST, and the Com­
exercising their freshly acquired skills training.
manding Officer of SAS JALSENA, Cdr The trophies for the Best Trainee, pre-
was the Chairman of the Minister’s Coun­ W.J. Smit.
cil for the House of Representatives, Mr A.
Rajbansi, and his wife. Mr Rajbansi and
other guests were clearly surprised by
several impressive demonstrations per-
^ rm e d by the men during the course of
the morning.
Particularly impressive was the Rear-
Guard Action Display, also known as the
Jackstay Drill. In this particular exercise a
retreating group becomes stranded and
is rescued by another group, who by
means of wooden structures and pulleys
enable the retreating group to escape
from their vulnerable position.
Another exciting routine was an exhi­
bition of a real-life display or simulated
performance of the most advanced form
of riot control to date, known as the
D Formation. Troops taking up the rear
make efficient use of tear gas/smoke
while the front group use firepower. It was
obvious from this exercise that the extent
of the training the men had undergone

46 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

 By P te C.M. S to tt

sented by the SAS Saldanha and the SAS

Simonsberg Trophy for the Smartest
Trainee on Parade were both won by Sea
P. Govender.
The base originated more than ten
years ago when the South African Gov­
ernment approved the establishment of
the SA Indian Corps Training Battalion
(the original name of S/4S Jalsena) as a
result of appeals made by representatives
of the Indian Council and ex-Service-
men's organizations. With the recent in­
take thus completing their Basic Training
in true splendour, the SAS Jalsena looks
to have achieved another task with com­
mendable enthusiasm and efficiency.

The trainee who displayed the most out­

standing effort in boat work, was awarded
the SAS Jalsena Shield. This year's win­
ner, Sea N. Ponen, is seen accepting the
trophy from Mrs G. Rajbansi.

Mr and l^rs Rajbansi photographed after the parade with R Adm Paul Wijnberg, Cdr W.J. Smit and Mrs Smit and the winners o f the
various trophies who were rewarded for their outstanding performances during their period o f basic training at SAS JALSENA.

UNMASKED
• Continued from p 7
'The ANC boasts that the imposition of
sanctions against South Africa by West­
ern nations has been the result of its
pressure. The ANC also boasts that it
managed to influence the Western na­
tions into adopting the ANC’s approach
with regard to the release of security pris­
oners. However, the ANC is clearly wor­
ried that it does not receive sufficient sup­
port for some of its cruelties,” said Mr Bo­
tha. He then continued:
"The ANC alleges: The use of the 'neck­
lace' has also become a worrying issue. In
some parts of the country our own people
are discouraging the 'necklace’ as
method of execution, being mindful of its ties are united in their rejection of terror­
abuse and its use by the enemy.
“We need to speak with one voice on
ism. All South Africans must stand to­
gether to devise a peaceful future for all.
this question and ensure that the masses It Is a responsibility carried and shared by
of our people get clear and unequivocal all of us who love this country.”
guidelines from the movement on the use In conclusion, and on behalf of all
of the necklace .” South Africans, the State President said
So-called moralists and apoligists for he wished to thank all members of the se­
the ANC must themselves try to reconcile curity forces who are safeguarding our
this barbarism with their own con­ country’s peace, progress and stability
sciences. with great dedication. He also wished
"I believe the time has come that the everyone of them, and their families, a
true democratic states of the world, inter­ blessed Christmas.
est groups in South Africa, and those gul­
lible people who are easily taken in tow by
revolutionary propaganda, come to their
senses.
“Terrorism is a growing problem world­
wide, because of too much hypocrisy and
spinelessness. The overwhelming major­
ity of South Africans in all our communi­

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 47

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 By Amn P.K . A sh _____________ _
Lunch, at which R Adm P.A. Wijnberg,
Flag Officer Commanding Naval Comd
East, was present, was then served. The
quality of the food, an excellent curry in
this case, served as another indicator of
the strong motivation apparent through­
out the unit.
After lunch, the guests boarded one of
the Navy ferries and toured the length and
breadth of Durban harbour. Great interest
was shown in the SA Navy’s new fleet re­
plenishment and supply vessel, the SAS
Drakensberg, currently fitting-out at the
Sandock-Ausfral shipyard.
The ferry bobbed alongside the SAS
Drakensberg for some minutes while cer­
tain interesting features and characteris­
tics of ttie vessel were pointed out.
Then it was back to the Naval Base
where a fire-fighting display was laid on,
which must have impressed the group
due to the efficiency with which the fire­
men extinguished two successive oil-
fires.
The veterans departed in the late after­
noon — impressed and enlightened. The
Chairman of the Indian Ex-Servicemen’s
Legion, MrG.R. Varma, had the last word:
A fireman In protective clothing demonstrates to the amazed veterans the effective­ “ It was a wonderful opportunity, in our
ness o f the new suit used in the a rt o f fire-fighting. role as public watchdog to the Indian
community, to see what the younger gen­
eration are doing. Hopefully, we'll be back
next year” .

I
N an exe rcis e designed to
highlight th e w ay in w hich
Indian volunteers a re u til­
ised in th e SA Navy, tw o MPs
from the House of D elegates
and a party of approxim ately
ndian war veterans
4 0 Indian w ar veteran s w ere
ta k e n on a tour of Naval
Base Durban recen tly.
The party was made up of members
from the 40-year old Indian Ex-Service-
at Naval Base Durban
men’s Legion (some of whose members
are also attached to various MOTH Shell- On arrival, the guests were welcomed
holes), Mr Logan Chetty, MP for by the OC of the SAS Jalsena, Cdr W.J.
Chatsworth Central, and Mr John lyman, Smit, after which a short briefing on train­
MP for Camperdown. ing at the unit was given, followed by an
The purpose of the visit was twofold. excellently produced video on the unit.
Firstly, it provided an excellent and en­ A short but rousing recital by the band
thralling outing for the League, and sec­ of the SAS Jalsena fo Ilowed, after which a
ondly, the MPs and veterans had an op­ tour of the unit was made to view various
portunity to experience at first hand the aspects of training in progress, including
training and general way of life that the drill, riot control training, and new re­ Gathered together on the je tty p rio r to
young Indian volunteers have when they cruits battling valiantly on the tough departing on a ferry tour o f Durban har­
join the Navy. obstacle course. bour, the Indian w ar veterans pose for
the PARATUS camera.
 By Pte S.B. Cirfien Plietos: Pte ®.P. C&hem

Verdict of
Paraguayan
officer in
SANavy:
‘Dis lekl<er’
Paraguayan officer Lt Augusto Lovera
Canete tries his hand at braaiing boere-
o W L t A ugust® L®wera C a n e te is no ron-@ f-tlie- wors. Lt Canete says that South African
áÊm ^m m ill South African Navy officer. Do not for a m om ent, and Paraguayan diets are “ quite similar",
b e fooled by his ta s te fo r braaivleis, or by th e w ay his vocabu­ although we in South Africa "use too
lary inctufies words lik e ‘lekker* and ‘ko e jaw el sap’. For Lt much pepper and much too much gravy ".
C an ete is, in fa c t, an exchange o fficer from th e Paraguayan Of o u r braaivleis tradition, L t CaAete sirrt-
ply says "I like". Surrounding L t Canete
N a v y , and he has only been in South A frica since M arch this are fellow course members from his se­
year. ven week coxswain’s course completed
through 111 Boat Squadron.

When Lt Canete arrived in our country,
he could speak no English and stil! less
,Afrikaans. Now, however, he manages to
communicate in either language. “Afri­
kaans is much easier for me to under­
stand than Engiish” Lt Canete says, be­
cause the pronunciation is more similar
to Spanish.”
Lt Canete joined the Paraguayan Navy
when he was 17 years old. Upon returning
Front row, left to right: W01 F.E. Welgemoed, CdrD.H. van Niekerk, S LtA. Lovera Can­
ete, Cdr M. St. J. Thomson, L t R. Shelley and W01 J.H. Nortier. Back row: f O AS.
Devenish, LS S. Dennis, LS K.J.R. Davids, CPO OJ. de Jonge, LS K.A. Hearne, LS T.T.
Rust, LS R. Erriah, LS E. Johannes, LS M.N. Pillay, LS C.O. Petersen, LS T. Roberts and
W02 H.H.J. Meyer.
to his home country he will receive his
commision as a full lieutenant and take
up his post as second lieutenant to the
Chief of the Paraguayan Navy. This is
after having completed a thorough and
intensive training period in various arms
of the South African Defence Force. Lt
Canete has already spent time at Lan­
guage Bureau, at NBCD Fire-fighting
School, with Strike Craft and at 111 Boat
Squadron where he underwent a
coxswain’s course.
Lt Canete has crewed on board the SAS
KIMBERLEY, SAS EAST LONDON and
SAS WINDHOEK, He has also visited
.every port from Walvis Bay to Durban .. .
and much more awaited him as he set sail
for the SAS OSWALD PIROW in Durban,
and, following that, a Parabat Course in
Bloemfontein.
He has worked particularly hard at
passing all his courses; language prob­
lems have necessitated his doing some
extra studying. Lt Canete wrote his
course examinations (including his rule
of the road section) in his home lan­
guage, Spanish. Then, in collaboration
with the marker, he translated what he
had put down on paper into English. For
coxwain’s course, he attained an admir­
able 87%.
Lt Canete is full of positive regard for
our land and our people. He says he is
"grateful for the military links between
South Africa and Paraguay, as I have
made very many friends here. I hope to
return to this pretty place, ” said Lt Can­
ete, “if not to live, well then to visit at
least. The people in South Africa have
been friendly to me from the first day right
until now.”
Lt Canete also said he felt the interna­
tional news media was wrong to portray
South Africa in such a negative light. “ I
will tel! my family, my friends and my fel­
low officers in the Paraguayan Navy the
truth about South Africa when I return.”
He was looking forward to seeing Para­
guay . . . and his girlfriend, Mona Lisa,
again.

50 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

 The Martello Tower:
Tough little treasure
-Si
The oldest surviving structure built by the
ROUDLY standing on a funds for defence could not be spent on
P raised piece of ground obsolete fortifications. The ruin of this
adjoining the Naval Docic-diminutive antique looked certain.
In 1966 the South African Defence
British in our country, the Martello Tower,
now houses a museum crammed with his­
torical dioramas, collections of copper
yard in Simon’s Tow n, and tools, naval weapons and uniforms, ships’
Force at Defence Headquarters, Pretoria bells, models o f sea-craft, portraits and
overiooi(ing th e w h o le of created a Museums Section. Happily, a photographs o f historical importance to
False Bay, is a sm all round life-saving decision was undertaken to re­ the South African Navy.
tow er. store the Martello Tower and to house a
museum therein. Clearly, the South Afri­
can Defence Force is as intent on secur­ All locks, hinges and other such appen­
The Martello Tower, which now houses ing our past as it is on securing our fu­ dages were copied or removed from
a museum, is itself a museum piece. It ture. equally old buildings.
was erected in 1796 to protect the powder In 1972 the Martello Tower was de­ Authentic and now safe and solid, the
magazine which housed 980 barrels of clared a National Monument. The Works Martello Tower has been saved by the
gunpowder, as well as the gun battery Branch of the South African Navy demol­ South African Defence Force, hopefully
‘Boetselaar' in its vicinity. ished 300 tons of stonework to install to last through the centuries to come.
A mere 25 feet high with walls of 6 feet concrete beams in the wall to strengthen This tough little treasure of a building can
thick, this small but dignified great­ the structure. The original stone was all only become increasingly richer in his­
grandfather of a structure is the first salvaged, cleared of mortar and reused. torical stature.
coastal fortification erected by the British
in South Africa. It is also the sole survivor
still standing. Moreover, the tower is the
oldest Martello Tower in the world, the
very forerunner of those later built on the
south coast of England.
The Martello Tower is built out of local
sandstone, and entrance into the struc­
ture is via two pairs of thick oak double­
doors, above which is the gantry. A
curved staircase with a baluster leads
from the ground floor to the first floor.
On the first floor, three large embra-
zures cover all landward approaches to
the tower. Access to the roof of the tower
is by means of a ship’s ladder, and, al­
though the tower was never actually
armed, guns could easily have been
mounted on its roof
At the turn of the century, the Martello
Tower was vacated by the Royal marine
ammunitions guards who had been living
there, and it was deserted. Over time,
dampness penetrated the walls, the mor­
tar and the woodwork, resulting in the Almost two centuries old Palace Barracks makes mention o f the fact that many a
stonework collapsing. The following has been painstakingly maintained in a noted traveller was entertained in this
years of exposure, the ever-present superb condition. The National Monu­ building in the distant past.
damp, fire and termites threatened the ment plaque next to the front entrance
Martello Tower’s very existence.

P A L A C E B A R R A C K S , a i-

I
N 1936, the (then) Mayor of Simon's
Town, Mr W. Runciman, appealed to
Palace Barracks; though presently owned by
th e S o u th A fric a n D e fe n c e
Force, is shown on Korstem an’s
the public through a letter in the Cape
Times' to take steps to halt the decay. For
twenty years all further attemps to effect
restoration also failed.
A century of plan o f Sim on’s Tow n as early as
1798.
It is truly a majestic structure - in fact,
one of the early owners, John Osmond,
Even much effort on the part of the
Simon's Town Historical Society could
accumulate little more than sympathy, as
service who bought the property in 1813 and lived
Continued on p 62

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 51

 NUUS U IT KMDMT OVS.

j . 'V , v f V
.. A01 J.C. Landman (RSM) en A01 M.B.
Odendaal is die twee manne wat hoof-
saaklik verantwoordelik is vir natuurbe-
waring by 1 Vaiskermbataljon.
1 Vaiskermbataljon
deeglik met
omgewingsbewaring
ET so d eeg iik as w at 1 V aiskerm bataljon in Bloem fon­
tein is m et sy opieiding, so deegiik is hy ook m e t sy
natuur- en om gewingsbewaring.
Sedert die Kommandement OVS sowat
drie jaar gelede sy Omgewings-
bewaringsdag ingestel het, het 1
Vaiskermbataljon die kompetisie die eer-
ste twee jaar verower. Vanjaar is besluit
dat dit toegeken moet word aan ’n een-
heid wat besig is om nog te ontwikkel (7
Div Mob Sentrum), en 1 Vaiskermbataljon
het as 'n gevestigde eenheid 'n spesiale
tweede prys gekry.
Die bewaringsprojek word in ’n aantal
doelwitte onderverdeel. Hulls beplan om
voortdurend die plantegroei in die een­
heid te verbeter en groei te bevorder. Die
“tekorte” in die eenheid word bepaal en
as dooie kolle ge'identifiseer, Daar word
ook gedurig uitbreidings en verbeterings
in die eenheid as geheel gedoen. Hierdie
projek is deurlopend van aard, sodat kon-
tinuïteit in die program vir alle projekte
gehandhaaf word.
ans het die eenheid ’n projek vir die
T hervestiging van inheemse plante.
Dit het die afgelope drie jaar ’n groot
groei in 1 Vaiskermbataljon tot gevolg ge-
had. Bome en struike word deurentyd
aangeplant, veral tydens die Nasionale
Boomplantdag wanneer inheemse bome
en plante in groot getalle regoor die een­
heid gepiant word.
Elke boom in die eenheid word gemerk
met 'n plaatjie waarop sy wetenskaplike

Oranjejeug verenig vrouagter

A gter e lk e m an is d aar ’n vrou. Die
m an in u niform h e t aityd ’n vrou, ver-
lo o fd e o f m e Isle om hom by te staa n .
O ranjejeu g en 1 V aisicerm iiataijon
h e t m e t d ie m edew ericing van d ie Di-
re k to ra a t K uitu ursake van d ie De-
p a rtem e n t van O nderw ys en K ultu ur
b e s lu it om d ie vrou a g te r d ie m an in
u nifo rm byeen te bring so dat h ulle
kn elp u n te in d ie verhoudinge kan
u itlig en van raad en ad vies by te
s ta a n ,
Oranjejeug is n organisasie vir wer-
kende jong mense tussen 18 en 35*jaar.
Dié organisasie poog om in die jong
mense se behoeftes te voorsien en hulle
te motiveer om op ’n gesonde wyse te
werk en ontspan. Die werksaamhede van
die organisasie maak hom uniek. Dit is
die eerste keer dat so iets in die Vrystaat
aangebied word.
Die sprekers wat by hierdie geleentheid
gepraat het, het mev Ria Naudé, eggenote
van die Kapelaan-generaal van die Weer-
mag, en prof Kobus Laubser van die De-
partement Landbou-ekonomie aan die
Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat inge-
sluit.
Die sprekers en hul onderwerpe was;
Mev Naudé het gepraat oor “Die rol en
funksie van die vrou met ’n man in uni­ vroulike oogpunte, ervaringe en frustra-
form". Sy het onder andere gesê dat die sies.
vrou verantwoording moet doen van haar Die laaste spreker was mev Maretha
roeping as vrou, gelowige en lands- Maartens, ’n bekende skryfster en predi-
burger. Die keuse van ’n huweliksmaat is kantsvrou van Bloemfontein. Sy het ge­
'n voorreg wat saam met verantwoordelik- praat oor die vrou en haar godsdiens -
heid gaan. Jy alleen kan hom kies en godsdiens as anker en motiveerder.
moet ook die gevolge van die keuse dra.
Die eerste fase van die sielkundige oor-
log vind in die huis piaas, as kleinste een­
heid van die bevoIking. As die vyand slaag
om die vrou vir sy saak te wen, is die .
helfte van die saak reeds gewonne.
Daarom moet die vrou haar eie opinie
vorm en vaardighede ontwikkel om aller-
hande eise wat gaan voorkom, die hoof te
bied.
Prof Laubser het in sy praatjie oor “Die
grasweduwee en finansiele beplanning”
gepraat oor hoe die vrou haarself kan
help terwyl die man nie tuis is nie. Finan-
sies iadikwels n groot wrywingsoorsaak
en daarom is die bantering daarvan baie
belangrik.
Mev Mariaan Beyleveldt {eggenote van
kol T. Beyleveldt, Bevelvoerder van Pant-
serskool) en ds Callie Roos (kapelaan van
1 Vaiskermbataljon) het albei gepraat oor
sosiale- en groepsverkeer. Hulle het on-
derskeidelik gepraat uit die manlike en

52 'PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

 Deur o kpl J. Botes
N v - \ Uitheemse- en indringerplante word
Die arende wat die eenheid in ’n goedge-
keurde hok aanhou, is die gelukbringers
van die eenheid. Op die eenheidsem-
bleem kom ’n arend voor.
naam en noemnaam verskyn sodat mense
hulle kan identifiseer. Waar ’n boom of
plant om een of ander rede vrek, word dit
so spoedig moontiik vervang om nie te
veel van ’n groei agterstand agter te laat
nie.
Dooie kolle word nog gereeld geidenti-
fiseer en beplant. So n dooie kol was by
die nuwe valskermopleidingsloods waar
gras en struike aangeplant word ter ver-
betering van die terrein waar die klipmure
en keerwalle gebou is.
soldaat
Van die sprekers en organiseerders: mev
Olga Roos, mev Ria Naudé (eggenote van
die Kapelaan-generaal van die Weermag),
mev Mariaan Beyleveldt, mej Martie Haas-
broek en p ro f Kobus Laubser.
ultgeroei. Die eenheid poog ook om buite
die eenheidslyne hierdie probleem te be-
kamp. Plante wat veral beperk word, is die
litjieskaktus (die grootste plaag tans in
die Vrystaat), oliebome en die Skotse dis-
sel. Van tyd tot tyd hou A01 J.C. Landman
(RSM) en A01 M.B. Odendaat, die twee
manne hoofsaaklik verantwoordelik vir
natuurbewaring by die eenheid, ook
steekproewe om dié piante uit te rOei.
D ie eenheid het geen wild in kampe
nie, maar beoog om die eerste deel
van hul wildtuintjie teen die einde van die
jaar te voltooi. In die koppie agter die
valskermverpakkingsvleuei is opieiding
verbied sodat plantegroei en voellewe sy
gang kan gaan. Natuurbewaring is ook
geskakel om die regte inligting te verkry
van wat om aan te hou om die regte bal-
ans te kan handhaaf.
Op die eenheidsembleem kom ’n arend
voor. Die eenheid hou dan ook n paar
arende in ’n goedgekeurde hok aan. Daar
is ’n visarend, twee goue arende en ’n
witkruisarend. Hulle word gereeld deur ’n
veearts ondersoek en word met vieis en
vis gevoer. Daar word ook van tyd tot tyd
vir hulle voels geskiet sodat hulle vere
kan inkry.
In die tweede helfte van die jaar word
mense opgelei uit die eenheid om meer
ekologiese navorsing te doen sodat hul
doeSwitte meer professioneel benader
kan word.
’n A nder groot projek van die eenheid
/ i b i n n e sy natu urbewaringsprojek is
die bekamping, voorkoming en herstel
van gronderosie. Deur die hele eenheid
deur is stewige waterslote gebou om in
tye van bale reenal die water te kanaliseer
en dit dan in die munisipale afvoerstelsel
te kry. Plaveisel is ook op verskeie plekke
aangebring om te verhinder dat van die
grond wegspoel.
Die grootste probleem met erosie was
op die koppie agter die valskermverpak-
kingsvleuel en dit is gekeer deur die vol-
gende toe te pas; Alte opieiding is daar
gestaak, Namakwalandse madeliefies en
gras is daar geplant om die sagte grond te
bind, klipmure en klein keerwalle is ge­
bou om die water se afvloei te breek en so
ook te verhinder dat die vrugbare grond
verder wegspoel, struike wat die grond
help bewaar is ook aangeplant en ge-
biede wat in die verlede reeds wegge-
spoel het, is opgevul en plantegroei
daarop gevestig.
Aangesien daar van plaaslike water ge-
bruik gemaak is, wat benewens hoe koste
ook in tye van droogte skaars is en die
pantegroei en voellewe gevolglik daar-
onder laat ly, is besluit om eie water in die
hande te kry. 'n Boorgat het sterk water
opgelewer. ’n Elektriese besproeiingstel-
sel is aangele en pype met koppelpunte
op verskeie plekke in die eenheid aange­
bring. ’n Pyp kan net ingedruk en struike
en grasperke natgelei word. Nog ’n boor­
gat aan die noordekant van die eenheid
word beplan.
Intern is daar geen onnodige heinings
nie. As die wildtuin begin word, sal daar
net een interne heining om die koppie
aangebring sodat die wild beskerm word,
’n Brandpad is tussen die eenheid en die
res van die kommandement geskoffel.
Marietjie se
brief bring
liaar by
‘soldat’ uit
S KTR J.C. B ezuidenhout w a s in 1978
besig m e t grensd iens to e hy ’n brie-
fie van ’n Sub B -leeriing a a n Oran|e-IM ei-
sieskool ontvang. D ie b riefie is d e u r ene
“ M a rie tjie ” g eskryf. Ná agt ja a r h et die
tw e e m e k a a r v ir d ie e e rs te k e e r ont-
moet.
Deur al die jare heen was die briefie,
met kinderhand geskrywe, nog altyd vir
“JC” ’n groot onderskraging en dra hy dit
al agt jaar in sy hempsak. Elke keer as hy
’n skoon hemp aantrek, word die briefie
eerste van alles in sy hempsak gesit.
• Die briefie lui;
"Liewe soldat
0ns Oranje mysie skool se dogters is
baie trots op julu
julu moet versigtig wees
0ns hou dym vas dat julu ge sont sal
bly
VAN MARIETJIE
Aan soldat”
Marietjie Herbst is vandag ’n standerd
agt-leerling, nog steeds aan die Oranje-
Meisieskool. Sy vertel dat die juffrou (mej
Joan Abrahams) papier in die klas uitge-
deel het sodat hulle briefies aan die sol-
date aan die Grens kon skryf. Die vyftien-
jarige meisie sê op haar skaam manier dat
sy destyds ’n klomp soentjies onder die
brief gemaak het. Haar maatjies het haar
geterg en sy het dit toe maar weer uitge-
vee! Die soentjies kan egter nou nog in
hulle vae vorm onder aan die brief gesien
word.
Maar hoe het dit gekom dat dié twee ná
agt jaar mekaar ontmoet? JC, vandag 'n
getroude man met twee kinders, was een-
dag in gesprek met ’n vriend, ene It Sulli­
van. JC vertel hom van die brief wat hy ná
al die jare nog met hom saamdra. By It
Sullivan hoor hy toe dat die briefskrywery
geïnisieer is deur mej Joan Abrahams, of
Ta Mossie, soos sy onder die troepe be-
kend staan vanweë die sente wat sy aan
hulle gee.
By n latere geleentheid ontmoet It Sul­
livan mej Abrahams en vertel haar van JC
en die brief,
Sý maak toe ’n plan om die briefskryf-
ster en die ontvanger bymekaar te bring.
Een mooi Vrydag daag almal toe op by Ta
Mossie. JC, sy vrou Amanda, hulle twee
kinders, Marietjie, haar ma en natuurlik
die Pere,
Op'die koop toe vind hulle toe ’n groot
verbintenis. Amanda Bezuidenhout, Ma­
rietjie Herbst en haar ma, mev A.M.
Herbst, was almal leerlinge aan die
Oranje-Meisieskool en het in een of ander
stadium klas gehad by mej Abrahams toe
sy daar ’n onderwyseres was.
PARATUS • JANUARIE 1967 53
VAANDELPARADE BY 89 GEVEGVLIEGSKOOL
• /
Aan die einde van die parade is 'n verby-
mars gehou. U J.J. Botha dra die vaandel
kort nadat d it deur 89 GVS in ontvangs
geneem was. -(Foto: Lmn H.A. Cleiand)
GEVEGVLIEGSKOOL op P ie te rs b u rg h e t onlangs ’n
M b e s o n d e re m y lp a a l b e h a a l d e u r s y e ie v a a n d e l t e ont-
v a n g — s le g s v ie r m a a n d e n a d a t d it ’n affs o n d e riik e
e s k a d e r g e w o r d h e t.
Die Vaandel is op 30 Oktober 1986 deur
die Minister van Verdediging, genI Mag­
nus Malan, aan die eskader oorhandig. 'n
Kleurryke en indrukwekkende parade is
gehou wat ook bygewoon is deur die Hoof
van die Lugmag. It geni D.J. Earp, en an-
der hoogwaardigheidsbekleërs.
Geni Malan het gesê ’n eenheidsvaan-
dei is ’n baie mooi en ou tradisie. “Dit
beeld trots en samehorigheid uit. En
JAN, ïr->v V4**
Viieëniers van die
beste in wêreld,
sê geni IMalan
reeds vandag kan ek daardie trots sien
straal uit die manne van hierdie
Viiegskool.”
Die vaandel is daarna deur die Minister
aangebied en deur die eskader in ont­
vangs geneem.
Gent Malan het gesê dat Suid-Afrika se
vlieeniers hulself oor die jare bewys het as
van die beste in die wéreld. "En nou, met
die infasering van die nuwe Cheetah,
plaas ons 'n vliegtuig in ons vlieeniers se
hande wat hul vaardighede waardig is.
“Ek het groot vertroue in die vermoë
van die Lugmag om hierdie nuwe toevoe-
ging goed te gebrutk,” het hy bygevoeg.
Die prag van die nuwe viiegtuig is aan
die begin van die parade tentoongestel
met ’n verbyvlug deur 'n Cheetah en drie
Mirages.
Hoewel 89 GVS eers in Julie vanjaar sy
“onafhanklikheid” verkry het, moet die
eskader se bestaan teruggevoer word na
1964 toe die eerste dubbelsitplek Mirage-
vliegtuie aangekoop is.
Op 30 Oktober 1974 het die eerste Mi­
rage 3 na LMB Pietersburg gevlieg om die
Miragevlug van 89 GVS te stig. Talle viieë-
niers en ’n aantal navigators is oor die af-
gelope jare opgelewer.
In 1984 het dit geblyk dat ’n enkele be-
velvoerder nie meer doelmatige bevel oor
89 GVS kon voer nie. Die uiteenlopende
take van Impala-gevegsopleiding en Mi-
rage-operasionele aanpassings kon ook
nie meer deur gesamentlike bevel gead-
ministreer word nie.
Ministeriële goedt^euring is in De-
sember 1984 aangevra en verkry om twee
afsonderlike gevegseenhede te stig. 89
GVS is geherorganiseer en het op 1 Julie
vanjaar ’n eskader in eie reg geword. Van-
daar is dit ’n uitsonderlike prestasie dat
die eskader so gou sy eie vaandel ont-
vang.
In die program skryf die bevelvoerder
van 89 GVS, kmdt O.A. Schur, die vol-
gende: “As die jongste vegtereenheid van
die SALM en die ontvanger van ons
nuutste vegvliegtuig, betree 89 GVS 'n
baie beiowende toekoms. Deur te put uit
sy trotse erfenis en die innerlike sterkte
van sy mense, sal 89 GVS altyd enige uit-
daging voortreflik die hoof bied.” - (Wrn
E. Janssen)
Die Minister van Verdediging, geni Mag­
nus Malan, lower sy toespraak nadat hy
die vaandel oorhandig het. Langs horn
staan die Bevelvoerder van 89 GVS, kmdt
O.A. SchCir.
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 FQRMHRD A M R H i l‘V A < t'1 & jl6 Y ly y |^ m ^

H ave you ever stopped to think how m uch TIM E , M ONEY AND
ENERGY is invested by th e South A frican Defence Force in
Education and Training? N e xt to w eaponry I would not be sur­
prised to discover th a t it is th e n ext largest expenditure item
on th e budget, it w ould also be interesting to find out from the By Col P.B.G. Dugm ore
thousands of m en and w om en who have been on the receiving
end of th a t education and training w h eth er they have fe lt that
th e tim e, m oney and energy invested has given an equitable
return in term s of skills acquired and self-developm ent
gained.

What can military educationalists,

trainers learn from the MBTI?
T “ HE above two questions high-
I light the continual challenge
that faces those involved in educa­
tion and training, namely, have we
succeeded in our efforts and are
there not more effective ways of
doing our job?
I am not suggesting that these
questions have never been asked
before or that improvements have
not been Introduced. In fact I know
they have. I am merely sharing my
expelence and knowledge in the
hope that it will add grist to the mill
and another possibility that our
educationalists and trainers may be
willing to not only consider but also
take up in all earnestness, for I am
convinced that it will add that facet
to their work and its results which
will place it in the category of MOST
EFFECTIVE. The Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator has already proved
itself internationally in the field of
Education and Training and it has
been used:
* To develop different teaching
methods to meet the needs of dif­
ferent types.
* To understand type difference in
motivation for learning. In read­
ing. in aptitude, and in achieve­
ment, to use the understanding of
learning motivation to help stu­
dents gain control over their own tions. If the reader wishes to know
learning and to help teach- more about the instrument, they
ers/trainers reach more students. can contact me through the Editor
* To analyze curricula, methods, of PARATUS.
media, and materials in the tight Let us first investigate what the
of the needs of different types. MBTI has revealed about the Teach­
I do not have the space in this ar­ ers Trainers themselves. We will
ticle to give a detailed description use the two central letters to iden­
of the MBTI. For those who have not tify these, namely, ST, SF. NF. NT.
yet been exposed to it. 1 would
briefly describe it as follows: The role of the teachers
It is a pen and pencil test which
a c h of these teachers sees
taps the preferences a person has
on Four continuums. A Sensing . . .
Intuitive continuum which taps
E their role differently. The ST
teacher believes that their role is to
set an example for their students,
their preference for how they prefer
be a role model and to share know­
to take in information. A Thinking
ledge and experience. The SF
.. . Feeling continuum which taps
teacher on the other hand places
their preference for how they make
their preference on functions such
their decision based on the above
as instruct, discipline, encourage,
information. An Extraversion . . . In­
support and serve others. The NF
troversion continuum which taps
teacher sees their rote as one which
the source of their energy and
encourages, inspires, provides var­
lastly, a Judging .. . Ftsrutiption
iety and creativity and motivates
continuum which taps their prefer­
students to develop. NT teachers
ence for an orderly or spontaneous
encourage and mspire and help
lifestyle with respect to the above
students to develop as citizens and
functions.
persons.
Once the preferences have been
identified, they are arranged into Typical methods of
one of SIXTEEN possible prefer­
Teaching/Training
ence typologies e.g. ESTJ, INFP.
ESFJ, ENTJ etc. I will be referring in T teachers follow daily routine
this article to these letter identifica­ and place emphasis on dirc'ct-

56 PABATUS • JANUARY 19b7

ing the activities. SF teachers fol­
low ordered daily patterns but ad­
justed for person centred interac­
tions. NF teachers use a flexible
pattern depending on topic and
student need. NT's have a flexible
daily routir>e that depends on top­
ics and student needs, with interac­
tions based on expectations for or­
der and learning.
Students’ work is evaluated
y the ST teacher using points
B and percentages in a systenia-
tic way. SF teachers also use points
and percentages, but add extra
credit options. NF teachers on the
other hand use a number of factors,
only one of which is grades. NT’s
also use a numt>er of factors.
We have only touched on three
facets in order to illustrate the
point. One could have also looked
at factors such as Planning,
sources of information and the cri­
teria of success which each teacher
identifies to measure whether they
have been successful or not.
Many of my readers can no doubt
rem em ber som ething of their
school days. Have you ever won­
dered why it was that some teach­
ers were able to motivate you to
learn and others were able to draw
out of you potential that you did not
ever realize was there? Some teach­
ers were difficult to follow and
understand, others just "seemed to
t » speaking your language".
The answer in terms of the MBTI
lies in the fact that they had similar
preferences to yourself or their in­
sight enabled them to understand
which approach to take in order to
gain your interest and transfer their
knowledge.
Let us then join those who are on
the receiving end of education and
training and see what makes them
tick. Here I am only going to use the
letters of two of the continuums
mentioned earlier. The T . . .F conti­ get freedom. Perceptive types need
nuum and the J . . .P continuum.
What does the Teacher/
Instructor need to bear in mind
when working with High T
preferences?
h in k in g types need order, if
T order is taken to mean that
logic rules the situation. Teachers preferences when it comes to
need to spell out the logical conse­
quences and to allow the student to
analyze confused situations by us­
ing their logic to bring order out of
the confusion.
Teachers who deal with high T ’s
need to realize that T ’s need to en­
dure, to persist, to prevail in things
they are committed to. They want to
have the last word in arguments.
They may adopt this line if they en­
counter resistance. (Teacher: "We
seem to disagree. Tell me how you
see the problem . . . have you
thought about it from this angle? ”)
What does the Teacher/
Instructor need to bear in mind
when dealing with High F’s?
F
e e li n g types need approval
and personal support more
than they need to achieve, to pre­
vail, or to “be right”. They want
warm, not cool impersonal ac­
knowledgement of their work.
Feeling types need to be needed,
to know that they are helpful to
peers and adults. They are turned
off by assignments that seem to
have no particular value to anyone
accept themselves in some imper­
sonal and remote sense (as with
memorization of many facts and
skills that are found in text books.)
What does the Teacher/
instructor need to bear in mind
when working with High J’s?
UDGING types need structure
J and predictability, they need
milestones and a sense of closure.
They want to know what they are ac­
countable for, when, how and by
what standards. J’s will learn out of
a sense of duty, for a while at least.
What does the Teacher/
Instructor need to bear in mind
when working with High P’s?
ERCEPTIVES need variety,
Pnovelty and change. A typically
structured classroom can make the
perceptive type feel imprisoned,
with the result that they spend
energy needed for study trying to
autonomy and a real choice. They
work much better at tasks they have
chosen.
Perceptive types need opportu­
nities to be spontaneous free­
wheeling, to follow their curiosity.
I think that the above examples
illustrate the importance of know­
ing something about ones own
teaching and instruction, but also
even more so to understand the
preferences of those who form your
communication destination. For
without this knowledge you cannot
hope to effectively transfer your
message in a way appropriate to
your audience.
It is true that in a class, say, of
twelve students, it is not easy to
identify an approach which will
cover every type, but the MBTI si's-
tem has a method of identifying the
strongest preferences in a group so
that you will at least know before­
hand where to place the main
thrust. It also then identifies the in­
dividual who is totally different in
preference, thus giving you an op­
portunity to adjust your teaching
method to cater for them as well,
even if it is on a one to one basis.
Relating type to instructional
strategies
e t me close by identifying
L some of the main types found
In the Defence Force and let us
identify their most effective way of
learning:
ISTJ
Linear learner with strong nee<^
for order. (SJ) **
Likes direct experience (S)
Likes audio-visuals (S): Lectures
(I)
Enjoys working alone (I)
Likes well defined goals (S)
Prefers practical tests (S)
ESTJ
Linear learning with strong need
for structure (SJ)
Needs to know why before doing
something (S)
Likes direct experience (S)
Likes audio-visuals and practical
tests (S)
Likes group projects, class re­
ports, team competition (E)
May like lecture (T)
ENTJ
Can t)e global or linear learner
(NJ)
Likes seminars (EN)
Likes reading if he can settle
down long enough (EN)
Likes group projects, class re­
ports and team competition (E)
Likes listening (N)
Likes pencil and paper tests (N)
Prefers open ended instruction
(N)
Wants to consider theory, then
applications (N)
I trust that these few thoughts will
stimulate the thinking of those in­
volved in the education and train­
ing fields and encourage them to
look more seriously at the many
possibilities that the MBTI informa­
tion can offer them in their import­
ant task.
PARATUS • JANUARIE 1967 57
 C.A.T.S. have nine
lives - do you?
C .A.T.S. have nine lives - Courtesy, Awareness, Training and
Sobriety w ill ensure th a t you, like our felin e friends, will
have many lives and many years of enjoyable riding. This ar­
tic le on sa fe riding p rac tic e w as ta k e n from ROBOT, the official
n e w s le tte r o f the N ational Road S a fety Council.
Motorcycling, both as a mode of trans­
portation and a challenging sport, on­
road and off-road, has enjoyed a tremen­
dous increase in popularity in South
Africa in recent years. The great upsurge
in motorcycle ownership has, however,
brought with it the unfortunate - but not
unexpected - increase in crashes, inju­
ries and fatalities. While the increase is
not necessarily proportional to the in­
creased usage, motorcycle crashes are
nevertheless a matter of concern, espe­
cially to parents whose children are fas­
cinated by the mobility, freedom and low-
cost transportation available to them
when they turn sixteen. Mothers and
wives often look upon the bigger, more
powerful motorcycles as a threat to their
family's survival.
Why should this be? Why are motor­
cycles and motorcyclists regarded so un­
favourably by so many?
Finely engineered
T ODAY’S motorcycle is a finely engin­
eered piece of machinery, almost
totally reliable if properly maintained and
ridden. It has the most advanced, safety-
researched controls, suspension, brakes,
lights and tyres fitted to it. Because of the
very close proximity of vital controls to
hands and feet, the rider's reaction time
in an emergency is far quicker than a car-
driver's.
The rider has a far greater unot)-
structed field of vision and is less likely to
become sleepy because of the rush of
fresh air and tiecause he has to stop more
frequently for fuel on a long trip. We have
many thousands of kilometres of the best
engineered roads in the world, in most
cases adequately signposted with signs
designed internationally to regulate, warn
and inform the rider in sufficient time of
changes and hazards ahead.
We even find on comparing light ve­
hicle registration and light vehicle acci­
dents with motorcycle registrations and
motorcycle accidents, that a light vehicle
is twice as likely to be involved in an acci­
dent as a motorcycle, although the motor­
cyclist is twice as likely to come off sec­
ond best than the steelcage-protected
motorist, a factor which could be better if
more motorcyclists took advantage of
protective clothing.
58 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
At this stage, with so many things in
favour of the motorcyclist to enjoy safe,
exhilirating riding, what goes wrong and
what or who is to blame for the accidents
which do occur all too frequently?
Taking other road users first, we dis­
cover that, in common with overseas find­
ings, about 50% of all collisions between
motorcycles and cars occur at intersec-
1^^
tions; most often when a car turning right
violates a motorcyclist's right of way. The
greatest part of this accident cause fac­
tor' is related to the failure of the car
driver to see the oncoming motorcycle.
The typical reaction of the car driver
was that he looked and the intersection
was clear, so he made his turn, felt a
bump and saw someone go flying
through the air.
Motorcyclists who survived often main­
tain that they made eye-contact’ with the
driver who looked straight at them and
then drove into them. It would appear that
car drivers with no interest in motorcy­
cling whatsover, will only consider an­
other vehicle the same size or larger than
theirs as a threat to their right of way.
They will simply not see the motorcycle
because they are not looking for one and
don't expect to see one, especially when
motor conspicuity is absent, as in the
case of a motorcycle approaching from
ahead or behind on a collision course.
Expose yourself
O NE of the biggest single methods to
reduce accidents is for the motor­
cyclist to make himself as conspicuous as
possible by;
1. Riding with his headlight switched on
during the daylight hours.
2. Wearing high visibility clothing and
helmet, with retro reflective material,
in addition, at night.
Remember: 'Brighter Bikers Live
Longer'. Position yourself safely where
you are most likely to be seen. Figure out
where the driver’s blind spots are and
keep out of them.
77% of crashes are from the 11,12 and
1 o’clock positions. So, watch where you
are going: that is where at least three
quarters of the accidents are coming
from, in many cases with vehicles travel­
ling the same direction’.
Get properly trained
S O now we are left with the rider, this
poor unfortunate guy who has often
learned to ride’ without the benefit of for­
mal training, mainly because hardly any
has been available. If he has bothered to
get a licence, he has been subjected to a
test that cannot in all honesty be said to
be a test of his ability to ride a motorcycle
safely in traffic. He has not learned the
basics of motorcycle control. The most
important of which is probably braking
correctly under varying circumstances
and conditions; he has no idea of de­
fensive riding methods or collision avoid­
ance tactics. He wears a helmet because
he is compelled to, and sometimes a
leather jacket for the wrong reasons like
fashion. Very often, short pants, T-shirt
and slip-slops suffice.
If proper rider training is available, do
the course, if not, read books and learn all
you can from them, practising what they
teach. Be careful of well-meant but often
faulty advice from people who have rid­
den for many years. Their pet techniques
are not necessarily correct. Most often an
accident develops very quickly and in pre­
crash action the rider often demonstrates
poor choice of evasive action and then
executes that choice poorly.
Avoid riding between two lanes of cars
travelling In the same direction, otherwise
sooner or later you’ll be the meat in the
sandwich.
When changing direction, always give
that life-saver look over the shoulder.
Avoid riding next to the kerb - sooner
or later you will be sandwiched between a
car and the kerb and then you’ll be spread
all over the pavement.
Do not accept a car-driver’s signal that
he is about to turn right as correct until he
starts turning right. He has been known to
turn left instead.
Alcohol involvement in accidents is
high, and, to quote research. In alcohol
and drug-impaired riders, the fatality rate
was far higher!'
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AGDIENSTE word dikwels

W as vervelig en 'n verspilling
van waardevolle tyd be-
stempel - selfs ’n verskoning van die
SA Weermag om lede besig te hou
Maar wat is die ware feite?
Ons lewe vandag onder volgehoue
druk van bedreigjnge en sabotasie.
Dit is bekend dat die A.N.C. onder
Moenie
meer militêre instailasies op sy lys
het as potensiele teikens vir dade van
sabotasie. Dink net aan wat die
propagandawaarde daarvan vir so n
organisasie sal wees as n sabotasie-
poging op ’n militêre teiken sukses-
rol van
vol van stapel laat loop kan word.
Dit is reeds bewys dat die doeltref-
fend en volgehoue sekerheid wat on­
der meer deur wagte toegepas is, ’n
grootse rol gespeel het in die voor-
koming of ontmoediging van ons
skildwag
vyande om meer dade van sabotasie

onderskat
te pi(!t>(.|
Miljoene rande van hoogs gesofis-
tikeerde toerusting, wat noodsaaklik
is vir die veiligheid en paraatheid van
die RSA en deur die belastingbetaler
se geld aangekoop word, bevind
hulle in die meeste Weermaginstalla-
sies. Dit is noodsaaklik dat hierdie
toerusting nie slegs teen sabotasie
nie, maar ook teen spioenasie, met
die allergrootste sorg bewaak en be-
skerm moet word.

ik w e ls moet ons hoor dat wag­

D dienste vervelig is. Een manier
om daarna te kyk, is dat as daar ge-
of toerusting. dood of besering van Dit is belangrik om te weet dat alle
durende n besondere wagperiode makkers of die verlies van geklassifi- pogings by die verskillende eenhede
geen voorvalle voorgekom het nie, seerde dokumente lei. en instailasies van die SA Weermag
die wagte se diens as suksesvol be- Dit moet egter onthou word dat nie aangewend word om te verseker dat
skou moet word. enige persoon getaak word om wag­ elke lid wat vir wagdienste in aanmer-
Dit kan moontlik nie betwyfel word dienste te verrig nie. Elke soldaat king kom, sy regmatige deel van hier­
dat n wagdiens dikwels fisies verve­ word, voordat hy vir die eerste keer die taak ontvang.
lig kan wees nie, maar n skildwag as n skildwag aangewend word, ten Daar moet dus tot die slotsom ge-
moet voortdurend op sy hoede wees voile opgelei in alle aspekte van die raak word dat wagdienste noodsaak­
en sy sintuie wakker vir die gevare taak wat hy moet verrig. Hierdiê op- lik is vir die sekerheid van die SA
wat mag dreig. As hy nie waaksaam is leiding word op n gereelde grond- Weermag en met absolute ywer en
nie, is dit soveel as pligsversuim wat slag hersien sowel as elke keer wan- toegewydheid verrig moet word.
’n strafbare oortreding is. Sodanige neer 'n wag op diens moet gaan. Op • Opgestel deur: Kaptein (SA
nalatigheid kan tot die beskadiging hierdie wyse word verseker dat hy te VIoot) J.C. Nieuwoudt, Hoof: SA
of selfs vernietiging van n installasie alle tye met sy taak vertroud is. Weermagklagtekantoor.

PARATUS • JANOARIE 1987 59

• Deur w rn E. Janssen Foto’s: see A.B. Ingram

A GT top sportmanne van Kommandement WP - Met hul terugkoms in Kaapstad is die

steppers verwelkom deur brig A.K. de
Dienspligtiges en vrywilligers - het onlangs ’n Jager, Bevelvoerder Kmdmt WP. heel
regs, en mev Clara Muller, onderburge-
unieke projek aangepak en met sukses voltooi meesteres van Kaapstad. Die agt sport­
deur ’n staptog van 750 km af te lê. manne het altesaam 750 km te voet af-
gelé.
Die agt sportmanne het binne n maand
al langs die kus af van Nature's Valley
naby Plettenbergbaai tot in Kaapstad ge-
stap en na verneem word, Is dit die eerste
keer dat dié mooi roete kuslangs te voet
afgelê is.
Die idee het ontstaan by knr Andrew
Muir wat die WP reeds verskeie kere in
loopkampioenskappe verteenwoordig
het. Hy het ander sportmanne genader en
dié se entoesiasme het horn oortuig om
magtiging te verkry en te begin met die
beplanning.
Die doe! van die staptog was om waar-
dering aan die inwoners van Kaapland te
betoon vir hul steun aan WP-sportmanne.
Terselfdertyd is praatjies aangebied waar-
tydens die agt vertel het wat Nasionale
Diensplig vir hulle beteken.
Die sportmanne wat deelgeneem het, is
die twee bekende Springbok-rugbyspe-
lers It Carel du Plessis en It Faffa Knoetze,
2 It Willem van der Westhuyzen, o kpl
John Sparks, sktr Fritz Beneka, knr Muir,

Sportmanne stap 750 km

en vertel van Diensplig
twee lede van die Kaapse Korpsskool kpl
Gert Gertse en o kpl Mervin Matjan.
Deeglike beplanning wat oor sowat
nege maande gestrek het, het die staptog
voorafgegaan en brig A.K. de Jager, Be­
velvoerder van Kommandement Wes-
telike Provinsie, is om toestemming ge­
nader. Hy het die inisiatief en entoe­
siasme van die soldate hoog op prys ge-
stel en sy steun aan die projek toegesê.
Die beplanning en organisasie is feitlik
man alleen deur knr Muir behartig, Aan-
dag is gegee aan die noodsaaklike items
soos voedsel, mediese voorraad en klere,
asook die kleinste denkbare besonder-
hede. Tydsbeplanning was ook van uiter-
ste belang om te verseker dat die talle ri­
viere en mere met laag gety oorgesteek
kan word.
W OENSDAG, 22 Oktober 1986: Die
agt sportmanne vertrek uit Kaap­
stad en op hul hakke volg ’n ondersteu-
ningspan met onder andere n fisiotera-
peut, n dokter en n kok. En soos Tafel-
berg al kleiner geword het, het elkeen ter-
dee besef dat hulle weer dié roete sal volg
-d ie keer voetlangsennie per motor nie.
Ná ’n dag van laaste voorbereidings het
die lang pad werklikheid geword. Op die
eerste dag, 24 Oktober, word 15 km af-
gelé. Die Keurboomsrivier-woonwapark is
die eerste oornagpunt. Die volgende dag
word die Mekka van die Tuinroete besoek
- Plettenbergbaai.
Die eerste twee dae se afstande is kort
gehou sodat die stappers aan die veelei-
sende oefening kon gewoond raak. n
Rusdag is op Plettenbergbaai gehou.
Hierna het die toer in alle erns begin.
Reuse-afstande is dag ná dag afgelê en
enigiemand wat dink dat die staptog net
son, strand en stadige stap was, kan maar
gerus twee keer dink.
Lt Carel du Plessis het beslis al be-
noude oomblikke op die rugbyveld be-
leef, maar by Nature’s Valley het sy hart
feitlik gaan stilstaan. Ongemerk het hy op
’n nagadder getrap en was dit nie vir 2 It
Van der Westhuyzen nie wat hom inder-
haas weggeruk het, kon die toer op n
aaklige noot begin het.
D ie volgende week het sonder noe-
menswaardige voorvalle verloop en
daar is aangedoen by die pragtige dorpe
Knysna. Wildernis, George en Buffels-
baai, asook al die kleiner dorpies tussen-
in.
By elke dorpie is daar vertoef om die in­
woners te ontmoet en op dié manier is die
beeld van die SA Weermag verbreed en
verbeter. Talle skole en gemeenskapsen-
trums in besoek, maar nooit het die stap­
pers formele toesprake gelewer nie - elke
keer is daar uit die hart gepraat en oral
was die ontvangs ewe hartlik.
Skole van alle rassegroepe het ’n beurt
gekry om na die sportmanne te luister en
die waarde hiervan is onteenseglik groot.
Elke gemeenskap het ook moeite gedoen
om slaapplek aan hulle te gee en verver-
sings was nooit n skaarste nie.
Knr Muir erken dat dit soms baie ver-
moeiend was om ná ’n lang dag van stap
nog deur die burgemeester van die dorp
onthaal te word, maar, voeg hy by, dit was
die doel van die projek en nooit het hulle
’n uitnodiging van die hand gewys nie.
130 km verder het Suid-Afrika se "olie-
dorp ' in siggekomenhieropMosselbaai
is vriendskappe met die plaaslike t>evol-
king gesluit op ’n heel ander manier as
praat. Twee ander Springbok-rugbyspe-

60 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

Kort voor hul vertrek uit Kaapstad het die
agt sportmanne vir 'n foto geposeer met
Tafelberg in die agtergrond. In die voor-
ste ry sit (vlnr) It Faffa Knoetze, knr An­
drew Muir en It Carel du Plessis. Agter
hulle staan o kpl John Sparks, o kpl Mer-
vin Matjan en It Mark Nattan (fisiotera-
peut). In die agterste ry sit 2 It Willem van
der Westhuyzen. kpl Gert Gertse en sktr
Fritz Beneka.

lers het vir die naweek kom kuier en Mos-

selbaai het die eer gehad om vier Spring-
bokke in 'n wedsttyd van touch rugby
teen sy eie mense in aksie te sien. Die
teenwoordigheid van Gert Smal en Mic­
hael du Plessis het 'n groot indruk op die
groeiende dorp agtergelaat.
Dit mag vreemd klink, maar die reen,
wind en hael wat telkens ondervind is, het
die spangees baie versterk. Die storm by
Dannabaai was n sprekende voorbeeld.
Mosselbaai is in versengende hitte ver-
laat, maar eensklaps het swaar wolke
saamgepak en 'n stormvifind begin waai.
En nérens was daar skuiling teen die sand
nie wat pynlik teen die bene gewaai het.
In sulke gevalle het die groter manne
voor gehardloop met Carel en Willem aan
die voorpunt. Die kleiner stappers het dan
agter hulle geskuil en so het die groepie
menige kilometer voltooi.
Maar op Dannabaai het die storm te erg
gewoed en die klomp het besluit om skui­
ling in die see te soek en verder te swem.
Net so vinnig as wat die storm opgekom
het. het dit bedaar. maar die skielike ver-
andering in temperatuur het ’n nadelige
invloed op hul gesondheid gehad.
Die oorsteek van riviere en mere het
ook n interessante probleem na vore ge-
bring. Daar is altyd geprobeer om die hin-
dernisse met laaggety te bereik. en selfs

• Vervolg op bl 62

PARATUS het 'n paar maal gaan kyk hoe

die sportmanne op hul staptog van sowat
750 km vorder. H.er draf die groep tussen
Hermanus en Kleinmond.
Palace Barracks: A century of service
• Continued from p 51
there until he died in 1847, lived on such a
grand scale that he earned the nickname
of King John', and his home became
known as The Palace’.
The edifice was bought by the Imperial
government in 1886 and became a mili­
tary mess. It has thus served the function
of accommodating military personnel for
100 years this year. In 1957, Palace Bar­
racks t>ecame the Wardroom for South
African Naval officers not afloat. During
this period, many presently high-ranking
South African Navy personnel who were
then young officers, lived in the building.
Commodore E.T. Beddy, Inspector
General Navy, spent some two years at
Palace Barracks. “We all enjoyed it thor­
oughly," he says, “because it had a very
homely atmosphere together with an ex­
cellent spirit. It was a great place for high
jinks but still maintained a very high stan­
dard of pride and character . . . not to
mention the excellent cuisine.”
Rear-Admiral J.W. Sleigh, Chief of Na­
val Staff, Rear-Admiral C.H. Bennett, Flag
Officer Commanding Naval Command
West, and Vice-Admiral G. Syndercomt»,
Chief of the South African Navy, all spent
time at this Wardroom. "It was the only
shore mess for the officers of my gene­
SPORTMANNE
• V ervo lg van bl 61
dán het die vraag van ‘hoe diep is dit? ”
ontstaan. Veral o kpi Matjan en kpl Gertse
het dié vraag dikwels gevra, want vir hulle
was riviere maar skrikkerige affêres.
U Van der Westhuyzen, n gekwalifi-
seerde lewensredder, het hier die oplos-
sing gehad. Hy het die twee stappers om
hul tKJiywe vasgevat en hulle dan deur die
water getrek. Partykeer het hulle ook op
sy branderplank gesit om n rustige vaart
oor die rivier te geniet.
Slegs drie keer is daar van rubberboot-
jies gebruik gemaak. Twee keer omdat die
uitgeiande stroom te sterk was, en 'n
derde keer by die mond van die Breerivier
omdat haaie elke nou en dan hul versky-
ning hier maak.
E N SÓ het Kaapstad nader gekom. Die
bene het soms lam gevoel en die ver-
stand moes ook daagliks t)esig gehou
word terwyl daar tot 43 km in nege uur
gestap is. Maar van tou opgooi was daar
geen sprake nie. Probleme het met tus-
senposes opgeduik, maar hoe meer kilo­
meters in die slag gebly het, hoe sterker
het die wii geword om by die huis uit te
kom. Moegheid en seer spiere het telkens
die pas vertraag en groot hoeveelhede
Voltarin en multi-vitamines moes toege-
dien word.
Om 750 km te stap, klink uitputtend ge-
noeg, om nie eens te praat van hardloop
nie. Maar die pas het gereeld tot n ste-
wige draffie versnel, en wel om goeie
redes. Soms was dit so koud dat hardloop
die enigste manier was waarop die spiere
warm gehou kon word. Vier van die deel-
62 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
ration at the time,” says Commodore
Beddy.
In 1972, Palace Barracks was transfer­
red to the Warrant Officers of the service
to become the Naval Command Warrant,
Chief and Petty Officers’ mess, and at
present the building houses 16 senior rat­
ings of the South African Navy. These men
are accommodated in a style of chande-
liered elegance. W02 A. Holdway, the
Warrant Officer in charge of this National
Monument which has been the scene of
many a function, from weddings to dart
matches, explains that the Barracks in­
cludes facilities such eis a bar, a TV
lounge, a snooker room and a VIP lounge.
Palace Barracks, almost two centuries
old and having served the military for
exactly one century this year, is physical
proof of the gracious respect for history,
tradition and culture that abounds in the
South African Navy.
nemers is dan ook atlete en hardloop was
eenvoudig makliker vir hulle. En die
manne met kort tree het dikwels gedraf
om by hul makkers te bly.
Dit het n paar keer gelyk asof die groep
opgebreek het omdat daar dikwels in
klein splintergroepies gestap is. Maar van
die t>egin af het almal besef dat op so n
lang staptog almal sy eie pas moet hand-
haaf. Om vinniger of stadiger as jou nor-
maie, gemaklike pas te stap, maak die
taak soveel meer vermoeiend.
Elke dag het nuwe t>elewenisse en
plekke meegebring en met die aankoms
in Hermanus op 18 Novemt>er wis die
sportmanne; l^og een week en ons is in
die Kaap!
Op die voorlaaste dag is die roete van
Gordonsbaai na Zeekoeivlei aangepak -
n hele veertig kilometer-enal wat hierna
oor sou bly, was die home straight’ van
24 km na Kaapstad. Huis toe!
O M 3 nm op Dinsdag, 25 November,
het agt moeë, maar baie tevrede
sportmanne die Parade oorgesteek en die
laaste tree gegee tot voor die Burgersen-
trum waar hulle deur brig De Jager en die
onderburgemeesteres van Kaapstad, mev
Clara Muller, ingewag is. Die trompoppies
van Bonville het ’n erewag gevorm en op-
gewekte musiek is deur die SAKK Orkes
verskaf. Brig De Jager het die stappers
gelukgewens en bedank vir hul grootse
poging.
In ’n onderhoud met PARATUS agterna
het knr Muir gesé dat die hele projek ’n
reuse-sukses was.
“Dit was 'n staptog vir die Dienspligtige
en hopelik n fondament vir aruler mense
om n nuwe projek in dieselfde gees aan
te p a k -o m toekomstige Dienspligtigeste
help en die beeld en funksie van die SAW
uit te bou,” het hy bygevoeg.
Magnum offers
free flights
FREE standby flights for National Servi­
cemen are to be available on all Mag­
num Airline routes over the festive sea­
son until 11 January.
Magnum Airlines has made standby
seats available on this basis since 1982
and receives a huge response each
year.
"Letters of appreciation pour in from
all over the country from Servicemen
and their families and we are thrilled
that Magnum is able to repeat this gen­
erous offer once again,” says a spokes­
man for the Call and Ride Safe Organisa­
tion, which handles requests for the
seats available.
Magnum Airlines operate daily sched­
uled flights from Jan Smuts Airport to
Welkom and Bloemfontein, Pietersburg,
Nelspruit and Newcastle, Ladysmith,
Vryheid and Pietermaritzburg. There is
also a service from Nelspruit to Durban.
Interested parties should contact the
Call and Ride Safe Organisation tel:
(O il) 476-1842 or (O il) 827-3g52.
“Ons het ons sporttalente gebruik om
iets vir ander mense te doen, en dit is se-
kerlik die eerste keer dat Dienspligtiges
iets van dié aard uit eie inisiatief wil doen.
Dit is ongelooflik hoeveel mense ons met
ons boodskap t)ereik het - veral met
mense soos Carel en Faffa in die groep.
Dit was heerlik om die ander kant’ van die
SAW oor te dra.
“Natuurlik het ons die staptog geniet,
maar maklik was dit gewis nie. Die kus is
nie so plat soos dit op n kaart voorkom
nie, en dikwels moes ons moeilike terrein
t)etree. Alles was egter die moeite werd en
ek meen ons het ’n baie positiewe en kon-
struktiewe bydrae tot die SAW gelewer.
"Ons is net spyt dat n groot deel van
die media ons afgeskeep het. Van die t>e-
loofde televisie- en koerantdekking het
feltlik niks gekom nie, en indien ons dit
wel gehad het, sou die toer nog soveel
meer geslaagd gewees het,” het knr Muir
gesê.
Hy het ook brig De Jager bedank vir sy
ondersteuning, asook It Ina Fourie (SAV)
vir haar hulp en leiding.
"Dié twee mense het ontsettend baie
vir ons gedoen. 'n Laaste woord van dank
moet gaan aan Hi-Tec wat aan elke stap-
per n skitterende paar stewels gegee
het,” het hy afgesluit.
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 SPORTMAN VAN DIE JAAR
Die Springbokvleuel Caret du Plessis is die SAW Sportman van die Jaar vir
1986. Du Plessis, w at verlede jaar sy diensplig voltool het, het die trofee van
die gewese Adjuni^-minlster van Verdediging en van Wet en Orde, mnr
Adriaan VIolc, ontvang tydens ’n geselfigheid te Voortreklcerhoogte.
Deur wrn W.G.F. Geerlings
Foto: wrn R.M. Moore

T y d e n s dieselfde geleentheid is
Cheronne Botes aangewys as die
Sportvrou van die Jaar. In die afdeling vir
veterane het Bob Barber met die trofee
vi/eggestap, Arie Dekker is aangewys as
Sportadministrateur van die jaar.
Mnr Vfok, wat die gasspreker tydens
die geleentheid was, het gesê dat daar
vergeet meet word van die gedagte dat
sport en politiek niks met mekaar te make
het nie en het bygevoeg: “Dit is tog duide-
lik dat die betogings en boikotte teen
Suid-Afrikaanse sportmanne, plaaslik en
in die buiteland, nie gerig is teen die
Springbokke nie, maar teen die heer-
sende politieke bestel in die RSA.” Hy het
ook gesê dat sport as wapen in die ideolo-
Die SAW se beste sportpresteerders is onlangs aangewys. Hier is van links na regs A01
Arie Dekker (Sportadministrateur van die Jaar), sers Cheronne Botes (Sportvrou van die
Jaar), geni Jannie Geldenhuys (Hoof van die SAW), It Carel du Plessis (Sportman van die
Jaar) en A 02 Bob Barber (Veteraan Sportman van die Jaar).
giese stryd teen ons vyande gebruik kan
word deur die vyand se ideologie te ver-
ander of te neutraliseer.
Carel du Plessis se naam kom nou by
die reeds indrukwekkende lys van vorige
wenners van die trofee. Manne soos Ffik
du Preez (rugby), Andries Steyn (boks),
Theuns Stofberg (rugby) en Bertie Reed
(seil) was a! almal die SAW se Sportman
van die Jaar.
Soos sy voorgangers het Du Plessis
Suid-Afrika en die SAW se naam net tot
eer gestrek op die sportveld. Hy het in al
vier toetse teen die Nieu-Seelandse Kava-
liers gespeel, vir die Wêreldspan uitge-
draf en WP tot nog 'n Curriebeker-oorwin-
ning aangevoer. Rugbyskrywers wêreld-
wyd beskou hom allerweë as die beste
linkervleuel in die wêreld.
Cheronne Botes het haar prestasie van
1980 herhaal en die Sportvrou van die
Jaar-toekenning vir die tweede keer ge-
wen. Nie net is sy n springbok-waterskier
nie, maar het sy verlede jaar ook die SAW-
enkelspeltitel vir vroue in pluimbal ver-
ower. Aan veelsydigheid ontbreek dit haar
nie, want sy was ook lid van Kommande-
ment OVS se aftosspan wat n eerste plek
op die SAW-kampioenskappe behaal het.
Om die prestasies van Arie Dekker op
te noem, is geen maklike taak nie. As
hoofafrigter van die SAW Stoei-unie het
hy talle mylpale bereik. Hy het die SAW
senior stoeispan die negende agtereen-
volgende jaar tot ’n oorwinning in die na-
sionale kampioenskappe gelei. Die ju­
niors het hy reeds drie keer agtereenvol-
gens tot wenspan afgerig - n prestasie
wat nie maklik geëwenaar sal word nie.
Behalwe hierdie prestasies dien hy nog in
n aantal t)esture en komitees, Sy bydrae
tot sport in die SAW kan moeilik na
waarde geskat word.
Bob Barber het as veteraan vanjaar die
koppe laat draai met sy prestasies. Hy is
op die oomblik die SA rekordhouer vir ve­
terane in hamergooi. Op die SA Meesters-
atletiekkampioenskappe wen hy goud in
hamergooi en brons in werpskyf en
gewigstoot. Hy is ’n veelsydige sportman
van wie nog baie gehoor gaan word.
John Martin, die seiljagvaarder, was die
ander finalis in die Sportman van die
Jaar-afdeling. Maryke Kostelijk wat in
1985 die SAW se Sportvrou van die Jaar
was, se prestasies in lewensredding het
haar ook n plek onder die finaliste be-
sorg. Wat die Sportadministrateur van die
jaar-toekenning betref, was kol Johan
Lourens, voorsitter van Kaapstad se
Weermagrugbyklub, die ander finalis. Die
landloopatleet Jasper Ward was ’n finalis
in die veterane-afdeling. Daar was in elke
afdeling twee finaliste.

64 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

SPORTPRESTASIES
BY SAKK Deur wrn E. Janssen
Foto: See A.B. ingram

YDENS ’n onlangse spoggeleent-
T heid by die Kaapse Korpsskool is
A01 Gert Links as die eenheid se Sport-
man van die Jaar aangewys.
, Sportklub van die Jaar aangewys nadat
Hterdie eer het hom te beurt gevai
deurdat hy die Westelike Provinsie vir die
derde agtereenvolgende jaar in diens-
skiet verteenwoordlg het. Hy het op die
Nasionale Kampioenskappe twee merie-
temedaijes gewen en het ook vanjaar SA
Weerfnagkteure gekry, om maar ’n paar
van sy prestasies te noem,
Op dieseifde aand is A01 J. Andrews
íghoif) bekroon as Sportveteraan van die
Jaar en A02 Jan Esterhuys (sokker) en
Administrateur van die Jaar.
Die titel van Junior Sportman van die
Jaar het gegaan aan o kpl M. Jacobs vir sy
prestasies in gholf. Die sokkerklub is as
die eerste span derde in sy liga geeindig
het.
A01 Qert Links (regs) staan hier trots met
Om ’n ekstra tikkie glans aan die aand
sy beker nadat hy as die SAKK sportman
te verleen, is ’n skoonheidskompetisie ge-
van die Jaar aangewys is. Hier wens kol
hou en hier het Prisciila Duarte (Mej Viug-
G. Jacobs, Bevelvoerder van die eenheid.
bal) met die louere weggestap. Estelle
hom geluk.
Louw (Mej Hengel) en René Vermaak (Mej
Tennis) was haar twee prinsesse.
Verskeie merietesertifikate en skildjies dans en onder die eregaste was brig
is aan lede en oud-iede van die eenheid A.K. de Jager, Bevelvoerder Kommande-
oorhandig vir hul bydrae, hetsy op die ment WP, Marie-Louise le Roux, naas-
sportveld of in die kantoor, om sport in wenner in die 1986 Mej Suid-Afrika-kom-
die Kaapse Korpsskool te bevorder. petisie, en kmdt J. Cupido wat ook die
Die funksie is aangebied as ’n dinee en gasspreker was.

necessary by winning the mono-hull class

YACHTING By R e E. Janssen
Photo: Sea A.B. Ingram
in the Carlsberg Two-Handed Race from
Plymouth to Newport in June 1986.
What makes their feat even more re­
markable is the fact that they were forced
to sail 1 800 miles of the 3 000 mile course
On what was a fine evening for yachting and the SA Navy, Lt Cdr John Martin with emergency gear, following the failure
of the original gear.
and S Lt Rob Sharp received their Springbok colours - the highest sporting
The blazers were presented by the
award in South Africa. Chief of the Navy, Vice-Admiral G. Syn­
For both officers it was a very memorable occasion as it was the first time dercombe, at a function held at the Lady
that Lt Sharp got to wear the coveted Green and Gold blazer and no less Anne Barnard Hall in the Castle.
than the fifth time for Lt Cdr Martin. “These two officers have not only done
an outstanding job, but they have yet
again shown what the world may expect
e c a u s e South Africa does not sel­

B
ect a Springbok team for yachting,
the rules stipulate that a South African
from South African sportsmen if we were
given a chance to show our mettle in in­
ternational competitions,” V Adm Synder­
competitor must finish within the first 25
combe said.
per cent in an international event to qual­
“The SADF is proud of you and I know
ify for colours. However, Lt Cdr Martin
<your fellow-officers in the SA Navy are
and Lt Sharp made mathematics un-
proud o f you. You have earned this hon­
our. There is no more that a man can do
Cheers! After receiving their Springbok than come first,” he added.
Colours from the Chief o f the SA Navy, Lt Cdr Martin, who is presently compet­
V Adrti G. Syndercombe, the two recipi­ ing in the BOC Alone Around the World
ents, Lt Cdr John Martin (left) and S Lt Race, said after the presentation that al-
Rob Sharp drink a toast to their achieve­
ments. • Continued on p 66

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 65

Deur wrn W. Marais Foto: wrn D.A. Holland
LIGGAAMSBOU
Spierman Neels Frier, een van die Weermag se belowendste liggaams-
bouers, het die Des Snyders-trofee vir die beste liggaamsbouer in die SAW
onder die neuse van sy somtyds net so imponerende teenstanders wegge-
raap op die jaarlikse SAW Liggaamsbou-kampioenskappe.
P die aand van die groot glimmende
O (ywe en rotlende spiere, wat n kroon Snyders oor te dra.
plaas op ’n harde jaar van bloedsweet, In sy openingstoespraak het hy ook
w/as daar volgens die toeskouers net een
deelnemerenditwasdiereusagtige Frier.
Meeste van die deelnemers wat n ogie
op die gesogte titel van Mnr SA Weermag
gehad het, w^as gekerf deur streng diëte
en ongenadige stravsfwe oefenprogramme
tot 'n fyn definisie van krulle en kronkel-
lende spiere.
Sedert liggaamsbou omtrent n jaar ge-
lede ernstig 'n aanvang geneem het in die
Weermag, het die sport van krag tot krag
gegaan - in so n mate dat die beskerm-
heer van die sport geni maj D.R. Marais,
die verrigtinge in die middel onderbreek
het om sy gelukwensinge aan die SAW
• Continued from p 65
though he had received many awards
overseas, it was very special to receive
this honour at home. “This will make it so
much harder for others to beat me in the
BOC Race,” he concluded.
The project on hand this year was the
Carlsberg Two Handed Race from Ply­
mouth to Newport and then the supreme
66 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
Liggaamsboukomitee en veral koi Des
gesé dat meeste sportsoorte in die Weer­
mag 'n geleidelike groei toon, maar dat
liggaamsbou blitsvinnig ontwikkel het. Hy
het ook gesê dat dit ’n sportsoort is wat
baie aangemoedig behoort te word, want
’n mooi liggaam pas goed by n soldaat.
Oor die algemene organrsering van die
kampioenskap het Graig Vardi en Ray­
mond Samuels van Leërkollege gesê dat
dit een van die bes georganiseerde kam-
pioenskappe is waaraan hulle nog deel-
geneem het en dit sluit die gehalte van die
toekennlngs in. Dit is dus pasfik dat die
beker vir die algehele wenner wat deur
Neels Frier verower is, die naam van die
test of the BOC Alone Around the World
Race.
Despite the great disadvantage of the
failure of their steering gear, which forced
them to sail 1 800 rniies of the 2 000 mile
course at maximum speed with emer­
gency steering, they came in first in the
mono-hull class.
These two officers have not only done
an outstanding job, but they have yet
again shown what the world may expect
Kp/ Pieter Malan (middel) vir oulaas besig
om te wys waarom hy as wenner van die
middelgewig-afdeling aangewys is tydens
die SAtV Liggaamsbou-kampioenskappe
in Voortrekkerhoogte. Danie Janse van
Vuuren {links) moes tevrede wees met ’n
tweede plek en Eugene Swart derde.
grootste dryfveer agter die fenomenale
groei van die sportsoort, kol Des Snyders,
dra.
Oor die skare se algemene gunsteling,
Frier, kari nie veel meer gesê word as dat
hy die beker meer as waardig is nie hoe-
wel hy elke greintjie moes inspan om die
naaswenner, Keith van Niekerk uit te stof.
Sewe finaliste het in die finale ronde
meegeding om die Des Snyders-trofee en
Frier was net doodeenvoudig groter,
beter en meer gedefinieer as enige van sy
teenstanders. Selfs nie Samuels met sy
grasieuse poseringstegnieke, Vardi se
pragtige simmetriese vorm, Pieter Malan
se definisie of Paul Nel se oordonderende
groote kon hom nie van die trofee ont-
neem nie.
Net voor die finale ronde het kol Sny­
ders die span aangekondig wat die SAW
op die SA Kampioenskappe gaan verteen-
woordig. Die span het t>estaan uit Victor
van Gemmert, Hilton Preen, Hannekie
Visser, Paul Nel, Graig Vardi, André Gous,
Pieter Malan, Neels Frier, Keith van Nie­
kerk, Chris Duvenhage en Danie Janse
van Vuuren.
Die uitslae vir die kampioenskappe is:
Mans (seniors)
Liggewig: 1. Graig Vardi; 2. André Gous;
3. Glen Barker. Middelgewig: 1. Pieter
Malan; 2. Danie Jansen van Vuuren; 3. Eu­
gene Swart. Ligswaargewig: 1. Neels
Frier; 2. Keith van Niekerk; 3. Nico Lou-
rens. Swaargewig: 1. Chris Duvenhage;
2. Jean Pierre de Waal; 3. Gerrie Kotse.
Algehele wenner: Neels Frier.
Vroue: 1. Hannekie Visser; 2. Mareina de
Bruyn.
Mans (juniors)
Liggewig: 1. Victor van Gemmert; 2. Paul
van Gemmert; 3. Lucas Geldenhuys. Mid­
delgewig: 1. Hilton Preen; 2. Leon
Zietsman; 3. Neels Botha. Swaargewig:
1. Raymond Samuels; 2. Lourens Waal;
3. Lionel du Toit.
Mans Bo 40:1 Paul Nel; 2 Cassie Fourie.
from South African sportsmen if we were
given a chance to show our mettle in in­
ternational competitions.
Gentlemen, I am proud of you. The
SADF is proud of you and I know your fel-
low-officers in the SA Navy are proud of
you. It is a vast responsibility to have
people looking up to you.
You have earned this honour. There is
no more that man can do than come first.
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 SPORTPRESTASIES1986
DIE ja a r 19 8 6 sal s ek erlik nog lan k ontliou w ord vir die groot presta* AT die administratiewe sy van sport
sies w a t d ie W eerm ag op die sportveld o p g elew er het. Die SAW se
resep v ir sukses op d ie sportvelde h e t in 19 8 6 w e e r ’n ryk oes van 48
W betref, het die Weermag ook nie
stilgesit nie. Op Weermag-, provinsiale-
Springbokke, 3 0 Junior Springbokke en 3 9 Suid-Afrikaanse kam- en nasionale vlak het die SAW bydraes
pioene in 2 9 verskillende sportsoorte g elew er. gelewer wat in die toekoms net tot voor-
deel van sport In Suid-Afrika sal strek.
Ook op internasionale sportvelde het
die manne in uniform nie net in sport
hulle laat geld nie, maar was hulle ook
waardige ambassadeurs vir die Repu-
bliek.
Die uitstaande kenmerk van 1986 was
egter die Weermag se skitterende presta-
sies op die rugbyveid. Heel voor staan die
pragtige oorwinnings in Kaapstad en Pre­
toria.
In die suide het Kaapstad-Weermag die
eerste keer in die geskiedenis van die
klub se bestaan die Groot Uitdaagbeker
gewen. Die span het horn verder onder-
skei en die Stadsbeker met dte Universi-
teit van Kaapstad gedeel.
Die span van Tollie Oosthuizen, Pre-
toria-Weermag, het ook nie op hom laat
wag nie en die gesogte Carltontteker as
die Noorde se kampioenspan gewen.
Dit was egter nie net in Kaapstad en
Pretoria waar die manne In uniform blink
vertonings gelewer het nie. In totaal het
spanne van die Weermag 20 bekers en
trofee in die verskillende provinsies se
ligas gewen.
Drie spelers - Carel du Plessis, sy broer
Michael en Uli Schmidt het vanjaar die
Springboktrui oor die kop getrek in die
toetsreeks teen die Nieu-Seelandse Kava-
liers. Daar kan met reg gesê word dat die
drie staatmakers in die seëvierende
Springbokspan was. Adolf Malan het vir
die Junior Springbokke teen die besoe-
kers uitgedraf.
Carel du Plessis wat vir die Wêreldspan
in Engeland gespeel het, en ook die WP
tot ’n oorwinning in die Curriebeker aan-
gevoer het, het ook die SAW se Sportman
van die Jaar-toekenning verwerf.
Die krag van Weermag-rugby kom dui-
delik na vore as daar na die aantal provin-
siafe spelers gekyk word wat die SAW aan
die verskillende bonde voorsien het. In to­
taal het 63 spelers vir die verskillende pro-
vinsiale spanne diens gedoen, terwyl 24
vir B-spanne gespeel en 49 vir 0/20-
spanne gespeel het.
Wen tot elke prys was egter nooit die
oorheersende kenmerk van Weermag se
rugby die afgelope jaar nie. In verskeie
ligas het die manne in uniform toeken-

Springbokvleuel Carel du Plessis word al-

lerweë beskou as die beste linkervleuel in
die wêreld.

68 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

 ■
Deur o Kpl W.G.F. Geerlings

nings ontvang virdie span wat die meeste

drieë gedruk en ook die aanskoufikste
rugby gespeel het.

IERDIE gesindheíd teenoor sport het

H die SAW ook baie vriende in die
boiíefand íjesorg. Ten spyte van die vol-
gehoue pogings om SA van w êreldsport
íe isoleer, het die Weermag nogtans
daarin geslaag om vanjaar op internasio-
nale ¥iak deal te neem.
Die SAW se fietsryspan het ’n draai in
Beigiê en Frankryk gemaak en vriend en
vyand verras met goeie vertonings. In die
to er van Luik het die kaptein van die span,
W im pie van der Merwe, ‘n tweede piek tse-
haal na die Beig, P ierrot Cuypers. Spring-
bok Anthony Martini het die Bobaas van
Ernst de Waal het John van Reenen se 20 jaar oue rekord in gewigstoot met 1,45m ver-
pletter en ’n nuwe SAW rekord van 18,46 m opgestel. Daarmee het hy die derde Suid-
Vervolg op W 70 Afrikaanse gewigstoter geword wat vir Spnngbokkleure kwalifiseer.

m k

U kdr John Martin aan board van die enkelrompseiljag waartme hy die wedvaart tussen Plymouth (Engeland) en Newport (VSA) gewon
het.

PARATUS » JANUABIE 1387 69

 S sers Wietze wat híer so swaeg, is 'n
Springbok in kragoptei.

Vervolg van bl 69

díe Berge-afdeling gewen. Die indruk-

á wekkendste prestasie was egter die span

se vertoning in die spankompetisie van
die toer. Hier het die SAW, met ses jaers
teenoor die normale agt, met die louere
weggestap met Nedetland en België in die
tweede en derde plekke.
Die suksesverhaal van die span het in

i
Gent voortgegaan waar Wimpie van der
Merwe te midde van strawwe kompetisie
n tweede plek tn die wêreldkam -
pioenskap vir vrye amateurs behaal het.
Anthony Martini het vyfde geeindig met
die Junior Springbok Lourens Smith in
die negende plek,
Wimpie van der Merwe het sy segetog
in die Republiek voortgesit deur die SA
Amateur Padbyeenkoms in Oos-Londen
vir die derde keer te wen. Hy het ook die
Springbok Johan Bosman het die 1986 S/4W Pluimbal-mansenkelspeltitel maklik ver- SAW-toer agter sy naam geskryf en op die
ower toe hy lan Botha in die finale ronde oorskadu het. Rapporttoer die professionele ryers ver-
baas deur die geeltrui te dra ná die half-
padm erk in Durban. Die SAW se
Padveiligheidspan het met sy sewende
plek ook baie goed gevaar as in aanmer-
king geneem word dat Wimpie van der
Merwe die enigste lid van die span was
wat voorheen aan die Rapporttoer deel-
geneem het.
• n SAW-judospan het ook in Europa
nuwe vriende vir Suid-Afrika gemaak. Die
span wat aan verskeie kompetisies deel-
geneem het en ook afrigtingskursusse by-
gewoon het, het waardevolle ondervin-
ding opgedoen. Om sy krag verder te il-
lustreer, buit die SAW-span ook die SA
Nasionale Kampioenskappe in Vander-
bijipark.
• Die SAW se tennisspan het in die
land van tennis, die VSA, gaan toer en
glad nie sleg gevaar nie. In die Metropoli-

Vervolg op bl 72

Kol Johan Lourens, voorsitter van d'c

Kaapstad-Weermagspan. het 'n groot rot
gespeel in die rugbyspan se oorwinning
in die Groot Uitdaagbeker.

70 PARATUS • JANUARY ! 987

Hy’t skatiyk gesterf
geldnood agtergelaat.
Ons leef in 'n tyd vaB hc« belasting en. verspreide
krediet en die skielike dood ¥an die broodwirmer in 'n gesin,
kan byna net so "n groot finansiële skok as 'n emosionele
skok wees v ir d ^w a t agterbly.
'ant d it neem gemiddeld nege
inde om 'n bestorwe boedel,
haiidel - en hoe groter die
í i \ -ede! hoe langer neem d it
ij u^'woonlik om d it te finaliseer.
I In hierdie íyd^ waarvoor
\ :.-íwels geen voorsiening W
I >.«“maak is nie, moet die
\ erfgename nie alleen fondse
I bymekaarskraap v ir die
\ regrafniskoste nie, maar
I ook om die leefwyse
S waaraan huËe
gewoond is ¥ir 'n
onbepaalde tyd te
handnaaf.
Dis waarom
afgesien van enige ander
versekering wat u dalk net, die
spesíale voordele ¥an Avbob Lewens-
versekering se Gesiespolis emstig belioort
te oorweeg.
■ Van die vemaamste voordele is dat ea
alle begrafnisreëlirigs en -uitgawes omgesien
word en dat die balans van me versekerde
bedrag onm iddellik ten voile in kontant
laitbetaal word.
En omdat Avbob se Gesinspolis elke lid
van die gesin dek, word Merdie uitbetaling met
die afsterwe van enigeen van die eggenote of kind^*rs
pemaak. In die geval van die broodwinner se afstc ,
IS die polis opbetaal en word geen verdere premies. i ■■
nie, hoewei alle voordele bly voortbestaan.
Skakel u naaste Avbobkantoor v ir meer besonderhede oor
ons lae-koste GesinsTOlis.
' So kan u versácer dat u afhanklikes goed versorg word in
onvoorsiene ty e ... wamieer hulle d it die nodigste het.
Avbob Lewensversekering
CHEAGENTSKAP 3804/a
Vervolg van bl 70
tan Classic wat in Atlanta-Georgia gehou
is, het Brent Pirow die laaste sestien in die
mansenkeispel gehaal. Sy spanmaats Piet
Aldrich en Warren Green het in n mees-
terstoernooi in Pennsilvanie teen sterk
spelers die halfeindstryd van die
dubbelspel gehaal.
Die ervaring wat die span in die VSA
opgedoen het, het met die SA Interprovin-
siale Kampioenskappe in Pietersburg
sterk na vore gekom. Onder die kap-
teinskap van Piet Aldrich het die span die
sterk Noord-Transvaalse span in die fi-
naal laat sweet vir ’n sege.
Geskiedenis is ook gemaak toe die SA
Weermagkampioenskappe sy deure oop-
gemaak het. In die verlede was dit 'n ge-
slote toernooi wat net beperk was tot vol-
tydse so Idate en dienspligtiges. Brent Pi­
row wen die titel deur Piet Aldrich in die
eindstryd te klop.
Aldrich was die Weermag se sukses-
volste speler deur verskeie provinsiale ti-
teis in te palm.
N die bokskryt belewe die SAW ’n be-
I sonder goeie jaar. Vyf boksers - Partie
Grobler, Grant Messias, Danny Myburgh,
Walter Myburgh en André Nienaber wen
SA titels en word ingesluit in 'n
Springbokspan wat in Suid-Amerika
toer.
Die Suid-Afrikaaners presteer be-
sonder goed met Partie Grobler die
enigste lid van die span wat nie 'n ge-
skikte teenstander op die toer kon kry nie.
Dit bring sy Springbokbaadjie in gedrang.
Die SAW het geskiedenis gemaak deur
vir die eerste keer as 'n volwaardige pro­
vinsiale span aan die SAABA-kampioen-
Roy Pienaar het vir die Springbokke teen
Kim Hughes se Australiese krieketspan
gespeel.
72 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
Richard Hillair en Les Keay was die enigste twee Weermagdeelnemers aan die Duzi-ka-
nomarathon wat goue medaljes kon verower.
skappe deel te neem. Hy wen ook daar vyf Stoel was geen uitsondering nie.
goue medaljes, Soos in die verlede het die SAW die
botoon gevoer op die stoeimat. Die sol-
date lewer ses Springbokke op en wen die
OOS vir rugby was 1986 ook vir
S Watersport ’n baanbrekersjaar. Heel
senior afdeling op die SA Kampioen­
skappe vir die negende agtereenvolgende
voor in die indrukwekkende koor staanjaar. In die proses stap die manne met ses
John Martin, die bebaarde seiljagvaarder goue medaljes weg.
van die Suid-Afrikaanse VIoot. Die juniors het ook nie afgesteek by die
Saam met Robin Sharp eindig hulle seniors nie en wen die titel vir die derde
eerste in die enkelrompseiljagvaart tus- agtereenvolgende jaar. Wat die prestasie
sen Plymouth in Brittanje en Newport in merkwaardig maak, is die feit dat die
Amerika. Hulle behaal die sesde algehele Weermag slegs in 13 van die 21 afdelings
posisie. meegeding het. Die span wen sewe goue-
In die BOC Wedvaart om die wêreld ein­ en drie stiwermedaljes. Om hulle krag ver-
dig Martin eerste op die eerste skof, en der te toon, wen die SAW ook die SA Ge-
verbeter die wêreldrekord met vyf dae. Vir kombineerde Magte se toernooi in Kaap-
dié puik prestasies kry hy die vyfde keer stad.
sy Springbokkleure en word Sharp ook In karate het die SAW twee Spring­
met ’n Springbokbaadjie beloon. bokke gelewer en tweede geeindig in die
Verskeie ander prestasies word ook be­ Curriebeker-toernooi waaraan 16 provin-
haal. Weermag Voortrekkerhoogte Seil- sies deelgeneem het. Colin Smith het so
klub is een van drie spanne wat aan die beïndruk dat hy na die VSA uitgenooi is
Crystic Ocean Challenge en die Lipton om daar te gaan deelneem - ’n duidelike
Challenge Cup deelneem. In eersge- bewys dat Suid-Afrika nog sportvriende in
noemde behaal die span 'n sesde plek uit die buiteland het.
24 deelnemers en in die tweede ’n skitte- • Op die hokkieveld het die SAW sy
rende agtste plek uit 23 deelnemers. merk gelaat. Die manne in uniform eindig
Skitterprestasies word ook gesien van derde in Opel se Kampioen van Kam-
twee Springbokke in Florida, Amerika, pioene-toernooi. Een van die gunstelinge,
Wim Lagaay en Hilton Smith neem aan Jeppe, moes die knie voor Weermag buig
die Wayler-Wêreldkampioenskappe deel met n telling van 4-2, Die SAW het ook
en eindig in die eerste en tweede plekke, die SA Plattelandse Distriktetoernooi ge-
Ivan van Vuuren, L. Harburn en M. buit deur Suid-Transvaal met 2-1 te wen.
Packheim word gekies om Suid-Afrika in
Hawaii in branderski te verteenwoordig.
’n Terugslag het Garth Calder getref toe ie SAW het ook nie ’n tekort aan
hy vir die Springbokspan gekies is om in
Frankryk aan kompetisies deel te neem
D krieketspelers nie. Roy Pienaar het
vir die Springbokke teen Kim Hughes se
en die toer weens politieke druk afgelas Australiese span gespeel en groot dinge
is. kan nog van hom verwag word, n SAW-
tn Branderroei stel B. van Zy! en A.P. span het ook vir Griekwas in 'n drie-
Aubun n wêreldrekord op deur 3 618 km daagse wedstryd kafgedraf deur met 10
van Alexanderbaai na Khosibaai in 67 dae paaltjies te wen.
af te roei. Dit verbeter die vorige rekord ■ • 1986 was besonder geslaagd vir
met meer as 100 km en 53 dae. muurbal in die SAW. Provinsiale status is
verkry en die SAW-span het onmiddellik
bewys dat hy dit waardig is. In die A-afde-
D IE Weermag het sy stempel afgedruk
op bykans elke denkbare sportsoort.
ling om die Jarvisbeker, die interprovin-
siale toernooi, het die SAW verras deur
Lt kdr John Martin het sy Spríngbok-
kleure vir die vyfde keer verwerf.

die finaal te haal waar hy deur Tvl met 4-1

geklop het. Ná afloop van die SAW-kam-
pioenskappe is ’n SAW-span gekies wat
die WP met 4-1 geklop het. Die vrouespan
het ook hul staal getoon deur ’n WP-uit-
nodigingspan te wen.
• Vier Junior Springbok-ghoifspelers
is deur die SAW opgeiewer. Wayne Brad­
ley het so goed gevaar dat hy besluit het
om professionele gholf te speel ná afloop
van sy diensplig.
• Die SAW pluimbalspan spog ook
met die beste speler in die land, Spring­
bok Johan Bosman. Hy het vanjaar die SA
titel in die enkelspel vir mans geviien deur
Allan Phillips in die finaal van die SA
Kampioenskape in Port Elizabeth te klop.

ie SAW se sukses in sport kan toege-

D skryf viiord aan ’n aantal faktore
waarvan een ongetviiyfeld spangees en ’n
samehorigheids gevoel is. Dit is duidelik
geillustreer in die Comrades-Marathon en
Bergrivier-kanomarathon.
Nie net het Danny Biggs 'n goue me-
dalje met sy agtste plek verower nie, maar
het 372 Weermag-atlete die marathon vol-
tooi - ’n goeie verbetering oor 1985 toe
261 die wenstreep gehaal het. Die eerste
Weermagvrou verby die wenpaal was
Mariana Everts.
Met die strawwe Bergrivier marathon in Lt Maryna de Bruin, Springbok-kragopteller, tydens ’n strawwe oefensessie in die gimna-
die Kaap het die SAW soos gewoonlik ’n sium. Lt De Bruin is ook die houer van verskeie SA rekords.
groot aantal inskrywings gehad. Vier en
veertig roeiers het die uitputtende mara­
thon aangepak waarvan 37 dit voltooi het.
Chris Greeff het met sy agtiende plek die
beste van die Weermag-manne gevaar.

PARATUS • JANUARIE 1987 73

Deur: Wrn W. Marais. Foto: Wrn W. Uebmann
SA SPELE
EENS die Suid-Afrikaanse
W Weermag se besondere klem
op liggaamlike fiksheid was dit toe-
paslik dat die Weermag ’n besonder
groot aandeel gehad het in die aan-
bieding van Suld-Afrika se grootste
Sportbyeenkom s, die Suid-A fri-
kaanse Speie.
Die SA Speie wat vir die vyfde keer
plaasgevind het, is ontwerp om as
skouspei geen geiyke te hê nie en om
plaaslike sportlui wat beroof is van ’n
geleentheid om internasionaai mee
te dlng weens die internasionale
sportboikot teen Suid-Afrika die ge-
DIE DSTE DEKKING ONDER EEN SAMBREEL
Huis en Inhoud
74 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
leentlield te bled om die wêreld se
aandag op hulie te vestig.
Om 80 ’n reusagtige projek viot te
iaat verioop, is ’n bomensllke taak en
wie is nou beter bevoeg vlr die taak
as die organisasie wat daagliks met
die iewens van duisende mense
werk, die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag!
Die gevolg was dat daar ruimskoots
van die verskillende vaardigiiede en
kennis binne die SAW gebruik ge-
maak is.
Dit was egter nie net op admini-
stratiewe viak dat die Weermag ’n be-
langrike roi gespeel het nie. Met die
Motorvoertuie
openingseremonie in die Eilisparkse
Stadlon In Johannesburg het bykans
een derde van die 12 000 deeinemers
uit die Veiligheidsmagte se geledere
gekom.
Maar dit was nie waar die SAW se
betrokkenheld opgehou het nie. Wat
is ’n luisterryke openingseremonie
sonder musiek? Die antwoord is: dis
soos ’n feesmaal sonder nagereg! Dit
is dan ook hier waar die bekende
Weermagorkeste na vore getree en
die musiek verskaf het.
Afgesien van die orkeste het die
Weermag 100 trompetters verskaf
om die toeskouers se aandag op eike
hoogtepunt te vestig. Die Weermag
het ook die vaandeidraers en ’n koor
van 1 500 iede verskaf.
Verder het die Weermag ook die
Inlsiatief geneem tydens die massa-
gimnastlek en altesaam 400 iede het
hieraan deeigeneem. Die Lugmag
het nog verder gegaan en twee
Puma-heiikopters aangewend om te
help tydens die arena-ltems.
IERDIE was maar enkele ge-
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groot aandeel gespeel het, maar ag-
ter die skerms het die verskele Weer-
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had om die ordelike verioop van die
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maglede op hulle skouers geneem
het: Die installering en instandhoud-
Ing van die klanktoerustlng. Die hon-
derd en een takles wat gesorg het dat
die helpers nie ’n oomblik kon stilsit
nie.
Verder was die Weermag behulp-
saam met die verskuiwlng van swaar
apparaat en die taak om te sorg dat
die Spelefakkel se vlam nie taan nie.
Die Weermag het ook gesorg vir se-
kuritelt en dat alles ordellk verioop.
Verskele Weermagsportmanne het
gesorg dat die Weermag nie vergeet
word op die atletlekbaan nie, terwyl
talle van Weermag se atletiek-
beamptes húl deel van die kantlyn af
gebring het.
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VROUESPORT Deur wrn W. Marais
Foto: o kpl W.J.S. Stapelberg

VROUESPORT in die SAW - sport was tradisionee! nog altyd die man van die Damesenkels en tweede in beide
se bastion - is tans besig om sy l<indersl<oene te ontgroei en in eie die Damesdubbels en Gemeng tydens die
SAW Kampioenskappe.
reg op sy voete te kom ná baie lang en ieë jare en min werklike pres- Maryke Kosteli'jk, Pretoria WSK se
tasies. Sportvrou van die Jaar, verwerf haar
Die ongelukkige tendens wat die SAW in die verlede beieef het dat Sprlngbokkleure in lewensredding nadat
die Gevangenisdiens en verai die Polisie ai die blink sterre van more sy gekies word vir die Springbokspan wat
en daarmee ook die gepaardgaande prestasies geiok het, is verby in Barcelona, Spanje, gaan deelneem het.
Sy behaal ook 'n Goue Diploma in
en hopeiik vir goed, hoewei die SAW nog sekere aanpassings sal varswaterlewensredding. Dit Is die
moet maak. hoogste toekenning in dié sportsoort. Sy
is ook die eerste vrou in N Tvl wat dié hoe
verdienstelikheldstoekenning ontvang.
D ie nuwe krag in Weermagkringe is al grootliks baat gevind by die hernieude In pistoolskiet haal twee vroue die Ju­
vroeg In 1986 opgemerk In die onderskeie beiangstelling en slegs die felt dat die nior Springbokspan. Hulle Is Elfrieda
spansportsoorte soos netbal en hokkie. SAW-span ultgeput was ná 'n week se uit- Palm en Annemarle Steenkamp, wat Inge-
Veral hokkie het ontlulk as 'n bale gewilde mergelende proewe in ’n fel somerson, slult word in die span wat teen die Spring-
sportsoort onder vrouens van alle ouder- het N Tvl van 'n sekere nederlaag gered, bokke en 'n oorsese span uit Switserland
domme. Die nuwe gewildheld het dan ook Een van die deelnemers en kaptein van en Wes-Duitsland meeding. Albei behaal
gesorg dat daar 'n rekord getal Inskry- die span, IVIargle du Randt, word genomi- ook plek In die Top 12 in die Nasionale
wlngs was In die SAW Hokkletoernooi in neer vir die jaarlikse SAW Sportvrou van Kampioenskap. Annemarle Steenkamp
Voortrekkerhoogte met agt spanne teen- die jaar. Sy presteer ook na bulte en speel word ook as SAGD se Sportvrou van die
oor die vorlge jare se ses. vir beide die N Tvl-sagtebalspan sowei as Jaar gekies.
Die oraloor gehalte van die spel het ook die N Tvl-hokkiespan. • In vlugbal hou Amanda Eagar die
Maar die elntlike groot verrassing het VIoot se naam hoog. Sy het reeds haar
in Indlviduele prestasies gewag en die SAW- en WP-kleure In vlugbal ontvang.
eertydse baba van die Weermag is besig Sy neem deel aan die RSA Beker, Presi-
om in 'n spreekwoordeiike reus te ver- dentsbeker en die SA Nasionale Kam­
ander. Die groei in die Weermag se vroue- pioenskappe In PE.
sportkrlnge is duldellk sigbaar in die ge­
halte van nominasies vir die SAW Sport­
vrou van die jaar.
Die Weermag se algehele Sportvrou
van die jaar, Cheronne Botes, het In nie
minder nie as drie sportsoorte uitstaande
prestasies gelewer. In haar liefllngsport,
waterski, ontvang sy haar OVS en Sprlng-
bokkleure. Op al vierdie Provlnsiale Kam-
pioenskappe tree sy as die algehele wan­
ner uit die stryd.
Op die Suid-Afrlkaanse kampioen-
skappe is daar geen keer aan haar nie en
sy palm die Senior Damestltel en twee
eerste en een tweede plek in. Onder haar
lelding neem die SAW ook die eerste keer
deel en behaal ’n vyfde plek.
As Springbok behaal sy In die eerste
Sers Margie du Randt in aiisie tydens die toets 'n tweede plek teen 'n bultelandse
S/AH' Vrouhokkietoernooi in Voortrel<ker- span en In die tweede toets wen sy die al­
iioogte. Vrouehokkie is besig om in 'n gehele titel. In die derde toets behaal sy 'n
baie gewilde sportsoort te ontpop in die tweede plek.
SAW en meer spanne as ooit te vore het Ook In pluimbal blink sy uit en speel vir
hulle vir die SAW-toernooi ingeskryf. die eerste llga In N-OVS. Sy is die wenner

76 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987

DUNHILL DERBY By L CpI D.R. Kneen
Photo: L CpI S.A. Jones

TOP Defence rider, Jonathan Clarke,

failed to end among the top ten at the
Dunhill Derby, held recently at the Inanda
Club in Sandton. Nevertheless, he walked
away with the Inanda Welcome Stakes
title as well as earning several places in
National and International class events.
The Dunhill Derby is the most highly
prized equestrian event in South Africa as
the lengthy course, which undulates over
natural jumping obstacles in the lush set­
ting of the Inanda Club, is one of the most
gruelling in the world.
The event attracts South Africa’s big­
gest names in equestrian sport, and
among this year's record entry were
Gonda Betrix, Philip Smith, Errol Wu-
cherpfennig, Janie Myburgh, Annelle Wu-
cherpfennig and Defence s Wayne Dale.
The Derby course, designed by Naas
Ferreira, has seventeen obstacles over
2 000 metres. Including a steep bank, a
dyke with three jumps and a water jump.
Annelie Wucherpfennig, a past winner of
the Italian, French and British Derbies, ex­
plained: "People talk about overseas
Derby courses being toughen but in my
experiene this is definitely not so. For ex­
ample, the 'bank' at the Dunhill is cer­
tainly steeper and more testing than at
Hickstead and their course is slightly
shorter.'
To qualify for the Derby, the country's
38 best riders have to compete in a series
of National and International class jump­
ing events and the top 25 earn places in
the Derby.
In the International class, Inanda Wel­
come Stakes, held on Wednesday 8 Oc­
tober, Jonathan Clarke, riding Defence

The Dunhill Derby is the most highly

prized equestrian event in South Africa,
and the lengthy course, which undulates
over natural Jumping obstacles in the lush
setting o f the Inanda Club, is one o f the
most gruelling in the world.

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Continued from p 77
horse leonidas, beat the country's best in
a jump-off against time.
In the first round of the stakes, 14 of the
riders earned clear rounds, forcing a
jump-off for the top seven places. Wayne
Dale, the 1984 Derby winner, failed to
make the jump-off after collecting four
penalties (bumping over one bar).
Jonathan Clarke ended the jump-off
with a clear in 35,82 seconds, before
1975's Derby winner, Peter Gotz, who
completed the course in 36,06 seconds.
Next was Michelle Myburgh in 36,21 sec­
onds and the current World Cup title
holder, Philip Smith, ended in 37,19 sec­
onds.
Two other Defence riders, Evan Ander­
son and Mark Stopford, took part in this
event, but neither succeeded in winning a
place in the jump-off.
Wayne Dale and Jonathan Clarke then
took part in the Dunhill International
Stakes and once again Wayne Dale failed
to reach his 1984 winning standard and
left Jonathan Clarke alone in the jump-
off.
Here Jonathan Clarke earned fourth
place on Defence-owned horse, Galan
Onduna, after Philip Smith on Cloud
Nine, André Ferreira on V&R Eng Spares'
Irish Magic and George Myburgh on
Cloud Star.
Evan Anderson, Mark Stopford and Jo­
nathan Clarke took part in the national
class, Dunhill Menthol Mild competition,
held on Thursday 9 October, but only Jo­
nathan Clarke earned a place, ending
sixth on Leonidas in the jump-off in which
SKIET
A s jy uniform dra, word daar van
jou verwag om ’n geweer te Itan
hanteer. Oaarom i<om dit as geen
verrassing nie dat die SAW in 1986
soos in die veriede sy staai op die
sidetbaan getoon het.
In Bisley het brig A.P. Móller sy manne tot
groot hoogtes gevoer. Dit was bootsman
Schalk Young wat die kalklig gesteel het
toe hy die Suid-Afrikaanse Grootkaliber
Bisley agter sy naam geskryf het. Vir dié
groot prestasie is hy tesame met Brig
Móller en wrn A.J. van Wyk met Spring-
bokkleure beloon. Brig Moller, wat ook
78 PARATUS • JANUARY 1987
he collected four faults in the fastest with a clear in 44,42 seconds. Barry Taylor
course time of 49,17 seconds. followed, but collected four points in a
Beating Jonathan Clarke were Philip time of 41,75 seconds. Ronnie Lawrence
Smith, who ended first on Ace of Spades then had to decide on whether to go for a
and third on Key Largo; Tony Lewis, who fast clear round for first place or to settle
finished second and Greg Cleverdon and comfortably into second place by merely
Gail Foxcroft ended fourth and fifth re­ making a clear round.
spectively. Unfortunately, pushing a little too fast,
Neither Wayne Dale nor Jonathan he collected four penalties in 44,45 sec­
Clarke made the jump-off in the Interna­ onds and was thus placed third.
tional Class St James Competition as they • The overall result was as follows:
respectively collected 12 and eight penal­
ties In the first round of the competition. 1st: Peter Gotz
In the Transvaal Show Jumping Cham­ 2nd: Barry Taylor
pionships, which was won by Ronnie Law­ 3rd: Ronnie Lawrence
rence on Sanvic Genius. Jonathan Clarke 4th: Philip Smith and Gonda Betrix
earned a sixth place and entry into the 6th: Tony Lewis
highlight of the four-day series - the Dun­ 7th: Errol Wucherpfennig (on Spareco
hill Derby. Currier)
Jonathan Clarke is currently doing his 8th: Errol Wucherpfennig (on Spareco
National Service at the Equestrian Centre Compass Line) and Annelie Wucherpfen­
in Potchefstroom and represented De­ nig.
fence last year in dressage and jumping
events. Leonidas became Grade A this
year, and Jonathan was placed in several
events on him since then, including the
Nelspruit Agricultural Show and the
Pietermaritzburg Show.
Jonathan Clarke was fourteenth to
jump in the Derby, and feeling the press­
ure of Peter Gotz's clear round - a rare
occurrence in the Derby - he failed to get
Galan Onduna through the course with a
clear.
The Derby was forced to a jump-off be­
tween Peter Gotz on Toyota Gossiper,
Barry Taylor on Fidelity Guard’s Power-
force and Ronnie Lawrence on Sandvic
Genius.
Peter Gotz set the pace In the jump-off
Deur w rn W.G.F. Geerlings
• Vroue het die koppe laat draai met
een van die afrigters van die Springbok-
span was, het vir die dertiende keersedert hul vermoens in pistoolskiet. Twee lede
1967 Sprinbokkleure verwerf - 'n presta­ van die skoner geslag - maj (mev) E. Palm
sie soos min. Om die sout nog dieper in en maj (mev) E. Stenekamp het Junior
die teenstanders se wonde te vryf, het die Springbokkleure met die pistool verwerf.
Maj Stenekamp was ook lid van 'n Ult-
Weermag ook die 0/25-lnterdienstewed-
stryd in Bloemfontein ingepalm. nodigingspan wat die Springbokspan en
Dieselfde prestasie is in Diensskiet be- n buitelandse span laat les opsê het.
haal. Die SAW se Diensskietspan het die Haar bydrae tot die oorwinning was van
Interdienste skietwedstryd tydens die SA onskatbare waarde. Met sulke skuts kan
Kampioenskappe verower. Om alles te die Weermag in die toekoms net beter
kroon, het A02 N.M.B. van Deventer die presteer.
Suid-Afrikaanse kampioen in Diensskiet
geword.
Kom dit by kleingeweerskiet, het die
SAW ook nie agteruitgestaan nie. Op die
Nasionale Kampioenskappe wat in April
gehou is, het A01 J.A. van Rhyn sy Spring-
bokkleure verwerf, terwyl kol C.A. le
Roux, maj W. Vorster en sers G. Masen-
garb Junior Springbokke geword het.
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