BREYTENBACH, W

... a predominantly black unit with white senior officers and with a strength of approximately 1 000. Officers commanding 1RR were Cmdt JG ‘Jannie’ Breytenbach (1972-75); Maj (T/Cmdt) JC Swart (197581); Col. E Olckers (1981-83); Col. A Bestbier (1983-88); Col. G Keulder (1988-) Two ...

... Kaunda, the ANC’s most important backer in Africa. Under the command of the head of South Africa’s first special forces unit, Colonel Jannie Breytenbach, this operation is said to have trained some 200 Zambians for destabilisation operations inside Zambia. It was abandoned in 1973 or 1974, ...

... Angolan army, a specialist unit of the army, Battalion 32 (the so-called ‘Buffalo Battalion’), was established. Headed by Colonel Jannie Breytenbach, this unit grew in time to number as many as 9 000 troops. 92 Thirty-two Battalion was, in fact, the second such special army unit ...

organisations – that I would be able to decide who would be an asset and who a liability to the struggle, while sifting out agents!39 83 Breyten Breytenbach described his encounters with prison psychologists thus: These perverted practitioners of the spurious science of psychology do not have ...

... any way rogue operators engaged in an unauthorised mission. 185 In an interview with journalist Ms Peta Thorneycroft in July 1998, Colonel Jannie Breytenbach – at that time attached to DST, which controlled Operation Drama – confirmed the existence of Drama and that this mission was ...

... were in overall command of the actual operation and responsible for its planning. Fighting forces on the ground at Kassinga were led by Colonel Jan Breytenbach (32 Battalion), and Commandant Deon Ferreira, and at Chetequera by Major Frank Bestbier. 36 At 13h45 between twenty and thirty armoured ...

... mobilised at short notice. The volksleër allegedly later became the military arm of the AVF. It was for some time under the command of Colonel Jan Breytenbach, formerly from Special Forces and commander of 32 Battalion. 279 The various groupings developed strategies of action involving the ...

the formation of the Boere Krisis Aksie during the farmers’ siege of Pretoria in 1991. It was assisted by General Constand Viljoen and Colonel Jan Breytenbach. According to amnesty applicant Mr Daniel Benjamin Snyders [AM0074/96], Toekomsgesprek also developed close ties with the AWB’s ...

... first sentence should read ‘After the Boipatong massacre …’. Page 646 Paragraph 278: The Commission withdraws the assertion that Colonel Jan Breytenbach was at some time commander of the ‘Volksle_r’. Paragraph 280: The Commission withdraws the assertion that General Constand Viljoen ...

possession of explosives. 364 In February 1994, three AWB/AVF members, Mr JB de Wet [AM6466/97], Mr de Wet Johan Strydom [AM5168/97] and Mr Pieter Breytenbach [AM5167/97] members went on a bombing and sabotage spree with explosives received mainly from Boere Krisis Aksie. Mr Kleinbooi Ramolla ...