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defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Ntshavheni Peter Maphaha. Major General Ntshavheni Peter Maphaha was born on 8 August 1967 in Thohoyandou, Venda, in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. After completing his secondary schooling in 1984 at Lwamondo High School in Limpopo, he then enrolled for his tertiary education at the University of Natal (now Nelson Mandela Medical School) where he completed the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree (MBchB) in 1990, which he completed within the prescr...

defenceWeb 16th Apr 2021 Rudzani Maphwanya. The new South African National Defence Force (SANDF) senior appointments announced by President Ramaphosa this week merit comment, not on the persons but on the process of selecting officers for the top posts in the Defence Force. I know one of these officers reasonably well and am delighted by that appointment; the others I do not know well or even at all, so am in no position to comment other than to wish them well in their new posts. But the system...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Cyril Ramaphosa. Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the appointment of the Chief of the South African National Defence Force and members of The Military Command of the South African National Defence Force, 14 April 2021. Fellow South Africans, I address you this evening as the Commander-in-Chief of the South African National Defence Force on new appointments to the leadership of our armed forces. By virtue of the powers vested in me by our Constitution a...