Andreas Liebenberg

Andreas Liebenberg

General Andreas ('Kat') Liebenberg SSA SD SOE SM MMM (1938-1998) was a South African military commander. He joined the South African Army as an infantryman in the early 1960s. In the early 1980s, he was a sector commander in the Border War in South West Africa.

He served as GOC Special Forces from 1982 to 1985, as Chief of the Army from 1985 to 1990, as Chief of Defence Force Staff for a few months in 1990, and then as Chief of the SA Defence Force from 1990 to 1993. He was a member of the defence committee of the Transitional Executive Council which supervised the South African government during the final months leading up the first democratic election in 1994.

In 1995, he, former defence minister Magnus Malan, and former defence force chief General Johannes Geldenhuys were tried for murder, as a result of a military operation in which several civilians had been killed. They were all acquitted.

ee also

* List of South African military chiefs
* South African Army


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