By die Hoofpostcantoor a s nuusblad geregistreer

Gallon gmders
tadic it on the shoulder.
not in the teeth

alio n s Miles Ahead Designvii

educes maintenance costs and < ows Tinisn gra<
he, toothed circle on any grader the case-harc ed shoulder oUhe
i the centre of transmission of circle. Shoes, fact never touch
ower to the blade. On ordinary the circle tee The result is very
raders the whole thrust of the low wear, a maximum relia-
lade is taken on tw o or three bility, in thi! riticai area. Lost
ircle teeth, causing accelerated motion is rad ly reduced, along
/ear, lost motion in the blade and with blade c ter and the need
equent need for maintenance, for regular re; jstment. A Galion
alion's superb design takes care grader can ish-grade to an
f these problems from the very accuracy of Inch even after
utset. Instead of blade shock hundreds o f ' rking hours with-
eing transmitted to the circle out adjustme Yet another ex-
ïeth, the entire thrust is taken on amole of hov alion does a little
!.r

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na aksíe..satísfaksie Lexinqloii
TOASTED
Vir satisfaksie na die aksie, rook 'n Lexington,
want Lexington gee alies waarna 'n man soek
in 'n sigaret-vol, ryk geur, puik geroosterde tabak,
diep bevredigende rookgenot

Lexington ...vol-ja smaakvol LEX 171A

PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970 ]

 AANDAG
MOTOREIENAARS

MONUMENTPARK MOTORS
te h /v Springbok- en Olifantstraat, Monument Park,
kondig met genoeë aan die opening van hulle spaar-
onderdele-afdeling vanaf 1 Desember 1970.

'n Yolle reeks yan onderdele is ycmaf

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U is welkom om ons te besoek en u probleme te

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2 PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970

Lugvaartkundige
Ambagte
Daar bestaan verskeie vakatures vir gekwalifiseerde ambagsmanne in die
volgende ambagte by ons fabriek te Kempton Park.

MONTEURS:
LUGRAME, MOTORE EN KOMPONENTE
MONTEURS:
ELEKTRIES EN WSTRVMENTE
PLAATMETMLWERKERS
AVIONIESE TEGNICI
Vorige ondervinding en 'n vakleerlingskap sai 'n sterk aanbeveling wees.

ONS BIED:
★ Pensioen- en mediese voordele.
★ Behuisingsmoontlikhede en 'n huisaankoopskema.
★ Kafeteria fasiliteite.
★ 'n Jaarlikse bonus.
★ Mededingende lone.

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ATLAS V LIEG TU IG K O R P O R A SIE VAN S.A. (EDM S) BPK.,
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PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970

 Toegif
metelke
Ford 17M

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Osar's vir jou 'n toegif! F o rd 1 7 W l-se d a n; 1 J -iite r-e n jin vergroot to t Weelde. Die smaakvol kleurige
2 lite r—rpk. verhoog van 81.5 to t 93 (12% meer). binne-afwerking. Die salige
Minstens 10% meer krag met
elke Ford 17M. En dit as F o rd 1 7 m De L u x e : 2 -lite r-e n jin —rpk. ver­ sitgerief. Die gladloopvering.
hoog van 93 to t 102.5 (10% meer).
'n gratis ekstra by a/ die Maak 'n draai by u
F o rd 1 7 M R S : 2 -lite r-e n ]in —rpk. verhoog van Ford-handelaar. Sê horn u wii
ander opwindende kenmerke 102.5 to t 113 (10% meer).
wat die 17IVI so gou sy die 17M sien . . . en
F o rd 1 7 M - s ta s ie w a : 2 -lite r-e n jin —rpk. ver­
wenwaarde gegee het. hoog van 93 to t 102.5 (10% meer).
daardie ekstra vuur voel.
Ons gun u ekstra krag. Gun A s u dit nie doen nie, sal u
uself ekstra gerief.
Die motormet wenwaarde uself altyd verwyt.

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V Z S /B -K 1 4 S n S 9 A

PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970

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H.M.A F.V. Seal one of three 120' Long Range Fast Patrol
Craft designed for service in the Royal Air Force as a
recovery, rescue and support craft.

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PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970 5
 Caltex brins
more
nader...
Op breë snelweë en kronkelende paad-
jies . . . op plase en in fabrieke . . . langs
vaarwaters, en op síralerroetes in die lug ..
versnel Caltex-brandstowwe en -smeer-
miriHpk die pas om die weg te baan
vir 'n Suid-Afrika wat met rasse
*/ * X skrede vooruitgaan. Intussen, onn
konferensietafels, in navorsings-
laboratoriunns en by Caltex se
( CALTEX ) multimiljoen-rand-raffinadery
buite Kaapstad, span Caitex 'n
magdom van kennis en onder-
vinding in om te beplan en voor-
bereidings te tref vir die Suid-Afrika
van die toekoms, waar energie selfs 'n nog
groter rol moet speel.
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0 PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970

m.

We took our first steps in slippers . .

About 40 years ago.
Feltex Limited started manufacturing slippers. We
set our sights high. Toddled forwards. Grew upwards.
Spread sideways.
Today, Feltex is a group of wholly owrsed South
African Companies involved in everything from slippers to
Car Transporters.
We're also manufacturing carpets. Organising re­
movals. Printing in colour. And buying land.
In fact, Feltex Limited now make just about every­
thing you can think of.
From felts to urethane plastics. From furniture to car
seats. From upholstery fillers to suitings, ladies fashion
garments and elegant shoes. Eyen cotton wool.
And we're stii! expanding. Broadening our horizons.
Taking bigger steps. Each day more people come to know
and trust the Feltex trademark,
Feltex Limited — 40 years old and still growing
strong . . . from the past we gain our tradition — in ths
future lies our destiny.
We'fl never grow too big for our boots I

CARPETS Van Dyck • Flortime Needlepunch

URETHANE FOAM Lifetimer • Flex-O-Tex • Flex-0-Foam
PHARM ACEUTICALS Grants SABS! and Silverleaf Cotton W ools. Partsx
Sanitary Towels
TEXTILES Hextex, Algoatex & Veldspun Worsted Cloth
KNITWEAR Danco Fully fashioned
g Í R g ia r E y ji
FOOTWEAR Melotred • Slip-Ons • Melo-Pedic
HOUSEHOLD Van Huisen General Household products
INDUSTRIAL Felts • Waddings etc, Steps forward into the future.

Foissrib & vteoáates S S7

PARATus • m c m s E a is
"We live here too.”
A statement by
Mr. K.LG .G eeiing,
Managing Director,
Shell South Africa (Pty) Limited
A major problem facing society today is how
to enjoy and harness the benefits of technology
w ith ou t irreparably damaging man's environ­
ment. W e at Shell share this concern; w e accept
our particular responsibility for achieving this
desirable balance.
In our efforts to combat pollution at sea. Shell
pioneered the "Load on Top" procedure for
tanker cleaning. More than 80 per cent of the
world's tankers have followed this course to a
PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970
cleaner sea. Our production wells, our refineries
and chemical plants and our distribution network
embody the most advanced technical develop­
ments for reducing w ater and air pollution. In
fact, because w e believe that prevention is
better than cure. Shell conduct a continuous
research programme aimed specifically at en ­
vironmental conservation.
This research is not carried out in isolation.
For example the motor industry has confibuted
by developing more accurate and efficient car-
buration in car engines and Shell have evolved a
premium petrol capable of maintaining this
improved equipment in top condition.
Together these developments result in more
efficient fuel combustion, so limiting the harmful
content of exhaust gases. This new product,
high-performance Supershell, is now available
in South Africa — as are our clean-burning fuels
for industrial furnaces and commercial heating,
non-toxic solvents for control of factory effluent
and specially constituted chemical products for
use in garden, field and home.
Although the ultimate responsibility for con­
serving our environment rests upon the com ­
munity as a whole, not on industry alone, w e at
Shell have deliberately
chosen to participate actively
in solving the problem.
W e live here too.
 Paratus Voorheen fkOMMANDO
Official Magazine of the South African Defence Force
Die Ampteiike maandblad van die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag

CONTENTS
Christmas Greetings — Min. of Defence ............................... 10
Kersgroete — KG, SAW ........................................................... 11
Voorligting vir B evelvoerders.................................................... 12
In die wegskaal: Regsaantekeninge (1) ............................... 1&
Voortrekker prepares for Cape to Rio r a c e ............................... 18
Opleiding: Is dit die moeite werd? ............................................. 23
Die Verdedigingsinspektoraat .................................................... 24
17 Gun Salute for Mr. Basie van R en sbu rg.............................. 26 Vol. 22 No. 12 Desember 1970
School Cadets Corps: Wynberg Boys’ High School ................. 31
Dienspiig (6) — Gewetensbesviiare weens Godsdienstige Oorwe
ginge ................................................................................ 34 DIE REDAKTEUR SÊ
„Aksie” hierdie b r i e f .................................................................. 37 g A I E hartlik dankie vir al die talle
Krygstaalkrismis .................................................................. 37 kaartjies met Kers- en Nuwejaarswen-
se wat ons hier by PARATU S ontvang
Letters to the Editor/Briewe aan die redakteur ................. 39
het. Met hulle pragtige ontwerpe het die
Navy and A ir force display at Aloe Fjord .............................. 40 kaartjies feitlik sender uitsondering 'n
42 A O P ................................................................................ 43 nuwe betekenis aan die ou-ou boodskap
Terroristewapens (2 ): Die A K 4 7 ............................................. 46 van Liefde en Vrede verleen.
Lukin Scholarship 1971 ........................................................... 49 Langs hierdie weg wil al die lede van
die PARATUS-redaksie graag hulle spe-
Afskeid van komdt. J. J. G. B. Knoetze ...................................... 51
siale allerbeste wense vir ’n Geseende
Begrafnisse ......................................................................... 53 Kersfees en ’n Voorspoedige Nuwejaar
Film of the Month — Shangani Patrol ...................................... 55 oordra aan almal in die Suid-Afrikaanse
Wits Command Raises Funds .. ............................................. 59 Weermag. Ons rig hierdie wense veral
Die Veiligheid van ons land hang van JOU af ........................ 61 aan ons KG en sy opper- en senior offi-
siere wat steeds soveel van hulle waar-
New Sergeant-Major of the A r m y ............................................. 61
devolle tyd opoffer om ons te help om ’n
Laat die Wiele Rol .................................................................. 63 lesenswaardige weermagtydskrif uit te
Les Kay — a Man among men ............................................. 65 gee. Ons wense gaan egter ook na elke
Medaljeparade op Krugersdorp ............................................. 70 ander Weermaglid, ja selfs die jongste
weerman, omdat elke leser vir ons ’n
„Haai Ou’s dit was bak!” ........................................................... 73
BBP is.
Registrasie gedurende 1971 vir Dienspiig ............................... 79
Fotoverslae oor Desember
Die maand Desember was koorsagtig
van bedrywigheid in die SAW.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE REDAKSIE Die PARATUS-fotograwe het hard ge-
werk om soveel as moontlik van die
Chairman; Senior Redakteur: onthale en parades en ander geleenthede
BBIG H. DE V. DU TOIT, SM KMDT 1. D. VAN DER WALT op film vas te lê. In die Januarie-uit-
?\/lembers: Redakteur: gavre gaan ons poog om ’n beeld te lewer
COL J . E. LOUW
LT M. J. ROOTHMAN van alles wat voor Kersfees gebeur
COL 0 . A. SMITH Fotoredakteur; het . . .
SERB. A. J. J. DE WITT
CAPT G. N. BRITS, SM
COL D. O. STRATFORD. SM
Posadres: Privaatsak 1S8, Pretoria. Our cover . . .
Straatadres; 149/1S7 Noordvaalgebou, Vermoulenstr.,
COL J. 0 . POTGIETER
Pretoria. Foon 2 0 m .
This month our cover shows the SA
COL p. M. J. McGREGOR Navy yacht “ Voortrekker” preparing for
Intekengeld: R1.20 per jaar.
COL Í. A HCNNING the Cape to Rio race due to start next
CMDT J. W . I/VESSELS ALLEEN-ADVERTENSIEVERTEENWOORDIGER:
A. F. Kolbe tEdms) Bpk., 405 Pan AMcan-huls, month. We are all very optimistic about
CMDT H. J. VAN BURK h/v Bree- en Troyostraat, Johannesburg. its chances and wish the crew everything
CMDT M. J. BUITENDAG Foon 23-8216. Posbus 1352. of the best.

PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970

 C l^ rísítm asi # r e e t ín g s í
'J'HROUGHOUT the year our daily tasks
seldom afford us the opportunities
of a few moments of meditation.
But when Christmas comes, the world
is once again reminded of an everlasting
peace in which every individual and
the world can share.
I know that for the members of the
South African Defence Force this will
also be true. Towards the end of this
year your thoughts w ill also dwell brief­
ly on -everything that took p!a"e diir'n^
the past months of your activities.
Your devoted service in and outside
every military base played a decisive
role to uphold the honour and safety
and stability of our country.
When opportunity presented itself
during the past year, all three arms
of the SADF proved their Immense va­
lue to the country, also as peacetime
instruments of assistance in emergen­
cies. I commend those members invol­
ved for their exemplary service during
Operation Drought, the floods at East
London and various other instances
where human lives were at stake.
It also benefits us to remember those
men who died during the year in the
service of our country, while we ex­
press our sincere condolence with those
who lost loved ones.
We do not know what the future
w ill place on our way.
Developements in many parts of the
globe show clearly that we are living in a
dangerous world. We shall have to be
strong and stand guard over our free­
Mr P. W. Botha dom and will defend our Republic in
the interests of the free world.
Min of Defence Your personal effort, in carrying out
your duty on land, the air and at sea
is vital for the SADF and our country.
I believe in your devotion. I be­
lieve in your w ill to dedicate yourself
to serve in the SADF as a symbol of our
nationhood.
Mrs. Botha Joins me in wishing every­
one of you and your families a happy
Christmas and a prosperous New
Year. #

PARATUS • DESEMBEB 1970

XO
 ^erágroete
Q N S staan voor die einde van die eer-
ste dekade van ons nuwe Republiek
van Suid-Afrika. Net soos vir ons land
en volk, het die afgelope dekade vir
die Weermag in die teken van opbou
en groei gestaan, Hieraan het ons diens-
pligtiges, ons onderoffisiere, adjudant-
offisiere en offisiere op alle vlakke met
inspanning en toewyding meegedoen.
Gedurende die grootste deel van hier-
die dekade was dit my voorreg en my
eer om as kmdt-genl ook aan die ont-
wikkelingsproses te kon meedoen. Die
wyse waarop alle elemente en afdelings
van die Weermag hul bydrae en opoffe-
ringe gelewer het, het vir my steeds tot
inspirasie gedien. Ek wil graag van hier-
die geleentheid gebruik maak om elke
soldaat, elke lugmagman, elke vlootman,
elke Weermagsvrou en elke burgerlike
werknemer opreg daarvoor te bedank.
Ons het bewapen, hervorm en ge-
skep. Dit is deurlopende prosesse wat
in die afgelope 10 jaar voorkeur moes
geniet en wat in die volgende 10 jaar
voortgesit sal word. Vorentoe sal die
klem egter in ’n belangrike mate ver-
skuif na die menslike inhoud van ons
Weermag.
Salarisse is miv 1 Jan 1971 aansienlik
verbeter waarvoor ons ons Regering op­
reg dankbaar is, ’n Tienjaarprogram
vir die omskepping van ons militêre ba-
sisse in prestige-basisse tov werk- en
woongeriewe is ook reeds goedgekeur.
Geriewe vir die beoefening van sport
en vir vryetydsbesteding is daarby in-
gesluit.
Stappe sal geneem word om kommuni-
kasie tussen die verskillende vlakke van
die militêre hierargie te verbeter en die
saamhorigheidsgevoel tussen die Weer-
magsdele. die Sentrale Organe en tussen
beroepsoldaat, dienspligtige en vrywil-
liger in alle vertakkinge van ons W eer­
mag te verstewig. Eendrag Maak Mag!
Waar ons met groot getalle van ’n
nuwe geslag jong mense te doen het sal
ons op elke vlak moet besin oor die
General R. C. Hiemstrci, SSÁ, SM,
wyse van die uitoefening van ons leier-
skap en die verbetering van ons mens­ KG, SAW
like verhoudinge. Daar is geen beter tyd
om hiermee te begin as juis in die
komende Kersgety nie.
Dit is my en my eggenote se bede
dat hierdie Kersgety vir alle lede van
ons Weermag en hul gesinne, familie-
lede en vriende, ’n tyd van ingetoe
vreugde en groot seën sal wees en dat
die jaar 1971 elkeen afsonderlik en ons
Weermag gesamentlik na nuwe hoogtes
sal voer. Laat dit ons leuse wees: Ons
dien Suid-Afrika, •

PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970

11
TaUe offisíere
se groot geloof
in huUeself en
in hiille saak is
deiur hiexdie
voorlígting en
toekomsblik
onderskraag. . .
Voorlígtíng
vír Bevelvoerders
íQFFISIERE praat met groot lof oor die positiewe uit-
werking van die v y f voorligtingskonferensies vir
bevelvoerders in die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag wat ge-
durende November gehou is. ’n Voliediger kennis oor die
Republiek se verdedigingsituasie kweek nie net ’n groot
vertroue in die Opperbevel nie, maar motiveer ook offi-
siere om hulle eie taak met groter toewyding aan te pak.
D it was die eerste keer in die geskiedenis van die
SAW dat daar so ’n grootskaalse poging aangewend is
om eenheidsbevelvoerders en senior offisiere van die
Staande Mag, Burgermag en Kommando’s deeglik in te
lig oor die eise van ons tyd.
Die Minister van Verdediging, mnr. P. W. Botha,
en die Kommandant-Generaal van die Suid-Afrikaanse
Weermag, genl R. C. Hiemstra, vergesel van ses van sy
opperoffisiere en die Voorsitter van die Krygstuigraad
het groot sametrekkings van offisiere in Kaapstad, Dur­
12 PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970
ban, Pretoria, Kimberley en Windhoek toegespreek.
Die KG het offisiere op die konferensies verwelkom
en verduidelik dat dit die doel is om bevelvoerders in
te lig oor die aard en omvang van die bedreiging wat
Suid-Afrika in die gesig staar. Verder word ’n evaiuasie
van die situasie verstrek en die toekomsbeleid verduide­
lik wat daarop gegrond is.
Hierbenewens het genl Hiemstra gesê dat ander be-
langrike aspekte soos bv. die dienspligstelsel en mense-
verhoudinge in die SW A ook bespreek sal word.
Die Minister van Verdediging het die Republiek se
internasionale posisie kem agtig verduidelik met spesiale
verwysing na die rol wat Russiese en Sjinese kommunisme
in Afrika speel. Mnr. Botha het ook verwys na die mags-
vakuum in die Indiese Oseaan en die spesiale paraat-
heidseise wat dit aan S.A. stel.
(Vervolg op bi. 15)
 r - . í.i

Sowat 500 offisiere vul die stadsaal op Voortrekkerhoogte

tydens die derde van vyf voorligtingskonferensies. in die voor-
ste ry sit mnr P. W. Botha, die IVIinister van Verdediging (tweede
van regs) en genl R. C . Hiemstra, die Kommandant-Generaal
SAW tderde van links) en drie van die s e s opperoffisiere wat
die konferensie toegespreek het, naamlik It-genI W. R. van der
Riet, V-Adm H. H. Biermann en it-gen! C. A. Fraser.

Gedurende die teepouse het

offisiere gebruik gemaak van
die kans om die generaals met
vrae te bestook. Op hierdie
foto is It-genI H. P. Laubscher,
V-Adm H. H. Biermann en geni
R. C . Hiemstra, KG, SAW , in
drukke gesprek met 'n paar
offisiere.

PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970 -| 3

 W^ve made quite a splash!

í;ÍSK®5íwí.íí<^S0^Sí

B y saving 386 million litres of water a y e a r! And doing
it com puter-w ise! Already water-conscious for a long
time, AE& CI decided to step up its research on conser­
vation in every possible form. A bright boffin suggested
we let our computer tackle the problem. So data from a
mathematical model was fed into the computer and out
popped the answer. Valves were opened and closed and
Hey Presto — the trick w as accomplished. Result?
Sen satio n al! Now second grade effluent water re­
cycled at our Modderfontein Factory saves as much as
386 million litres of potable water a year. This means
there's less drain on the Rand Water Board and more
precious water for other industrial and domestic utilization.
AE& CI's products, too, are helping to save w ater:
chlorine and aluminium sulphate for municipalities and
industry to sterilize and clarify impure w ater: polythene
and PVC for the farmer to conserve it by meanseans oiof dam
aarr
linings, irrigation furrows and mulching
covers. Yes, AE&CI have made quite a
splash — in more w ays than one. m
A F R IC A N E X P L O S IV E S AND C H E M IC A L IN D U S T R IE S L IM IT E D

CAL 4 - 13 -8

14 PARATUS DESEMBER 1970

Voorligtíng
vír
Bevelvoerders
Heelwat voedsel vir nadenke is in die loop van die .
oggend verskaf, maar teen die middagete is ook ’n Q
heerlike bord kos in ruim tente agter die sta d sa a l^
bedien en offisiere kon die inneriike versterk.
Tydens sy verwysing na die diens-
pligstelsel hel die Minister spesiaal ge-
wag pcmaak van die besondere eise wat
gestel word aan almal wat in bevel van
dienspligtiges gestel word. Die diens-
pligstelsel beoog veel meer as blote
militêre opleiding. Goeie landsburgers
meet gekweek word. Daarom doen die
Minister ’n beroep op offisiere om
elkeen sy c;e konsep van dissipline weer
in oënshou te neem. Dissipline meet
spruit uit die inspirerende voorbeeld.
Ware dissipline kan nooit vermag word
bloot dour vrees in te boesem nie.
Lt-genl. C. A. Fraser, SSA, SM, Bevel-
voerende Generaal, Gesamentlike Ge-
vegsmagte, het die ideologie agter en die
wese van die onkonvensionele bedrei-
ging aan die offisiere verduidelik. ’n
Kennis van die motivering en die teg-
niek van die onkonvensionele terroris
word aangewend om teenmaatreëls te
bedink en te ontwikkel. Die tegniek
van die bekamping van die onkonven­
sionele aanslag het sedert die begin van
die oorloë in Algerië en Vietnam aan-
sienlik verbeter.
Lt-genl W. B. van der Riet, SM MC,
Hoof van Verdedigingstaf, het aan o ffi­
siere verduidelik hoe die aard en om-
vang van die bedreiging teen Suid-Afri-
ka steeds dopgehou en na waarde geskat
word.
Teen hierdie agtergrond het die Hoof
van die Leër, lt-genl W. P. Louw, SM,
die Bevelvoerder Maritieme Verdedi-
ging en Hoof van die Vloot, V-Adm H.
H. Biermann, SSA, OBE, en die Hoof
van die Lugmag, lt-genl J. P. Verster,
SM, verduidelik hoe elkeen van hulle hul
onderskc'e weermagsdeel se gereedheid
volgens die eise van die tyd handhaaf.
Prof. H. J. Samuels, Voorsitter van
Krygstuigraad en Krygkor, het geskets
watter dramatiese vordering daar ge-
maak is met die voorsiening van wapens
en ammunisie. Om offisiere se mening
van die weermagsituasie goed af te rond,
het lt-genl H. P. Laubscher, SSA, SM, die
Hoof van Weermagadministrasie, ’n refe-
raat gelewer oor die evolusie van die
organisasie in die SAW.
Genl Hiemstra, KG, SAW, se beroep
dat offisiere al hierdie inligting vir hul-
leself moet verwerk sodat elkeen sy eie
taak meer gemotiveerd moet kan aan-
pak en deurvoer, het beslis nie op dowe
ore geval nie. Na elke konferensie het
offisiere besiel na hulle eenhede vertrek.
Hulle was bly dat die KG hulle gevra het
om op „oordeeIkundige wyse” hulle nuwe
kennis ook aan ander verantwoordelike
mense oor tedra.
Feitlik alle offisiere se gunstige reak-
sie word saamgevat in die bedankings-
toespraak deur hoofkommandant W. S.
Dreyer, kommandogroepbevelvoerder no
27, na die konferensie in Durban op 18
November. Daarom haal ons dit volledig
aan;
“ I am deeply conscious of the privilege
extended to me to express, on behalf of
all assembled here on this unique oc­
casion, a few words of gratitude to
our Minister, our Commandant General,
the Supreme Command, Professor
Samuels and their staffs.
There is a deep felt urge in all of us
to believe in something, for a meaning
to our way of life, a hunger to believe
in something when the day of battle
comes for us.
Oliver Cromwell understood this when
he said:
„Give me a man who knows what he
fights for and loves what he knows.”
Mao Tse-tung also underlined this
when he once said;
„The contest of force is not only a
contest of military and economic
power, but also one of the power and
morale of man” .
Morale has two main pillars:
Character or normal strength and be­
lief. B elief in yourself, belief in a
cause. Morale must enable us to face
the fear of death and injury. It must
enable us to transcend the instinct of
self-preservation and self-interest.
This form of briefing, which we be­
lieve, is the first of its kind, has con­
tributed immeasureably to our know­
ledge of what the fight is about. It is,
at the same time, an unprecedented dis­
play of trust and from this series of
briefings, a large number of men in
the role of generators, are henceforth
going to pulse with renewed power to
lead and to inspire. For this is what
motivation is all about. A superb tech­
nology and our sophisticated armaments
count for every little unless the man be­
hind the button or trigger of his weapon
is a motivated soldier with moral
strength and firm belief in a just cause.
Daar is glo ’n ou Oosterse gesegde wat
sê dat verandering die enigste kon-
stante ding in die lewe is. Ons aanvaar
dat verandering ’n meetbare verskil
is wat ’n organisme ondervind of onder-
gaan in verhouding tot ’n besondere om-
gewing.
Ons het vandag kon verneem wat die
omvang van veranderings is in ons eie
besondere organisasie: Die Suid Afri-
kaanse Weermag.
Die oorheersende indruk is die ver-
bysterende snelheid waarmee dit geskied
het naamlik slegs een dekade en die
verbysterende planne vir die volgende
dekade.
Dit pas ons om hulde te bring aan
ons Minister en ons Opperbevel vir
hierdie visie en daadkrag wat daarmee
gepaard gegaan het. Aan hulle wat hulle
verbeeldingskrag gebruik het en hulle
planne en gedagtes die toekoms inge-
stoot het: A lle Eer!
Ons geloof in onsself en in ons saak is
deur hierdie voorligting en toekoms-
blik onderskraag. Die onus is nou op my
en u om aan die tweede pilaar van
krag te voorsien. Duisende jong manne
se lewens is in ons hande toevertrou.
Tereg kan daar dus ge eis word dat
leierskap op alle peile sal voldoen aan
Oliveira Salazar se omskrywing van die
militêre deugde naamlik: dapperheid,
getrouheid en vaderlandsliefde.
V ir u, die Agbare Minister van Ver-
dediging, mnr. P. W. Botha, Generaal
Hiemstra, Lede van die Opperbevel,
Prof. Samuels en u gevolg is ons bede
dat die Allerhoogste u sal seen, en nog
lank vir ons sal bewaar. Baie dankie vir
al u opofferings, vir die vertroue in ons
gestel. Baie dankie vir u besoek alhier.
Ons wens u ’n voorspoedige terug-reis
toe.
PARATUS DECEMBER 1970 15
 Regsaantekeninge ( I)

EGSAANGELEENTHEDE bly altyd interessant, ’n feit wat weer eens beklemtoon

R word deur die wysigingswet op Verdediging, 1970 (W et No 28 van 1970), ’n
relatiewe kort maar tog uiters belangrike stuk wetgewing wat ingrypende veranderings
meebring.
Dit was veral interessant om te let dat ’n dienspligtige wat aan die kommando’s
toegewys is nou verplig kan word om tot 90 dae onderbroke o f ononderbroke
diens, of tydperke van hoogstens 90 dae altesaam, in sy eerste diensjaar te verrig.
Daarna volg die voorsiening v ir die gebruiklike 19 dae diens in die daaropvolgende
jare, maar met die veiligheidsmaatreël daarby dat die tydperke van diens van
’n lid, altesaam, nie 345 dae gedurende sy hele verpligte dienstermyn van
sestien jaar mag oorskry nie. Vantevore kon dienspligtiges tot hoogstens 60
dae diens in die eerste jaar verplig word.
’n Ander baie interessante bepaling is dat die Minister nou tydelike kom-
missierang in die SAW kan toeken waar slegs die Staatspresident vantevore
kommissierang, met inbegrip van tydelike kommissierang, in die SAW
kon toeken. Die W et is ook nou so gewysig dat ’n akte van kommissie
met die replika van die handtekening van die Staatspresident of die
Minister, na gelang die geval, uitgereik kan word en dat daar geen
nodigheid nou meer bestaan vir die persoonlike ondertekening daarvan
deur die Staatspresident of die Minister nie. Hierdie maatreël sal die
werkslas van beide aansienlik verlig.
Onthou sal word dat slegs lede wat na 1 Januarie 1964 met pensioen
afgetree het of aftree, in die SM Mediese Voortsettingsfonds kan
deel en dat geen sodanige hulp ten opsigte van die lede wat voor 1
Januarie 1964 met pensioen afgetree het, bestaan nie. Die hoofwet
is nou so gewysig dat dit toelaat vir die instelling, bestuur en beheer
van ’n afsonderlike mediese fonds ook vir laasgenoemde groep
persone.
Oudgediendes in hierdie groep is besonder dankbaar dat daar
ook aan hulle gedink word en talle navrae is reeds in hierdie
verband ontvang. So ’n bietjie geduld asseblief! Die konsep-
regulasies i$ reeds opgestel en sal so gou doenlik deurgevoer
word. Soortgelyke fondse word ook vir oudgediendes van die
SA Polisie en Gevangenisse beoog.
Almal sal onthou dat ’n lid se onderworpenheid aan die
Reglement van Dissipline eintlik deur artikel 104 van die
W et gereël word. A lle regskursusse begin mos gewoonlik
met ’n uitleg van hierdie artikel, nie waar nie? Daarin
word ook die soorte strawwe aangestip waaraan lede
onderhewig is indien hulle sou oortree.
Sekere van die strafbepalings is nou verander waarvan
die volgende voorbeelde genoem mag word:
a. „Verbeuring van diens of van rangsansiënniteit”
word nou bloot eenvoudig „degradering in rangs-
ansiënniteit” .
b. „Degradering na ’n laer kommissierang” word
nuut ingevoeg. ’n Offisier kan na ’n laer kommissie­
rang gedegradeer word maar vanselfsprekend nie
na ’n manskapsrang nie omdat hy sy kommissierang
mag behou vir solank dit die Staatspresident

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16
 >

deur kol W. J. Fouche

Weegskaal
of die Minister mag behaag. Die kommissie van ’n offisier word egter ook nou
geag ingetrek te wees sodra ’n vonnis van kassering of ontslag uit die SAW bekrag-
tig word waar dit vantevore deur ’n formele handeling deur die Staatspresident
self ingetrek moes word.
c. Bykomend word „degradering tot die geledere of na ’n laer rang of graad”
nou „degradering na ’n laer rang, na onderoffisiersrang of na die geledere” .
d. Die bewoording „verbeurings en terughoudings” word vervang deur die
woorde „boetes en onthoudings van soldy en toelaes” .
e. „Ernstige berisping” word geskrap, want per slot van rekening, wat is die
verskil tussen ’n ernstige berisping en ’n berisping, vir sover dit ’n strafmaatreël
aanbetref? „Vermaning” , as sulks, word om dieselfde redes geskrap. Dit is
ook verblydend dat hierdie niksbeduidende vonnis nie meer op ’n lid se
rekord aangeteken gaan word nie. Nogtang moet ’n lid se gedrag sodanig
wees dat hy nooit berispe of vermaan hoef te word nie.
Statuutreg is een van die belangrikste bronne van wetgewing. Alvorens ’n
wet oor enige regskrag beskik, moet dit aan die wye publiek bekend-
gemaak of gepromulgeer word. Gewoonlik geskied sodanige promulgasie
deur publikasie in die Staatskoerant.
Benewens die bekendmaking aan die publiek, moet daar ook bepaal
word vanaf we Ike datum die betrokke wet dan werklik in werking
tree. Dikwels word in die W et bepaal dat dit in werking tree op ’n
datum wat die Staatspresident by Proklamasie in die Staatskoerant
mag vasstel. Dikwels gebeur dit dan ook dat ’n besondere Wet vir
maande of selfs jare op die wetboek staan voordat dit in werking
gestel word.
In ander gevalle word uitdruklik in ’n W et bepaal dat dit op ’n
definitiewe toekomstige datum, of dat verskillende artikels van ’n
wet op verskillende maar definitiewe toekomstige datums, in
werking tree. Soms swyg ’n wet oor die inwerkingtreding en
word dit effektief vanaf datum van promulgasie. A s dit op ’n
bepaalde dag in werking tree, word dit effektief vanaf midder-
nag van die dag wat die bepaalde dag voorafgaan.
Baie interessante vrae ontstaan dikwels in hierdie verband.
’n Ou Transvaalse Wet, Wet no. 13 van 1886, het, bv, voor-
siening gemaak v ir die toelating van geneeshere om in
Transvaal te praktiseer. ’n Vorige W et, W et no. 12 van
1886, het weer op sy beurt die omstandighede neergelê
waarkragtens ’n geneesheer se sertifikaat om aldus te
praktiseer, weens wangedrag ingetrek mag word. Ongeluk-
kig, egter, is die promulgasie van W et No. 12 van 1886
vertraag tot ’n datum twee maande na die promulgasie
van W et No. 13 van 1886.
’n Sekere dr Johnson se sertifikaat is kragtens W et
No. 12 van 1886 weens wangedrag ingetrek, welke
intrekking hy betwis het op gronde daarvan dat
laasgenoemde W et geen regskrag het nie omdat dit
gepromulgeer is op ’n datum nadat die latere W et
waarkragtens hy sy sertifikaat ontvang het, naamlik
W et No. 13 van 1886, reeds gepromulgeer was en
in werking getree het. (Vervolg op bl. 80.)

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17
 Voortrekker under sail,
when she w as still
ketch rigged as Bruce
Dalling sailed her in the
Transatlantic Singlehand­
ed Race.

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into the sea, while
the water breaks and
cream s away from her
bow.

PARATUS • OESEMBER 1970

18 19
 16.30 hours on January 16th next year, some 63 of the
world’s finest ocean racing yachts will surge across the
starting line at Granger Bay, Cape Town, under way for
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and more than three weeks of gruel­
ling Transatlantic sailing.
They will be competing in the first Cape to Rio ocean
yacht race, brainchild of the Royal Cape Yacht Club and
an idea that has fired the imagination of yachtsmen and
sailing enthusiasts around the world.
Amongst them w ill be one of the most successful inter­
national ocean racers of recent years, the 15m (50ft) Voor-
trekker, formerly Bruce Balling’s singlehanded ketch, now
the proud, sloop-rigged baby of the South African Navy.
World-famous for her near victory and prestigious se­
cond place in the last singlehanded Transatlantic race, Voor-
trekker was first across the line and second on handicap
in the Cherbourg-Solent, France to UK ocean race last year,
and on her return, with an SA naval crew, won a collection
of trophies for her performances in the Simonstown-Mossel
Bay-Cape Town race and the Lourenco Marques-Durban
race, both of which saw her first across the line and first
on corrected time.
Last month, however, she was high and dry on the
quay at the Minesweeping base of the Simonstown naval
dockyard where a team of expert shipwrights put the finish­
ing touches to her before relaunching her at the beginning
of this month.
Minor alterations to Voortrekker’s cabin below decks
were essential. She was designed in 1967 as a singlehander,
and for the Cape to Rio she must sleep a crew of six.
The Voortrekker and her crew. Captain James Mac-
Norton, radio operator and navigator; Petty Officer Bertie
Reed, mate; Petty Officer Les Fella, foredeckhand; Chief
Petty Officer Karl (Essie) Esterhuizen, foredeckhand; and
Warrant Officer Mike Avery, caterer and cook; are now
being put through their paces by their skipper, bearded
and experienced. Commander Micky Thomas.
YOORTREKKER PREPARES
FOR THE CAPE TO RIO RACE

Crew of the yacht Voortrekker, from left to

right, WO Mike Avery, Captain Jam es Mac-
Norton, CPO Karl (E ssie) Esterhuizen,
PO Les Fella, PO Bertie Reed.

Commander Micky Thomas, who will

skipper the SA Navy’s yacht Voortrekker
jl in the Cape To Rio ocean yacht race in
Y January next year. He is seen at the Royal
Cape Yacht club with several of the
yachts that will participate, in the back­
ground.

Voortrekker under sail

20 PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970

 A ll are Cape yachtmen with backgrounds in dinghy
sailing, and ocean racing off the Cape Coast.
Commander Thomas is giving none of his strategies
away, but he says, Voortrekker will sail north west from
Cape Town with the South East Trade Winds to a point
some 20° north, and then follow the Trades south west in
an arc to Rio de Janeiro.
Winds are expected to be fresh at that time of the
year, and should blow force 3 to force 8 most of the way,
which should give Voortrekker an average speed of up to
nine or ten knots, allowing her to complete the voyage in
25 days or less.
She w ill carry a battery of sails including a mainsail,
genoa, working, storm and Yankee jib sails, and four giant
spinnakers. Stores which are a vital weight factor, will be
carefully chosen to ensure maximum food value at minimum
weight. The crew will subsist on tinned meats and fish,
dried vegetables, dried fruit, one egg a day and other sound
basic foods.
By the time the race begins, boat and men should be
in top racing trim. They will need to be, for an ocean race
is no leisurely cruise, particularly in the company of top
international yachtsmen.
Watch must be kept around the clock, every inch of
sail must be used to get the maximum speed from the wind,
and the conditions can be tough.
Anyone who has tried to sleep as a ship leaps, plunges,
shudders and creaks through heavy seas; has gone aloft on
the masthead to rescue a wildly swinging halyard or simply
felt the spray whip across his face as another swell breaks
green across the bow, will know what it means to spend
weeks at sea, damp to the skin, every muscle attuned to
constant motion.
But he w ill know also, as our Cape to Rio crew will
know, the exhilaration of rapid sail changes, the surge o f a
freshening wind, the quick excitement of a sail on the
horizon — behind you!
And at the end, before the support ship SAS Tafelberg,
claims them fo r the return voyage, the men of Voortrekker
w ill have seen and sampled the delights of one of the
world’s most beautiful cities, Rio de Janeiro — at Carnival
time.
Good luck boys! #
iiiv
PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970
21
 South A frican Defence Force
Training of Technical Munitions officers

in the S.A. Army, Permanent Force

A P P LIC A T IO N S for the abovementioned training are invited from

white male citizens of the Republic of South Africa and South
West Africa, who are:
(a ) medically fit;
(b ) preferably not older than 30 years of age;
(c ) in possession of the matriculation certificate which includes
the subjects Physical Science and Mathematics; and
(d ) in the case of minors, in possession of their parents’/
guardians’ consent to undergo the training.
The training is of four years duration and candidates who are
selected for the training, will be appointed as candidate officers on a
commencing salary of R1560 per annum. On successful completion
of the first year’s training, they w ill be appointed as temporary
second lieutenants with a commencing salary of R2040 per annum
and promoted to the rank of temporary lieutenant after a further
two years’ training. On successful completion of the course, candidates
will be appointed as professional Technical Munitions Officers with
commencing salary of R2700 with progression prospects to R5400 per
annum, plus a risk allowance of one rand per day.
Candidates selected for the training w ill be required to enter
into an agreement with the Government, assisted by their parents or
guardians in the case o f minors, whereby they undertake to serve in
the Permanent Force for at least five years on successful completion
of their training.
Members enjoy, interalia, the following additional benefits:
* Free medical attention (also for dependants), even in re­
tirement.
* Vacation, sick and study leave on Public Service basis.
^Exceptionally favourable pension benefits, adequate outfit allo­
wance, substantial annual holiday bonus and also a group
life insurance scheme.
Further particulars regarding the training may be obtained from
the Quartermaster General, Poynton Building, Pretoria, (telephone
37711), and applications together with certified true copies of
educational certificates, must be forwarded so as to reach the under­
mentioned address not later that 30 December, 1970.
Candidates who are in the service of Government departments or
the S.A. Railways and Provincial Administrations, are required to
Director General, Personnel,
apply through the heads o f their departments.
Defence Headquarters,
Applicants will be required to appear at Government expense,
before an Officers Selection Board on a date which w ill be notified # Private Bag 159,
Pretoria.
PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970
22

^ P L E I D IN G vorm tans die kern van
die vredestydse aktiwiteite van ons
Weermag. Enorme bedrae geld word
spandeer om die SAW slaggereed te kry
en so te hou. Instrukteurs spandeer baie
van hul vrye tyd aan die voorbereiding
van lesings of demonstrasies, maar; IS
DIT DIE MOEITE WEED? Hier word
nie betoog vir ontwapening nie. Hierdie
artikel beoog iets van kardinale belang
— dit is ’n eerlike antwoord op die een
vraag, B E TA AL U OPLEIDING?
Baie van ons is geensins kostebewus
nie, U lioef nie ’n ekonoom te wees om
te besef dat ’n swak lesing veel meer kos
as ’n goeie nie. Ons as instrukteurs sal
die SAW baie verleentheid en geld be-
spaar indien ons besef dat ons beste nie
altyd DIÉ beste is nie. Elkeen van ons
kan beter doen. Om die beste resultaat
met opleiding te bereik is dit nie nodig
om oor die modernste hulpmiddels te
beskik nie, (dit help soms) wat wel no-
ciig is, is positiewe denke en entoesias-
me. Entoesiasme is aansteeklik — laat
ons met ’n epidemic begin!
Die doel van opleiding is om gesind-
hede te verander. Indien ons nie dié
doel voor oë hou nie, kan ons liewer
ons opleiding staak. Ons opleiding nioet
dus net in een toets slaag — en dit is;
die optrede van ons studente na afloop
van die lesing of kursus. Die doel van ’n
kursus moet dus spesifiek en meetbaar
wees — ons moet ’n baie eenvoudige
vraag kan beantwoord — kan die stu­
dent die wapen, die instrument of ’n
groep studente effektief beheer en aan-
wend. Indien ons nie in ons doel slaag
MOEITE WERD?
deur E. P. S. Odendaa
nie, het ons net informasie beskikbaar
gestel en nie opgelei nie. Na die afloop
van ’n kursus m oet die studente daartoe
in staat wees om ’n handeling beter te
verrig as voor die kursus of lesmg.
Die doel van hierdie artikel is om u
in staat te stel om u opleiding te eva-
lueer deur ’n ondersoek van die faktore
wat bydra tot effektiewe opleiding. Dit
sal dus raadsaam wees indien ons tyd
afsonder om na dié faktore te kyk.
HOE LEER ONS
Alhoewel persone in die opleidingswê-
reld kan verskil t.o.v. sekere fasette van
die leerproses, sal u saamstem dat „leer”
en „onderrig” nie sinoniem is nie. Voor-
dat enige persoon se gesindheid kan
verander moet hy „iets” geleer word.
Dit moet aanvaar word dat elke mens
homself leer en wel teen sy eie tempo.
Die tempo sal wissel van persoon tot per­
soon en sal afhang van ouderdom, aan-
leg, vermoë en vorige ondervinding.
Verder word dit ook nog beïnvloed deur
die metode van aanbieding, die ma-
teriaal wat aangebied word en veral die
verhouding tussen instrukteur en kursus-
ganger.
Menige kursus het al misluk of sy
effek verloor deurdat ’n instrukteur na-
gelaat het om te verseker dat die stu­
dent elke „stap” onder 4ie knie kry of
deurdat die instrukteur nie besef dat
persone beter leer wanneer elke stap op-
gevolg word met ’n onmiddellike „be-
kragtiging” nie. Bekragtiging is nie straf
omdat ’n persoon fouteer het nie — dit
is die oplos van ’n probleem; die onmid­
dellike nasien van ’n antwoord; die ver-
IS DIT DIE
langde aanmoediging. Dan moet ons ook
onthou dat persone slegs sal leer indien
hulle weet WAABOM.
MOTIVERING
Traagheid en belangeloosheid van se­
kere studente kan soms toegeskryf word
aan die standaard van ’n kursus o f die
gebrekkige tegniek van die instrukteur
— soms beide. Soms sal ons vincl dat
die studente wonder of die kursus van
enige waarde vir hul sal wees. Die op-
lossing lê grotendeels daarin opgesluit
dat elke kursus in ’n speslfieke behoefte
moet voorsien en die student moet voor-
berei om ’n toekomstige taak te doen of
pos te vul.
Dit is die plig van die instrukteur
om die voordele van ’n kursus aan die
studente te „verkoop” . Die student weer
sal sy beste lewer slegs indien hy weet
wat met die kursus beoog word en hoe
hy as individu daarby gaan baat.
W IE L E I OP
D it is nie so dringend noodsaaklik dat
die instrukteur 'n meester van die vak
moet wees nie (bedoelende die vak waar-
in hy instruksie gee). Dit is ongelukkig
so dat die vakkenner nie altyd ’n goeie
instrukteur is nie — „hy ken die werk
maar kan dit nie oordra nie.”
W at dan moet van ’n instrukteur ver-
wag word?
H y moet oor die vermoë beskik om ’n
saak duidelik te stel; geduldig en simpa-
tiek wees; oor ’n sin van humor beskik;
goed kan praat en oor leierskapeien-
skappe beskik; hulpmiddels kan voorbe-
rei en wie gaan die projektor herstel of
(Vervolg op bladsy 70)
PARATUS DECEMBER 1970
23
Die
Verdedigingsliispektoraat
deur genl-maj L. H. Groenewald, SM

T I IE Verdedigingsinspektoraat (V I)
van die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag
kan op baie toepaslike wyse aan die le-
ser voorgestel word aan die hand van
’n bekende versie van Rudyard Kipling:
„1 keep six honest serving men,
(They taught me all I know). i f ______... ......
Their names are Why and What and
When,
And Where and How and Who.”

WAAROM

Waarom is daar ’n Verdedigingsinspek­

toraat?
Reeds meer as ’n eeu gelede het be-
paalde nyweraars in die dinamiese En-
gelse en Amerikaanse nywerheidswêrel-
de van daardie tyd begin besef dat die
voorspoed van hulle ondernemings afge-
hang het van verhoogde produksie sen­
der ’n vermeerdering van middele. Hier-
die persone, asook diegene wat hulle op-
gevolg het, het derhalwe gaandeweg by
wyse van navorsing en studie die doel-
treffendheid van hulle werkers probeer
verhoog deur hulle werkmetodes te
vereenvoudig en definitiewe tydstandaar-
de vir take was te stel. Die uitvloeisel
van hierdie pogings staan vandag be-
kend as beweging- en tydstudie, of
werkstudie.
Beweging- en tydstudie word vir ge-
ruime tyd reeds deur bedryfskonsul-
tante en individue in Suid-Afrika toege-
pas. Veral by die myne aan die Wit-
watersrand sedert voor die afgelope
wêreldoorlog. Wetenskaplike bestuur is
gedurende en na die tweede wêreld-
oorlog op ’n aansienlike skaal in Suid-
Afrika toegepas en het bygedra tot die
behoud van betreklike Jong nywerhede
wat moes worstel om voort te bestaan
teen oorweldigende buitelandse wedywe-
ring.
Hoofsaaklik as gevolg van die steeds
toenemende mannekragtekort en die
strewe na verhoogde doeltreffendheid,
asook paraatheid in die aangesig van
bykans dreigende wêreldtoestande, vind
die SAW dit derhalwe ook vroeg in
1959 noodsaaklik om wetenskaplike be-
stuurstegnieke toe te pas; by wyse van
die stigting van ’n inspektoraat.
W AT
Wat is die Verdedigingsinspektoraat?
Die V I bestaan uit lede van die SAW
wat in Organisasie en Metode (O en M)
opgelei is. Tans is daar 22 lede, waarvan
8 Leëroffisiere, 10 Lugmagoffisiere en 4
Vlootoffisiere is. Die Leërgroep, bene-
wens hulle gemeenskaplike 0 en M-kwali-
fikasie, is verteenwoordigend van korpse
soos Artillerie, Pantser, Infanterie, en die
ADK. Onder die Lugmagoffisiere is daar
tegniese offisiere, vlieëniers, uitrustings-
offisiere, administratiewe offisiere en ’n
lugverkeersleier. In die Vlootgroep is
daar offisiere met algemene ondervin-
ding sow el aan wal as ter see. Die besit
van ’n wye diensagtergrond is om van-
selfsprekende redes nuttig vir die mili-
(Vervolg op bladsy 69)
o
Kapi P. de Beer, SALM, ’n lid van die VI,
besig met die ontwerp van ’n nuwe
Lugmag-versieningsvorm.
Kapt J. J. M ellet, SALM, (h e el re g s) ver-
duidelik aan 'n groep o ffisie re van die VI
die betekenis van ’n akkommodasieprojek-
model. Die model wys w aar al die ver-
skillende afdelings van die Weermag in
die VHK-hoofgebou en omgewing gehuis-
ves Is. Die penne op die model het ver-
skillende kleure en elke kleur verteen-
woordig ’n afdeling. Die ander offisiere is,
vinr, kapt D. J. Jacobs, ADK, kdr F. A.
Gerber, SA V, en kapt D. A. van der Merwe,
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 "I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I know)
Their names are Why and What and When
And Where and How and Who"

Brig L. L. Gordon, D FC, SALM , die hoofin-

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17 Gun Salute
fo r
M r Basie van Rensburg
TJLOEM FONTEIN listened witii sadness to the boom of a
17-gun salute on Friday, November 13 at the funeral of
Mr „Basie” van Rensburg, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.
Numerous political leaders, hundreds o f military personeel,
police, members of the diplomatic corps, dignitaries and
friends participated in the funeral. The Prime Minister, Mr
John Vorster, and all members of the Cabinet except one
were present.
On learning of Mr van Rensburg’s sudden death on No­
vember 11, the Prim e Minister paid the following tribute;
“ He served his country with great distinction. The Cabinet
has lost a capable Minister, the country a valued citizen and
the Free State a popular leader.
The mammoth task of organising the impressive funeral
was undertaken by the South African Defence Force and
more than 1,000 members of the Arm y and A ir Force
participated.
W ith less than two days in which to act, the chief of
Defence Force Administration with his various staff officers,
co-ordinated the numerous facets o f the ceremony. The
arrangements included a marching escort, armoured escort, The eight bearers, Maj GenI H. A . Kotze,
artillery battery fo r the gun salutes, gun carriage, trans­ SM ; Ma] GenI J. H. Robbertze, SM , DSO;
port of vehicles, military personnel and V IP ’s as well as Ma] GenI R. C . J. van der BijI, SM ; Maj
military personnel to undertake radio communications, me­ GenI G. H. F. Markgraaff, SM ; GenI C . J.
dical services, catering and streetlining. Joubert, SM ; Maj GenI L. H. Groenewald,
Long before the service in the historic twin-steeple mother SM ; Ma] GenI J. G. du Preez, SM ; and
church of the NG K in Bloemfontein, crowds were standing Maj Gen! R. F. Armstrong, SM , are formed
ten deep on the sidewalks in the vicinity of the church. up outside the church a s the hearse
Twelve hundred people filled the church and loudspeakers arrives.
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 The three C hiefs of Staff, Lt GenI C . A.
Fraser, S S A S M (representing the Chief
i
of the A rm y); Lt GenI J. P. Verster, SMj
and Vice Admiral H, H. Bierman, SSA ,
OBE, in the open landrovers. In the back­
ground, also in a landrover, the Comman­
dant General, SADF, can be seen,
BOTTOM LEFT: The South African Air
Force Band that played the funeral march.
The armoured escort can be seen behind
them.
FAR LEFT: The bearers march alongside
the gun carriage bearing the coffin shortly
after leaving the church.
The 400 strong marching escort is seen In
the midst of the throngs of people who
turned out to watch the im pressive cere­
mony.
nw Vi
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A fte r the service the coffin, borne by eight Major Generals
of the Army and A ir Force, was taken to a waiting gun
carriage. The armoured escort comprised a Ferret and eight
VA90 Armoured Cars manned by 4 Field Regiment. Fifty-
three airmen served as the Guard of Honour outside the
church, and members of I Special Service Battalion formed
the Guard of Honour at the cemetry.
The 400 strong marching escort consisted of troops from I
Special Service Battalion, I Para Battalion, 17 Field Squad­
ron, Services School and the South African A ir Force.
The narrowness of the streets prevented a march to the
cemetry, necessitating the use of motor transport along the
4i mile route to the cemetry. The Commandant General,
GenI R. C. Hiemstra, SSA, SM, and his three Chiefs of the
Arms of the Services were in four open Landrovers imme­
diately in front of the gun carriage.
Immediately the cortege began its journey to the ceme­
try a minute gun salute consisting of 17 guns was fired.
The A ir Force Band played the funeral march. A fter the
coffin was lowered a Salute of Internment of 17 rounds
was fired at five second intervals followed by the last post
and reveille played by trumpeters o f the South African
A ir Force Band, closing a solemn and impressive ceremony®
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School Cadets Corps (3)

Wynberg
Boys’ High Shool
»PH E Cadet Corps started at Wynberg
in 1899 a few months prior to the
Anglo-Boer War. The founder and first
Officer Commanding was Daniel A lex­
ander Bethune. Shortly after his appoint­
ment at the school in 1898, he persuad­
ed the Trustees to build an Armoury
and to acquire sufficient carbines to
equip a detachment. Warrant Officer
Windrum was detailed from the Military
Camp to assist in the training and ar-
Wynberg Cadet Corps, 1969. (Continued on page 33)

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 U enjin se beskermengel
...
&>eryL
(Hy bByaan nooil 'ri foul nie)
O m beske rtne n ge l v ir 'n rn o to te n jm
1 & w ee s, IS 0 'n m a klike ta a k n ie,
J y ’s d e u rs n ty d op d ie n s. S o d ra ]y
reken jy kg n inSar b ie tjie u its p a n , srt
íe m a n d d ie e rijin aan d ie g a n g en jy 's
w e e r yo ! in d ie tu ig .
A s d ie o iie h o m n ie b aie v in n íg b y
te m p ê i'a íu u rw is s e ljn g e v a n k o u d to !
w a rm a a n p a s nie, gaan d ie e njín
so n d e r b e s k e im in g b e tra p w o fd ,
O m k a lm in b eh e e r te b iy v a n u ite r-
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■m m -
s ts s itu a sie s soos h is rd íe ve rg fik s h e íd
e n aan p a sba a rh eíd, En BP S u p e r V is
b u ite n g e w o o n fik s en aartpasbaer.
(S o u o o k v ir u g e g é ld h e t as si d te -
s e lfd e v e e le is e n d s to e tse inoes d e u t-
m a a k í) D ie heel b eia n grikste is, h ie r-
d ie o lte b e h o u sy ideale k o n d is ia ,
tnaak n ie saak aan hoeveel ríru k e n
te m p e ra tu u fu iie rs te s h y b lo o tg e s te l
w o fd n ie . W a t u o o k a l aan va n g, u saf
nQoít 8 P S u p e r V s y g oa a rd h e id !a a t
verander nie.
J u is d a a ro m het h y soveel sne!-
h eids- e n a fs ta n d s re k o rd s o p g e s je f
H y's d e u re iity d tfo u o p die n s. H y h et
d ie u ith o u v e rm o ë o m w a t v a a h o m
v e rw a g w /ord, u it íe y o e r.
f n d ls p restes w á t d ie d e s k u n d ig e s
w il hê. 'n O iís w a t v ir h o m s e i! kan
instaán
En v if u e n jiri
LB-LPE 6216/2
 Wynberg Cadet Corps, about 1903. rangements were made for the new
Corps to practice at the Maitland (Wol-
temade) butts. A few years later, a Mor­
ris tube range was initiated in an un­
derground storm-water drain on the
far side of the playing fields.
The strength, in those days, was ne­
ver more than eighty, as only boys of
twelve years and over were accepted in­
to the detachment. Big events then
were ten-day camps at such places as
Worcester and Somerset Strand. A great
occasion was the inspection of the Ca­
Wynberg det Detachment on the Parade, Cape
Town, by Lord Roberts.
Later WO Brennan replaced WO
Boys' Windrum and a band was also started
under staff Sergeant Cross.
The Anglo-Boer War caused much ex­
High School citement in the Cadet Corps as the now
redundant Lee-Metford rifles were issued
to School Detachments.
The first World W ar naturally had a
stimulating effect on the Cadet Corps,
but it was rather depleted as many pu­
(Continued from page 31) pils, some as young as 151 years, left
the school to take up arms. Many dis­
tinguished themselves, and it is due to
Mr. E. T. Littlewood that we have a
carefully compiled Roll of Honour to
the pupils who saw service. Over 400
pupils saw service in His Majesty’s For­
ces, of whom 43 did not return. The
School’s Memorial Gates are to their me­
mory.
A remarkable family of this period
was the Scott brothers, of whom there
were six. Particularly S. Scott, G. Scott,
C. Scott and A. Scott distinguished
themselves in the military service. For
example, the eldest, S. Scott, has the
following record:
Commissioned in the Cape Town
Highlanders and served in the SWA
1914, 1915. Seconded to the A rgyle and
Sutherland Highlanders and wounded
in France, 1916. A fter convalescence
returned to France where he was
awarded the MC for gallantry on 18th
April, 1918. Killed in action, 6th June,
1918.
Between 1923 and 1930 the Cadet
Corps included, among many others of
whom we have no trace, members such
as the famous Jock van Niekerk, Sholto
Douglas, MC, DFC, eventually Comman­
dant of the Cape Town Highlanders, H.
de Villiers-Hamman, the world authority
on nervous deseases, Chris and Ossie
Newton Thompson, A. W. Solomon, now
with the Provincial Administration, who
obtained a DFC for raising a submarine
in the Mediterranean and W ing Com­
mander Gordon Key, OBE, DFC, now a
Director of Syfret’s Trust.
In 1930 the Cadet Corps was disband­
ed to be remobilized in 1939 by Lt D.
Marais. W orld War I I also gave it a new
lease of life. Again many pupils from
the school saw service and the school’s
swimming bath stands as a Memorial to
those who were killed in action.
When Mr Bowden took over the
Headmastership of the school after the
retirement o f Mr Clegg in 1947, the Ca­
det Corps received special attention
again as Mr Bowden was a keen mili­
tarist, having seen service as a Com­
mandant himself. Since then our cadet
Corps had in its ranks the Springbok
Rugby footballers, Lionel Wilson, Dave
Stewart and Doug Hopwood.
The Cadet Corps has been under the
command of Capt W. Lennox since 1964,
with a strength of approximately 400
Cadets.#
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Gewetensbesware W eens
Godsdíenstíge Oorwegínge
„Want die Owerheid ís ’n dienaaz
van God, jou ten goede. Maar as jy
kwaad doen, vrees dan; want hy dra
die swaard nie verniet nie, want hy
is ’n dienaar van God, ’n wreker, "om
die een wat kwaad doen te stra£” —
Rom 13:4
0 N S konstateer met dankbaarheid en trots die feit dat
duisende seuns van ons volk die afgelope tyd hulle vry-
w illiglik aangemeld het vir hulle diensplig — opleiding in
die Leer, die Vloot en die Lugmag. Dit staan in skrille kon-
tras met dit jeug van die VSA, waar konskripsie-kaarte in
die openbaar deur jongmanne verbrand word en op dié wyse
verraad gepleeg word teen hulle duur-verworwe erfenis.
Daar is ongetwyfeld ook in ons land diegene wat in hierdie
opsig hulle verantwoordelikheid probeer ontduik. Daar is on-
gelukkig moeders wat liewer sien dat hul seun se vingers
deur ds S. Ozrevech
die note van die klavier streel as om ’n jaar te offer om te
leer om paraat te wees om sy land te verdedig.
Ons was onlangs in gesprek met ’n vader van ’n jong seun;
’n getroue volksman wat worstel met ’n skynbare botsing van
lojaliteite ten opsigte van verpligte militêre diens. Die bot­
sing het gegroei uit sy kontak met ’n besondere sekte wat
in ons omgewing aktief is.
Die botsing ontstaan vir hom hierin:
Enersyds is daar die verpligting om militêre opleiding te
ondergaan wat op die jeug gelê word, met die moontlikheid
. . . want hy dra die swaard nie vernlet nie . . .
^ f ■
dat hulle later in ’n opstand of oorlog LEW E is ’n gawe van God en die mens Vra ’n mens hoe dit dan nou te ver-
die wapens sal moet opneem. Hy erken is nie vry om dit te neem nie. klaar is, dan lui die antwoord dat die
(Jie goddelike roeping van die owerheid, Die owerheid moet soms die mens ter Owerheid uit homself die bevoegdheid
en hy voel hom verplig tot gehoorsaam- dood veroordeel omdat hy hom aan die nie sou hê nie, maar dat hy as ’n die­
heid aan hulle bevele. beeld van God soos in sy medemens ge- naar van God geroep is om as plaasver-
Andersyds, staan hom die Skrifwoord openbaar en daarom aan die Majesteit vanger van die God van Orde op aarde,
voor die Gees dat ’n mens God meer ge- van God self vergryp het. In hierdie sin in belang van die regsorde te handel.
hoorsaam moet wees as die mense. In- word die gebod opgehef en ondergeskik En waar God die reg het om lewe te
dien die owerheid dus van ’n mens eis gemaak aan die plig van die owerheid. neem, omdat Hy dit ook gee, en vrymag-
wat God se W et hom verbied om te doen, So lui dit in die Ou Testament. En so tig daaroor beskik — soos Hy dan ook
dan het hy eintlik geen keuse om V IR staan dit ook in die Nuwe Testament: wel by elke geboorte en by elke sterf-
God en TEEN die owerheid te kies nie. Wanneer die Apostel Paulus oor die bed doen — daar het Hy dieselfde vry-
Dit is vir hom duidelik dat God in die amp van die Owerheid skryf, sê hy let- heid en bevoegdheid aan sy plaasver-
sesde gebod ons verbied om dood te terlik in Rom. 13: 4: vanger gegee. Dit is die gedagte wat Je­
maak — hoe kan ons dan mense tot „W ant die Owerheid is ’n dienaar van sus tot die regsprekende Pilatus uit-
diensplig dwing? God jou ten goede. Maar as jy kwaad spreek:
Daar is hier dus ’n eerlike soeke na doen vrees dan, want hy dra die „Jy sou geen mag oor My gehad het,
sekerheid en ’n opregte gewetensbe- swaard nie vem iet nie, want hy is ’n as dit jou nie van Bo gegee was nie.”
swaar. En dit verdien om emstig getoets dienaar van God, ’n wreker, om die een V ir die Skrifgelowige staan dit dus vas
te word. En die Christen gebruik elke wat kwaad doen te straf.” dat ingeval die Goddelike reg geskend
maal die Woord van God as norm in sy God gee dus aan die Owerheid die word, die Owerheid die roeping het om
toetsing. swaard in die hand- Nie as ’n onskuldige na die swaard te gryp, en in ernstige
Ons kan miskien die beste begin met ornament nie of slegs ’n simbool nie, gevalle, selfs met die swaard te dood.
hierdie toetsing, deur op te merk dat die maar om dit te gebruik as die goddelike Die skending van die gereg kan binne
W et van die Here vir alle mense, en dus regsorde geskend word. Die Owerheid die grense en in die boesem van die volk
ook vir die Owerheid as individue geld. ontvang daarmee ’n bevoegdheid wat aan geskied — Of dit kan van buite af ge-
Hulle staan met hulle onderdane almal geen ander enkele mens geskenk word skied, deurdat ’n vreemde mag sy be-
onder die Hoe W et van God: nie en wat reëlreg teen die sesde gebod
JY MAG DIE DOODSLAAN NIE. in gaan — omdat dit die gebod ophef. (V e r r o lg op bladsy 74)
En dit is so: Indien één van hulle hom
hieraan skuldig sou maak, sou hy ter- . . . want hy is 'n dienaar van God
stond voor die regbank gedaag word om
sy regverdjge straf vir sy daad te ont-
vang. Dit geld vir alle individuele per- t m m Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê is Ê Ê iÊ Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê m
sone.
GELD DIT NOU OOK V IR DIE OWER­
HEID AS INSTITUUT?
As ons op die fondament van Gods Woord
staan, dan kan ons hierdie vraag met ’n
besliste NEE antwoord.
Die owerheid is ingestel om die oor-
spronklike bloedwraak te vervang. In die
vroeë tyd het een van die naaste bloed-
verwante ’n misdaad wat teen sy naas-
bestaande gepleeg is, eiemagtig gewreek.
’n Mens dink onwillekeurig aan die woes-
teling Lamech, wat sy wraak met ’n pas-
gesmede swaard in sy hand staan en uit-
gil: „Want Kaïn sal sewemaal gewreek
word en Lamech sewe-en-sewentig maal.”
(Gen. 4: 24.) Met so ’n situasie, waarin
elke man sy eie regter was, kon die
samelewing uiteraard nie rustig ontwik-
kel nie.
Daar was ’n vaste regs-orde nodig,
waaraan elkeen hom moes hou en waar-
deur gepleegde misdade nie na willekeur,
maar volgens die beginsels van Godde­
like reg gestraf word. Om nou hierdie
regsorde te handhaaf, het God die ower­
heid ingestel. Dat dit die plek van die
willekeurige bloedwraak inneem, blyk
duidelik uit die woorde van die instelling
daarvan wat ná die sondvloed plaasge-
vind het:
„H y wat die blood van ’n mens vergiet,
sy bloed sal deur die mens vergiet
word, want God het die mens na Sy
beeld gemaak.” (Gen. 9: 6.)
Volgens die kanttekeninge sien dit
tereg op die owerheid en die strafuit-
oefende plig van die owerheid. Hulle
word deur God daarmee belas, want die

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Q N S is almal vertalers, of ons dit nou
besef o f nie. As ons ’n woor^ o f uit-
drukking in Engels ken, maar nie weet
wat goeie Afrikaans daarvoor is nie, kom
ons voor ’n vertalersprobleem te staan.
W ie van ons ondervind dit nie daagliks
nie?
Nou is dit ongelukkig so dat sekere
woorde en uitdrukkinge net eenvoudig
nie vertaal wil wees nie. Hulle het deur
gebruik so vasgewortel geraak dat dit
soms syn of hulle nie uitgeroei en deur
goeie Afrikaans vervang kan word nie.
’n Tipiese voorbeeld van hierdie ver-
skynsel is „action” en „take action” . In
die Weermagstaal kom hulle gedurig
voor en vir menige vertaler skep hulle
onoplosbare probleme. Nou is daar geen
beswaar teen die woord „aksie” as soda-
nig nie. Dit is goeie Afrikaans, mits dit
in die regte verband gebruik word. Ons
kan tot aksie oorgaan, ons kan praat
van die mooi aksie van ’n atleet of van
’n toneelstuk met te min aksie, ons kan
’n aksie teen iemand hê, en so meer.
Maar die probleem lê by die ..action”
in verband met dokumente, vorms. sta­
te, boekhou, ensovoorts.
In hierdie verband sien en hoor ’n
mes so dikwels ,.aksie neem” , wat na-
tuurlik ’n onding is in Afrikaans. Som-
mige probeer die probleem omseil deur
„handeling neem” te gebruik, en dit is
maar net sulke onmoontlike Afrikaans.
J N die feesgety gaan dit sommer
baie goed met die SAW, en die
welwillendheid dring selfs deur tot
die muwwe woordeboekreuk van die
taalkantore. W ie kan anders as om
met ’n mate van opwinding te lees
van die „17 SA Tent Opslaan Regi­
ment Dans” van 5 Desember, of die
..Jaarlikseligteskopgraafeskad r o n-
afsluitingsfunksie” op 4 Desember?
Of wie kan M l staan teenoor so ’n
uitnodiging: „Braai VIeis van Sek-
sie Tiksters op 31 November 1970” ?
Die magtige SAW staan verplet-
ter op die slagveld van aanmekaar-
en losskrywe, en tevergeefs kramp
snellergeëelte vingers saam om die
balpuntpen — hy bly magtiger at,
die swaard.
Die taalgedroggies wat hierbo ge-
noem is, spruit uit die onvermoë
van skrywers om te besef dat Afri-
kaanse nie Engels is nie, en die
..AKSIE
híerdíe brief!
deiii: D. E. Reitmann
Korrekte Afrikaans vir „take action” is
„stappe doen” , ..optree” of ..handel” .
Maar ons moet nie van die eenvoudige
wegskram nie en waarom kan ons nie
„the following action is to be taken”
vertaal met „die volgende moet gedoen
word” nie? Die opskrif van die kolom
..action by” kan ons vertaal met „optre-
de deur” in die geval van notules. en as
alles wat in verband met ’n dokument
gedoen moet word, gedoen is, kan ons
Krygstaalkrismis
gewone verweer in hierdie gevalle
is dat Afrikaans dan „iomp” is.
Dis ’n eienskap van Engels dat
mens, binne perke, ’n rits woorde
langs mekaar skryf. Dis ’n eien­
skap van Afrikaans dat jy eers
woorde logics in groepe saamstel,
en die groepe dan met die woord-
jies „se” en „van” koppel. Die re-
sultaat hiervan is ’n duidelike een-
betekenisbeskrywing. Dit is so mak-
lik dat mens dit as ’n formule kan
nitdnib;
Eenheidsnaam (se) Geleentheid
OF Geleentheid (van) Eenheids­
naam
OF Geleentheid (van die) Een­
heidsnaam
Volgens hierdie formule kon 17
Tentopslaanregiment hul funksie
genoem het:
17 Tentopslaanregiment se Dans
of:
..action taken” vertaal met „afgehandel” .
’n Mens moet sover moontlik wegkom
van die Engelse bewoording en net die
betekenis vertaal. soos blyk uit die vol­
gende paar moeiliker gevalle:
take voucher action = bewyse opstel,
take hastening action = aanmaan, ’n
aanmaning stuur,
take disciplinary action = tugmaat-
reëls neem.
Dit is nou genoeg van die aksie wat ons
teen ..action” het.
Nog ’n onkruid wat erger as kakiebos
is om uit te roei, is die foutiewe gebruik
van w ie in gevalle soos: Die man wie
dit gesê het . . . (betreklike voornaam-
woord). Dit is waarskynlik die invloed
van Engels waar ’n verskil gemaak word
tussen „the man who . . . ” en ..the
table, which . . . ” . Dit is verbasend
hoe dikwels hierdie tout voorkom. selfs
by ontwikkelde persone van wie ’n mens
dit glad nie sou verwag nie. Die moeilik-
heid is natuurlik dat ’n mens se taalge-
bruik op gewoonte berus en as jou aan-
dag nie pertinent daarop gevestig word
nie. gaan jy salig onbewus van jou fout
daarmee voort.
In hierdie gevalle gebruik Afrikaans
wat, afgesien daarvan of dit op persone,
diere of dinge betrekking het. Dus: die
persoon wat . . . . die hond wat . . . ,
(vervolg op bladsy 79)
Dans van 17 Tentopslaanregiment
Ook reg, maar te lank, is:
17 Tentopslaanregimentsdans.
Ligteskopgraafeskadron k o n
hulle probleme op dieselfde wyse
opgelos het. Hul eenheid se naam
is baie lank, maar daarmee moet
hul maar genoeë neem. Seksie Tik­
sters se probleem is, soos gewoon-
lik, van onieke aard. Indien hnlle
sou skryf „Seksie Tiksters Braai
Vleis” sou die taal nog krom wees
maar hul uitnodiging sou besondere
byval vind. Hulle kan dns skryf:
„Vleisbraai, Tiksterseksie”
of
..Tikstersafdeling se Vleisbraai”
Dis nou genoeg. Hier kom ons
eie uitnodiging nou net van ons
Seksie Tiksters terug. Sentrale
Krygs Taal Buro Einde van Die
Jaar Partytjie SAW H i k «
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38
 BRIEWE
ÁAN DIE
REDÁKTEUR
Washing Dishes
■£ AM at present undergoing my Natio­
nal Service in the SA Navy, and am
aboard an anti-submarine frigate in
Simonstown.
When I was detailed three months
ago to become a permanent scullery
hand I was at first angered at the degra­
dation of washing dishes fo r my living,
and I said some very hasty, very bitter
things about National Service, which 1
had, up to then, enjoyed immensely.
But then I suddenly realized exactly
how this Defence Force operates. It is
like a machine, built by master crafts­
men, to perform a certain task, and
although some of the levers and cog­
wheels in that machine are larger than
others, they are all absolutely essential,
and they all have their own functions
— to work towards the smooth and
flawless running of that machine, our
country’s Defence Force. And although
my own job seems nothing at all, espe­
cially when taken on its own, it fits per­
fectly into the whole pattern of Naval
organisation, and the intricate and
complex administration of a warship.
I have attempted to put this idea into
more effective words by the use of
poetry, and I would be very grateful in­
deed if you could find the space to pu­
blish it in your excellent magazine,
which I personally read regularly every
month. I feel that in this way the
thousands o f trainees in military camps
and bases at this moment might imder-
stand just a slight bit more easily,
exactly what it is all about.
THE M ACHINE
In the last three months I have washed
almost half-a-million dishes.
I have marched.
Immortal,
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
In the regal ranks of thick white china;
Heard the trumpets.
Proud and painful.
And strained towards the intimations
Of something finer.
I have struggled
In the greasy sinks.
The oily waves o f non-pacific seas;
And seen the crash
And grind
O f bitter battles —
Heroic deeds at Sunday morning teas.
I have wept
Amidst the carnage
O f shattered cups and broken spoons
and knives;
I have longed to join
The sacred few,
The pudding plates and saucers
Who gladly gave their lives.
I have plucked a poppy
A t the silent tombs
The weedy graves of public refuse dumps
I have served my country.
John Pitt
Simonstown
Bale Dankie
0 N S as ouers van sktr H. S. A. Kruger
(Hennie) wat vanaf 10 Junie tot
14 Augustus in die Nr. I Militêre Hos-
pitaal, Voortrekkerhoogte was weens ’n
baie ernstige aanval van meningitis en
daarna neuritis w il hiermee ons innige
dank betuig aan die spesialiste, dokters,
susters en verpleegsters wat ons seim
op so ’n bekwame wyse bygestaan het
tydens sy ernstige siekte.
Ons is sterk bewus van die feit dat dit
— naas die Allerhoogste — slegs aan
hulle almal se snelle optrede, intense
ondersoeke en toegewyde verpleging te
danke was dat hy in so ’n mate herstel
het dat hy nog saam met ons kan wees.
Aan die hele personeel van veral Saal
28 en Saal 14 waar hy gelê het, ons in­
nige dank. By elke geleentheid wat ons
vanaf Kimberley gehad het om hom te
besoek, kon ons onderhoude voer met
die dokters en susters in bevel. Ons
dink veral aan dr. Foreman, suster H o­
lier en suster Du Preez. Ons het dit
opreg waardeer.
Ons wens ook die bevelvoerder wat
saam met die groep dienspligtiges weg
was na die grenspos te bedank vir sy
vinnige optrede daar in die vreemde en
in besonder ook ons dank aan dr. Mur­
ray wat daar so vinnig en bekwaam op-
getree het.
Daarbenewens wens ons ook die be­
velvoerder van Potchefstroom en die
bevelvoerder van die Nr. I Militêre Hos-
pitaal Voortrekkerhoogte te bedank vir
die wyse waarop hulle ons as ouers in
kennis gestel en gedurig op hoogte ge-
hou het van ons seun se toestand gedu-
rende daardie kritieke dae toe hy so
uiters kritiek was en ons in groot span­
ning verkeer het. Ons kon te enige tyd
met hulle in verbinding tree en hulle
het ons altyd met die grootste verdraag-
saamheid en hoflikheid behandel.
Mnr. en mev. C. D. Kruger
Kimberley
Encapsulation
article on encapsulation by Col
C. F. Vermeulen in the October is­
sue of „Paratus” was most interesting.
However, there is one aspect on which
I would like to comment and which I
hope you w ill publish fo r readers to
note.
The author says: „Encapsulation Is
merely a word describing the technique
whereby an object is embedded in a
hardened clear resin block, thereby pre­
serving it virtually for evermore” and
(Continaed on page 80)
PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970
39
 Navy and Air Force

. y \
The two divers who participated in the
" , '< 1 air-sea rescue.
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BOTTOIVi LEFT: The “ iniured" diver is

hoisted to the helicopter.
• ' ' '

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before dropping “supplies” .
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40
 display at
Aloe Fjord

irrHE W A TE R C A R N IV A L at Aloe
Fjord on Saturday, November 28, Members of the SA D F were at strategic A
once again proved that the SADF is points and in constant radio contact w it h y
ready for any emergency. each other. The control tower can be seen
The morning and early afternoon was in the background.
mainly devoted to water sport as enacted
by the different clubs. There were yacht­
ing, skiing, diving boat races, a life sav­
ing display and parachute jumping.
A part of the huge crowd watching the
These items delighted the thousands
Air Force display.
of visitors and prepared the ground for
the SA Navy display (an air-sea res­
cue) and the S A A F flying display.
Just after 1600 hours a helicopter
made its appearance over the water. Its
crew had to rescue an “ injured” diver
that had been dropped by boat earlier.
Another diver was dropped into the wa­
ter to fasten the “ injured” one to the
hoist. The “ injured” ciiver was then
hoisted to the helicopter very carefully
and then the other one followed.
A ll in all a very impressive rescue,
made possible by long practice and pre­
cision work.
After that a Hercules moved slowly
and very low over the dam, dropping
“ supplies” that could be picked up by
“ survivers” of a plane crash or ship­
wreck.
A Buccaneer and four Mirages put up
an excellent air display. Breath-taking
manoeuvres had the spectators gasping,
and many of them said: “ How can they
do it and yet stay in perfect control of
their machines?”
The tents in which the competitors
were housed were also erected by the
SADF. k-'-r -A .
As in many other national activities
the SADF contributed significantly to
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 Notes on the history of No 42 Air Observation Post Flight,
6th South African Armoured Division,
Central Mediterranean Forces
by S. P. de Baillon

Q O LO N E L H. Roos, the present South
African Military, A ir and Naval A t­
tache in Portugal, where the author of
these notes has now retired, once men­
tioned casually in conversation that he
had gained his “ A O P Wings” with the
42nd Squadron SAAF, which is now a
reconnaissance squardon. It is evident
that this squadron was, so to speak, the
“ child” of, and got its designation from
No 42 AOP Flight, 6th SA Armoured
Division, which was formed — and dis­
banded — during the Italian campaign
in World War II. Rightly or wrongly, I
consider myself the “ founder” of this
flight.
Through circumstances that I will de­
scribe I was not only instrumental in
forming this unit, but was also respon­
sible for its operational side.
As it is now a guarter of a century
since this took place. Colonel Roos was
kind enough to obtain from war diaries
an outline of events to refresh my me­
mory as to dates, etc. I hope that this
account w ill be of interest not only to
ex-officers and men, who served with
the flight, but also to serving personnel
in the Defence Force. Perhaps it may
even make an addition to 42 Squadron
archives!
I must thank Colonel Roos both for
having inspired me to put pen to paper,
to write this article for “ Paratus” and
also for having made my task the easier.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
As far as I know, this flight was the
only operational unit to be formed in
the field by the Union Defence Forces
in World War II.
The flight was the smallest unit of our
combat formations.
It was a SAAF unit, of which all ope­
rational personnel, except the 00, be­
longed to the A ir Force. Had the accep­
ted pattern of AO P flights in all other
allied armies been followed, it should
have been an artillery unit. It was of­
ficially classified as such in the Division,
as will be shown below.
Although the smallest unit in the
Division, 42 A O P Flight, — as it formed
part of HOSA detachment artillery —
had the honour of leading, with its
Austers flying overhead, the 6th SA
Armoured Division’s Victory parade,
which took place on the Monza racetrack,
near Milan, on 14th May 1945.
There were no casualties in the unit,
mainly due to the fact that the flight
was only in the field for a very short
period, April and May, when enemy re­
sistance was already beginning to flag.
Operationally the unit was a law unto
itself, as w ill shortly be shown.
An A ir Intelligence Officer was post­
ed to the flight a distinction not en­
joyed by any other allied A O P Flight.
(Continued op page 45)

4th May 1945:

A photograph of the flight’s personnel, taken at Milan Aerodrome.

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PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970

43
 Die Komatsu DTSS-Graaf...
die manne uiat horn ken,bElaai horn met lof.
Hulle beiaai horn natuurlik ook met swaarder dinge
as lof, maar met die seker wete dat die 175 Cummins
Dieselenjin enigiets op grootmaat kan skep an laai -
2,6-3 kub. jaart. Dinge word mos vir hulle speelmaklik
gemaak deur 'n enkele hefboom wat alle emmerbe-
wegings beheer, deur twee vertragingspedale vir
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li:,,, niger werkverrigting en deur tw eepedaalstuur en
-rembeheer. Eintlik is daar slegs een ding wat die
........ KOMATSU D 75 S GRAAF nie sal
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Dan is daar ook die D55
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vir kleiner take.

KO M ATSU

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44
42 AOP
(Continued from page 43)
The reason for this w ill also be shown.
I was, in fact, the AIO , in question. I
ha(i been with 7 Wing, SA A F from the
landing in Sicily until we reached
R IM IN I aerodrome towards the end of
1944.
The senior SAAF AIO , Major — now
Sir Keith Acutt, — instructed me, be­
tween postings, to visit neighouring
British AOP flights operating in the
sector, just north of Florence, with the
8th Army, British Expeditionary force.
The object of this exercise was that
I should make a complete report for
Pretoria of how these units operated,
and the use of these flights in directing
artillery fire, and to collect any books,
pamphlets and literature relevant to
this subject. The officers of these units
proved themselves most hospitable and
helpful, doing everything is their pow­
er to facilitate my task and supplying
me with a mass of documents, which
I sent back with my report through the
usual channels, in this case, advanced
HQSAAF.
This was the last I thought I would
hear about this pleasant interlude, which
had both been a change from routine and
had allowed me a closer peep at the
front lines than had been possible when
operating from fighter aircraft airstrips.
However, in a very short time my report
was to catch up with me. I was flabber­
gasted to receive in February 1945, a
posting to N r 42 AOP Flight, SAAF, a
unit, which, so far as I knew, did not
exist. It did, in fact, only exist on paper,
being officially “ established” at SA A F
Advanced Transport Camp at BARI on
3rd January.
A t this stage it is important to re­
member and to understand the “ climate”
of the moment. Here was the 6th A r­
moured Division, which had been advan­
cing through Italy either “ blind” or with
the aid of borrowed A O P fligths. Its ad­
vance had been up the centre of Italy —
ROME on June 6th 1944, ORVIETO and
then FLORENCE. This covered the left
flank o f the 8th Arm y BEF and also re­
presented the right flank of the Am eri­
can 5th Arm y under which the SA forces
were serving, on the Division’s left.
I fee l sure that a swift decision had
been made by the powers that be that
the 6th Division must have its own AOP
flight. In the light of what transpired it
was definitely a case of “ here are the
tools; now get on with the job!” I real­
ised shortly after my posting that the
higher authorities, who had taken the
desision, had made no effort whatso­
ever to discover the proper working of
an A O P flight, despite my detailed re­
port.
I knew that there were many thorny
problems to be faced and overcome, but
it might distort the picture if I started
by criticising the lack of precise instruc­
tions given me at the time. Nobody
seemed to know anything. Luckily, how­
ever, all turned out well in the long run,
and the flight became operational on
the 15th of April.
To justify the foregoing, I feel that
the reader should appreciate the most
important problems:
Captain Morton, who was acting as OC
from the formation of the flight, was a
non-operational officer, who was, in fact,
our Adjutant. He had collected the
vehicles, stores and ground personnel
that had been allocated to the flight,
but until just before we became opera­
tional there were neither aircraft nor
pilots! The OC was posted to the unit
on April 7th, just one week before we
became operational. He was acting-Ma­
jor Brereton-Stiles, a SA officer, pre­
viously seconded to a British commando
unit in another theatre of war. He and I
were the only two officers with any
active AOP experience.
Of the six SAAF, pilots allocated to the
unit on March 13th, bringing with them
four Auster V aircraft — ex-Union in­
structors itching to be sent “ up north” ,
with one possible exception, none had re­
ceived his “ baptism o f fire” or for that
matter had had any field experience
whatsoever. But that is only half the
story.
The usual procedure in allied AOPs
was to employ artillery officers who
through their training were used to di­
rect and correct shoots, and to teach
them to fly light aircraft, thus ensuring
that there would be no problems in di­
recting guns from the sky through RT.
In our case this procedure was reversed.
We had been allocated A ir Force pilots
whom we were expected to train in no
time at all in the “ art of gunnery” . Any
gunner will appreciate how difficult was
the problem with which we were faced.
Lastly, I — an air intelligence officer
— was posted to the unit with no speci­
fic instructions about my functions. Such
a posting to A O P was completely un­
heard of, as none of the other allied
flights had an AIO on their strength,
However, it dawned upon me that the
reason for this might be that someone
higher up had remembered that prior to
joining the South African A ir Force I
had been a gunner and therefore in a
position to cope with a new untrained
air force unit that would have to do its
best in directing the divisional artillery
fire. A t the beginning of the war I had
been a French liaison officer attached
to the 61st medium regt Royal Artillery,
BEF, the Denbighshire Yeomanry, with
which I had fought through the Belgian
and French campaigns until evacuation
from Dunkirk and return to Britain. .
However, between the date of my post­
ing and that when all the elements of
the new flight — administrative and
ground personnel, Motor Transport and
Stores, ground crew and mechanics —
had been gathered together at the
former Italian aerodrome, 5 kms from
LUCCA, I was made to realise, — espe­
cially in the absence of an operational
commanding officer, — how great had
been the responsibility thrust upon me
for what was really all that mattered —
the operational side. A fter all, the only
justification for such a unit in the field
was that it should be fully efficient and
sufficiently flexible to fulfil its role
under all circumstances. As far as I was
concerned, nothing else mattered, and I
was determined that 42 AOP
flight should be able to cope with all
that was expected of it. It would, in
fact, be a model flight of its kind, even
if I had to use completely unorthodox
methods.
I decided that operationally we would
run the unit more or less on the lines
of a fighter-bomber squadron, of which
I had had experience. The reason for this
was that during the Italian campaign 7
Wing Spitfires had met with practically
no fighter opposition, it was therefore
decided to turn these fighter aircraft in­
to fighter-bombers, to strafe and bomb
enemy HQs, transport and tactical sites
— bridges, etc. In those days, helicop­
ters were not used as they are today. I
argued that if it were possible for Spit­
fire pilots, flying at about five times the
speed of our Austers, to give their opera­
tions officer, on debriefing, all the “ dope”
on enemy ground formations, emplace­
ments, anti-aircraft guns, etc, there was
no reason why our new AOP flight
should not work on similar lines.
To achieve this I “ set my sights high”
and tried to gather round our new for­
mation all the elements calculated to
make it 100 per cent efficient. I indent­
ed fo r a caravan, to serve as a mobile
“ Ops” room. This was supplied in record
time by a British royal engineers and
mechanical engineers unit at MONTE-
C A TIN I. Apart from the standard RT
sets, fitted in Austers, I envisaged a
second communications network with
VH F sets in the aircraft, to ensure com­
plete security in transmission and to
keep us “ au fait” with the situation at
the front while denying to the enemy
the ability to listen in to instructions
given out “ in plain” over our RT circuit,
which it was easy fo r them to intercept.
Unfortunately, due probably to the very
short time that the flight was in action
— two months — these sets were never
supplied.
However, by March 15th, we had some
aircraft and the pilots had arrived. They
were Lts G. N. Cock, R. Jeapes, H. B.
(Continued on page 71)
PARATUS DECEMBER 1970
45
DIE AK 47

deur kmdt J. J. P. Erasmus

^^EKER die mees gedugte wapen in die hande van ’n ter- so dat slegs die loop vervang moet word om dit te omskep
roris, is die A K 47 geweer. Waar Komunistiesgeïn- in ’n 5.56mm kaliber.
spireerde terroriste ook al hul verskyning maak in die vrye Die A K se grootste voordeel lê waarskynlik in sy be-
wêreld, daar vind mens die A K , of „Avtomat Kalashnikov” . troubaarheid. Amerikaanse toetse en waarnemings in Viet­
Die Busse het die geweer ontvsferp nadat hulle tydeiis nam en Israel het bewys dat die A K uitstekend fungeer,
die tweede Wêreldoorlog aan die verkeerde kant van die onder swak toestande. Modder, stof, hitte, koue en swak
Duitse „Sturmgewehr” beland het. ammunisie het blykbaar min uitwerking op die AK. Dit
Die A K is dan ook baie soos die stormgeweer. Daar is vereis ’n minimum onderhoud en pas dus so reg in die
wel verskille by die sluitmeganisme, maar dit neem ’n ken­ kraam van Terroriste.
ner om die wapens met ’n oogopslag te onderskei. Alhoewel die A K effens swaar is, is dit kort en gevolglik
Die A K 47 gebruik ook ’n patroon wat feitlik die iden- baie handig in bosse. Modelle met opvoubare kolwe hanteer
tiese ballistiese vermoëns het van die Duitse Sturmgewehr. soos submasjiengewere en word veral in voertuie gebruik.
Die A K se patroon staan bekend as die 7.62mm m43, of,
meer korrek, as die 7.62x39mm. Dit is baie swakker gelaai VERGELYKENDE D A TA
as die 7.C 2x51mm NAVO patroon, nl omtrent 1500 vt/lbs
energie teenoor die 7.62x51 se ± 2500 vt lbs. Die hoofvoor- A K 47 R1 M16 (V S A )
deel van die laer krag is die feit dat die geweer amper niks Gewig .................... 10 lbs 9 lbs 6.3 lbs
skop nie en dat kort sarsies doeltreffend gevuur kan word. Lengte ................... 34 dm 40 dm 39 dm
Die patroon is kragtig genoeg, aangesien slegs 58 vt/lbs ener­ Magasyn ............... 30 skote 20 skote 20 skote
gie genoeg is om ’n militêre verlles te veroorsaak. Mens slaan Kaliber .................. 7.62x39mm 7.62x51mm 5.56x45mm
ook nie ’n vlieg dood met ’n voorhamer nie. Doeltreffende af-
Baie lande glo dat die 5.56mm patroontjie die patroon stand ..................... 400 x 600 X 400 X
van die toekoms is. Die VSA gebruik dit reeds al ’n geruime Gewig van 100 pa-
tyd. Ook hiervoor is die A K gereed. Die Russe het reeds trone ..................... ± 3.5 lbs ± 5.3 lbs ± 2.5 lbs
’n 5.56mm koeël in die 7.62x39 doppie van die A K gelaai en Tipe vuur ............. enkel/outo- enkel enkel/outo-
die resultaat was baie bevredigend. Die A K se ontwerp is maties maties #

Op meegaande foto's word geïllustreer hoe handig die AK 47

met sy kort loop in boswêreld is.
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Drive it anywhere you dare.
• j..W h i’re four cy lindetï. went before
n o w 51 X g o a s
And even bei’
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• The four-t.ylindc'r’ job won Land-
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power for sticky situation^. Cor the
And it comes in a va>;t \ariety o f '
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If you VP got a <;ix-cylindc‘r job
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A tkinsons-Leykor. Kroonstad. A tkirtsons-Leykor. Bethlehem. Leyland M o to r Corporation Ltd.. Swaziland. Leyland M o to r C orporation Ltd.. Lesotho. L e y k o r-
R o d e rio k & B ro o k L td ., Kimberley. U pin g to n U nion Garage. Upington. L e y k o r-H a rris o n s , Port Elizabeth and branches, L e y k o r - M a n n in g & P a tte rs o n ,
East London and branches. Leykor-U m tata M otors, Umtata. R o b b s -L e y k o r, Cape Town and branches. Leykor-Laing, Caledon. B randse Diensstasie, Vredendal.
L e y ko r-JB 's M otors, Malmesbury. Leykor-Bergrivier Motors, Laaiplek. Leykor-Bergrivier M otors, Vredenburg. Zebra M otors, Piketberg. Leykor-A lbertyn B Uys,
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Ceres. L e y k o r-T e rry 's , W indhoek, M arientai, Walvis Bay L e y k o r-S u p e r M o to r s , O tjiw arongo. M c C a r th y L e y k o r, Durban, Pieterm aritzburg and branches.
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4V R P on th e ball
A VEHICLE RESERVE P A R K is really on the ball as the
” sign and ball near the Park’s entrance suggests. Their
effic’ -'ncy and abilities were demonstrated recently during
“ Operation Fodder” — the ambitious operation which has
saved thousands of head of livestock from starvation in
drought-stricken areas. 4VRP under the command of Cmdt
W. D. Mohr (right) provided men and vehicles to assist
in the transporation of drought-relief fodder from farms
to collection points from where it was railed to depots in
areas hardest hit by the drought.

Lukin Scholarship: 1971

iT H E Department of Defence announces that an amount of
approximately R400 is available from the Lukin Scho­
larship Fund for the award of bursaries fo r the year 1971.
Scholarships are awarded annually to the sons of citi­
zens of the Republic of South Africa who served in the
1914-1918 war in the land, air or naval forces of the United
Kingdom, or in the event of no application being received
from such candidates, to the sons of citizens who have
served or who are serving in the Permanent Force.
The purpose of the award is to assist candidates to
qualify for entry into the Permanent Force or fo r a profes­
sional, technical or commercial career.
Awards w ill be made early in 1971 and completed appli­
cation forms should reach the Director General Personnel,
Defence Headquarters, Potgieter Street, Pretoria, not later
than 22 January 1971.
Hitch-Hiking
|>HQ is strongly opposed to hitch-hiking by National
Servicemen in view of the unfavourable impression it
creates in so far as die SADF is concerned, and in view of
the proven danger to life and hmb not only to the hitch­
hiker himself, but also to the motorist who, by sudden stop­
ping or evasive action^ himself becomes a danger to other
road users.
Hitch-hikers will therefore not by action of arm or hand
“ thumb” lifts or stand within a distance of four feet of the
edge of a tarred road wherever this is possible.
They should remember that they expose themselves to
disciplinary action where disregard of the above is evident.

PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970

49
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jy m Transvaalse Staatsartillerie het onlangs tydens ’n g€
sellige byeenkoms in die offisiersklub by Verdedigingí
hoofkwartier afskeid geneem van sy vorige bevelvoerdei
kmdt J. J. G. B. Knoetze. Op die foto onder verskyn kmd
en mev. Knoetze in die middel. Regs op die foto staan kmd
G. Geertsema, die Burgermageenheid se nuwe bevelvoerdei
en mev. Geertsema. Die egpaar links op die foto is kmdt ei
mev. S. J. Kritzinger.
Die offisiere van verskeie ander Pretoriase Burgermaj
eenhede en van die Staande Mag het die geselligheid bygt
v?oon. Op die foto bo verskyn vlnr kmdte B. V. Blignaut, G
Geertsema, W. G. Chapman en maj. P. J. Lourens.
Die nuwe bevelvoerder van die Transvaalse Staatsarti
lerie, kmdt Geertsema is reeds sedert 1954 aan die eenhei
verbonde. In die burgerlike lewe is hy hoof van die Afdelin
Bevolkingsensus van die departement van Statistiek. i
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Begrafnísse

I ^ I E foto toon die begrafnis van vlug-

sersant T. E. Scheepers wat onlangs
te Atlanta, VSA, ooríede is. Hy was ’n
boordtegnikus by 28 Eskader. Vlugsersant
Scheepers laat 'n v r o u en vier kinders
E g te r.

S e r s a n t B. GOUWS ís op 2 9 Augustus
1970 te Voortrekkerhoogte oorlede. Hy
was 'n wagbevelvoerder en hondemeester
íe LMB Waterkloof en alombemind deur
sy makkers. Hy laat ’n vrou en se s kinders
agter. Meegaande foto is tydens sersant
Gouws se begrafnis geneem.

PARATUS • DECEMBEB 1970 53

 Die
Geoktrooíeerde
Rekenmeester
is die
man wat bo gaan
uitkom
The
c .J i( s .a ) Chartered
Accountant
Waarom kry jy nie ’n eksemplaar
van die nuwe boekie „Jou
is the
Loopbaan as Geoktrooieerde
man on his way
Rekenmeester” nie?
Skryf aan: to the top
Posbus 964, Johannesburg.

C.JL(S.IL)
Why not get a copy of the new
booklet “Your Career as a
Chartered Accountant”?
Write to:
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54 PARATOS • DESEMBEB 1970

'■ / < y - , í
1 -. I'liu 's liiuncn <. vicioii<i attack i,n m j r i - - ' n o ,. . ,i. .
sci*ne from Shanijini Paiin..

Monday, 4th December, 1893, be-

^ tween dawn and approximately 11
a.m., thirty-four men died in a clearing
in the bush that was the lonely wilder­
ness of Rhodesia. They died violently
from the assegais and bullets of a horde
of Matabele warriors. These thirty-four
men, under the command of Major Allan
Wilson, were destined to go down in
history as the Shangani Patrol. Sur­
rounded by the enemy, they died
courageously — in the highest traditions
of Victorian honour and bravery. Many
of them came from good families, and
they had been to the great public
schools of England. They had come to
Africa because they found life in Eng­
land stuffy and unexciting. They wanted
the opportunities to farm, prospect for
gold, trade and fight. A few o f them
were born in the old Cape Colony, but
they too were imbued with the same
traditions and ethics. And when the
odds turned against them they stood
firm and died steadfast.
How did this tragedy come about?
A clash between the thousands of
white settlers who had gone to Matabele-
land after the signing of the Rudd Con­
cession, which gave the right to the
British South Africa Company to look
for gold, and the Matabele nation over
the rights o f the Mashonas, a tribe in a
neighbouring territory, developed into
Cont. on page 57

7wu~ artt ihredientid by iwaia-

Film of the month ' .. b e ie w arriors.

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55
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50 PARATUS • DESEM BER f970

 (Contd from page 55)
a war — the first Matabele War. It
wasn’t long before advancing troops
occupied Bulawayo, Lobengula’s capital. Major Allan Wilson (Brian
But the king had fled, and it soon O ’Shaugnessy) is in­
became clear that there could be no ' ' " formed by one of his offi­
end to the war until Lobengula was cers (Roland Robinson)
captured. And so the Administrator of that Major Forbes is a
the British South Africa Company, Dr “textbook Major.”
Leander Starr Jameson, sent out a
column of men, under the command of
Major Patrick Forbes to bring in
Lobengula, who had fled northwards
into the desolate country that lay be­
tween Bulawayo and the Zambezi river.
Major Forbes’s orders were to capture
the king with the minimum of delay.
Every single factor — economic, poli­
Major Allan Wilson (Brian
tical, financial and human — pointed
O ’Shaugnessy) empha­
towards the need for haste. There was
sis e s a point to his
a lack of supplies, and many of the
friend, American scout,
volunteer soldiers were reluctant to go
Burnham (Will Hutchins).
any further. But the king had to be
dealt with, and quickly.
What happened to the column gene­
rally, and Major Allan Wilson’s patrol
in particular, is now brought to the h r - ^
screen for the first time by RPM Film
Studios in their new film SHANGANI
PATROL. r:-.-
Due for release soon, SHANGANI
PATR OL was produced and directed by
Roscoe C. Behrman and David Millin,
the same team who won the Loerie Film
Award last year for co-producing the
spectacular MAJUBA. The screenplay
for the film was adapted by Adrian
Steed from the novel “ A Time to Die” The seven survivors of the Shangani Patrol rise to meet their
fate seconds before the final onslaught of the Matabele. They
by Robert Cary.
Being a true story with the ill-fated are Max Rosenfels, Roland Robinson, Ian Yulf, Patrick Myn-
event not eighty years ago, the film has hardt, Brian O ’Shaugnessy, Jam es White and Julius Rosenfels.
sparked tremendous c o n t r o v e r s y
throughout Southern Africa.
Many of the members of the Patrol
have relatives today who have been
brought up on rumours and conjecture
of what really happened to their un­
doubtedly brave ancestors. But, as there
was no survivor, the facts will never
fully be known.
The film was shot entirely on location
in the Marula district, some 60 miles
from Bulawayo. Shooting was completed
in the scheduled six weeks — an incred-
ib !j feat for a major roadshow produc­ _ _ _ _ _
tion.
David Millin and Roscoe C. Behrmann
gathered some of South Africa’s finest
acting talents for the film — in addition
to Brian O’Shaughnessy, Adrian Steed,
Patrick Mynhardt, James White, Ian
Yule, Anthea Cross and a host of other
top names, the RPM film-makers brought
an American T V star, W ill Hutchins,
to take the part of Burnham, who was
in reality a United States citizen adven­
turing in Africa.
Some 600 Rhodesian Africans were
recruited for the film as well as a squad
of BSA Police.
David Millin, in a characteristic quest
for authenticity, used only the exciting
African veld as a backdrop for the film
(Continued on page 70)

PARATUS • DECEMBER 1970 57

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W its Command
Raises Funds
A T a cocktail party on 18th November,
^ 1970 the selling of a brochure, which
is expected to be the main fund raiser
for the fund raising drive for the Wit-
watersrand Command Recreation Trust
Fund, was launched. The party was at­
tended by the producer, director, and
members of the cast of “ Shangani Pat­
rol” of which film premieres were held
in Johannesburg, Germiston, Springs
and Krugersdorp in aid of the fund.
The brochure includes a programme
for the film as well as interesting arti­
cles and photographs. Also inside the
brochure is a crossword puzzle with a
first prize of a trip to the East for two.
The first entry is free and each entry
thereafter costs 50c. There are three
entry forms in the brochure. The other
prizes include a refrigerator, motorcycle
and strings of cultured pearls. Proceeds
from the crossword go to the fund.
There is also ’n coupon which enables o
one to obtain a soundtrack of “ Shangani The Minister of Defence, the Hon Mr. P.
Patrol” at a special price. Each record W. Botha and Brig H. R. M eintjies, SM,
sold in this way means a donation to the O C Wits Command, page through the
fund. Mention must be made that for brochure after the Minister had bought
every record sold anywhere a donation one from Brig M eintjies.
will be made to the Brandwag fund..
100,000 brochures have been printed,
the selling of which has gone well since
the street selling was launched on 28th
November. The thanks of the organisers
go to the cadets and scholars of the Wit-
watersrand area for their enthusiastic
help in this. A t a formal mess held at
Brakpan on 24th November copies of TOP LEFT:
the brochure were sold by Brig. H. K. Brig H. R. Meintjies, SM, O C W its Com­
mand, se lls a copy of the brochure to
Meintjies SM, OC Wits Command, to
General R. C. Hiemstra, SSA , SM , Com­
the Commandant General, SADF, and
mandant General, SADF.
the Minister of Defence.
Phase 2 of the fund raising will be
Inunchod early in 1971.®
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60
Die Veíligheid van
ons land hang van
JOUaf

Ds Minnaar wat die toespraak gelewer

het in die middel, saam met dr A. J. van ▲
Zyl wat die bedankings gedoen het aan W
s y regterkant en ds J. F. Dreyer.

i^ E D U R E N D E ’n treffende toespraak
^ by die SAW Tegniese Instituut te
Lyttelton oor die subtiele en geslepe
manier waarop die kommuniste te werk
gaan om die Westerse beskawing te
ondermyn, het ds D. E. du T. Minnaar,
wat so pas van ’n besoek aan die Ooste
en agter die Ystergordyn teruggekeer
het, gesê dat die kommuniste sterk
aksent op twee feite lê: Wapensterkte en
indoktrinasie.
Volgens ds Minnaar lê ons slegs klem
op wapensterkte, terwyl ons ons geeste-
like weerbaarheid teen sulke alomvat- Ken jou vyand. Ons ken slegs die jou beskikking waarteen niemand be-
tende indoktrinasie, wat die veiligheid wapens waarmee hy ons aanval, maar stand is nie.
van ons land en sy toekoms bedreig, nie die geestelike krag en die swak Ds Minnaar het sy toespraak afgesluit
skandelik verwaarloos. punte in sy skanse nie. deur te beklemtoon dat ons nie die
Drie belangrike punte waaraan ons Ken jouself. Elke mens het ’n prys, kwantiteit het nie, daarom moet ons
meer aandag moet bestee, is deur ds en hy moet daarvan bewus wees. manne met kwaliteit oplei om ons teen
Minnaar genoem: Ken jou God. Geloof stel wapens tot die euwel van Kommunisme te beveilig.

New Sergeant-Major

of the Army
GT-MAJ O. 0. Snyman, PPM, recently
S became the highest ranking NCO in
the SADF when he took over as Sgt-Maj
of the Army.
A veteran of 31 years service, he is
the second man to hold this rank since
it was created in 1969.
He joined the Permanent Force in
1939, after serving for a few months
in the Special Services Battalion.
Although he did not see active service
during the war, hundreds of volunteers
passed through his hands before being
sent up North. In 1945 he was posted
to the Middle East and the following
year he was sent to an Amoured Divi­
sion Equipment Park in Italy, where he
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 LES KAY - A MAN AMONG MEN
A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE LT COL LESLEY DOVETON KAY, DSO.
KILLED IN ACTION 25 YEARS AGO
a n y people, rather mistakenly, look
M upon Gunners as having a “ soft
number” . They picture guns sited way
behind the front lines, far from danger,
and i m a g i n e shells being hurled
thousands of yards forward into enemy
positions.
Whilst this is perhaps true of heavy
and superheavy regiments, the function
of field artillery — to quote an official
handbook — is “ to provide intimate fire
support” . Today, in fact, field regiments
are more aptly described as “ close-sup-
port artillery” .
No one believed in this maxim more
than Lt Col Lesley Doveton Kay, DSO,
Officer Commanding 1/6 Field Regiment
(P A O C F A ) SAA, from 1st October, 1943,
to 21st October, 1944.
Les Kay, as he was known by all, saw
that the role of his 25 pounders in the
rapid advances of the Italian Campaign,
was to provide the closest possible sup­
port to the forward troops. He spared
neither himself nor his men to ensure
that this was done; fearless himself, he
handled the regiment boldly but with
good judgement. Invariably he sited
OP’S himself to ensure that ground was
adequately covered and many were the
instances when guns were deployed with­
in yards of the front lines.
Typical of the aggressive and spirited
support supplied by the regiment,
generated by Col Kay’s enthusiasm —
and which set the pattern for the whole
campaign, was the action North of Route
6, beyond S. di Morolo, in early June,
1944. To quote N eil Orpen: “ Only shat­
tered elements of the enemy were en­
countered during the day, and way ahead
beckoned the Eternal City of Rome. But
everywhere the Germans had demolished
whatever they could and mined the
highways and byways. Pushing slowly
forward, the regiment with recce parties
well forward with the advance infantry
platoon, dropped into action before the
leading Battalion had passed through,
whilst just ahead the Natal Mounted
Rifles captured a party of the enemy
laying mines within 200 yards of the
gun area. The guns had been deployed
w ell forward — opening ranges were
within a thousand yards — and the recce
party of 3/17 Battery had actually to
clear enemy from the gun area with
tommy guns and then remove a few
hastily laid mines.”
BY MAJ L. A. CROOK, CFA
A few days later, after moving forward
to an area just South of Bagnoregio in
the later afternoon, two batteries already
had trails on the ground when the second
of the Guards Battalions moved up
through the gun positions to protect the
Gunners’ left front. One of their machine
guns was actually sited to the left rear
of RHQ! Fire opened at only 1,900 yards
range. Between 18.15 hours and last
light no less than 20 regimental targets
had been registered.
South of Lucignano on 4th July, the
unit suddenly came under heavy enemy
fire after the N.M.R. had renewed con­
tact with the Germans. Recce parties
hurried forward to look for suitable gun
areas, and shortly afterwards the guns
were moved, coming into action again
ahead of most of the leading infantry,
with only a troop of reconnaissance
tanks and a section of Bren carriers
as protection in front of them. A ll the
tenets of the School of A rtillery at Pot-
chefstroom were thrown to the winds —
in fact had to be ignored in view of the
bad terrain, described as worse than the
Valley of a Thousand Hills, in which
fighting took place. What would the
(Continued on page 67)
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Les Kay
(Continued from page 65)
School’s instructors have said of the
move forvifard just after 06.00 hours on
16th July from a position north-west of
Castle di Brolio when the unit found
that the only infantry protection ahead
of them were two Guardsmen prodding
the road for mines! That day local pro­
tection from the OP’s was eventually
provided by men from the gun detach­
ments and from the attached Ack-Ack
unit!
Leslie Doveton Kay was born on 2nd
June, 1916, and in mid-February, 1936,
he joined the Special Service Battalion
as a private. The following month he
became a cadet in the Cadet Company,
SSB, thereafter becoming a Permanent
Force Cadet from September, 1936, to
the end of March, 1938. He was com­
missioned as Second Lieutenant (on pro­
bation) in the General Duties Branch,
SA Permanent Force, posted to the SA
Artillery for duty at the A rtillery School,
Voortrekkerhoogte, and confirmed in his
appointment as Second Lieutenant —
all on A pril 1, 1938.
For a month in mid-1939 he was acting
battery commander of 2 OVS Veldartil-
lerie, Bethlehem, and on 1st January,
1940, became a temporary lieutenant
and acting captain whilst filling a cap­
tain’s post in the Field Arm y Artillery.
By July he was an instructor at Potchef-
stroom with the rank of temporary cap­
tain, and in December was BC 18 Light
Battery and an acting major, being re­
posted early in 1941 as BC ‘A ’ Battery,
6 Field Regiment.
He left South Africa for the Middle
East on 2nd April, 1942, to take over
as Second-in-Command of 4 Field Regi­
ment, SAA in the Western Desert, and
participated in the last few months of
the Desert Campaign.
It was here that he first made contact
with part of the unit he was later to
command, when 1st Battery, CFA was
detached to 2nd SA Brigade, under com­
mand of 4 Field Regt, for a few weeks.
Back in South Africa in January, 1943,
lie was appointed temporary Lt-Col and
Officer Commanding, 6 Field Regt,
leaving fo r the desert again in April.
On 1st July he was appointed to com­
mand a “ new” Field A rtillery soon to
be formed and known as 1/6 Field Regi­
ment (PA O C F A ) SAA.
Lt Col Kay was a man with a puckish
sense of humour and delighter in the
unorthodox. Many of his officers still
remember with delight the mess evenings
at Khatatba, Egypt, when Col Kay
marched them over to a nearby Salt works
which boasted a light railway complete
with steam locomotive. The whistle
blasts as he and his officers chuffed up
and down the line echoed on many a
night through the still desert air. It was
whilst at the R A Base Depot at Almaza,
where 1/6 Fd was Depot Field regiment
fo r a month, that the CO discovered
that many of the Royal A rtillery officers
had double-barrelled surnames. Promptly
he made himself known as Lt Col Dove-
ton-Kay, to his evident amusement when
he was so introduced.
Busy as he was, warrant officers and
men were never forgotten, however, for
he always found time to slip back to
the unit and visit the Batteries, perhaps
spending a couple of hours in a gun pit
chatting with the detachment.
Officers and men regarded him with
an affection amounting almost to
reverence and would do anything he
asked. It can truly be said, however,
that he had done first what he asked
of those under him. A t Ceccano, for
instance, where 6 SA Armoured Division
first went into action, communication
between FOO’s and guns became in­
creasingly difficult. The leading infantry
was held up by enemy fire and L t Col
Kay went forward to the leading com­
pany himself organising communications
so as to ensure continuous artillery
support.
Again at Imprunetta a stretch of road
leading to the front was continually
harassed by the enemy. For two days
the German gun could not be located.
L t Col Kay was shelled when travelling
along this stretch of road but promptly
stopped his jeep and located the of­
fending weapon, silencing it with fire
from his regiment.
Due in no small measure to his
magnificent leadership, ability and un­
derstanding, the Regiment had from the
beginning shown at all times an extra­
ordinary aggressiveness, anticipation and
enterprise. During those months in
Italy, the CO was ably supported by his
second-in-command, Major Ronnie Mc-
William, who showed exceptional skill
in deploying the regiment and in select­
ing gun positions in often difficult
country.
When the Division advanced on two
roads from June until the capture of
Florence in the first week of August,
central control of artillery was not al­
ways possible. In addition to his normal
duties as Direct Support regimental
commander at 12 SA Motorised Infantry
Brigade HQ., L t Col Kay as CRA’s repre-
sensative, had the additional responosi-
bility of co-ordinating the fire support
of the medium regiment as well. The
task was carried out with efficiency and
exactitude, reflecting outstanding loyalty
and conscientious devotion to duty.
Sadly, he was not to reap the fruits
of victory. On 21 October whilst he was
busy organising and co-ordinating what
was to be the most impressive South
African Artillery concentration of the
war, a shell burst outside the window
of the farmhouse room in which he was
working. Splinters struck and mortally
wounded him and he died later in the
day at a field hospital. The Survey
officer. Captain Les Elliott, was also
wounded in the head but fortunately not
too seriously. Bombardier Rupert Hurly,
a Survey NCO who was also in the room
at the time, was untouched.
Ironically, the farmhouse, which served
as 12 Brigade HQ, and which stood in
the fields behind Stanco, was not shelled
in all the time it was so used except
by an airburst followed almost imme­
diately by the shell which caused the
death of L t Col Kay at the age of only 28.
News of his death was received by
a saddened regiment at 5 o’clock that
afternoon. No regiment could have asked
for a better commander.
The enemy guns responsible had for­
tunately been located and at 11,30 hours
on 23rd October they were subjected to
a regimental concentration of 240 rounds
in what all ranks regarded as a last
salute to their Commanding Officer who
was being buried at Galluzo, a few miles
South of Florence. His death was all
the sadder for the fact that he died with­
out knowing that he had been awarded
the DSO, news of which only reached
the regiment after his death.
Later re-interred, he rests today among
other South Africans in the well-tended
military cemetery of Roccezano Girone,
oast of Florence. #
Loot die wiele rol
(V e rv o lg va n b ia d s y 6 3 )
waardeer. Miskien sal hy dan ook meer
besef hoe belangrik hy regtig is en hoe
lewensbelangrik dit is dat hy, en sy
voertuig, gedurig (in vrede sowel as tyd
van nood) slaggereed moet wees.
Die vervoerseksie van die Lugafweer
te Youngsfield staan vir min eenhede in
die Weermag terug. Administratief sowel
as in die praktiese onderhoud, opleiding
en alles te make met vervoer hoef ons
nie bang te wees vir kompetisie nie. Ons
is nie volmaak nie. Ons tekortkominge
besef ons, maar daagliks probeer ons
verbeter en voorkom ons die herhaling
van foute. By ons bly vervoer en die be-
langrikheid daarvan in hierdie moderne
eeu ons eerste en grootste beliing.
Ten tye van die skrywe van hierdie
artikel is ’n totaal van 66,408 myl afgelê
sonder dat ’n ongeluk begaan is.
Die totale mylafstand afgelê vir die
jaar 1970 kom te staan op 166,773 myl.
’n Prestasie weereens, veral as in aan-
merking geneem word dat die elements;
in die Kaapse winter die bestuur van n
voertuig op besige paaie me ’n makiike
laaK maak nie.
Om die lewe meer kleur te gee en om
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voertuigparke meer aantreklik te maak
plant ons blomme, bou rotstuine en selfs
Ó ton palmbonie. Ons is nie net trots op
ons vervoer nie, maar ook op ons voer-
tuigpark. „Alta Pete” is en bly ons
leuse 9
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INSPEKTORAAT
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têre O en M-offisier en (}it maak hom ook
meer aanvaarbaar as hy by eenhede van
sy eie of dié van ’n vervsfante korps ’n
projek waarneem. Om dié rede geniet
Leërlede ook die vergunning om die
kenteken te dra van die korps vs^aarin
hulle laas gedien het; alhoev?el hulle as
vakkundiges in werklikheid lede van
die AD K is.
Benevpens hulle vakkundige en diens-
kvsralifikasies, is bykans die helfte van
die huidige staf graduandi en studeer
etlikes tans verder.
WAT/WAAR
Wat doen die Verdedigingsinspektoraat
en v?aar doen hy dit?
Die doel van die V I is die bevorde-
ring van doeltreffendheid in die SAW.
Deur die toepassing van werkstudie, het
die V I die SAW net in die afgelope jaar
R1.25 miljoen bespaar. Sodanige bespa-
ring v?ord egter net as ’n byproduk van
verhoogde doeltreffendheid gesien en
beslis nie as die einddoel nie. ’n Ken-
merkende voorbeeld is die vormbeheer-
projek. Voor aanvang van die projek was
daar byna 3,000 geregistreerde vorms in
die SAW. Na afloop van die ondersoek, is
die getal met meer as twee derdes ver-
minder na ongeveer 800. Dit het ’n ge-
paardgaande besparing in bergingsruim-
te en ’n doeltreffender benutting van
die oorblywende vorms tot gevolg gehad.
In sommige gevalle het die herontwerp
van net een vorm die uitstakeling van
tot tien verwante vorms teweeggebring.
Na afloop van ’n ander ondersoek, dié
na die voertuiglogboekstelsel, is die nuwe
rigmagtigingstelsel van vervoerbeheer in-
gestel. Laasgenoemde stelsel het ’n kon-
serwatief berekende jaarlikse besparing
van R50,000 tot gevolg gehad.
Tans werk die V I saam met ’n mede-
direktoraat, Elektroniese Dataverwer-
king (E D V ), aan die rekenoutomatisering
van die verrekening van voorrade in
die SAW. Dit is ’n omvangryke taak
wat, na beraming, nog ’n paar jaar in
beslag sal neem.
Die omvang en aard van die projek-
te wat deur die V I behartig word, is
velerlei en uiteenlopend en kan vanself-
sprekend nie binne die bestek van ’n
enkele artikel bevredigend behandel
word nie. Kortliks sluit hulle in die outo-
matisering van burgermagsoldy, vereen-
voudiging van diensplipproepmetodes,
vaarbelyning van werkwinkelprosesdures
in die Leër en Lugmag en verbetering
van die Vloot se bevoorradingsprosedure
vir die tipe-12-fregatte. Op die lewensbe-
langrike gebied van lugverdediging, het
’n ondersoek deur die lugverdedigings-
deskundige van die V I ’n tydsverbete-
ring van meer as die helfte bewerkstellig
by die opstel van ’n mobiele radarstasie.
Wat hierdie bydrae in terme van ver­
hoogde weerbaarheid vir ons land inhou,
word aan u eie verbeelding oorgelaat!
HOE/WANNEER
Hoe en wanneer bevorder die Verde­
digingsinspektoraat doeltreffendheid in
die SAW?
Doeltreffendheid beteken dat persone
in die uitvoering van hulle werk die
beste gebruik maak van alle middele
tot hulle beskikking en dat vir sover
dit gehalte en hoeveelheid betref, die
resultate van hulle pogings aanneemlik
is. Dit beteken verder dat die regte
ding, op die regte manier, deur die
regte persoon, op die regte plek en in die
regte tyd gedoen word. Om hierdie doel-
stellings te kan bereik, word die tegniek
van werkstudie, onder andere deur die
V I aangewend.
Werkstudie is, soos die woord aandui,
’n studie van werk in die wydste sin van
die woord. Dit is die georganiseerde
toepassing van gesonde verstand om een-
voudiger en beter metodes van werk te
vind en om deur middel van meting, ’n
behoorlike en billike tyd vir die verrig-
ting van ’n bepaalde taak vas te stel.
Die fundamentele doel is om die opti-
male gebruik te verseker van die ma-
teriaal en mannekrag tot die beskikking
van ’n organisasie vir die verrigting van
die taak waarmee dit belas is.
Daar moet egter beklemtoon word dat
werkstudie op sigself nie ’n doel is nie,
maar slegs ’n middel tot ’n doel. Werk­
studie vervang ook nie die ander tegnieke
wat ontwerp is om produktiwiteit en
doeltreffendheid te verhoog nie en is
ook nie belangriker as, bv. wetenskap-
like opleiding, aanlegtoetse, goeie toesig-
houding of aansporingstelsels nie.
Alhoewel die tegnieke van werkstudie
hulle oorsprong in die nywerheid het,
is die beginsels algemeen en ewe toe-
paslik op alle terreine waar menslike in-
spanning vir die produksie van goedere
o f dienste aangewend word. Hulle kan en
is ook met sukses toegepas op fabrieke,
pakhuise, hospitale, plase, weermagte,
die huis, banke en kantore. Op ny-
werheidsgebied mag die hoofdoel wel die
produksie van een of ander verbruiks-
artikel wees wat aan ’n voorafbepaalde
standaard moet voldoen. Op die gebied
van administrasie en operasies is die
produkte verskillend, maar nie minder
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antwoordelik vir die produksie van re-
kords, rekeninge, briewe, verslae, oe-
feninge, ens, wat ook aan vasgestelde
standaarde moet voldoen. Net soos in die
nywerheid, kan die metodes van produk­
sie wat betrokke is by die uitvoering van
die laasgenoemde weermagspligte ont-
leed, verbeter en gemeet word. Met in-
agneming van hierdie analogie is dit
duidelik dat daar groot geleenthede vir
die toepassing van werkstudietegnieke
in alle vertakkings van die SAW bestaan.
Dit is belangrik om te weet dat die
benadering in werkstudie positief is, om-
dat dit nie in die dissiplinêre sin kri-
ties staan teenoor werkprestasies en me­
todes nie, en ook omdat dit nie die doel
is om blaam op persone of organisasies
te plaas nie. Werkstudie is objektief in
die sin dat dit eerder ’n studie van die
betrokke werk vereis as van die per­
soon wat die taak verrig — daar is geen
partydigheid, vooroordeel of guns nie
en geen gevolgtrekkings word gemaak
anders as deur middel van die ontle-
ding van feite nie. Werkstudie en die
toepassing daarvan beoog nie groter in-
spanning deur die personeel nie. Soos
Harrington Emerson eenkeer gesê het:
„Efficiency does not consist in extreme
effort, but in the elimination of undesir­
able effort and waste of all kinds.” Die
benadering in werkstudie stem ooreen
met dié in ’n wetenskap in die benade-
ling van feite; die ontleding en sintese;
die ondersoek na die ware oorsaak en
gevolg; en die mening van meetbare
faktore.
WIE
W ie verseker die welslae van die Ver­
dedigingsinspektoraat se pogings om die
SAW se doeltreffendheid te verhoog?
As gevolg van die invloed van die
menslike element op die toepassing en
die resultate van werkstudie kan dit eg­
ter nie as ’n suiwer wetenskap beskou
word nie. Mense reageer nie op dieself-
de wyse as masjiene nie en die simpatieë
en antipatieë van die manne en vroue
wat die werk doen, asook dié van die toe-
sighouers, moet deurgaans in oorweging
geneem word by die toepassing van
werkstudie. Die heel beste organisasie,
die eenvoudigste metodes en die mo-
demste toerusting kan nie iets voort-
bring tensy die personeel in die orga­
nisasie begerig is om saam te werk nie.
Dit is normaal vir mense om ’n
hekel aan werkstudie te hê sodra dit
op hulle eie werk toegepas word en
weerstand teen die toepassing daarvan
kan dan altyd verwag word. Daar is ver-
skeie redes vir hierdie wrewel en ’n uit-
eensetting daarvan mag moontlik daar-
toe bydra dat weerstand uit die weg ge-
ruim word. Sommige van die redes is
soos volg;
Die instinktiewe vrees vir die onbe-
kende. Die vrees vir die onbekende is
oorwegend by alle lewende wesens en
dit staan in nou verband met selfbe-
houd. Alhoewel die onbekende ’n uitda-
ging aan die avontuurlustige bied, Sc>
die onderliggende gevoel van vrees of
onsekerheid steeds teenwoordig wees.
Vrees vir die onbekende blyk duidelik
uit die gebrek aan vertroue, wat veral
opmerklik is by die ouer geslag ten op-
sigte van, byvoorbeeld die vliegtuig, of ’n
(Vervolg op bladsy 76)
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69
MEDALJEPARADE
OP KRUGERSDORP
Film of the Month
(Continued from page 55)
— the only set which was built on loca­
tion was a Pioneer Fort, modelled from
an old photograph lent by die Rhodesian
Archives. Some 700 costumes were made,
including the costumes for the Matabele,
an authentic Maxim gun constructed
and nearly 650 assegais and shields built
for the film.
The entire cast and crew were housed
on location by a Rhodesian family, the
Rosenfels, who put three of their
300,000 acre farms at the disposal of
the unit.
“ Between the Rosenfels and the un­
stinting co-operation of the Rhodesian
Government, we were treated to incred­
ible hospitality,” comments Mr. David
Millin. “ The Rhodesian Government
spent four months recruiting the 600
Matabele, and the Rosenfels family, aside
from feeding us like kings, even erected
a restaurant and pub in the middle of
the bush.” • DIE GOEIE INSTRUKTEUR
Opleldlng
(V ervolg van bladsy 23)
die gloeilamp vervang indien hy ’n pro-
bleem ondervind gedurende sy lesing?
Bo en behalwe dit moet hy ook oor die
buitengewone gawe beskik om homself
te kan ontleed, kritiseer en verbeter.
A1 sou ons ook oor al hierdie eien-
skappe beskik sal ons as instrukteur
faal indien ons die student nie met en-
toesiasme kan besiel nie. Entoesiasme
moet deur die instrukteur ,,gebruik”
PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970
70
word, veral daar so veel van die diens-
pligtiges nie die doel in hul opleiding
kan sien nie.
Opleidingspersoneel moet gedurig op
die uitkyk wees vir nuwe tegnieke,
idees en die toepassing daarvan; hulle
nuei oplet na enige onbevredigende
toestande wat deur opleiding verbeter
kan word; kursusse van buite-instansies
en ander Staatsdepartemente bestudeer
en waardeer; opleidingsprogramme ge­
durig aanpas by veranderde toestande
en behoeftes; uitslae van kursusse eva-
lueer.
Ons moet besef dat opleiding leef en
dag na dag verander; ONS MOET LEEF
E N VERANDER — ontwikkel idees en
verbeter tegnieke. Wees goed voorbereid;
en oefen elke lesing of demonstrasie
voordat ciit aangebied word, ’n Instruk­
teur is so korrek met sy voorbereiding
soos ’n akteur in sy spel voor die kame-
ras. As mens kan ons nie perfek wees in
ons optrede nie, maar ons kan tog pro­
beer.
Hy is die een tussen die baie wat elke
lesing perfek oordra nadat dit behoorlik
beplan is. Hy sal toesien dat elke lesing
in sy doel slaag. Die onderwerp sal die
metode sowel as die plek van aanbieding
bepaal. Sy hulpmiddels sal gereed wees
vir gebruik en daar sal plek wees
vir elke student. Wanneer films gebruik
word sal hy die projektor voor gebruik
nagaan en die film die vorige dag reeds
voorvertoon, H y sal onthou dat die klank
in ’n lee vertoonkamer effens harder as
normaal moet wees en die versterker 5
tot 10 minute voor die tyd aanskakel.
Die besondere persoon sal bewapen wees
met ’n flitslig en skroewedraaier, ’n ek-
stra gloeilamp en ’n doek om die gloei­
lamp mee te hanteer.
Sy lesingmateriaal sal gereed wees
vir uithandiging — die regte hoeveel-
heid en in die regte volgorde. Voor die
lesing sal ons die groot verskil opmerk
— ons sal hom in ’n stoel aantref, ont-
spanne, gereed, voorbereid en SELF-
VERSEKERD.
Met die aankoms van die studente by
die „lesinglokaal” sal hy almal groet,
plekke aanwys indien nodig en BETYDS
BEGIN. Die professionele persoon skep
’n indruk van kalmte en beheersdheid.
Hy neem ’n gemaklike posisie in, glim-
lag en laat sy oë oor die studente dwaal
voordat hy begin om te praat — duide-
lik en effektief.
Bo en behalwe hierdie paar punte sal
die goeie instrukteur altyd na sy gehoor
kyk en vir hulle kyk maar nooit deur
hulle nie. Hy behou gedurige „oog-kon-
tak” . Sy spraak is opgewek en duidelik;
hy praat met ’n oop mond en vermy die
woordjies — ek, my — hy gee krediet
aan ander. Sy idees klink nie na sy eie
ondervinding nie. Die kort oomblik stilte
nou en dan word benut om ’n stelling
te benadruk, of om die student se aan-
dag op lets te vestig. Spraaktempo, be-
klemtoning en stemhoogte word afgewis-
sel. Sy lesings eindig op ’n hoë noot en
hy gebruik nooit die term; ,,dit sal al
wees” nie.
Die instrukteur is 'n spesiale persoon
in die SAW. Hy is verantwoordelik vir
die slaggereedheid van ons soldate. Dit
is hy wat ander moet besiel met ’n wil
om te veg en om ander voor te berei
vir ’n nuwe toekoms — ’n nuwe lewe.
Is u die term INSTRU KTEU R waardig?
Indien wel — is u instruksie die moeite
werd? •
fy d e n s ’n medaljeparade van Kommandogroep 17 op Krugers-
dorp het genl-maj G. D. Moodte, SM, die De Wet-dekorasie
aan nege persone oorhandig. Op die foto bo verskyn vlnr
genl-maj G. D. Moodie, SM , kmdt E. S. van Zyl (Krugersdorp-
kommando), kmdt D. J. Burger (De Deur-kommando), kmdt
42 ÁOP
(Continued from page 45)
Guest, E. A. Cox, Maartens and J. L. van
der Merwe. They contacted neighbour­
ing British AOP flights for initial train­
ing and, using gridded maps, flew recce
sorties over the divisional front, to ac­
quaint themselves with the zones on
which they might be required to ob­
serve a shoot. About A pril 15th we be­
came operational and capable of fulfil­
ling our role in the division.
It looked then, having regard to the
terrain through which we were about to
advance — narrow valley and mountains
— very much as if our air observations
would be limited to sending up a single
aircraft at a time, to observe and direct
a single shoot. I f the (livision’s advance
continued rapidly, it would soon leave
the mountainous country of central Italy,
to enter the broad, flat PO valley, where
all the division’s armour would be de­
ployed on a wider front. I had realised
that this would involve sending up seve­
ral Austers at a time, both to direct our
artillery fire and to help our armour,
had we met German opposition, but
German resistance had almost ceased
to exist by the time we reached San Gio­
vanni, a landing strip south of BOLOG­
NA, from which we were to operate. In­
cidentally, this is where the flight’s per­
sonnel had the opportunity to see a shot-
down enemy aircraft within a few hun­
dred yards of our landing strip. A Ger­
man Jv 87 had fallen victim to South
African A A fire. Both occupants, clearly
visible amid the wreckage, were dead.
It struck me as odd to see that they
were wearing ordinary army marching
boots instead of the usual air force
fleece lined boots. Could this be a sign
of the times?!
J. A. Smith (Delmas-kommando), t/kmdt E. H. Gouws (Wesrand-
kommando), maj J. C . O. de Villiers (Springs-kommando), maj
F Bouwer (Vanderbijlpark-kommando), maj P. A. Hattingh
(Vanderbi)lpark-kommando), maj S. A. de Leeuw (Wesrand-
kommando) en It H. B. van der Walt (Vanderbijlpark-kommando)
As we started our advance with the
division, I had the most interesting duty
o f attending briefings and of being given
the “ task of the day” . These briefings
were at divisional level and generally
took place at some point convenient to
the British 8th and the US 5th armies.
A ll units of the British and. DS armies
and the SA division to be involved sent
liaison officers. W e had to make an early
start with our jeeps and our map boards,
etc, to reach our rendezvous point on
time, as all south-to-north roads had be­
come completely congested, and US mih-
tary police on traffic duty had no idea
of the meaning of the priority
signs painted on our vehicles.
Before the attack, which developed in­
to the rout of the enemy from his de­
fences north of CASTIGLIONE, in­
cluding MT VIGESE, PO INT 826, MT
SOLE, MT C A PR AR A and MT ABELLE,
in which the 6th SA division was so to
distinguish itself, 42 AOP flight had
little opportunity to prove its worth,
though our constant Auster cover sorties
may have discouraged the enemy’s shell
and mortar fire. Certain it is that A A
fire, which plagued our fighter aircraft
during sorties, was absent when our
Austers were airborne. They dared not
shoot, as any slight puff of smoke would
have given away their position to these
low-flying aircraft and brought imme-
cliate reprisals.
On the 19th A pril it became essential
for the flight to occupy a landing strip
on the west side of the SETTA valley,
near GRIZZANA. As the advance gained
impetus, the enemy began to show more
movement, enabling pilots to see and
report on their increased activity. With
the speed of the enemy withdrawal, the
difficulty in locating new advanced land­
ing grounds made itself felt until the
flight left the mountainous areas south
of BOLOGNA. It is interesting to note
that several good landing strips, some
under construction, had to be by-passed
owing to the speed of the pursuit. The
end of A pril marked the conclusion of
NO 42 AOP S AA F’s effective participa­
tion in the chase and of the Italian cam­
paign, as far as we were concerned,
much to the chagrin of the late Major-
General W. H. Evered Poole, CB, DSO
commanding the division, who was se­
cretly eager to pursue the Germans
with his armour right into their home­
land, via Austria, either through the
BRENNER PASS or through UNDINE
and KLAGENFURT, as these routes were
now very near.
This concludes the account of how 42
AOP flight became the “ eyes” of the
6th Armoured Division.
On May 3rd the flight moved via TRE­
VISO and VERONA to M IL A N airport,
where it was to remain while the Divi­
sion was in this sector. In the meantime
I had been posted to advanced HQ SAAF
and left all my new friends with the
greatest regret.
The 6th Armoured Division, with 42
AOP flight, remained in the M ILA N
area until the beginning of June, when
they were moved to the L A K E MAG-
GIORE AREA, and it was there that the
flight was wound up in August, 1945.
Here are a few sidelines that may be
of interest:
German Flag.
One of these was foun^ at Milan
aerodrome, previously in German occu­
pation. I asked all the officers of the
(Continued on page 74)
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71
 ^Ons out|ie
is opgeroep.
En ons is trots daarop.
Want die leër stel hoë eise aan enige
m otor wat hy i<oop.
Dit meet kragtig en taai wees.
Ekonomies en makliií om in stand te
hou.
Suinig met petrol en kwistig met myle.
En nie te duur om aan te skaf nie.
Ons is bly om te kan sê dat Volks­
wagen aan al hierdie vereistes voldoen.
Ons flukse 1500-enjin sien kans vir
enigiets w at die harde militêre lewe kan
opdis.
En dit is goeie nuus vir alle moontlike
Volkswagen-kopers.
W ant as die leër ons grootman nie kan
onderkry nie, sal u dit nog minder regkry.

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Studente Besoek Grensposte
deiur C. A. Roode
was ’n baie opgewonde 47 mans en dames van die Die entoesiasme van die gehoor het sake soms ingewik-
Normaalkollege se voortrekkerkommando wat die bus keld gemaak op die verhoog. Die program het egter goed
na Waterklooflughawe volgepak het onder die vrolike sing gevlot en byval gevind.
van , Na die aand se program het almal gesellig verkeer. Plat-
„AUes kom uit kiste voetjie was die aangenaamste vermaak waaraan almal, offi-
net die terroriste nie ... ” siere inkluis, deelgeneem het.
P ille teen lugsiek was ruim ’n halfuur voor die tyd reeds ge- Die afskeid het sommige asters swaar geval.
sluk. V ir menigeen was dit die eerste ervaring van vliegtuig Die volgende mikpunt was nog ’n grenspos. Dit was ’n
ry. Die papiersakke is vroegtydig gereed gehou, maar daar belewenis om so laag oor die vallei te vlieg. Die vliegtuig
was gelukkig geen nocjigheid voor n,ie, het bietjie stamperig gery en hierdie keer het party bietjie
Eindelik was ons regtig op pad na ons bestemming „ie- meer groenerig gevoel.
wers op die grens” .
Elkeen het ’n beurt gekry om voor in die stuurkajuit na (vervolg op Wadsy 75)
al die metertjies, wystertjies, hefboompies, knoppies en talle
ander goedjies wat die vlieënier alles moet dophou en beheer,
te gaan kyk en te bewonder.
Die „alle gordels vas” -liggies het verskyn. Ons was daar!
Buite wag ’n kring vriendelike manne ons in. Die ver-
welkoming was Iiartlik en ons was sommer tuis. Dit het eers
skaam-skaam, versigtig betragtend, almal-baie-op-hulle-plek
gegaan. Die dames het skelmpies geloer, die Weermagmanne
het gekyk en gekyk. Soveel mooi asters en dit hier ver op die
grens!
’n Heerlike, keurige ete, mooi gedekte tafels, mooi ver-
sorgde spyskaart en netjiese, vriendelike jong manne wat
ons bedien. Alles so fyn en elegant. Ons het beslis die ete
geniet.
Haai ou’s dit was bak!
Vir die eerste keer in ons dames se lewens bestyg ons
die hoe cop vragmotors van die Weermag. Stof en wind kon
die geesdrif nie demp nie. Waarskuwings om die stemme te
spaar vir die aand se konsert het op dowe ore geval.
Effens teleurgesteld omdat ons nie in tente slaap nie,
maar ook bly oor die gerief van onderdak, beddens en bad,
het ons die nuwe, ongebruikte slaapkwartiere, bedoel vir die
verpleegsters van die hospitaal, betrek. Ons het weelderig ge-
slaap.
Dit was ’n interessante middag. Die voortrekkeroffi-
siere, wat in die BBP-motor gery het, is deur die bevelvoe-
rende offisier en sy vrou onthaal. Die res van die geselskap
het, sommige met die oë, ander met klinkende munt, hulle
verryk met allerlei snuisterye wat die inboorlinge vervaardig.
Gewapen met tromme, lepels, visse, voëls, maskers, kieries
en boeldjies van hout het die groep afgesit na die rivier toe.
Die pont was daar, maar alles tevergeefs; geen verlof om oor
die rivier te gaan nie. ’n Paspoort is hiervoor nodig, want
oorkant die rivier is dit andermansgrond.
Terug in die kamp was die koeldrank verfrissend. Maar
nog meer verfrissend was die jeugdige jolige klompie dames
wat vrolik man vir man hul singende kring binnetrek.
Die streng stem van die offisier klink meteens op: „A1
die manskappe moet dadelik gaan eet.” Geen reaksie; wie is
nou honger vir kos? Die „honger van die hart en oë” was
groter.
Die aand was opwindend en verrassend. Wie sou ooit kon
droom dat een van ons voortrekkerdamesoffisiere kaplaks die
kolonel op die vcrhoog sou soen? Dit was darem haar ver- Die pont w as daar maar ons kon nie oorgaan nie, w ant ander-
jaardag. kant die rivier is andermansiand.

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Díensplíg
(Vervolg van bl. 35)
voegdheid oorskry en ’n ander se gebied
probeer annekseer —
P R IN S IP IE E L IS A L B E I GEVALLE
IDENTIES.
Teen die skending van die gereg binne
die grense, waak die Polisie en die Jus-
tisie.
Teen die skending van buite, v/aak die prys te gee, ’n oorlog met sy verskriklike
Vloot, die Leër en die Lugmag. W ie kon-
sekwent is en beswaar maak teen mili-
têre diens, moet dit eweseer teen die
Polisiediens maak, want in albei gevalle
keer die Owerheid die swaard teen die
oortreder.
Vry algemeen word deur almal toege-
stem dat die Owerheid die plig het om
huis en haard en die lewe van die burge-
ry deur die sterke arm van die Polisie
te beskerm. Hoe is dit moontlik om dan
nie in te sien dat die owerheid hierdie
plig ook sou he ten opsigte van die volks-
lewe en die volksbesit nie?
Die regsorde van God gaan tog seker-
lik nie slags oor die individu alleen nie.
Daar is ook Goddelike ordinansies oor die
volkslewe: Paulus het op die Areopagus
te Athene gesê dat God uit een bloed al
die nasies van die mensdom gemaak
het om oor die hale aarde te woon . . .
en terstond laat hy daarop volg:
„terwyl Hy vooraf bepaalde tye en die
grense van hulle woonplek vasgestel
het.” (Hand. 17; 26.)
Elke nasie het ’n land wat God vir
Horn bestem het en wat vir hulle dan
ook onder God se leiding ten deel geval
het. V ir elke volk geld die belofte wat
in die Tien Gebooie vir Israel uitgedruk
is: DIE LA N D W A T DIE HERE JOU
GOD A A N JOU GEE!
In hierdie land wat God aan hom gee,
moet elke volk homself in vryheid en
selfstandigheid kan ontwikkel. Want elke
volk het besondere talente en begaafd-
hede. Hierdie talente mag in hulle ont-
plooiing nie deur vreemde oorheersing
belemmer word nie.
Volgens God se wêreldplan, of volgens
Sy Raadsbeskikking, moet elke volk ten
voile uitgroei, sodat elke volk op hierdie
wyse ’n bydrae kan lewer vir die toe-
komstige eeu van die nuwe aarde wan-
neer God Sy eer moet ontvang van alle
nasies, alle geslagte en alle tale. Elke
volk het in sy ontwikkeling ’n enkele
noot om te skryf op die musiekblad van
die eeue. En wanneer hierdie komposi-
sie, deur die samewerking van alle vol-
kere van die aarde voltooi is, word dit
met die wederkoms ’n lofpsalm of himne
tot Sy eer.
DIT IS DIE REGSORDE V A N GOD IN
HIERDIE WÊRELD!
Met ystere noodsaaklikheid volg dan
hieruit dat, wanneer die regsorde be-
dreig word deur ’n vreemde of vyandige
mag, wat ons land van sy godgegewe vry­
heid w il beroof en daarmee teen die
PARATUS • DESEMBER 1970
74
Raadsbeskikking van God ingaan, DIE
OWERHEID V ERPLIG IS OM HIERDIE
SKENDING TE VOORKOM OF TE VER-
YDEL. Daartoe het God hom die swaard
in die hand gegee. Die Swaard neem vir
die landsverclediging dan by ons die vorm
aan van die Weermag: die Leër, die
Vloot en die Lugmag.
Natuurlik sal ’n owerheid wat hom
van sy diepe verantwoordelikheid be-
wus is, alles in sy vermoë doen om,
sonder om die nasionale waardigheid
ellende te vermy. Indien dit egter nie
moontlik blyk nie, is hy VERPLIG om
die land en sy vryheid met wapens in
die vuis te verdedig OMDAT D IT ERF-
GOED IS W A T H ULLE V A N GOD IN
PAND GEKRY H ET EN WAARVOOR
HULLE SWARE VERANTWOORDELIK-
HEDE DRA.
En juis omdat dit die plig van die
owerheid is, het hy die REG om die
landsburgers op die roep vir die be-
skerming van hulle kosbaarste besit.
Hierin het die owerheid geen beny-
denswaardige taak nie. M AAR H Y MOET
OPSTAAN TEE N ELKE SKENDING
V A N DIE GODDELIKE REGSORDE
MET BETREKKING TOT DIE VOLKS­
LEWE.
’n Skeepskaptein wat sy skip laat oor-
rompel deur seerowers sonder om ’n vin-
ger te verroer, word nie alleen in oneer
van sy amp onthef nie, maar ontvang ’n
sware en regverdige straf. En indien die
owerheid die skip van die staat op dié
manier in die hande van sy vyande laat
val, sou hy onmiddellik van sy verant-
woordelike amp onthef moet word en
die geskiedenis sal ’n verskriklike oordeel
oor hulle vel wat hulle name vir ewig
aan die skandpaal sal spyker.
Dit is natuurlik nie altyd ’n uitge-
maakte saak of ’n oorlog ter handhawing
van die Goddelike reg van die volk uit-
gevoer word nie. Dit het te dikwels in
die geskiedenis gebeur dat dit nie s6
was nie. Maar in ons Vaderland dink die
owerheid beslis nie daaraan om met ’n
moondheid in die strydperk te tree ter
wille van territoriale of politieke of eko-
nomiese voordeel nie. Dit gaan hier ter
lande eenvoudig om die afweer van ’n
ongeregverdigde aanslag op ons land en
ons vryheid — GODGEGEWE ERFENIS-
SE!
Uit hierdie oogpunt moet die opleiding
van ons Jeug tot militêre weerbaarheid
gesien word en moet elke OUER en elke
JONG M AN dit as ’n eer en ’n voorreg
beskou om daaraan deel te hê. En dit is
die plig en voorreg van elkeen van ons
om te bid vir die persone wat ons Jeug
hiertoe oplei; om te bid vir ons kweke-
linge; en om te bid dat die Almagtige
God ons sal bewaar van oorlog. En hier­
in meet ons op God alleen vertrou:
„SODAT DIE ERW E V A N ONS VA-
DERS V IR DIE KINDERS ERWE
ELY; KNEGTE V A N DIE ALLER-
HOOGSTE, TE E N DIE HELE WÊ-
RELD V R Y.”#
42 AOP
(Continued from page 71)
flight to sign and date it in indelible
ink, to preserve it as a memento, to be
given to the SA War Museum, when that
should be established. Unfortunately, I
had not noticed that it was made of a
wool-type material and when, two years
after my return to the Union, I went to
unfold it, it had become a sieve. The
moth had had this souvenir, not the
museum!
US Officers at Milan Aerodrome.
One day, when I was duty officer at
the aerodrome, the phone rang and I
was informed that two Dakota plane loads
of V IP American officers would land
that afternoon. Could we lodge and feed
them, or, alternatively, make arrange­
ments fo r their accommodation? I
explained that we were only a very
small unit in temporary occupation of
the aerodrome, and that all we could
do was to put up from four to six o ffi­
cers. I “ passed the buck” to the Town
Major’s office in Milan. The planes ar­
rived late in the afternoon. W e kept the
few that were to be billeted in our mess
and sent the remainder off to Milan.
There was something very strange about
those officers: First of all, they all had
the rank of Major, or above. Secondly,
they did not look like any officers that
we had previously seen, though they
were dressed in brand-new American bat­
tle dress with insignia of rank. Their
pale faces seemed strange, and even
stranger was the total absence of rows
of medal ribbons; only one or two
sported the odd decoration. Further,
none of them would talk after deplaning.
They would not say whence they had
come or to what unit they belonged.
Eventually our South African hospitality
in the mess, and especially our “ ISH” ,
South African issue brandy o f which we
fortunately happened to have a good
supply at the time, did the trick. When
after several tots, both before and after
supper, they did talk, what they had to
say nearly knocked us flat! These “ offi­
cers” were all disguised civilians, the
heads or senior members of various US
state departments, who were doing a sur­
vey of all allied fronts in Europe, to
gather information on logistics and to
see that stock of ammunition and other
war materials was still left after the
“ cease fire ” . When we asked why this
was taking place then, only a week or so
after “ V E ” (Victory Europe) day, came
the answer: “ My son, this is being done
in case we have to have a smack at the
. . . soon” ! We could not believe our ears,
and I leave you to guess which o f our
allies they were talking about! #
D» wos bak!
(vervolg van bladsy 73)

Ons bestemming was vir ons ’n groot verrassing. Ons

het in tente in die kamp geslaap, wonderlik! Alles was so
mooi ingerig dat ons baie welkom gevoel het. Ons gashere
het dan ook alles in hulle vermoë gedoen om ons tuis te laat
voel.
Ons het die voorreg gehad om hulle kombuis te besig-
tig. Dit is ’n agtermekaar plek. Die manne wat vir die kos-
voorbereiding verantwoordelik is, kan baie trots op hul kos-
kook en broodbak wees. Die etes was elke keer iets beson-
ders, veral die heerlike, tuisgebakte warm brode. Die braai-
vleis was sappig en geurig, om nie van Sondagmiddag
se hoendervleis te praat nie!
Die atmosfeer in hierdie kamp was streng militêr. Wat
ons besonder opgeval het, was die paraatheid van die kamp.
Alles is oombliklik in gereedheid. Dit laat mens onwillekeu-
I , ' ^
rig koud om die hart word om te dink dat ons so salig onbe-
wus van die harde werklikheid op ons grense dag vir dag 'n Groepie van die dames by een van die Landrovers.
leef.
Ons almal en veral die dames, het veral ons ernstige items besonder op- een van ons ’n innige belewenis. Die
baie diep onder die indruk gekom van bouend en aangrypend gevind. paar dames het die erediens mooi afge-
die groot verantwoordelikheid wat daar Elkeen wat opgetree het, het ook sy rond met hul sang.
op ons SA Weermak rus om ons binne- beste gelewer. Dit was dan ook met ’n ge­ Die afskeid was maar swaar.
landse veiligheid te beskerm teen vyan- voel van trots wat almal die volkslied ’n Paar myl van die lughawe af jaag
dige indringing van buite. Ons was be­ aan die einde gesing het. die voorste landrovers meteens by ons
sonder aangegryp deur die hele gees In beide kampe is die kanselbybels verby, terug kamp toe. Wat nou? Elk­
van miiitêre gereedheid. met baie opregte waardering ontvang. een se brein het vrugbaar begin werk
Bewus van die dreigende gevare, was Ons het ’n wilde rit na die brulsand en party word hoendervleis oor hul eie
dit vanselfsprekend dat die getrrr in of skreesand onderneem. Die paadjie gedagtes. Met groot oë en kloppende
tannie Ita se tas ’n tydbom moes wees. vleg sanderig en vol kort draaie tussen harte word navraag gedoen. Waar? Wan-
„Haai mense, dis ’n tydbom!” die bosse deur. Die bestuurders ry met neer? Hoeveel?
Die tas word versigtig genader en van verbasende spoed en die leuse was vas- Glo dit as u wil; die vliegtuig het ’n
’n redelik veilige afstand word die arm klou, koes en uithou. Langs die rivier lê pap wiel gehad.
ver uitgetrek om ’n kledingstuk uit te die pragtige wit duine. As mens daarop Heerlike gedagte! Nou kon ons meer
lig. Trrrrrr, klink dit uit die tas. Die loop maak dit sulke skreegeluide. Na ’n geniet van die kamp se gasvryheid. Die
kledingstuk word vinnig gelos. „A g tan­ lang ent se worsteling deur die fyn sand middagete wat blitsig voorberei is, was
nie, dis die wekker wat afgaan” stel swem die manne lekker in die rivier ter- goed genoeg vir ’n koning en ons het ko-
almal gerus. „Maar ek het geen wekker wyl die dames langoog toekyk. Die te- ninklik geëet.
saamgebring nie!” rugreis was net so dol en vaal van die Ons wonder nou nog oor die pap wiel,
Nouja, dan is dit ’n tydbom. Die tas stof het almal lafenis in die swembad maar ons was baie bly dat dit nie tydens
word weer genader. Met ’n groot poging gaan soek. ons vertrek uit Pretoria gebeur het nie.
van bravado storm ons die tas en lig Sondagoggend se diens was vir elk­ Laat middag het ons weer lughawe
die boonste klere af . . . Ewe onskuldig toe vertrek. Die wagte by die lughawe
lê die batterywaaiertjie en trrrrr . . . het die laaste bietjie sang en vrolikheid
Die nagevolge van die bomskok was totdat ons vertrek het, baie geniet. Ons
Sondagoggend nog duidelik kenbaar toe het veilig op Swartkopslughawe aange-
tannie Ita ons al om halfses uit die bed kom, moeg maar gelukkig.
jaag — tot ontsteltenis van almal wat ’n Hartlike woord van dank aan die
iaat in die bed gekom het m die midder- S.A. Weermag vir die wonderlike ge-
nagtelike swem. leentheid om die grensposte te besoek.
Dan was daar Kieste, die lieftalige Ons was besonder beïndruk deur die
blouapie wat uit elke tas gekies en ge- paraatheid, streng (Jissipline, mooi gees
keur het na hartelus en selfs die bed- en fyn optrede van die manne teenoor
dens en arms waarin hy wou slaap uit- ons dames. Die hele groep het dit ge­
gesoek het. Hy het gesorg vir baie pret niet en volgens die dames was dit een
maar ook soms ergernis as hy die films van die wonderlikste naweke wat hulle
se pakkies afskeur of die asters se mooi- nog ooit beleef het.
maakgoedjies uitpak en blink goedjies Hou hoog die vaandel. Ons is trots
wegdra. op ons SAW. Ons dink aan hulle en waar-
Die konsert die middag en aand het deer nou beter die groot taak wat hulle
ook hoogtepunt van pret en erns gehad. verrig.
Die honde in die gehoor en Kieste het „Kom lê jou hand in myne vriend, dan
gesorg vir ’n paar moeilike oomblikke sing ons hart dieselfde lied op voordag-
op die verhoog. Wessel Pieters het dit hoogtes van die vreugde, dan bid ons
amper ontgeld toe een van die groot saam dieselfde bede in nagvalleie van
honde dreigend nadergestaan het toe die smart. Bewaar, O God, Suid-Afrika.”
hy die plaasgeluide nageboots het. Die Bewaar, o God, die Bepubliek van
gehoor was baie waarderend en het Suid-Afrika •

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JLSSISTENT-
LUGVERKEERLEIER
V erskeie Poste — Verskeie Sentra
VEEEISTES:
(1; MatrikuJasie- (of g-elykwaardige) seT’tifikaat.
(ii> Vviskunde op minstens die vlak van iunlorsertiflkaat.
PLÍGTE: Assistent-lugverkeerleiers ontvang ’n vierjarlge opleiding-s-
kursus om te kwaliflseer as lugverkeerleíers. Lugverkeerleiers is ver-
antwoordeUk vir die veilige, ordelike en vinnige beweging van lug-
verkeer op en in die omgewing van vliegvelde en op die lugroetes.
Aanvangsalaris sal bepaal word op grond van toepaslike kwalifikasies
en ondervinding.
Aansoeke/navrae aan die Sekretaris van Vervoer, Pretoria.
Teleíoon 39111 x 89 Pretoria.
ALeEMENE INLIGTINa
Aansoeke moet gedoen word op vorms Z.83 wat van enige Staats-
kantoor verkrygbaar is. Afskrifte van en nie oorspronklike getuig-
skrifte en sertiíikate nie, moet ingedien word.
n. Sluitingsdatum vir die ontvangs van aansoeke is 28 Januarie 197?.
ni. BY DIE INDIENING VAN AAN80HKE MOET A PPLIK A N TE VER-
WYSINGSNOMMEE Kom/12/70 VEBSTRBK.
VZ1832
PABATUS DESEMBER 1970
76
Inspekforacif
(V ervolg van bl. 69)
hospitaal ensovoorts. Hulle is van me-
ning dat dit soms veiliger is om die on-
bekende te vermy.
Die vrees vir kritiek. Mense is bang vir
werkstudie omdat hulle oortuig is dat
swakhede in hulle werkprestasie moont-
lik aan die lig gebring sal word. Werk­
studie vereis ’n intieme ontleding van
die werk terwyl dit gedoen word en die
man wat die werk doen, voel byna altyd
asof dit hyself is wat ondersoek word.
Mense hou nie daarvan om gekritiseer
te word nie en veral nie oor die wyse
waarop hulle hulle werk doen nie.
Die vrees vir werkloosheid. Daar word
dikwels met regverdiging beweer dat
die getal personeel wat benodig word
om ’n bepaalde werk te doen, as ge-
volg van werkstudie verminder sal
moet word. Terselfdertyd glo lede soms
dat senior poste hergradeer en range
verlaag kan word. Hierdie bewerings het
’n rampspoedige uitwerking op die hou-
ding van lede. Werkstudie is vir hulle
iets wat vermy behoort te word, selfs
met geweld, omdat deelname aan werk­
studie eintlik vir hulle beteken dat hul­
le meehelp om hulle eie posisies, asook
die van hulle vriende, in gevaar te stel.
Verset teen verandering. Mense is
dikwels meer geneig om ’n ou werk-
metode aan te kleef, soms tot hulle na-
deel, as om hulle roetine te verander.
Werk kan gewoontevormend wees en
tensy ’n verandering grondig gemotiveer
en geregverdig is, werk mense nie gewil-
liglik saam om die verandering teweeg
te bring nie. Die verandering van ’n
prosedure skyn vir baie mense onnodig
te wees. Hulle hou vol dat die ou be-
proefde metode in die verlede ewe doel-
treffend was.
Die ondervinding het egter geleer dat
die effektiefste wyse om verset teen ver­
andering, vrees vir die onbekende en vir
kritiek uit die weg te ruim, bewerkstel-
lig is deur die personeel se aktiewe deel­
name aan werkstudie. Indian wenke vir
verbeterings van personeellede self kan
kom, sal hulle uit die aard van die saak
geneig wees om werkstudie te steun:
Niemand staan onverskillig teenoor sy
eie idees nie.-®
The war veteran was having a
hard time being questioned by the
ladies from the local social club
and was rapidly running out of
patience.
“ Where did you get that scar
from?” asked one old dame.
“ A bomb,” he grunted.
“ Good heavens, did it explode?”
“ No madam,” he said, unable to
control himself any longer “ it stole
up and bit me.”
Meegande foto toon die tïpe omgewing waarin die professioneie
offisier-ingenieur dikwels beweeg. Hierdie manskap beheer die
hoofstoomketels van ’n President-kias fregat en versorg die
stoom vir die boofmasjiene wat 22,000 kilowatt ontwikkel. Deur
Suid-A frikaanse W eerm ag
Opleídíng van professioneie Olfisier-lngeníeurs vir die S.A. Leër en S.A. Vioot Staande Mag
A ANSOEKE word ingewag van kandidate wat alreeds ge-
matrikuleer het of wat in Desember 1970 die matriek-
eksamen sal aflê en wat begerig is cm vir ingenieursoplei-
ding in of die S.A. Leër of die S.A. Vloot, in aanmerking te
kom.
Die opleiding behels een jaar suiwer militêre opleiding
aan verskillende opleidingsinrigtings gedurende 1971, ge-
volg deur minstens vyf jaar akademiese opleiding vanaf
Februarie 1972 aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch vir die
B.Sc., B.Ing.-grade in of die elektrotegniese 6f die meganiese
rigting.
Kandidate moet —
(a) blanke tweetalige burgers van die Republiek van
Suid-Afrika of van Suidwes-Afrika en ongetroud
wees;
(b) by Januarie 1971 minstens 17 jaar oud wees en by
Februarie 1972 nog nie ouer as 21 jaar nie;
(c) in beeit wees van ’n matriekstrtifikaat met matriek-
vrystelling en wat die vakke Afrikaans, Engels en
Wiskunde insluit;
(d) medies geskik wees;
(e) in die geval van minderjariges, hul ouers/voogde se
skriftelike toestemming he om die opleiding te
ondergaan.
Suksesvolle kandidate word as kancjidaatoffisiere (adel-
borste in die geval van die V loot), met ’n beginsalaris van
R1560 per jaar aangestel.
By suksesvolle voltooiing van hul tweede akademiese
jaar, word hulle as Tweede Luitenante (Vaandrigte in die
middel van hierdie beheerpaneel sorg hy dat genoeg stoom
verskaf word vir die spoed wat deur die bevelvoerder aangevra
word. Die stoomketels lewer sowat 100,000 kg stoom per uur
teen ’n temperatuur van 450 grade Celsiu s.
geval van die Vloot), met ’n salaris van K2040 per jaar in ’n
tydelike hoedanigheid aangestel.
By suksesvolle voltooiing van hul graadstudies, word
hulle in ’n permanente hoedanigheid as assistent-ingenieurs
aangestel en tot die rang van Luitenant (Onderluitenant in
die geval van die V lo o t), met ’n salaris van R3240 per jaar be-
vorder (met vooruitsigte op verbetering eersdaags).
Lede genict ook onder meer, die volgende bykomende
voordele;
* Kostelose mediese diens (ook vir afhanklikes) selfs na
aftrede.
* Vakansie-, siekte- en studieverlof op Staatsdiens-
grondslag.
* Besonder gunstige pensioenvoordele, toereikende aan-
vanklike uitrustingstoelae, ’n stewige jaarlikse va-
kansiebonus, asmede ’n groeplewensverseke-
ringskema.
Nadere besonderhede aangaande die opleiding is van
die Hoof van die Leër, Leërhoofkwaritier, Potgieterstraat,
Pretoria, of Hoof van die Vloot, Vloothoofkwartier, Simon-
stad (na gelang van die weermagsdeel waarin die kandidaat
begerig is om ’n loopbaan te volg) verkrygbaar. Aansoeke
met voile besonderhede van kwalifikasies (gewaarmerkte
afskrifte van sertifikate word verlang) moet die betrokke
adres voor of op 30 Desember 1970 bereik.
Kandidate in diens van Staatsdepartemente of die S.A.
Spoorweë en Provinsiale Administrasies moet hul aansoeke
langs amptelike dienskanale indien.
Dit sal van applikante vereis word om op staatskoste
op ’n datum wat verstrek sal word, voor ’n offisierskeurraad
te verskyn#
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 RegscKiiitekeninge
(Vervolg van bladsy 16)

S uíd-A fríkaanse Die hof het beslis dat die sertifikaat

wel ingetrek kan word en het bevestig
dat ’n besondere wet nie ongeldig is
omdat dit gepromulgeer is na die datum
W eerm ag van promulgasie van ’n lateie W et
waarna eersgenoemde verwys nie. (John­
son teen Koloniale Sekretaris, 1910
T P D ).
Die vraag het ook al ontstaan of ’n
handeling ingevolge ’n W et wat gepro­
mulgeer is, maar nog nie in working
Registrasíe gedurende 1971 vir gestel is nie, regsgeldig is. ’n Ordon-
nansie is, bv, op 6 Des 1957 goedgekeur
en op 31 Des 1957 gepromulgeer om ’n
dienspiig ín die jaar later naamlik op 1 Jan 1959 in
werking te tree. Op 30 A pril 1958 het
die Administrateur sekere regulasles
Suíd-Áfríkaanse Weermag ingevolge dife Ordonnansie afgekondig,
dws voor die inwerkingtreding daarvan.
Was die afkondiging van die regalasies
wettig? Die antwoord is bevestigend,
maar onthou moet word dat die regula-
sies slegs saam met die Ordonnansie in
PERSONE WAT YERPLIG IS OM MNSOEK OM RE6ISTRASIE TE DOEN werking kan tree, naamlik op 1 Januarie
1. Die volgende persone is verpllg om aansoek te doen om registrasie: 1959. Kragtens artikel 14 van die Inter
pretasiewet, 1957, kan alles vooraf ge­
(a) A lle blanke manlike burgers van die RSA wat in die jaar 1955 gebore is. doen word wat nodig is om die betrokke
W et of Ordonnansie, wat die geval ook
(b ) A lle blanke manlike persone wat in die jaar 1955 gebore is, nie SA burgers a! mag wees, te implementeer en gereed
is nie maar reeds vyf jaar in die RSA of SW A gedomisilieer is. te maak vir inwerkingstelling, bv deur
(c ) A lle blanke manlike burgers wat in die jare 1946 tot 1954 gebore is en die nodige aanstellings te maak, vorms
vantevore nagelaat het om te registreer. te laat druk, kennisgewings uit te reik,
ens. Kennlsgewing, voorts, aan die pu-
(d ) A lle blanke manlike persone wat in die jare 1946 tot 1954 gebore is, nie bliek op 1 Oktober dat gegewens wat
SA burgers is nie maar reeds vyf jaar in die RSA of SWA gedomisilieer kragtens ’n wet wat op 1 November in
is en nagelaat het om gedurende 1970 te registreer. werking tree, voor 1 Desember ver-
strek moet word, is nie ultra vires nie
(e ) A lle blanke manlike persone tussen die ouderdomme 16 en 25 jaar, wat en kan afgedwlng word.
gedurende die jaar burgers van die RSA word o f gedurende die jaar vyf Groete tot volgende keer #
jaar lank in die RSA of SW A gedomisilieer is moet binne 30 dae na plaas-
vinding van sodanige gebeurtenis wat op hem betrekking mag hê, regis­
treer.
„Áksíe" hierdre brief
(Vervolg van bladsy 37)
6ENEESKUNDI6E GESKIKTHEID die tafel wat . . . , die koning wat . . .
2. Persone wat van mening is dat hulle geneeskundig ongeskik vlr dienspiig is, en selfs: die Here wat vir ons so goed
is nogtans verplig om te registreer en kan later die kwessie van geneeskundige is. U it laasgenoemde voorbeeld blyk dit
ongeskiktheid laat ondersoek. duidelik dat diegene wat meen dat dit
neerhalend is om wat in verband met
EN WANNEER REGISTRASIE UITGEYOER WORD hooggeplaastes, soos ’n generaal of mi­
nister, te gebruik, onder ’n wanindruk
3. Aansoek om registrasie moet GEDURENDE DIE TYD PE B K 1 JAN U ARIE 1971 verkeer.
TOT 28 FEBRUARIE 1971 by die volgende instansies gedoen word: W ie word wel gebruik in gevalle soos:
(a ) Skoliere; by hulle skoolhoofde (Laerskole uitgesonder) die man vir wie . . . , die persoon met
(b ) Nie-skoliere: by enige van die volgende instansies — wie . . . , die vrou aan wie . . . ’ enso-
( i ) Die Registrasiebeampte, SAW, Presasgebou, Privaatsak 281, hoek van voorts (na ’n voorsetsel). En dit is heel-
Scheiding- en Christinastraat, Pretoria. temal korrek om te vra: W ie het dit vir
(i i ) Bevelvoerders van militêre kommandemente. jou gesê?
(iii) Stasiebevelvoerders, SA Polisie in die RSA of/en SWA. Ten slotte net nog ’n voorbeeld van
’n interessante taalverskynsel waarteen
DOEL VAN REGISTRASIE gewaak moet word, ’n Mens hoor so dik-
wels: Met die gevolg is dat . . . Dit is
4. Registrasie geskied slegs vir Weermagsdoeleindes en raak nie ’n persoon se ver- ’n vermenging van twee uitdrukkinge
pligting om hom as kieser of vir die bevolkingsregister te registreer nie. wat dieselfde betekenis het, naamlik:
Die gevolg is dat . . . en: met die ge­
PERSONE WAT NALAAT OM TE REGISTREER volg dat . . . Die taalkundige benaming
v ir hierdie verskynsel is kontaminasie.
5. Persone wat nalaat om te registreer is aan ’n misdryf skuldig en by skuldig- Laat ons maar mooi loop om nie in hier­
bevinding strafbaar met ’n boete van hoogstens R200 of gevangenisstraf van die en dergelike vanggate in die taal-
hoogstens ses maande. veld te beland n ie.#

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Briewe
(Vervolg van bladsy 39)
also “ By this means the specimen is
preserved in its natural shape and colour
forever.”
I have had discussions with experts
who have experimented with this method
of preservation. They assure me that
some or the materials used in this pro­
cess become discoloured in ten to fifteen
years.
Perhaps it would be fair to direct a
warning to readers not to embed valu­
able items in this manner until they
have established definitely the period
for which the material to be used is
guaranteed to remain clear.
Col Vermeulen gives the warning: “ Do
not let the embedments which you have
made, lie in direct sunlight.” This is the
crux of the matter. It is exposure to
light which causes the discolouration.
N eville Gomm Bloemfontein
KERSWENSE
„Hiermee wens die lede van die
SAMVD, 1 M ilitêre Hospitaal, Voortrek-
kerhoogte, alle lede van die SA Weer-
mag en hul families ’n geseënde Kers-
fees en voorspoedige Nuwejaar toe.”
“The members of the SAMNS, 1 M ili­
tary Hospital, Voortrekkerhoogte, wish
all the members of the SAD Force and
their families a merry Christmas and
prosperous New Year.”
Waarnemende Bevelvoerder
1 Militêre Hospitaal
J ^ IE Hoofbetaalmeester, SAW en per-
soneel wens alle lede by alle betaal-
punte ’n geseënde Kersfees en voor­
spoedige Nuwejaar toe.
The Chief Paymaster, SADF and per­
sonnel wish al members at all pay points
a joyous Christmas and a prosperous
New Year
Hoofbetaalmeester, SAW Pretoria
PACKING tel 77171 «^/of 82081
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• BLOEMFONTEIN
PARATUS DESEMBER 1970
80
NOTICE OF RETURN
J )E A R Parents,
Very soon your soldier-son will once
more be in your midst, dehydrated, de­
moralised and eager to assume his
place in society as a human being entitled
to liberty and justice whilst engaged
in a somewhat delayed pursuit of hap­
piness.
In making joyous preparations to
welcome him back to civilisation, you
must make allowances for his environ­
mental situation fo r the past 12 months.
Therefore, show no alarm if he prefers
to sit on the floor instead of a chair,
always kicks his boots against the steps
before entering the house, wears a to­
wel and sandals when visiting the neigh­
bours, has a fit at the sight of bully
beef and always salutes anyone who
looks important, even the postman. He
w il always snap to attention at 8 o’clock
in the morning.
His diet should, for the first few
weeks at least, consist of healthy simple
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foods. Rich, fattening foods should be
avoided at first and gradually introduc­
ed into his diet.
Do not allow him on the roads unac­
companied as he has almost completely
forgotten traffic. The best method of
rehabilitation in this respect is to tie
him to a pole and run around him
with a wheelbarrow until his screams
have subsided to a whimper.
Do all his purchasing for him, gently
establishing in his mind that threaten­
ing, arguing and bargaining with shop­
keepers is taboo in civilisation.
His language may be a little embarras­
sing at first, but in a relatively short
time he can be taught to speak English
again. Never ask him why the boy down
the road has a higher rank than he, and
never make flattering remarks about
the A ir Force or Navy as you w ill only
have to begin the English lesson once
more.
For the first few months be parti­
cularly careful when he is in the com­
pany of women (any age). A fte r seeing
them wooed on the screen by hand­
some men, he thinks he is a master
of the art himself. His intentions are
good and w ill be sincere but dishonour­
able.
Keep in mind that beneath his tanned
and rugged exterior there beats a heart
of gold. Treasure it as it is very probab­
ly the only thing of value that he has
left. Treat him with kindness, tole­
rance and the occasional quart of beer
and you have every chance o f rehabili­
tating him into the man you once knew.
M. D. DAEMIN
Rehabilitation Officer.
130 yERpAKKIMG
BERGING
OORSESE
YERSKEPINGS
VERYOER
REPUBLIEK-
WYD
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Prote^ctorate
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