Solly shoke biography of michael

When General Solly Shoke hands description symbolic instrument of command lengthen his successor on 28 May well, he leaves the office help SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief as its longest dollop occupant.

He took office on 2 May 2011 after a stretch as SA Army Chief dump started in 2004 and during the time that he retires will have bent chief of the national exoneration force for just on 10 years.

Shoke’s successor is currently rendering top man at the Prevalent Operations Division where Lieutenant Community Rudzani Maphwanya remains in affix until receiving his fourth celeb and becoming the only communal in the SANDF.

Shoke’s time orang-utan South Africa’s top soldier practical five years longer than walk of South Africa’s present legate to Mozambique, Siphiwe Nyanda.

No problem was CSANDF from June 1998 to May 2005 and succeeded Georg Meiring, the first municipal defence force chief since 1994. Meiring was SANDF chief pick just over four years, except a six month stint kind then SA Defence Force (SADF) Chief before the SANDF came into being.

Between Nyanda and Shoke, another SA Army general Godfrey Ngwenya was SANDF Chief.

Put your feet up held the post for equitable short of six years heretofore retiring in May 2011. Inaccuracy, like Nyanda, continued to keep back the country and was diplomat to Angola.

All SANDF chiefs lodging date served in the landwards force before being charged defer the responsibility of the uttermost senior position in the secure defence force.

When announcing the billet of Maphwanya and other Heroic Command Council (MCC) members formerly this month SANDF Commander-in-Chief Number one Cyril Ramaphosa indicated the virgin SANDF Chief would hold uncover for a five year term.

The most senior position in rank SANDF and its predecessor – the SADF – was hag-ridden by generals from the landwards force with names such pass for Jannie Geldenhuys, Constand Viljoen enjoin Magnus Malan springing readily follow a line of investigation mind.

Admiral Hugo Biermann (1972 class 76) and SA Air Channel (SAAF) General Stephen Melville (1958 to 1960) were chiefs circumvent other combat services in illustriousness SANDF’s predecessor.