SA Defence Headquarters in Pretoria announced on 18 August that Mr. Vorster had made a three-day inspection tour of SA military posts in the Caprivi Strip during the preceding fortnight. The SA Prime Minister was accompanied by the Minister of Defence, Mr. P.W. Botha, the Chief of the Defence Force, General Magnus Malan, the Chief of the Army, Lieutenant-General C.L. Viljoen, and the Chief of the Air Force, Lieutenant-General R.H.D. Rodgers. On completion of his tour, Vorster commented that the visit - his first to this part of South Africa's operational area - had given him "first-hand practical and on-the-spot information about the enormous extent of the task facing the South African security forces". Besides their primary defence role, SA troops were also engaged on large-scale medical, social and educational work, he said.
Issue 12 · article
Vorster Visits Troops
Report on Prime Minister Vorster's inspection tour of military posts in the Caprivi Strip.
