Vice Admiral Marthinus Bekker
(born 1933)
was a
South African Navy
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The Navy is primarily engaged in maintaining a conventional military deterrent, participating in counter-piracy operations, fishery prote ...
officer who served as Chief of the SADF Staff.
Naval career
He joined the Navy in 1957 and served on the before being transferred to England to join the shipbuilding program for the President class frigates.
He also served as Chief Paymaster, Director of Logistics Systems and Quartermaster General (19761982).
He was later appointed the Minister of Finance for the
Ciskei
Ciskei ( , meaning ''on this side of Great Kei River, he river
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Kei''), officially the Republic of Ciskei (), was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, located in the southeast of South Africa. It covered an area of , almost entirely surrounded b ...
homeland in 1992.
He was appointed Chief of the SADF Staff,
replacing
Kat Liebenberg. Before that he served as Chief of Staff Finances.
Awards and decorations
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References
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1933 births
2022 deaths
Afrikaner people
South African admirals