Solly Shoke

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Solly Zacharia Shoke (born August 15, 1956 in Alexandra ) is a South African anti-apartheid fighter and member of the military. His early military practice began as a field commander in the opposition Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and trained as a commander in what was then the Soviet Union . Since 2011 Shoke leads as head the South African armed forces (South African National Defense Force).

Life

education

Shoke graduated from Orlando High School in Soweto . He completed his basic military training in Angola . This was followed by a training course for brigade commanders in the Soviet Union. At the South African Institute of People Management , he acquired a Diploma in Personnel Management and the private educational institutions Damelin diploma for Human Resource Management . He received a certificate in Defense Management from Witwatersrand University . In 1993 and 1994 Shoke completed military training for middle managers in Zimbabwe . He purposefully supplemented his military development from 1995 to 1996 with a course at the South African Army College for members of the high command and in 1998 at the same institution with a course for officers in the army with overarching tasks, the highest military training level in South Africa.

activities

Under the influence of the unrest in 1976 , he went to the MK and was there until 1980 in the Transvaal Command together with Selaelo Ramusi, Siphiwe Nyanda and Ntsie Manye.

In the 1980s he served as field commander in MK activities. Based on his experience in these illegal activities, he has been assigned leadership roles in the secret command of Operation Vula . Later, between 1985 and 1987, he acted as a commander in the MK underground operation Transvaal Machinery ( Operation Cetshwayo ), a sabotage project involving the use of landmines in the north-eastern border regions of South Africa with neighboring Mozambique . These activities pursued the goal of inflicting technical and personnel losses on the former SADF ( South African Defense Force ) units . To this end, weapons and soldiers from Swaziland were infiltrated onto the territory of South Africa . He was questioned about these events in 2000 by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

In the transition phase at the end of the apartheid policy, Shoke worked as a member of the National Organizing Department of the ANC , whose task it was to reorganize the organizational structures in the entire country according to the changed situation. In 1994 he was involved in government committees on behalf of the ANC in restructuring the South African armed forces. The first function in the newly formed armed forces was the position of director for personnel planning. In 1997 he was appointed director for integration with the responsibility of forming the new South African armed forces SANDF (South African National Defense Force) from the remaining staff of the MK, the APLA ( Azanian People's Liberation Army ) and the SADF.

In 1998, Shoke commanded the South African Development Countries Forces during Operation Boleas in Lesotho Territory . This was a military operation with 700 soldiers of the South African land forces including air support together with military units of the Botswana Defense Force from Botswana , which lasted essentially from September 22, 1998 to November 2, 1998 and for which South Africa had to spend about 24 million rand . The intervention took place due to political unrest that occurred after supposedly faked elections .

Between January 1999 and October 2000, as director of recruitment, he had direct influence on the future personnel structure of the entire armed forces. In 2000, Shoke was promoted to major general and appointed director of human resources support . In June 2004 there was another promotion to Lieutenant General , as a result of which Shoke took over command of the South African Army on August 1 from Gilbert Ramano .

In 2005 he publicly took the position that South Africa was a stable security factor on the African continent and justified this with his government 's New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) policy strategy .

SANDF tour

South African President Jacob Zuma appointed Lieutenant General Solly Zacharia Shoke as Chief of the South African Armed Forces on May 10, 2011, effective June 1, 2011. He followed in this office the General Nhlanhla Ngwenya (Godfrey Ngwenya) of the South African chargé was appointed to Angola. Shoke was previously in command of the South African Army . He speaks nine languages.

Quote

" The SA Army needs the right people (recruits) who are young and mentally fit and willing to serve their country, and not those who are only looking for a job. (The South African Army needs the right people (recruits) who are young and mentally fit and ready to serve their country, and not those who are just looking for a job. "

- Solly Shoke : South African Soldier

criticism

His appointment as head of the armed forces was criticized by Boer circles , referring to the confrontations with the consequences of death among representatives and sympathizers of the Inkatha Freedom Party by the MK during Operation Vula .

The parliamentary committee, the Interim Defense Force Service Commission , criticized a lack of discipline in the troops and their poor working conditions. It was hoped that Shoke could make a significant contribution to solving the problems.

family

Shoke is married and has four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at www.sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on May 4, 2018
  2. ↑ 3.8. MK Operations: Regional Structures, 1976-1980. Further submissions and responses by the African National Congress to questions raised by the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation . on www.sabctrc.saha.org.za  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sabctrc.saha.org.za  
  3. ↑ TRC: Application in Terms of Section 18 of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act No 34 of 1995 (AC / 2000/111) . on www.justice.gov.za
  4. ^ Theo Neethling: Conditions for Successful Entry and Exit: An Assessment of SADC Allied Operations in Lesotho . In: Monograph No 44: Boundaries of Peace Support Operations, February 2000 ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.issafrica.org
  5. ^ SA Army Chief Retires
  6. ↑ Helmoed-Römer Heitman: INTERVIEW. Lieutenant General Solly Shoke Chief of the South African Army . In: Jane's Defense Weekly. Volume 42 (2005), No 29, July 20, 2005, p. 34
  7. ^ New Chief for the SA National Defense Force . In: Africa Defense Journal, May 30, 2011
  8. ↑ Lebohang Letaoana: Our Army is a reliable partner for security challenges. (PDF) In: South African Soldier. SA Department of Defense, October 2017, p. 16 , accessed on December 6, 2013 (English, The official monthly magazine of the SA Department of Defense. Volume 14 (2007), No 10, October 2007, ISSN 1609-5014 ).  
  9. ^ Solly Shoke, in charge of terrorism in Operation Vula campaign, becomes top SA military chief . ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ↑ SA COPS: death squads for ANC REGIME.
  11. ^ Graeme Hosken: Ex-MK commander to head SANDF .

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personal data
SURNAME Shoke, Solly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shoke, Solly Zacharia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African commander
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandra (South Africa)