April - Department of Defence

Finding the recruitment office
By Nomonde Vuthela
The SANDF Personnel
Acquisition Simon's Town
would like to make all
potential applicants for posts
in the SANDF aware of the
office location where the
recruiting process takes
place.
The SANDF Personnel
Acquisition Simon's Town was
previously known as the SA Navy
Recruitment Office. It recruited
exclusively for the SA Navy and was
situated in SAS Wingfield.
As a result of transformation the
need for a centralised personnel
acquisition (recruiting) function arose,
the aim of which was to improve efficiency
and ensure cost-effectiveness.
The SANDF Personnel Acquisition
Simon's Town was established in
2000.
The Personnel Acquisition Office
is situated at OSVLO Building in
Simon's Town and is one of nine
recruiting buildings. Potential applicants
should take note that although
the office is run by SA Navy staff,
recruitment at the centre is done for
all four Services.
Advertisements in the media will
announce the starting dates for
recruitment in April 2004.
The office is looking to attract
candidates from all sections of the
population.
Candidates will be appointed
using criteria based on the inherent
requirements of posts to be filled; the
future focus will be on potential
rather than academic requirements.
The office will conduct recruitment
on behalf of the SA Army,
SA Air Force, SA Navy and the SA
Military Health Service, including
recruitment for all PSAP required
levels for the SANDF. Study
opportunities will be made available
upon recruitment.
Remembering those who paid the
supreme price
By WO1 Eddie Hoffman
On Sunday, 9 November
2003, a remembrance
service was held at the
Garden of Remembrance
at the Union Buildings in
Pretoria, organised by the
South African Memorial
Service Committee.
During this annual remembrance
service 6 Signal Regiment (Reserve
Force) made history by becoming the
first Reserve Force unit to lay a
wreath at this service. 6 Signal
Regiment, which forms part of the
Reserve Force component of the
CMIS Division, was granted special
permission to lay a wreath in remembrance
of all military signallers.
WO1 Elwin Heath, the wreath
layer, was given this honour because
his father had served as a gunner
during World War II.
6 Signal Regiment is committed to
the establishment of a Signals
Association, which in turn will enable
the members to form part of the SA
Memorial Service Committee.
Thereafter they will be able to
represent the CMIS Division on all
such occasions. The memorial
Remembering our fallen
Infanteers
The SA Army Infantry
Formation and the Infantry
Association presented the
annual Infantry Memorial
Service at Fort Klapperkop in
Pretoria on 25 January 2004.
This event was planned to
launch the 50th anniversary
celebrations of the Infantry Corps,
which was established in 1954. The
Tshwane Regiment, a Reserve Force
regiment, provided the guards and
sentries for the service. Several military
veterans associations, families
and friends of fallen Infanteers laid
wreaths or planted crosses.
WO1 Elwin Heath laying a wreath.
service, held annually on the Sunday
preceding or after 11 November, was
first held in South Africa in November
1918 to honour those who had
fallen in the Great War of 1914 to
1918. From this small beginning,
this commemorative service has
spread and is now recognised all
over the world.
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