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Siphiwe Lucky Sangweni.
Siphiwe Lucky Sangweni was born on 27 February 1967 in KwaMashu township, Durban, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. After he completed his secondary schooling at Igugulabasha High School in Ntuzuma, north of Durban, he went to join the underground revolutionary structures of Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK), and subsequently went to exile and underwent military training in Tanzania where he became an all-rounded trained and qualified officer through formal military training by the Tanzania Peoples Defence Force (TPDF).
On his return to South Africa in 1994, Sangweni integrated to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) where he was appointed a Platoon Commander in the Republic of South Africa National Peace Keeping Force (NPKF), a position he held for a period of six months until the disbandment of the NPKF.
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Lockdown duty patrols are now conducted under the Op Ligcolo banner.
At the height of South Africa’s COVID-19 induced lockdown, the landward force showed its mettle by deploying no less than 33, mostly infantry, companies in a 72 hour period.
This fact was used by SA Army Chief, Lieutenant General Lawrence Mbatha, to illustrate the important role of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), its services and divisions in operations other than war (OOTW) when he addressed the Junior Command and Staff Duties class of 2021 at the Army College last week.
“As part of Operation Notlela the deployment saw soldiers and their commanders adhere to the mandate of developing and sustaining the ability to generate sufficient numbers of fully trained, multi-purpose, combat-ready forces to meet South Africa’s defence and security objectives,” Mbatha said.