Nickname(s) Joffel Rank Lieutenant General Battles and wars South African Border War Service/branch South African Army | Years of service 1961-1994 Unit 14 Field Regiment Other name Joffel | |
Birth name Christoffel Pierre van der Westhuizen Allegiance South Africa
South Africa | ||
Lieutenant General Joffel van der Westhuizen is a South African Army general from the artillery, who served as Chief of Staff Intelligence for the Defence Force from 1991 - 1994.
Contents
Military career
He served in the artillery as a junior officer. As a brigadier, he served as the OC Eastern Province Command in 1983 - 1987. GOC Witwatersrand Command in 1987 - 1990. He served as Deputy Chief of the Army in 1990 until he was appointed to the Military Intelligence Division in 1991 as the Chief of Staff Intelligence, a post he held until 1994. He went on early retirement in 1994.
Awards and Decorations
References
Joffel van der Westhuizen Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA