Jan Breytenbach was appointed by the Founder of the South African Special Forces - General Frits Loots - as the first commander of 1 Reconnaissance Commando - the first unit founded within the South African Special Forces. He was also apointed as the first commander of the 32 Battalion, known colloquially as Buffalo Battalion. The 1 Reconnaissance Commando was the first South African special operations unit, founded by Jan Breytenbach. ... 32 Battalion (sometimes nicknamed Buffalo Battalion or Os Terriveis - Portuguese for The Terrible Ones) was an infantry battalion of the pre-1994 South African Army. ...
He is the brother of South African intellectual Breyten Breytenbach. Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. ...
External links
Jan Breytenbach @ Galago Publishing
Jan Breytenbach (2003). The Buffalo Soldiers: The Story of South Africa's 32 Battalion 1975-1993. Galago Publishing. 191985407X. (Hardcover)
The Silent War - Book on SA Special Forces History
32 Battalion History Website removed.
SA Army Website.
Partial mirror of the old, removed official SA Special Forces Brigade site.
Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship.
Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, one of the most beautifully situated towns in the Western Cape, approximately 180km from Cape Town and 100km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas.
The work of Breytenbach includes numerous volumes of poetry, novels, and essays, many of which are in Afrikaans, many translated from Afrikaans to English, and many published originally in English.
Breytenbach founding commander of 1-Reconnaissance Commando (the forerunner to the present Special Forces regiments), 32-Battalion, 44-Parachute Brigade and the South African Army's Guerilla School became involved in a trust centred on farm safety some years after his retirement in 1987.
Breytenbach returned to the Eastern Cape after the trust collapsed, but decided to give it one more chance when Erasmus contacted him in 2001 to talk about farm safety.
Breytenbach said it was clear that there had never been any proper military assessment, for example, targets and target areas.
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