Witkop Badenhorst

Lieutenant General Rudolf Badenhorst (1940 2012) was a South African Army general, who served as Chief of Staff Intelligence for the Defence Force. He died in 2012.

Military career He served as from 1 November 1987 Badenhorst left the army at his own request retiring in early 1991 after 30 years of service.

Death Badenhorst died on 10 November 2012 of pneumonia and heart failure at the George-Medi-clinic in George, Western Cape. He had outlived his wife Ina by less than a month and is survived by four children and eleven grandchildren.

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