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Steyn, Pierre
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1942–
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Military officer. Having served in the South African Air Force, he became chief of the defence staff in 1992. In this position he produced the ‘Steyn Report’, the result of an investigation into the role of the apartheid military intelligence structures in fomenting violence in the period before the 1994 elections. He was secretary for defence from 1994 to1998.
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ZA-COM-07162