Andreas Liebenberg

General Andreas "Kat" Liebenberg SSAS SD SOE SM MMM (18 April 1938 – 23 May 1998) was a South African military commander.

Liebenberg joined the South African Army in 1955 and, after obtaining a BA Law degree at the University of Stellenbosch,[2] was commissioned in 1961.

[5] He stayed there till January 1980, when he became Director of Operations at Army Headquarters in the rank of brigadier.

[7] He was a member of the defence committee of the Transitional Executive Council which supervised the South African government during the final months leading up the first democratic election in 1994.

In 1995, Liebenberg, former defence minister, General Magnus Malan, and former defence force chief, General Jannie Geldenhuys were tried for murder, as a result of a military operation in which several civilians had been killed.