{"id":55843,"date":"2026-08-20T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/atns-mourns-the-passing-of-major-general-jerry-coetzee-the-companys-founding-chief-executive-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:30:06","slug":"atns-mourns-the-passing-of-major-general-jerry-coetzee-the-companys-founding-chief-executive-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/atns-mourns-the-passing-of-major-general-jerry-coetzee-the-companys-founding-chief-executive-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"ATNS mourns the passing of Major General Jerry Coetzee, the company&#039;s founding Chief Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) SOC Ltd has learnt with profound sadness of the passing of Major General Jerry Coetzee, the company&#039;s founding Chief Executive Officer, who served from 1993 to 1998. <\/p>\n<p>On behalf of ATNS management and employees, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Mr Matome Moholola, extends heartfelt condolences to the Coetzee family, friends, former colleagues and the broader aviation community during this difficult time of bereavement. <\/p>\n<p>Major General Coetzee dedicated his life to service, leadership and nation-building. His distinguished career in the South African Air Force (SAAF) spanned several decades and included service as a navigator, squadron leader, military attach&eacute; in Washington, human resources manager, and ultimately Inspector General of the SAAF. Throughout his career, he was widely recognised for his commitment to professional excellence, innovation and the development of people. <\/p>\n<p>Following his retirement from military service, Major&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78334&#038;page=atns-mourns-the-passing-of-major-general-jerry-coetzee-the-company-s-founding-chief-executive-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) SOC Ltd has learnt with profound sadness of the passing of Major General Jerry Coetzee, the company&#039;s founding Chief Executive Officer, who served from 1993 to 1998. On behalf of ATNS management and employees, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Mr Matome Moholola, extends heartfelt condolences to the Coetzee family, friends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/2026_August_ATNS%20CEO_Maj%20Gen%20Coetzee.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/2026_August_ATNS%20CEO_Maj%20Gen%20Coetzee.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}