Nelis Nel

Nelis started his career in the SA Defence Force in 1986.  He qualified himself as a physical training instructor and was intensively involved in the training of new recruits in various disciplines’ such as Combat Firearm Training, Drill, Class Presentation in various subjects and Physical Training.

In 1988 he was employed as a clerk at Armscor but decided not make it a career since it was not in his line of interest.  In 1989 he went to Technicon Pretoria and became a full time student, studying a three year National Diploma:  Personnel Management until 1991.

In 1992 he started his professional career at Centurion Town Council as a Human Resource Development Officer and trained Council Employees in various fields of Life Skills as well as the upliftment and empowerment of the Community in several Projects.

He has always been interested in Tactical / Operational Training with the emphasis… Continue reading →

Riaan Coetzee

Riaan Coetzee joined the SADF in 1984. After basic military training he proudly served in the SAAF for 13 years.

Because he has grown up with, and always loved and respected firearms, it was almost a foregone conclusion that some kind of shooting sport would form a central part of his everyday life. After years of very hard work and countless thousands of rounds and hours on firing ranges all over South Africa, he was awarded provincial (NTvl) as well as SAAF colours in pistol shooting and represented NTvl and the SAAF and SANDF on various shooting events over a period of several years.

Riaan has been actively involved with Fortis since 2003, and is teaching our basic firearms course and serves as an instructor on our range of TDR (tactical defence & resistance) courses.

Some of Riaan’s biggest loves in life are: making a difference against crime,… Continue reading →

Theuns Craven

Theuns’s career started off with a bang as an ambitious young Theuns Craven set out on an early start learning as much skills as possible whilst still in school. His qualifications as a 2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo as well as his studies in entrepreneurship abilities enabled him to take on jobs of high responsibility.

Theuns is a Taekwondo as well as Tae-Bo instructor and has been running his own clubs since early 2000. More responsibility followed as he began field work as a Class A SCS operator performing various security related tasks actively in the field relating to anti poaching, anti farm attack security and anti-theft. Theuns has been on numerous SCS operations around South Africa.

During a three year stay in the UK, he was exposed to a great variety of cultures and learned a great set of skills. During this time, he also qualified… Continue reading →

Deon Coetzee

Deon started his career during the last part  of the Angolan war in 1987. Taking part in various recon missions into Angola, he was also given intensive training on Russian weapon systems. Trained to live off the bush, he was skilled in field-craft, survival, camouflage and more.  After the war a short stint as bank clerk made it clear that office work was not for him. After farming for 2 years, he started Special Combat Services (SCS) in 1997.

SCS trained its own group of specialist operators to act as deterrent against farm attacks. SCS operators were trained to work in small 2- or 4 man teams and operate covertly on farms for up to 4 weeks at a time without resupply. SCS gave farm crime a good knock in the Eastern Free State. SCS operators were trained to a high standard of field craft, survival, camouflage, native… Continue reading →