The Military Headquarters of the Venda Defence Force was established at Sibasa in 1982 and based on the SADF five-legged staff system with personnel, logistics, operations/ training, finance, intelligence. The heads of all five staff divisions and the commander of the headquarters unit were seconded SADF officers. With the end of the Apartheid era in 1994 in South Africa, the former defence forces of the Bantustans were incorporated into the newly formed South African National Defence Force.