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29 June 2009: No 37/09

SENIOR APPOINTMENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE

The Chief of the South African National Defence Force, General Godfrey Nhlanhla Ngwenya, on behalf of the Minister of Defence, is pleased to announce the following appointments in the Department of Defence:

SA Army

The new General Officer Commanding Army Support Formation is Brigadier General Stephen Marumo, MMS, MMB, with effect from 1 October 2009.

Brig Gen Marumo was born in Soweto South. After the 1976 school uprising he left the country to join the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto weSizwe (MK). He held various responsibilities whilst in MK. In 1979 to 1981 he was Battery Commander in Angola and Chief of Anti-Aircraft from 1981 to 1982.

He was recommended to join Umkhonto weSizwe Special Operations from 1984 to 1992.

His military range of study includes the successful completion of Anti-Air Systems during the years 1977 to 1980. During the period 1993 to 1994 Brig Gen Marumo completed his Command and Staff Duties course in Zimbabwe.

He was integrated into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in 1994. During the period 1995 to 1996 he was a Training Officer Anti-Aircraft. In the same year, 1996, he became a project officer at the SA Army HQ, a post he held until 1998.

In the year 2001, he was appointed as Officer Commanding Group HQ and in 2001 he became General Officer Commanding Air Defence Artillery Formation (ADA FMN).

Brig Gen Marumo successfully completed the SANDF Senior Command and Staff Duties (SCS) course and the Executive National Security Programme (ENSP) during the periods 1998 and 2001 respectively.

In 2006 he was a MONUC-Commander Sector 4 in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2007 in a Non-UN Peace Support Operation in Burundi, he was the Chairperson of the Joint Verification Monitoring Mechanism.

He holds a certificate in Strategic and Leadership Development that he completed at the South African Management Institute.

HR DIV

Brigadier General Titus Matlakeng, succeeds Major General Makabongwe Aaron Ntshinga as GOC Training Formation and is promoted to the substantive rank of Major General with effect from 1 July 2009.

Brigadier General Matlakeng was born in Sophiatown in Johannesburg. In 1976 he joined the Military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), Umkhonto weSizwe (MK).

He served in various Capacities, as Camp Commander/Commissar as well as an analyst in MK Military Intelligence.

In the South African National Defence Force he attested on 27 April 1994. He completed all the military courses up to Senior Command Staff Course for Officers. He was Director-General Intelligence from 2001 to 2007 and later Director Vetting.

Prior his enlisting in the SANDF, he worked as a Documentalist/Cataloguer at the South African History Archives from September 1991 to April 1994.

He has obtained a National Diploma in Social Sciences and is currently in his final year of study towards obtaining an MBA.

Brigadier General William Nkonyeni, GDM,rcds, PSC(j) St C (Army), succeeds Major General Duma Dumisani Mdutyana as Adviser to Chief of the Democratic Republic of Congo Defence

Force and is promoted to the substantive rank of Major General with effect from 1 July 2009. Brig Gen Nkonyeni was born in Johannesburg. In 1975 he joined the liberation struggle with the Pan-Africanist Congress Military Wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA).

He underwent training in different countries. In Nigeria he completed basic flying between1977 and 1980. In Yugoslavia he trained as platoon commander and company commander in 1984. In the People’s Republic of China, he trained in Party and Army building. He further trained in Egypt in anti-terrorism.

In 1995 he integrated into the SANDF and completed he senior officers courses including, one he underwent in Britain where he acquired post nominal rods.

Prior to 1994, Brig Gen Nkonyeni held various positions in APLA. He was a liaison officer between the Tanzanian People’s Defence Force and APLA. He was also appointed as a Camp Political Commissar, a Military Attaché and deputy Chief Representative for East Africa. Amongst various appointments in the liberation movement in 1994, he was the delegation leader to negotiations for the return and subsequent integration of APLA into the SANDF.

In the SANDF he was appointed as the first African Commandant at the South African Army Combat Training Centre (CTC).

In 2002 he was appointed as the Commandant of the South African War College (SANWC). He is currently serving as Director Military Veterans Affairs. The highest medal he has is the Gold Decoration on Merit (GDM). Others are the Unitas, Internal and External Medals, Ten, Twenty and Thirty Year Service Medals.

Enquiries may be directed to Dir Mil Pers Util, Brig Gen Sazi Veldtman tel: (012) 392 2501 Fax: (012) 392 2510.