Rear Admiral Koos Louw (born 17 July 1952)
is a retired South African Navy officer.
He served as
Naval Base Simon's Town
Naval Base Simonstown is the South African Navy's largest naval base, situated in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, Western Cape. The base provides support functions to Fleet Command.
History
A small dockyard facility was first es ...
twice, first from 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2005 and again from November 2006 to July 2012.
He also served as at
Fleet Command
''Fleet Command'', previously labelled as ''Jane's Fleet Command'', is a real-time tactics naval warfare simulation computer game released in May 1999. It was developed by Sonalysts Inc. and published by Electronic Arts (EA). The game licensed ...
(2005) and and retired in 2012.
An investigative report published in 1994 by
The Mail & Guardian
The ''Mail & Guardian'', formerly the ''Weekly Mail'', is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, loca ...
exposes Louw as a former member of an apartheid-era covert intelligence and assassination unit, the Directorate of Covert Collections (DCC).
Honours and awards
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Medal of Merit Santos Dumont (Brazil)
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In 2010 Louw was awarded the
Order of Prince Henry
The Order of Prince Henry () is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese ''infante'' Prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. M ...
by Portugal's ambassador to South Africa.
Notes
References
South African admirals
Living people
Officers of the Order of Prince Henry
1952 births
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