Rear Admiral Mosoeu Magalefa (21 April 1949 - 27 May 2014)
was a
South African Navy
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The Navy is primarily engaged in maintaining a conventional military deterrent, participating in counter-piracy operations, fishery prote ...
officer, who served as Chief of Naval Staff. He retired from the Navy in 2009.
Military career
While at school he joined the
Pan Africanist Congress
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, often shortened to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), is a South African pan-Africanist national liberation movement that is now a political party. It was founded by an Africanist group, led by Robert So ...
(PAC) in 1963 and joined the
Azanian People's Liberation Army
The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), formerly known as Poqo, was the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, an African nationalist movement in South Africa. In the Xhosa language, the word 'Poqo' means 'pure'.
After attacks ...
(APLA) in 1967.
He went into exile in 1977 and completed Military training courses in Tanzania and Libya, the People's Republic of China, Sudan and Yugoslavia.
He returned to South Africa in the 1990s and integrated in the SANDF in 1996 and completed the Officers Orientation Course in 1997, the Naval Senior Staff Course in 1998. He served as Chief of Naval Staff Intelligence (1998-1999); Director Naval Personnel (1999-2001); Director Naval Review Co-ordination and Implementation (2002-2005);
and Chief of Naval Staff from 2005 till his retirement.
Awards and decorations
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References
South African admirals
1949 births
2014 deaths
Military personnel from Johannesburg
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