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          Politician, political activist and military commander.

        1. Politician, political activist and military commander.
        2. General Siphiwe Nyanda former head of Umkhonto we Sizwe the ANC military wing in exile who became a General in the SA National Defence Force.
        3. Born in in the Soweto area of Moroka, Nyanda was one of five children.
        4. Well I was born in Moroka, Soweto at a place called Masakeni which means place of rags, there are no formal houses there, just shacks that the.
        5. Former chief of the South African National Defence Force and general in Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) Siphiwe Nyanda said.

          6. Born in in the Soweto area of Moroka, Nyanda was one of five children..

          Siphiwe Nyanda

          South African Army general and Cabinet Minister

          GeneralSiphiwe NyandaSSA SBS CLS DMG MMS MMM (born 1950)[1] is a former South African military commander and politician.

          He was a member of uMkhonto we Sizwe and served as Chief of the South African National Defence Force from 1998 to 2005, Minister of Communications from 2009 to 2010 and was appointment as a board member of Denel in May 2018.

          Military career

          Nyanda joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress, in 1974, and served as a guerilla commander during the liberation struggle against the South African government in the 1980s.

          He was appointed MK Chief of Staff in 1992, and served on the Transitional Executive Council which oversaw the change of government in 1994.

          Lieutenant General Nyanda became part of the South African National Defence Force, into which MK was incorporated in 1994, and served successively as Chief of Defence Force