Career
He retired from the Navy in 2009. While at school he joined the Pan Africanist Congress (Public Affairs Committee) in 1963 and joined the Azanian People"s Liberation Army (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 Company-ordination and Implementation (2002-2005). And Chief of Naval Staff from 2005 till his retirement.
