NEW SANDF APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED
Major-General Carlo Gagiano and Rear Admiral Refiloe Mudimu have been appointed chief of the SA Air Force and chief of the SA Navy respectively with effect from February 1 next year, the Department of Defence said on Thursday.
Gagiano, currently Chief Director of Policy and Plans, would obtain the rank of Lieutenant-General and replace retiring air force chief Roelf Beukes.
Mudimu, the current Chief of Naval Staff, would be promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral and take over from retiring Johan Retief, the department said in a special bulletin.
It also announced the promotion of Major-General Sipho Binda to the rank of Lieutenant-General from November 1 and his appointment to the post of Chief of Joint Support in which he had been acting.
Brigadier-General Solly Mollo, previous Director of Strategy and Planning, took up the vacant Chief of Human Resource Support post from the beginning of the month with the rank of Major-General.
The department said Rear-Admiral George Mphafi, previous Chief of Staff Fleet Command, has been appointed Chief of Defence Foreign Relations from November 1. He replaced Brigadier-General Damian de Lange "who is placed additional to the structure" pending a new appointment, the bulletin said.
Colonel Marius Cornelissen, currently the Formation Chaplain of the Joint Training Division, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General and was appointed Chaplain General.
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