Lawrence Mbatha

Brigadier General Lawrence Mbatha is the 19th Commandant of the South African Military Academy.

Military career
He joined Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1984 and completed courses in Angola and Zimbabwe.

He became part of the South African National Defence Force in 1994 when all the forces were integrated.

In 2003 he served as Officer Commanding of the Army Support Base in Johannesburg, followed by an appointment as Personal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Army (2007) before serving as Officer Commanding of the South African Army Gymnasium in 2011. He became Commandant of the South African Military Academy in 2012.