PERSONAL DATA

Names:       Brigadier General Lekhooa Matlali

Place of Birth:       Qacha’s Nek Ha Matlali

Date of Birth:        12 May 1972

Gender:       Male

Marital Status:       Married with a daughter

Enlistment Date:   1992

Appointment:       Assistant Chief of Logistics

 

EDUCATIONAL BAGROUND

·                    Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (Eagle’s Peak High School, Lesotho)

 

MILITARY EDUCATION

•        African Land Forces Summit (Zambia)

•        Civil Military Cooperation, Civil Military Relations, Handling of the Media by the Military and Role of the Military in a Democratic Dispensation Course (SAPMIL Lesotho)

•        Peace Keeping (Mali)

•        Basic Computer (Lesotho)

•        Officers Decision Making Process (Lesotho)

•        Junior Command and General Staff Course (Nigeria)

•        Legal Cadre (Lesotho)

•        Service Writing (Lesotho)

•        American Legal Studies Seminar (Lesotho)

•        Peace Keeping Seminar (Zimbabwe)

•        Basic Intelligence (Lesotho)

•        Platoon Commander’s Course (Lesotho)

•        Officer’s Cadet Course (Botswana)

•        Section Commander’s Course (Lesotho)

•        Instructor’s Course (Lesotho)

 

PROMOTIONS

•                     Lance Corporal (L/Cpl)

•                     Officer Cadet

•                     Second Lieutenant (2Lt)

•                     Lieutenant (Lt)

•                     Captain (Capt)

•                     Major (Maj)

•                     Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col)

•                     Colonel (Col)

•        Brigadier General (Brig Gen)

APPOINTMENTS

•        Assistant Chief of Logistics

•        Director Personnel

•        Provost Marshal

•        12 Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer (CO 12 Inf Bn)

•        Deputy Director Personnel

•        Commandant (Training Wing)

•        Staff Officer One Operations and Trainings (SO1 Ops & Trg)

•        Deputy Provost Marshal

•        Second in Command (Bn 2ic)

•        Company Commander (Coy Cdr)

•        Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty (ADC)

•        Senior Instructor (Training Wing)

•        Chief Instructor (Training Wing)

•        Tactical Instructor (Training Wing)

 

DECORATIONS

•        Military Medal for Meritorious Service (MMMS)

•        Military Service Medals (10,20,30) (MSM)

•        SADC Medal

 

INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENTS

 

•        Peace Keeping Exercise (South Africa)

•        Defence Attaché (South Africa)

 

HOBBIES

Reading, Writing, Sporting Activities, Watching TV 

 

OTHERS

•        Peace Support Operations

•        Computer • French