General Siphiwe Nyanda SSA SBS CLS DMG MMS MMM (born 1950) is a South African politician, former Minister of Communications from 2009 – 2010 and South African military commander.He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress, in 1974, and served as a field 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. Wikipedia