General Maomela Moreti Motau joined the ranks of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1974.

He set on the Joint Military Command Council, which drafted the detailed programmes of integration of forces as provided for in the Transitional Constitution.

Motau also worked on the draft resolution to the conflict of Burundi after the negotiations in Tanzania stalled.

The then Foreign Minister of Tanzania, who later became President of the Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Jakaya Kikwete, as facilitator of the negotiations, adopted Motau's draft proposal, which was finally adopted by the parties involved in the conflict as the final agreement.

He is a retired South African Army general who was chief of MK Intelligence in exile.