Wilson Nqose, (Born Zolile Nqose), is a former chief of Service Corps in the South African National Defence Force, and a former founding member of the African National Congress's military wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
In 1964, he was briefly based at Tanzania, before moving to Zambia in preparation for the Wankie battle.
Nqose was part of the Wankie Sipolilo Campaign[1] in 1967, alongside Lennox Lagu, Zola Skweyiya and Chris Hani that fought and lost against the South African and Rhodesian Armies.
[2] He escaped imprisonment and returned to Zambia He later joined the South African National Defence Force, when MK was integrated into it in 1994, as a brigadier.
Nqose was promoted to major general in the late 1990s, before replacing Andrew Masondo as the chief of the Service Corps in 2001.