SANDU the military union’s attorney in Pretoria sent an urgent letter to the SA National Defense Force (SANDF) on behalf of members who have been told that they must go home. The SANDF members were told to go home because there were no further rations available to provide food. The members, however, cannot leave their base, because they have not been paid and do not have transport money.
The SANDF were given a chance to sort out this situation by November 30, 2016, and to provide SANDU with an undertaking that rations will be distributed to the relevant basis.
According to information passed on to Front National, a decision taken by suppliers of SANDF not to supply food and other equipment, as they were not paid for prior services. Therefore, the SANDF soldiers at various bases are sitting around waiting.
SANDF was once a proud army, once one of the best in the world and now, through mismanagement and corruption cannot even provide its soldiers with basic food.
Read the original article by Daniel Lötter in Afrikaans on Front Nasionaal SA – blad
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