Court order for the arrest of leading SANDF officers for contempt of court

Court order for the arrest of leading SANDF officers for contempt of court

Pretoria – The SA National Defence Force says it is shocked but not surprised that the actions of a trade union led to an order for the arrest of three leading SANDF officers for contempt of court.

This comes after the North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of chief of the defence force General Solly Shoke, chief of the air force Lieutenant General Zakes Zimpande Msimang, and defence and military veterans secretary Sam Gulube.

SA National Defence Union (Sandu) secretary general Pikkie Greeff said: “The fact of the matter is that the three are in contempt of a court order which ordered them to re-employ four soldiers dismissed two years ago.”

The four soldiers’ contracts were terminated in 2012 despite there being 32 vacancies in the defence force at the time.

With Sandu’s help the soldiers fought the matter in court and an order was granted that they be re-instated in June. The group had not been re-employed by July.

“Now the court has ordered the sheriff of Pretoria to make arrests within 24 hours,” said Greeff…

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