What started as a logistical nightmare has dragged on for nearly nine months as more than 800 SANDF reservists are still waiting for payment after being called up for military service during the violence and looting in KwaZulu-Natal in July 2021.
This latest blow to local business owners comes on the back of serious knocks many had already taken as a result first of the COVID-19 pandemic and then, more recently, the violence and looting that erupted in the province last July.
Mandy Wiener chats to Business Day political editor Hajra Omarjee, who says former state security minister Ayanda Dlodlo handed in her resignation last October.