Minister Thandi Modise said this during the memorial service for the soldiers, who died when veld fires ravaged the Lohatla Combat Training Centre in Northern Cape. The memorial service for Abraham.
Lack of water and proper planning might have led to the magnitude of the fire that claimed the lives of six soldiers during a training exercise in the Northern Cape base camp last week.
The acting commander of 121 infantry battalion on Thursday described the horror and devastation soldiers faced when a veld fire spread to the Lohatla military base last week, killing six of them.