Military veterans database cleansing underway defenceweb.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from defenceweb.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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SAS Drakensberg (A301).
Parliamentâs Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) heard the South African military, in all probability in the form of the Joint Operations Division, âprompted a conversationâ with Mozambique as regards the âmodus operandi and executionâ of the regional anti-piracy tasking Operation Copper.
In what a committee member termed âa masterstroke of under-statementâ given the volatile situation in northern Mozambique where beheadings, widespread intimidation and the capture of villages, towns and ports are common, the briefing points to a reconsideration of operations in the existing mandate of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) anti-piracy initiative.
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A SAAF Oryx in the DR Congo.
The decay at Denel has reached the stage where it is affecting combat readiness of especially the SA Air Force (SAAF) with a call for Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) to urgently investigate.
This was Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow defence and military veterans minister Kobus Marais’ reaction to a SAAF letter seeking guidance on providing financial authority approval for payments to the struggling State-owned enterprise.
Aircraft systems in danger of not remaining airworthy are C-130BZ Hercules cargo aircraft, Oryx medium transport helicopter and the South African designed and built Rooivalk combat support rotorcraft. This, according to a letter from Major General Setete Malakoane, SAAF Chief Director: Force Development and Support, is concerning for the Air Force in terms of Denel meeting its contractual obligations for product support and maintenance.
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Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) publicly acknowledged the “exceptional leadership” of outgoing SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief General Solly Shoke last week conveniently omitting a spat between the two some nine months ago.
Last June the same committee issued a statement via Parliamentary Communication Services taking what was termed “strong exception” to the non-appearance of South Africa’s top soldier at a briefing. One of Parliament’s two defence oversight committees was to be briefed on what to date saw the single largest utilisation of military personnel in South Africa since 1994 – the arrival of COVID-19. The committee, jointly chaired by Cyril Xaba and Mamagase Nchabeleng, pointedly mentioned the non-appearance of the South African military’s only four-star general as being without apology.