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DoD attempting to regain lost skills – Mapisa-Nqakula

DoD attempting to regain lost skills – Mapisa-Nqakula
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Power cuts at SANDF bases and facilities not an option

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Kobus Marais.
Last week’s black-out at the Dunnottar military base – the second in six months – is not an unusual occurrence at SA National Defence Force (SANDF) bases and facilities, according to Kobus Marais.
“Having no power at military facilities and installations is not on. They should be treated as national strategic facilities and should never be without power,” the Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow minister of defence and military veterans told defenceWeb.
Now in his second stint as the major opposition party’s defence and military veterans watchdog, Marais accepts he is a go-to for complaints about matters ranging from personnel through to the condition of equipment and lack of services, including electricity and water. In this regard he was on the contact list of SA National Defence Union (Sandu) national secretary Pikkie Greeff when the lights again went out at the east Gauteng base. ....

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Makhanda infantry base not secure

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6 South African Infantry Battalion.
Indications the military is not immune to South Africa’s criminal elements and their illegal activities comes from Makhanda, previously Grahamstown, in Eastern Cape where the SA Army’s 6 SA Infantry Battalion is headquartered.
A reply to a Parliamentary question by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula brought to light there is currently no fence on the eastern boundary of the airborne infantry unit’s training area. She told Democratic Alliance parliamentarian Annette Steyn, asking on behalf of the party’s shadow agriculture, land reform and rural development portfolio, the fence “was absent as it has been stolen”. ....

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