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SANDF facing a Public Protector subpoena for Interferon investigation

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A vial of Heberon.
Feedback from one of three investigations underway into the acquisition, from Cuba, of an unregistered drug to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the national defence force indicates at present no response from the SA National Defence Force (SANDF).
A senior investigator at the Office of the Public Protector, responding to Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian Kobus Marais on the investigation’s progress, said the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) answered an enquiry letter from the Chapter Nine institution as regards its involvement in the acquisition of Heberon.
The shadow defence and military veterans minister was further informed the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), still under the leadership of General Solly Shoke, had not replied to the Public Protector enquiry. ....

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Parliamentarian asks was Interferon acquisition necessary?

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Kobus Marais.
A question Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s Heberon task team has to ask is how many COVID-19 infections and deaths are there in the SA National Defence Force (SANDF)?
This, Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian Kobus Marais believes, will be a valuable pointer as to whether the national defence force needed to acquire the Cuban drug to boost soldiers’ immune systems for additional protection while on Operation Notlela duty.
He told defenceWeb questions on the number of infections and deaths were not responded to. “Working through the Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) brought the same outcome,” he said. defenceWeb experienced a similar response with questions to the SANDF Directorate: Corporate Communications going unanswered. A reliable source in the military indicated it was “quite possible” information on COVID-19 deaths and infections are treated as “battlefield intelligence” no ....

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