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COVID-19 puts paid to Armed Forces Day 2021
Written by defenceWeb -
There will be no Armed Forces Day/Week event this year.
The event is the single largest internal SA National Defence Force (SANDF) one annually and centres around 21 February, the day SS Mendi sank in the English Channel in 1917.
SANDF Director: Corporate Communications, Brigadier General Mafi Mgobozi, confirmed to defenceWeb this year’s event, originally scheduled for Mpumalanga capital Mbombela, was off.
“There will be no Armed Forces Day event this year,” he told defenceWeb telephonically, adding 21 February would “still be marked” with a decision yet to come on exactly how and where. ....

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