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SANDF Chief General Solly Shoke and President Cyril Ramaphosa take the salute at Armed Forces Day 2020.
The first stop for outgoing CSANDF General Solly Shoke on his end-of-duty tour was North West late in April with stop number two set for Northern Cape this week according to the Directorate Corporate Communication (DCC) of the national defence force.
Shoke will be accompanied by his successor, current Lieutenant General Rudzani Maphwanya, to the provincial capital Kimberley on Wednesday as he says farewell to provincial commanders and introduces them to Maphwanya.
Potchefstroom was Shoke’s first end-of-duty tour stop when he called on the SA Army’s’ Extended Command Cadre (ECC) conference. He also had sight of concept designs for new SA Army dress, including a replacement for the daily camouflage workwear.
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New boots and working dress coming for the Army.
Among reasons for the landward component of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) embarking on a replacement exercise for among others, its boots and camouflage uniforms, are them being compromised, old-fashioned and uncomfortable.
This will, in time, see SA Army personnel wearing a new working uniform with one of three different camouflage patterns, new boots and a new camouflage cap, similar to the French Foreign Legion’s kepi.
The new uniform, boots and other clothing projects, according to Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, follow concerns raised by her as well as Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) and the Defence Force Service Commission on the poor quality of combat boots and uniforms. Soldiers deployed with the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) found boots wore out quickly in the hot and humid environment.