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8 000 SANDF members deployed to front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic
By Zainul Dawood
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DURBAN - The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) have conducted 12 452 roadblocks, 7 800 vehicle-checkpoints and 35 000 patrols since the Covid-19 lock-down began.
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said the SANDF deployed more than 8 000 personnel to the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. The minister revealed this when she tabled the department’s budget vote during a mini plenary of the National Assembly this week.
She said the SANDF had been progressively asked to do more for less for several years. Mapisa-Nqakula said that, taking aim at the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). She said the reduction of more than R15 billion over the MTEF had placed the SANDF in a very difficult position.
Minister says South Africa’s army is in serious trouble
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Defence and Military Veterans minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has again warned of the severe financial strain facing her department which she says will impact South Africa’s defensive abilities.
Presenting her annual budget to parliament on Tuesday (18 May), Mapisa-Nqakula that the further reduction of over R15 billion over the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) has put her department in a ‘very difficult position’.
“We must inform this house of the negative impact our declining allocation has had and will continue to have on the Department of Defence in general, our military capabilities in particular, and our ability to meet our operational responsibilities assigned to us as well as our international obligations.
By Udora Orizu
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has accused about 32 government agencies of failing to remit their 80 per cent operating surplus to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF), thereby hindering accurate determination of operating surplus liabilities and diminishing accountability and transparency in handling government revenue.
The commission said over N1.2 trillion in revenue was still being withheld by the defaulting agencies, keeping money away from government’s reach for funding of its budget.
The Chairman of the Commission, Victor Muruako, who spoke while briefing National Assembly correspondents Wednesday, said the agencies failed to submit their audited account to the commission to enable it calculate their operating surplus which is supposed to be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation.
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