defenceWeb Written by Kim Helfrich - 456 Apart from somewhat poor communication with its various external audiences, there also appears to be a lack of communication internally at the SA National Defence Force (SANDF). defenceWeb, by virtue of being in the defence and military news business, has regular contact with those tasked to supply information to South Africa in the broadest sense of “the country”. Thus it was the Directorate: Corporate Communication (the “mouthpiece”, if you want of the SANDF) was asked for information on military exercises planned for the year. After a second round of prompting, we were informed there would be no exercises in the calendar year 2021.