defenceWeb Written by SANews - 34 Government has established a Technical Task Team to provide technical support as well as to facilitate the implementation and monitoring of the program of action of the Presidential Task Team on Military Veterans. This was on Friday announced by Deputy President David Mabuza during the Gauteng provincial engagement with military veterans. This was to synthesise government’s intervention in resolving grievances and improving assistance to the community. The Deputy President emphasised that the role played by the many military veterans would remain etched in the national memory and consciousness of citizens. “[Military veterans] sacrificed everything about themselves in order to ensure that South Africa and indeed all our people are rescued from the relentless jaws of apartheid,” said the Deputy President.