defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - 6 South African Infantry Battalion. Indications the military is not immune to South Africa’s criminal elements and their illegal activities comes from Makhanda, previously Grahamstown, in Eastern Cape where the SA Army’s 6 SA Infantry Battalion is headquartered. A reply to a Parliamentary question by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula brought to light there is currently no fence on the eastern boundary of the airborne infantry unit’s training area. She told Democratic Alliance parliamentarian Annette Steyn, asking on behalf of the party’s shadow agriculture, land reform and rural development portfolio, the fence “was absent as it has been stolen”.