Early on this week they were some rumors suggesting that the minister of South African National Defence Force Angie Motshekga spend over 10 million rand for her personal reasons.
As the country keeps on losing soldiers due to conflict that is escalating in Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to the latest update from DRC more than 7 soldiers have lost their lives one of those soldiers is reportedly coming from Limpopo Provence.
EFF Member of Parliament Carl Niehaus is calling for Defence Minister Angie Motshekga to resign from her position.
Niehaus who serves on Parliament’s portfolio committee on defence and military veterans and the joint standing committee of defence said;
Motshekga has turned a blind eye to SANDF’s state of affairs and operational capabilities for demanding missions like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He said “She must go, she must resign. She spoke on SABC last week, where she told us that everything is fine and that the SANDF is capable of dealing with anything that it can be faced with, it can protect the nation and everything is fine in the DRC. At that time, this tragedy we are now aware of, was already playing out.”
“Why was she presenting a false impression of the situation? The minister has known, for a long time, on the basis of information that is available to all of us – myself, her and other members of the portfolio committee on defence and military veterans and the joint standing committee on defence … we all know that the SANDF is collapsing.”
As things stand we are waiting to see what the president of the nation Cyril Ramaphosa will do with the matter.
BY LUCKY SEANEGO
