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“A fine place, worth fighting for”: Why South Africa needs urgent defence funding – defenceWeb | SA News

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The number being promoted for the South African defence budget is 1.5% of GDP. The President, Minister & Deputy Minister of Defence, and parliamentary committees on defence have all mentioned this number for over 12 months. Or to use the words of the Deputy Minister of Defence; “Even when in 2023 the President issued a directive to increase defence funding from 0.57% to 1.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), subsequent Cabinet meetings reduced these urgent calls to mere rhetoric, and the National Treasury failed to allocate the necessary funds.” There is so much alignment yet zero…

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