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Departmental “blame game” leaves uniformed SANDF personnel in “crumbling facilities” – defenceWeb | SA News

Shack building at Happiness Village on the Marievale SA Army base. Picture: Groundup

South Africa’s military infrastructure is on the verge of total collapse, a National Assembly (NA) Parliamentarian said in the wake of a joint meeting of two oversight committees.

The high-stakes meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) and the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure (PCPWI) on 11 June laid bare deep institutional dysfunction and mistrust between the Department of Defence (DoD) and the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI). The session, held in Parliament, aimed to address the…

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