The latest revelations before the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans confirm exactly what veterans have warned government about for years: the crisis within the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) is no longer about “implementation challenges”, it is about political failure, administrative collapse, and the deliberate narrowing of benefits that are already guaranteed in law.
The Department now openly admits that it ran out of pension funding as early as September last year and had to internally reprioritise funds just to continue payments. Yet veterans are once again expected to carry the burden for failures that were entirely predictable from the beginning.
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