While appreciating the increase of salaries for soldiers by the President I still believe that much in redressing damages done by both apartheid and the 1994 democratic breakthrough should also be done. To count just a few, *a number of liberation soldiers are out of the defence force because of the nagative and reactive mentality they found there that was never eradicated by our own generals, housing has been a problem for soldiers, new recruits into the SANDF are not compatible with an envisaged transformation that is espoused by the government and the ruling party to be precise, there is a conscious initiative of replacing 'old soldiers' (i.e. former TBVC and the so-called Non-Statutory Forces) by the 'new generation', there is a conscious selective promotion that does not consider the former TBVC and the NSF, there is a lack of interdepartmental strategy for soldiers who might want to migrate to other government departments, rank progressive and capacity building is a privilege rather than a right, there is a loss of all data of ex-combatants, relegation of the veteran's to one department and not having departmental exchange has ensured that a lot of data of former soldier who never intergrated is lost within the system etc.* ** *These are just some of the challenges which I hope are captured in the Defence Commission. I agree with COSATU when it says this Commissions cannot be a substitute for a progressive trade union in the SANDF, this is where I believe it is needed most. DON'T TELL US ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES OR ABOUT 'THIN LINES BETWEEN MUTINY AND A STRIKE FOR SOLDIERS' SOILDER SHOULD BUILD A DEFENCE THAT CONFORMS TO BOTH ITS INTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL DYNAMICS. * *IN ALL WE ARE EXPECTING A DEFENCE THAT WILL SET A TREND LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY. * ** *International trends have shown that * ** ** *Mzukisi Ronyuza.* * *
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