Recent tragedies affecting the SANDF may look unrelated and purely accidental, but Mpumelelo Mkhabela argues they all point to the declining capacity of the armed forces.
The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) seems to be teetering on the brink. The government ignores all the available signs of a calamity at the country's peril.
The recent death by murder and suicide of two SANDF members who were deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the UN Mission is the latest in a string of tragedies that have a common root.