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The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) says it will establish a unit dedicated to disaster management.

This comes in the wake of the declaration of a national state of disaster to respond to widespread flooding in many provinces over the past days.

The Chief of the SANDF General, Rudzani Maphanywa was speaking at the launch of Armed Forces Day in Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday. Maphanywa says, “We have already started utilising some of our assets in areas where people are affected to assist the people that were in distress both in Mpumalanga and here in KZN and Mpumalanga that planning is under way with local disaster management entities to ensure that we provide the necessary support to our people.”

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Establish 🤔🤔🤔 but they've got units to assist in other countries 😐😐😐

No they won't, they're broke remember, everything requires money...

While unable to pay salaries? 🤣

Yoh it take 30 years to establish a disaster management in the DEMOCRATIC S.A.? Guess that's the reason FOR NO SHOW AT THE JULY UNREST..... NO SHOW FOR THE KZN FLOODS... but they are READY TO EXERCISE with the Russian and Chinese army

Don't they have that on standby?

'It will'? I thought they have it already. Kanti what unit once safed a child with an helicopter on top of a tree during the floodings in Mozambique?

After 29 years, everything of ANC is a disaster':

In Northern Cape High Court Division, a matter between Agriculture vs Master of the High Court Kimberly Division was heard in 21 February 2022 to date NO Judgment has been released. OCJ_RSA ParliamentofRSA PresidencyZA AldrinSampear Min_JCS

They don’t have one in place already 😔 we are led Shame

How about establishing a unit to deal with the every day destruction this govt is creating that's worse than the flooding

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