Pat-a-cake... soldier man: SANDF's solution to its crippling lack of funding

Members of the SANDF watch bombs being dropped during an exercise demonstration at the SA Army Combat Training Centre in the Northern Cape, 9 November 2021. Picture: Jacques Nelles

It’s the latest SA iteration of the Bible: “They shall beat their swords into spatulas and their spears into tester needles…” Wherever the SANDF military is, there will be a Bombes Away, raking in the locals’ cash from the sale of baguettes, croissants, multilayered gateaux and delicious pain au chocolat.Or more likely, vetkoek, koeksisters, rusks and pot bread. This is how we spread a South African culinary culture: by military conquest, not SA Masterchef.

Kobus Marais, the DA shadow minister of defence, has called it a “bizarre” move. That’s all very well, but what is the beleaguered Defence Minister Thandi Modise supposed to do? It’s a military truism that “an army marches on itsLast week, parliament heard that soldiers sometimes have to go hungry or buy their own food, off-base, because of provisioning failures.

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