2023-w2277 - 21 August 2023

Dianne Kohler Barnard to ask the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans:

(1) Whether she has been invited to make a submission to the panel probing the docking of the Lady R at Simon’s Town in December 2022; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether she has held any official at Defence Intelligence accountable for allowing the specified ship to dock at Simon’s Town; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans: on 21 Aug 2023

The Department of Defence was invited to make a submission to the panel probing the docking of Lady R in Simon’s town in 2022. The Department of Defence and its entities presented and submitted their version of events and evidence to the panel investigating the docking of Lady R in Simon’s town in 2022.

All invited parties were welcomed to submit any forms of ...

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2022-w2000 - 29 June 2022

Russel Nsikayezwe Cebekhulu to ask the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans:

Whether the SA National Defence Force has made any recent findings on any breaches in border security, given that hijackings persist and vehicles and other stolen goods continue to cross the borders of the Republic between KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique and Swaziland as well as Zimbabwe; if not, why not; if so, what are the full relevant details?

2022-w1779 - 18 May 2022

Sarel Jacobus Francois Marais to ask the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans:

Whether, with reference to her reply to question 638 on 22 April 2022, the house (a) previously occupied by Gen (rent) Shoke belongs to her department and (b0 appears on the asset register of her department and/or the SA National Defence Force (SANDF); if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (i) what rental amount has been determined for the Chief of the SANDF to occupy the specified house, (ii) on what date did Gen (ret) Shoke vacate the house, (iii) what rental amount did Gen (ret) Shoke pay for the period he occupied the house after he left the service of the SANDF at the end of May 2021 and (iv) what were the cost details to clean and prepare the house for the current Chief of the SANDF after Gen (ret) Shoke vacated the house?

2022-w1701 - 18 May 2022

Haseena Ismail to ask the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans:

Whether she has taken any action in terms of speeding up the completion of the vehicle verification panel process of military veterans; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

2022-w154 - 22 March 2022

Leonard Jones Basson to ask the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans:

Whether she and/ or her department ever received correspondence from certain political organisation (details furnished), via email, WhatsApp, hardcopy and/ or in any other format of which the original file is dated June 2022; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so (a) on what date was the specified correspondence received, (b) who was the sender of the correspondence and (c) what steps were taken by her department in this regard?

Reply from the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans: on 22 Mar 2022

No correspondence was ever received in June 2020 by myself or the departments from any political organisation in any format either email, WhatApp, or hardcopy.

a – c; are not applicable.

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