Thank you hon Minister, Chairperson of the Defence Review Committee, Mr Roelf Meyer, wrote in 2014:
"Even with an immediate intervention, it could take at least five years to arrest the decline and another five years to develop a limited and sustainable defence capability. The longer the neglect is perpetuated, the greater the effort, time and cost that would be necessary to arrest the decline and restore the minimum capabilities required to safeguard South Africa's borders."
It is now five years later. You mentioned in your response that the committee looking at implementation started only last year. The core of the first stages of the Defence Review has not been implemented.
In light of the need for further fiscal cuts, by when do you foresee that this will happen and what will be the effect of this delay?