Voorsitter, ek wil vir die agb Adjunkminister vra wat gaan dan aan in die weermag? Daar word van mense verwag om diens te doen tydens 'n noodsituasie. Daar is bevelvoerders wat agtuur die aand mense opgeroep het om sesuur die oggend noodsaaklike dienste te gaan verrig, veral in hospitale.
Natuurlik is die probleem dat die agb Minister-hulle die kommando's afgestel het, want dan sou hy meer mense gehad het, maar die feit van die saak is di mense het alles opgeoffer. Hulle lewer 'n diens en nou wil u vir my kom s u vat vier maande om die dokumentasie reg te kry sodat die mense hulle salarisse kan ontvang.
Ek wil 'n voorstel maak dat die agb Adjunkminister en die Minister nie hulle salarisse kry voordat hierdie lede nie hulle salarisse gekry het nie, want baie van daardie lede ... (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[Mr P J GROENEWALD: Chairperson, I want to ask the hon Deputy Minister what is happening in the army. It is expected of people to perform services during an emergency. There are commanding officers who have called people up at eight o'clock in the evening to instruct them to perform essential services at six o'clock the next morning, especially at hospitals.
Of course, the problem is that the hon Minister and his colleagues did away with the commando system, otherwise he would have had more people, but the fact of the matter is that these people have sacrificed everything. They have rendered a service and now you are telling me that you need four months in order to prepare the documentation so that these people can receive their salaries.
I want to suggest that the hon Deputy Minister and the Minister not receive their salaries until these members have received theirs because many of these members ...]