Hon Speaker, hon members, all required equipment taken out of the country and used in peacekeeping operations is returned to South Africa when the equipment is no longer needed in the operational area. On delivery to South Africa, the equipment is handed back to the appropriate depot where it belongs.
If the equipment is damaged beyond economic repair, it is disposed of inside South Africa through the normal logistical disposal processes. In cases where the equipment is not returned for any reason, the Chief of the SA National Defence Force, through the Chief of Joint Operations, takes appropriate steps to ascertain where the equipment is and what happened to it.
Such steps would include, amongst other things, the setting up of a board of inquiry. In some cases it could be for legitimate reasons, such as when it would be uneconomical to airlift the equipment back to South Africa because of the equipment being damaged. Thank you.