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TimesLIVE reports that Parliament held an urgent debate on Monday on the deaths of SA soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Defence minister Angie Motshekga advised that the bodies of the 14 SA soldiers who were killed in Goma in the eastern DRC would be brought back home on Thursday. She told MPs seven of the soldiers were from Limpopo, three from the Free State, and one each from the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and North West. According to Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie, the parliamentary debate should have been delayed until the soldiers' bodies were brought back to SA. Meantime, EFF leader Julius Malema said the SANDF troops were not sent to the DRC to bring peace. “The deployment of our troops in the DRC is not about peace. It's about sending our soldiers to fight a never-ending war. This government keeps sending them to die in a foreign land and when they do, their bodies are not even brought back with the respect they deserve,” he said.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Thabo Tshabalala at TimesLIVE
- Read too, Soldiers who died in DRC to be laid to rest with full military honours, at SABC News
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