TODAY'S COURT ORDER DIRECTING THE REINSTATEMENT OF 38 SANDF RECRUITS WHO WERE UNFAIRLY DISMISSED
PRETORIA, FRIDAY 22 AUGUST 2014
SANDU is delighted at the Pretoria High Court order today directing the Minister of Defence to reinstate 38 SANDF recruits retrospectively to 1 February 2014.
These recruits were part of a group of 93 who were sent home by the SANDF in February 2014, despite having been selected, contracted and had already started their basic training.
The SANDF refused to provide any reasons for the termination of their services to either the recruits or SANDU, which then prompted this legal action.
The SANDF had no lawful process or reason to terminate the services of these recruits. It is also highly suspicious that, after sending them home, busloads of new replacements arrived at the same bases, even though basic training had already commenced three weeks earlier.