SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE UNION IN REACTION TO RECENT INFORMATION THAT CHIEF SANDF HAS ORDERED AN INTELLIGENCE OPERATION TO IDENTIFY ALL PERSONS WHO ' LEAKED' INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA REGARDING THE CAR

19 APRIL 2013

SANDU has been alerted to the fact that Chief SANDF General Solly Shoke has ordered a military intelligence operation to identify all persons who have 'leaked' information to the media on anything to do the Central African Republic deployment. 

SANDU views this in a very serious light as no crime has been committed and no troops were endangered by information obtained by the media. The only danger being in the fact that our troops shouldn't have been placed in the predicament it had been in the first place. The only 'damage' caused was a massive embarrassment to Government s not by people telling the full truth. 

This Intelligence operation is a blatant abuse and waste of state resources and should not be tolerated. We implore SANDF management to rather better its communication skills with the public of South Africa, than engage in a petty Apartheid styled witch hunt against the media and its sources. This is impeding on freedom of the press and information, as the public's right to know the truth behind the unnecessary and untimely death of our troops in the CAR.

This latest development compounds the suspicions of a cover up.

Statement issued by Pikkie Greeff, SANDU national secretary, April 19 2013

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