Lobbying and civil rights organisation AfriForum has called on Defence Minister Angie Motshekga to urgently investigate and address the significant decline in security at South African National Defence Force (SANDF) bases, particularly, but not exclusively, at the army’s Wallmansthal depot, north of Pretoria. Wallmansthal is one of the SANDF’s biggest vehicle depots. The issues needing attention there, and at other bases, include theft, trespassing, failure to adhere to security measures and the decay in base security infrastructure. These failures include inadequate entrance control, collapsing security fences and a general lack of infrastructure maintenance.
