Defence budget reduced by R2 billion due to SANDF withdrawal from DRC

Defence budget reduced by R2 billion due to SANDF withdrawal from DRC

Finance Minister outlines new defence spending for DRC troop withdrawal - defenceWeb

The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has announced that government is reconfiguring funding for the troop deployment to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the South African National Defence Force’s contribution to the Southern African Development Community mission there. “This is in light of the announcement of South Africa’s phased withdrawal from the East African country. In this regard, the R5 billion we had proposed to a…