South Africa (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

A rare commentary on the SANDF, which is scathing and asks why is 80% of the budget spent on personnel (now including veterans). The one comment ends with - on all public services:

unfit, overweight, overpaid, complacent, inefficient and hopeless

Link:https://theconversation.com/money-has-little-to-do-with-why-south-africas-military-is-failing-to-do-its-job-81216?

Not that the SANDF are alone, the ANC's rule increasingly looks like "snouts in the trough". See this week's BBC Newsnight report:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSHC6UPUgA