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RECENT terrible disciplinary jobs in the South African National Defense Mechanism Military Unit (SANDF) have got been blamed on a deficiency of leadership, both of its civilian and military heads.

The lawsuit against 12 military wellness pupils who confront complaints that include bias to military subject was postponed in the Capital Of South Africa Military Health Service Court this week.

The lawsuit was postponed to February 27 for probes to be finalised.

Eleven work force and a adult female human face complaints of riotous and indecent behaviour, public violence, disobeying lawful commands, malicious harm to state place and bias to military discipline.

The complaints against the 12 follow clangs with military police force on February 4. The accused allegedly took portion in a imbibing bust and violently tried to halt police force force who attempted to intervene.

They were allegedly portion of a bigger grouping that barricaded roadstead with dustbins, tabular arrays and chairs as they partied at the Military Health Training Formation outside Pretoria.

Reports stated that military police tried to violent storm the three barracks where the political parties were taking place, but were forced to retreat, driven back by pupils armed with fire fire extinguishers and broken furniture.

Last week, Defense Mechanism Curate Mosiuoa Lekota was compelled to endanger austere action against serving and former SANDF members who, under the scope of the South African National Defense Mechanism Military Unit Union (Sandu), had planned to interrupt the gap of Parliament in an effort to do their grudges heard.

Such incidents should not be seen as characteristic of every unit, argued Henri Boshoff of the Institute for Security Studies. The jobs were structural.

The military in post-apartheid Sturmarbeiteilung dwells of two chief divisions: the civilian arm, which finds policy and is headed by the defense mechanism secretary. There is also the operational arm, which falls under the head of the SANDF.

Boshoff said the civilian arm was yet to fully set up itself. "I believe it is still trying to happen its feet." Yet, following the transmutation form of its early days, the SANDF was in a consolidation form characterised by significant outlooks to deploy in many of Africa's problem spots.

But the SANDF was still not free from the jobs of a "skewed rank-age profile" -- consisting of much less deployable aged members caught within the less ranks. The regular army have to postulate with aging equipment and the relative incidence of HIV, which is estimated at slightly higher than the national average.

Leadership, too, is one of the military's weaker areas. "The concatenation of bid is not functioning optimally -- in fact the human resources direction is dismal," said Stellenbosch University defense mechanism analyst Lindy Heinecken.

It also did not assist substances that SANDF caput Godfrey Ngwenya was believed to be unwell, although the consequence of his unwellness on his abilities was unknown. "They knew this when they appointed him," said Heinecken.

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The SANDF have also failed to cover with labor issues. Heinecken blamed Lekota for "consistently" undermining the corporate bargaining process, "which have got meant that grudges have heaped up, leaving Sandu with no pick but to constantly deal on the tribunals to intervene".

The labor labor union was pushing for a negotiated wage increment, among other issues.

But defense mechanism spokesman Surface-To-Air Missile Mkhwana zi said although it was a recognised union, Sandu had not proved it hour angle d a rank of at least 15000, a requirement for it to sit down on the military bargaining council.