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Edwin TshivhidzoPretoria

The South African National Defense Mechanism Military Unit (SANDF) have announced it is currently in the procedure of implementing new systems to enable it to break business relationship for and pull off its assets.

This in a command to turn to nine of the 16 unqualified studies the SANDF received from Parliament's Standing Committee on Populace Accounts (SCOPA).

According to January Masilela, the SANDF Secretary, the department, which have one of the biggest plus alkali both of moveable and immoveable assets, is not able to properly pull off its assets owed to mediocre computing machine systems.

"Some of the jobs of unaccountability are owed to the old systems which are currently being used in the section and therefore they were implementing new computing machine systems.

"Defence have a immense pool of plus and this presents a challenge to pull off it especially with the old systems. We are engaged in a procedure of cleansing the data.

"The systems at the minute are not linked to each other," he said, speaking to journalists at the South African Modesty Depository Financial Institution were senior defense mechanism functionaries were attending a seminar on plus direction on Tuesday.

Mr Masilela said as a department, they were confident that with the new measurements that are being put option in place, there will be more than answerability and control and direction of assets.

The Populace Finance Management Act takes to riddance of waste material and corruptness in the usage of public assets and to guarantee timely proviso of quality information.

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In 2006 Defense Mechanism Curate Mosioua Lekota dismissed mass media studies about the SANDF that it could not business relationship for respective Casspirs, an ambulance, bakkies, one fire-fighting truck, Jeep defenders, a H2O tanker, a Yamaha motor cycle, autos and a tractor.

At the clip the study claimed that 40 howitzer bombs, 54 R4 rifles, four R5 rifles, a sniper rifle, 12-gauge short guns, eight machine guns, eight handguns and 27 grenade rocket launchers were missing.

Minister Lekota at the clip explained that each of the vehicles reported to have got been lost was accounted for and that most were back in the state while some were still in operation.