Jamangile added that the Covid-19 pandemic was an urgent warning to the SANDF to prepare 'for future wars' which also took unconventional forms.
Members of the South African National Defence Force patrol the streets of the Johannesburg CBD, 1 April 2020, during a nationwide lockdown. South Africa's lockdown imposes strict curfews and shutdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Picture: Michel Bega
These were the words of the SANDF’s head religious officer, Brigadier-General Monwabisi Andrew Jamangile, the chaplain-general of the country’s armed forces.This “war” claimed almost 500,000 lives around the world – making it “the most deadly and dangerous war we have experienced after World Wars One and Two.”
A “war that is destroying the nation invisibly” was just as much “a real war” – but would need to be fought differently.Their first task, as military commanders, had been to convince their own troops that this “invisible enemy” was actually real.And, even though this “war” was different, Jamangile said he was proud the armed forces had “defended” South Africans, as they had sworn to in their “oaths of office”.
The MJC’s Sheikh Irafaan Abrahams said the organisation “commended the commander-in-chief, President Cyril Ramaphosa, for his decisive leadership in leading the country and dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic”.
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