In what would ultimately be her final act as the defence minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Thursday evening told MPs she had written to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to reduce the number of soldiers on the ground from 25,000 to 10,000.
Earlier, Mapisa-Nqakula told MPs that she was late for the joint standing committee meeting because she was locked in another meeting - presumably with Ramaphosa - just hours before he made his cabinet changes.
The president's hand was seemingly forced into the cabinet changes after ministers in the security cluster publicly pointed fingers at each other over the unrest, looting and public violence. Ramaphosa last night sacked Mapisa-Nqakula from the defence portfolio, saying she would be deployed to a new position, which has not been announced. She has been replaced by National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise.
Committee chair Cyril Xaba told MPs that the special meeting was called to discuss a letter submitted to the National Assembly by Ramaphosa that made available 1,495 members of the South Africans National Defence Force in Mozambique at a cost of nearly R1bn.
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