Patriotic Alliance leader Caiden McKenzie hopes that parliamentary debate must have been delayed until the bodies of the soldiers were brought back to South Africa.
“When our soldiers are not returning, we are busy discussing here. The families of the deceased will now see it on TV. There is no urgency for this debate. This debate may have been moved until we have returned to this debate. Then we can come here and talk about it.”
EFF leader Julius Malema said the Sandf troops were not sent to the DRC to bring peace. “The use of our troops in the DRC is not about peace. This is about sending our soldiers to fight against the endless war. This government sends them to a foreign land. He said.