{"id":967361,"date":"2024-05-28T05:25:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967361"},"modified":"2024-05-28T05:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T05:25:52","slug":"sandu-urges-soldiers-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/sandu-urges-soldiers-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"SANDU urges soldiers to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">The South African National\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">Defence<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\"> Union (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/919597-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SANDU<\/a>) has called on its members to participate in the elections in their numbers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">This comes as South Africans are voting in the seventh democratic national and provincial elections this week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-za\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/iec-ready-for-second-day-of-special-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special votes<\/a> started on Monday and will proceed <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">today<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">, while election day is <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">tomorrow<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">SANDU\u2019s<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\"> national organiser, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">Mohapi<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">Mohapi, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">says that soldiers need to cast their votes for the elected government to <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">recognise<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\"> them and change what he terms awful working conditions, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">including a lack of <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">resources and low salaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">\u201cThose guys in the <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">DRC<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">, like I said, not only in the\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">DRC, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">I\u2019m mentioning\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">DRC<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0because our soldiers are dying there. Those guys at the\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">DRC<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">, they don\u2019t have tents to sleep on. Water pours into the tents that they have there when it\u2019s raining. We are expecting that the government of the day, the one that is coming (the incoming government) must take care of those kinds of things. When we talk about soldiers of South Africa, we make sure that they are going to take care of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>VIDEO | Defence union reacts to \u2018budget cuts\u2019 in the army:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_GAZpkktmcU?si=KrVBnKubu6M9hL9B\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">-Report by Thabang<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">Morutloa<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The South African National\u00a0Defence Union (SANDU) has called on its members to participate in the elections in their numbers. This comes as South Africans are voting in the seventh democratic national and provincial elections this week. 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