SANDF clarifies the discharge of 35 trainee medics who went AWOL in Cuba

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The members were sent in 2018 to study medicine.

The South African National Defence Force on Friday released details about the administrative discharge of 35 of its members who went on absent without leave in Cuba.

The members were sent to Cuba in 2018 to study medicine and had been on AWOL since February 2019. The SANDF said by going AWOL members contravened the Defence Act and military disciplinary code. SANDF said in a statement: “In order to attain this goal, the defence force is managed through the guiding principles of the Defence Force Act and the disciplinary code which each member must comply with or else bear the consequences.

 

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