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Zuma Saga: South African Defence Ministry Backs Its Navy Chief
10 June 2009
The Department of Defence says it will not "entertain" unsubstantiated allegations against the chief of the SA Navy and other arms of service. This was the department's response to a Cape Argus report which revealed that the South African Security Forces Union (Sasfu) had accused Navy chief Refilu Johannes Mudimu of refusing to honour President Jacob Zuma. Sasfu claimed at the weekend that Mudimu had said he would not recognise Zuma as commander-in-chief because the president was not an educated man. The union also alleged that the navy was riddled with problems because Mudimu had run out of vision and that the SA Air Force was failing "brilliant black student pilots" because it was still run by "racists from the apartheid era". The SANDF had similar problems, the union said at a press conference on Sunday. "The department has noted with concern media allegations attributed to Sasfu," said spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi. "If true, the department finds it strange that Sasfu, whose members are employees of the SANDF, chose to ignore channels available to them to voice their grievances, but instead addressed such concerns through the media." Mudimu has kept mum on the union's claims, but independent commentators have leapt to his defence. SA Navy officers were not allowed to comment on the Sasfu claims as the matter is considered a departmental issue. Mudimu was described by commentators as a pragmatic civil servant with no obvious political affiliations. His policy on promotions among senior staff had been controversial, as he had focused on promoting on merit rather than on racial lines.
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