“Insults” don’t deserve comment – DoD Head of Communication

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The senior communicator at the South African Department of Defence (DoD), Siphiwe Dlamini, told defenceWeb he does not respond to “insults”.

This was in reaction to a hard-hitting Daily Maverick editorial in the wake of a media conference last week where SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief, General Rudzani Maphwanya, made public the official line on supposed death squads in the national military.

The Daily Maverick editorial, titled “All optics on the SANDF”, reads: “When General Rudzani Maphwanya called a media briefing on Thursday [7 December] to address Open Secrets’ damning multi-part investigation into the torture and assassination squad operating within the SANDF, you would think things would be as serious as humanly possible”…