‘Make sure Mozambique is stable for us to be safe’

With unrest in Mozambique impacting South Africa's borders, Minister Angie Motshekga defends military actions to stabilise the region.

The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga has spoken on the unrest in Mozambique, saying stability is needed to keep South Africa safe.

The Border Management Authority on 6 November temporally closed the Lebombo port of entry as a security measure for South Africans, which was then reopened on 8 November after the deployment of the army.“We have to make sure that Mozambique is stable for us to be safe. You would have seen what happened when Zimbabwe collapsed. It collapsed on our heads,” she said.

But while budget cuts and funding deficits have been a regular theme for the department, Motshekga has herself come under criticism for the recent withdrawal of United States forces from a defence expo in SA., that the decision to withdraw from the Africa Aerospace Defence Expo could jeopardise the efforts of Ronald Lamola, the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, currently in the US to improve ties between SA and the US.

“It is almost impossible to think this is only incompetence. It is known that some in government, the African National Congress , are very opposed to the US.

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