Sinking navy sails on stormy seas

We wonder if the chief of the SA Navy, Admiral Monde Lobese, didn't just torpedo his military career with his distinctly unofficerand ungentleman-like comments about the slowly collapsing ability of his fleet to defend against anything, other than perhaps a flotilla of bath-time ducks.

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His main complaint, which he has voiced on a number of occasions and repeated over the weekend at a naval function, was that the slow implosion of government funding had rendered the navy basically unable to perform its tasks and defend our coastline.