Armoury break-in a sad commentary on state of military

South Africans woke up to the disturbing news on Wednesday that military weapons - including heavy machine-guns, hand grenades, explosives, R1 assault rifles and Uzi sub-machine guns - had been stolen from the Simon's Town Naval Base armoury.Equally disconcerting was the revelation by Western Cape community safety MEC Dan Plato that there had been two other burglaries at the base, between March and April.