COVID-19 and military justice (South Africa)

What if military personnel on pandemic lockdown duty engage in misconduct? DefenceWeb reports here on a current controversy involving personnel of the South African National Defence Force. "The Alexandra, Johannesburg, incident on Easter Sunday apparently stemmed from soldiers telling residents in a house they were not allowed to consume alcohol. This was allegedly followed by confiscation of liquor, an argument which is said to have turned into a fight and the subsequent death of one of the people living in the house." The South African National Defence Union has called for a board of inquiry:

“A Board of Investigation has the right to access all witnesses and evidence. The public must understand the SANDF will not allow its soldiers to act impervious of the law and without consequence – both the Constitution and the military justice system simply doesn’t allow for it.

“It will be easy to identify the soldiers allegedly involved as deployment patrols are subject to designated so-called sticks or platoons within specific patrol area parameters. That an incident occurred for which back up was called and effected, would have to be reported in the section and or platoon commander’s patrol report of a specific day. This report would be filed with the deployment headquarters which would then report to the Chief Joint Operations command centre.

“SANDF command has full control and access to these reports as well as to every uniformed member and the daily history of its troops’ section and platoon movements.