Cape Talk, Monday night

Because the government has also increased what they call salaries for the military personnel. It is taken that once salaries are increased, it's supposed to permeate down to those who have retired. So there is also the need to do proper computation. The salary increase, you have the private soldiers up to the rank of

Surgeon, they have a kind of 80% salary increase. Then you have what you call the junior officers or middle-level rank of major down. So they have 50% increase. Then you have the rednecks, colonel up to generals, 30%. So there has to be a competition of all of this so that everyone receives what he deserves. Now the pensioners are saying they are not getting it correctly.

Right. Thanks for that, Ben. And so at the heart of this really is that, you know, they're saying that they're being denied the full benefits, right, that they earned. But now I'm curious: how widespread is dissatisfaction among retired military personnel? Yes, you see, their pension is a payment coming from a central pool. That central pool starts from the National Salaries and Incomes and Wages Commission. It's a federal government.