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During the period 1994 to 1998 South Africa developed a comprehensive defence policy framework through transparent and consultative processes that led to the promulgation of the White Paper on Defence in May 1996 and Defence Review in April 1998. One of the provisions of this policy was that the "SANDF will comprise a relatively small Regular Force and a sufficiently large Part-Time Force". The part-time component would in turn consist of the conventional units (citizen force) and territorial units (commandos).