At this time, the Head of Defence was a devoted Nationalist named Oswald Pirow, and he used the tensions brewing in the Northern Hemisphere as a good excuse to shore up South Africa's military defenses.
Ka nako ena hlooho ya tshireletso e ne le mmuelli wa popota wa boikemelo e leng Oswald Pirow, mme o ile a sebedisa tsitsipano e ritetsweng lefatsheng la leboya e le lebaka le letle la ho lokisa sesole sa Afrika Borwa.