snydergp: SANDF is alreadky preparing for an intense firefight with the M23 rebels.
It seems the SANDF, Malawi and Tanzanian soldiers/SADC Brigade would be involved in confrontation with DRC rebels as early as next week. With Tanzanian troops already in DRC and SANDF troop contingent already in Uganda with most of the hardware.
http://itweb.co.za/mobilesite/defenceweb/home/item_id-30501/

agaugust: .

[size=16pt]1,345 south african soldiers to launch new attack in Congo DRC[/size]

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/S-Africa-announces-troops-for-troubled-DR-Congo/-/1066/1751572/-/pe39q1z/-/index.html






south african army should deploy forces under a battlefield commander that has combat experience from angolan bush war and that will be a white man, the new officers commissioned into SANDF because they are blacks, may dissappoint them again like in CAR Seleka rebels engagements.

south africa needs to prove a beenefit to africa by bringing peace by the use of force in Congo DRC. south africa has not yet made any major contribution to african problems like nigeria did in liberia and sierra leone, flush out all rebels and conduct fresh elections if the people demand it, establish true democracy, dont look at president kabila's face.

south african military should NOT tell us stories this time, you are going together with the army of Tanzania, army of Malawi, and multinational SADC Brigade Soldiers. at least 3 other countries' soldiers are supporting you in the new offensive, so prove a point now south africa, use those nice weapons we see in your photographs and do something good for africa in Congo DRC.

i wish you goodluck.

scipher: they don't look tough Goodluck anyways

CAMEROONPRIDE: Why do they announce their attack?

CAMEROONPRIDE:
Watched the Nigerian bataillon

agaugust:

Ghana is rising fast due to new found oil wealth

CAMEROONPRIDE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVk1QXmn6WA
...
Watched the Nigerian bataillon

sambos994:

@ what part?

agaugust: i really want south africa/tanzania/malawi/SADC armies to win the war, Congo DRC people are really suffering and hungry in their land of riches. a real pity.

i expect AU and UN to send Ethiopian army into Congo DRC with massive air support from south african air force. the ethiopian soldiers are better experienced in real battle than south africa. money power and air power can come from south africa, ethiopia is poor, no money.

when is AU going to start using Angola with its very experienced battle tested army to help Africa solve our problems ?

south african army should handle easier wars like CAR. our AU and UN should start using ethiopian army to help africa, they are one of the best 3 armies in all africa from cape town to cairo.

south african air force should provide AU and Africa with an always ready air force of 9 grippen jets, 9 hawk jets, 9 rooivalk helicopter gunships, 18 atlas oryx transport helicopters and 3 C-130 hercules transports.

when God blesses you with assets/equipments and money/riches, try help your poor and weak african brothers. south africa is NOT doing enough for the weaker and war ravaged countries of africa.

see congo DRC women and children running from war zone into refugee camp

DictatorZAR:

You can be 1000 troops facing 10 000 if you are well trained and armed you can hold your ground even when there will be times of death within your rank.

sambos994: what part

CAMEROONPRIDE: oops I forgot..but go from 45 -60

sambos994:
Nvm I got it. Very interesting parade you guys got there.

DictatorZAR: Yet again you express your one sided baist foolish behavior.

DictatorZAR: Where did you get that foolish notion that SA has done nothing on the continent when it comes to conflict resolution.

DictatorZAR: To end a rebellion/civil war doesn't always mean you need the barrel of a gun to do such and this was what SA's policy was in the early to late 1990's under Mandela and later Mbeki who was well aware of SA's Apartheid legacy on the continent where border raids into Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambiqiue, Namibia, Angola. Malawi, Lesotho and colonization was of upmost importance. So I don't know where u @Aguagust came up with this bullsh*iiit you just wrote to satisfy your Ego.

DictatorZAR: You deliberately pick and choose what to say to suit your agenda. SA has intervened in many places without even getting a Africa wide media hype in its quest to solve conflict. In Lesotho SA under SADC plea stopped a unconstitutional removal of a President and stopped a rebellion within 24 hours by deploying a Battalion to squash rebels. SA under a AU mandate intervened and stopped a overthrough of the Burundi goverment and ethnic cleansing by rebels with 800 soldiers, now look at Burundi today its stable with a democratic goverment and its even contributing troops to Somalia. SA had 1200 troops in DRC since 2004 till now including Darfur. SA even helped with the establishment of the state South Sudan.

DictatorZAR: You need to read up on history.

DictatorZAR: On the issue of Angola not contributing to UN peacekeeping, what you forget is that 12 years ago Angola was still in a civil war and is still in a rebuilding faze. Angola today is focusing more on infrastructural issues then on building up its military since its main foe SA is now its biggest ally on the continent. Lastly Angola has contributed to the then conflict in DRC which saw Zimbabwe and others helping the DRC forces to get rid of Rwandan/Uganda rebels and forces against the DRC goverment.

DictatorZAR: Once again get your facts straight.

DictatorZAR: By the way what is a easy war when people die, seems you don't know allot my military worker "are u certain you actually work in a military company with such foolish statements. Ethiopians couldn't even handle its poor sons Eritrea who without even air support and manpower held there own.

DictatorZAR: When it comes to training we SA know we are the best, we don't rely on a naija boy to come and tell us that are better or even Ethiopians are better.

DictatorZAR: You mr @Aguagust need to stop acting like a General/Analyst when you just pushing paperwork in a company, without even single experience on what it takes to be a soldier.

sambos994:

@ wat part?

agaugust:

video time minutes 30 to 37.

nigerian army shine, we went with our own music band, we got two big claps/applause/appreciation from president biya, we gave him a double sword salute, and our legs co-ordination in slow march was great.

president biya was so happy nigerian army came as invited, i think he has an african spirit of unity.

agaugust: nigerian ex-president Obasanjo, young soldier, congratulated after he finished his mission in Congo DRC year 1961





the truth always hurts you



i did NOT say south africa has done nothing, i said south africa has not done ENOUGH



you made no meaningful point in paragraph above, you just mad noise and rant there.



Nigeria and AU were also involved in South Sudan and Dafur peace negotiation and military intervention, NOT only south africa, please dont steal nigeria's glory and add it to south african list of achievements.

lesotho, burundi, etc are very small conflicts that even Ghana can handle. south africa is too big for the tiny tiny fish that you are picking in the river



all of us can find that history on free internet, not only you can read.



Angola has no excuse, Nigeria got independence in october 1960 and the next month november 1960 Nigerian army sent 1,350 soldiers to this same Congo DRC thousands of kilometers away to solve the great congo crisis. do you think Nigeria is just the giant of Africa for nothing ?



my are facts correct.



Eritrea i have posted many times on this forum photos and comments that they are better infantry soldiers than Ethiopia, but their country is too small and has too many political issues of human rights violation and their army officers regularly R.ape the female soldiers, its not a good country for AU to rely on for african peace keeping.



the best trained army in africa is Nigerian army, a mixture of army tactics learned from USA, Britain, India, Pakistan, Italy, Germany, and Israel. its very hard to defeat the nigerian army, their combat tactics is a mixture of the world super powers battle tactics, Nigerian officers train in all these big countries military academies. if you fight nigerian army, you will get confused, they dont fight according to one single combat textbook, they mix many things together.

also remember, Ethiopian army has a better war history than south africa. they will defeat south african army and AU will come and rescue your soldiers from prisoners of war camp.



everybody has freedom of speech on this forum...i can open my mouth and say my opinion, like basket mouth

DictatorZAR:

patriot4:
Your mercenaries like to tell glorifying stories about themselves.
But this is what they did: "South African mercenaries grow rich guarding the diamond mines of the elite"
http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/1221/21062.html
Of course they would like to steal some of the glory of the Nigerian soldiers who fought the rebels.
But what I don't understand is how they can make you people believe that with their small number, they could amount to any thing apart from guarding mines, that shows how South Africans are always ready to believe any lie one says given it portrays them in a good light.

DictatorZAR:

1)Burundi had the same type of genocide on a smaller scale to what has happened in Rwanda and it has the same ethnic groupings found in great lakes region in central african region.

DictatorZAR:

2)The Sierra Leone conflict which even a small former SADF mercenaries stopped the same rebels where 1000's of your own soldiers died in the hands of a mixture of child soldiers and farmers.

DictatorZAR:
3)You come here and compare a 1960 civil war in the congo when the only weapons that was used were AK-47's, RGP's and practically no air support or accurate mortar fire were even present, to a 1979-2000 conflict where Migs, F1-Mirage's, T-55 tanks, missiles and anti air fire power was the order of the day, in Angola. Please stop comparing your self to Angola a country even today has a better equipped Airforce with over 12 Su-27/30's, compared to Nigeria's outdated Mig-21's that can't even stand a chance against 1 SU-27 let alone 12. So much for the Giants of Ego. The only giants you can claim is in your west region and not in East/North/South/Central parts of africa. Sort out your internal militancy and train your poor ill disciplined army who kill civilians and old people at checkpoint. Is this the training you are talking about.

DictatorZAR: 4) What glory are you talking about stealing is this the way Nigerians sees themselves as the only african nation who has and can bring stability to africa when Nigeria itself is currently in a low intensity "civil war". Sending troops to Darfur don't qualify as being the glory of anything even Uganda and Kenya is leading the war against al shabaab in Somalia we don't see them acting as if they are the saviors of africa. Nigeria couldn't even intervene in Mali fast enough which is 1000KM away and had to rely on France 4000km away and small Chad to stabilize Mali before Nigerians even had there troops and outdated Alpha's doing checkpoint duties on Mali soil. So much for the giants, of talk to much. Nigeria just by its size and what it promised to be in 1960 is the biggest failure on the continent.