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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by AwodwaGyanOniwe: 11:26am On Jul 22, 2014
GraigB
Greetings my white friend are you still overseas
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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by AwodwaGyanOniwe: 11:43am On Jul 22, 2014
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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by AwodwaGyanOniwe: 11:57am On Jul 22, 2014
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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 12:23pm On Jul 22, 2014
BH is now capable of briefly capturing land.


Nigerian soldiers are still running when BH attacks.

I don't think this army would be able to deal with a sophisticated enemy that can hit with great precision and heavy weapons.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:44pm On Jul 22, 2014
SANDF

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:50pm On Jul 22, 2014
South African National Defence Force

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:52pm On Jul 22, 2014
A true professional army whith nearly 30 Years of combat experiance

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 4:16pm On Jul 22, 2014
exercises prepares every professional armies for final eventuality

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 4:18pm On Jul 22, 2014
Preparations makes perfect

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 5:13pm On Jul 22, 2014
The "Hilux army" soldiers would break rank and flee like they always do,if they had come across mechanized infantry attacking with Infantry fighting vehicles.

The spokesperson of the Nigerian army just confirmed it that soldiers run like head less chicken,when insurgents attack.

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 5:50pm On Jul 22, 2014
No insurgent would back then wanna come across these guys.

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 6:33pm On Jul 22, 2014
@AUGUSTUS spot the difference between professionalism and mediocricy....anyway Nigerian UAV is not even operational.....FUNNY FOR ANY AFRICAN GIANT

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 6:58pm On Jul 22, 2014
outh African company Desert Wolf yesterday unveiled its Skunk riot control drone at the IFSEC security exhibition outside Johannesburg. Armed with four paintball guns, it can fire a variety of ammunition to subdue unruly crowds.

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 7:01pm On Jul 22, 2014
South Africa upgraded the Russian antique Hind attack helicopter into a modern fighting machine for the Algerian Airforce

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 8:11pm On Jul 22, 2014
SANDF PRIDE OF THE NATION

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by chris365(m): 10:09pm On Jul 22, 2014
Thiza: A true professional army whith nearly 30 Years of combat experiance

ode. combat experience in arranged photo op. @mikeza just proved that the ones with the combat experience are rolling on wheelchairs.

sandf is a photo military. that's why you will never be chosen to lead in any AU or UN combat mission. your photo army will soon be saying "yes sir" to a real military with proven modern combat experience in COIN and successful peace enforcement operations.
professionals still look up to the big brother in policing Africa today. not photogenic military with shiny toys and inexperienced AIDS ridden cowards.

eat your heart outgrin.

Nigerian general appointed as AU Standby Force Chief of Staff

Brig.-Gen. Tijjani Kangbap Golau has assumed duty as the new Chief of Staff of the African Standby
Force in the Peace Support Operations Division of the AU Commission.
The News Agency of Nigeria in Addis Ababa reports that prior to this appointment Golau was Director,
Nigerian Army Centre for Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency.
Golau was deployed by Defence Headquarters to represent Nigeria in continental peace support
operations at the AU Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He replaced late Gen. I. I. Hassan who died in 2007, while serving in the same capacity at the PSOD of
the AU commission.
NAN reports that the officer is expected to enhance the full operationalisation of the African Standby
Force base on recommendations of the report of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari-led technical committee.
The Gambari committee had reviewed the progress and the challenges in the effort for the
operationalisation of the force aimed to address the current regional and continental security
challenges.
The office of the Chief of Staff is expected to ensure the operationalisation of the African Standby
Force with full capability by the target of Dec. 31, 2015.
The African Standby Force was established following adoption of recommendations of the meeting of
Ministers of Defence held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 20, 2004.
This was in accordance with the AU Policy Framework for peace and stability of the continent.


una think sey na only to dey snap photo. action speaks louder my friendgrin.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by agaugust: 2:14am On Jul 23, 2014
chris365:

ode. combat experience in arranged photo op. @mikeza just proved that the ones with the combat experience are rolling on wheelchairs.

sandf is a photo military. that's why you will never be chosen to lead in any AU or UN combat mission. your photo army will soon be saying "yes sir" to a real military with proven modern combat experience in COIN and successful peace enforcement operations.

professionals still look up to the big brother in policing Africa today. not photogenic military with shiny toys and inexperienced AIDS ridden cowards.

eat your heart out; grin grin.

Nigerian general appointed as AU Standby Force Chief of Staff

Brig.-Gen. Tijjani Kangbap Golau has assumed duty as the new Chief of Staff of the African Standby
Force in the Peace Support Operations Division of the AU Commission.
The News Agency of Nigeria in Addis Ababa reports that prior to this appointment Golau was Director,
Nigerian Army Centre for Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency.
Golau was deployed by Defence Headquarters to represent Nigeria in continental peace support
operations at the AU Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He replaced late Gen. I. I. Hassan who died in 2007, while serving in the same capacity at the PSOD of
the AU commission.
NAN reports that the officer is expected to enhance the full operationalisation of the African Standby
Force base on recommendations of the report of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari-led technical committee.
The Gambari committee had reviewed the progress and the challenges in the effort for the
operationalisation of the force aimed to address the current regional and continental security
challenges.
The office of the Chief of Staff is expected to ensure the operationalisation of the African Standby
Force with full capability by the target of Dec. 31, 2015.
The African Standby Force was established following adoption of recommendations of the meeting of
Ministers of Defence held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 20, 2004.
This was in accordance with the AU Policy Framework for peace and stability of the continent.


una think sey na only to dey snap photo. action speaks louder my friend grin grin.


http://www.punchng.com/news/nigerian-general-appointed-au-standby-force-chief-of-staff/


Bwahahaha grin grin

Now African Union has become the final judge on this forum grin grin

South African photo shooting army abandoned again by AU like UN did in Congo DRC grin grin

No world standard organization has any atom of respect of Hollywood army like SANDF grin grin

Brigadier-General Tijjani Golau of Nigerian army is now boss of African Union military force, so South African army officers and men are now under the command of a Nigerian soldier of an army that has real life combat experience of 2014, SANDF will bow down to Nigeria grin grin

Everybody wants Nigerian army to lead Africa into battle, yes will will do it, even Egypt will envy us cool cool

All world class organizations want a battle tested army that is ready to k.ill and be k.illed in combat like Nigerian army cool cool

The wise-men of planet earth want soldiers who have current year 2014 war experience and can handle a secret enemy that hides in forests like Boko Haram....like Nigerian army makes it impossible for Bokos to show their face and fight and stay, they always fight and run away across borders into Cameroon or Chad, and into secret forests. A true soldier stays to fight and win, Bokos are criminals and cowards who m.urder innocent and defenseless women and children...but Nigerian army is roasting the Bokos, UN and AU are impressed, they know SANDF will not survive a Boko Haram war, and luckily they have not been tested, but un-luckily they have not been rated too, so because they are unrated and cannot even be found on the rankings table, Nigeria becomes military boss over South Africa, we get the supreme job of leading Africa into battle from 2015 till the end of the world and kingdom come. cool cool

SANDF keep your soldiers alive, avoid war, avoid death, make more photos....your destiny is to sit down at the bottom of the ladder in current combat achievement by the judgement of international organizations grin grin

PHOTO : NIGERIAN ARMY, SOLDIERS WITH CURRENT ENEMY K.ILLING EXPERIENCE 2014, MEN WHOSE RIFLES HAVE 'TASTED' H.UMAN B.LOOD


South African soldiers show your ZERO experience 2014 grin grin

Nigerian soldiers show your HERO experience 2014
cool cool

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by chris365(m): 9:10am On Jul 23, 2014
for the ignorant south African fools who foolishly deceive themselves that more than half of Nigerian population is poor or live on less than one dollar a day. here's another slap to your dirty ignorant facesegrin.

Only a Third of Nigerians are Poor, Says World Bank
Going by the statistics released to journalists yesterday
in Abuja by the World Bank, only 55.9 million Nigerians
(about 33.1 per cent of the country's population put at
169 million) are living below the acceptable poverty
level, a significant improvement from the figure
released last February by the Nigerian Bureau of
Statistics (NBS) which put the poverty level at 112.519
million (62.6 per cent). The World Bank also predicted a
7.4 per cent growth rate in the country's Gross
Domestic Product (GDP).
The World Bank attributed the improvement in the
poverty statistics to the positive economic trend as
well as significant progress made towards poverty
eradication in the country by the government. The
poverty figure by the World Bank was drawn from its
2012/2013 poverty estimates while the one by the NBS
was from the 2009/2010 estimates.
h www.thisdaylive.com/articles/only-a-third-of-nigerians-are-poor-says-world-bank/184323/

see why I don't bother with you south african fools here. bunch of ignorant bastarrrds

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by iterator25: 9:18am On Jul 23, 2014
Thiza: @AUGUSTUS spot the difference between professionalism and mediocricy....anyway Nigerian UAV is not even operational.....FUNNY FOR ANY AFRICAN GIANT
lol why don't you show us the Nigerian gulma UAV?

and I heard a Nigerian general will be "commanding" sandf soldiers in the AU force? true or false? hehehehehehe..

perhaps you'd stop posting training exercise pictures and poses..
nice pictures by the way
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by dragon2(m): 9:22am On Jul 23, 2014
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/only-a-third-of-nigerians-are-poor-says-world-bank/184323/

Going by the statistics released to journalists yesterday in Abuja by the World Bank, only 55.9 million Nigerians (about 33.1 per cent of the country's population put at 169 million) are living below the acceptable poverty level, a significant improvement from the figure released last February by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which put the poverty level at 112.519 million (62.6 per cent). The World Bank also predicted a 7.4 per cent growth rate in the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).....

....The World Bank said, in its second edition of the Nigeria Economic Report (NER) which was launched in Abuja that going by the recent rebasing of the economy as well as analysis from the new General Household Surveys (GHS) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) with the support of the Bank, new poverty estimates in 2010/2011 and 2012/2013 should be within the range of 35.2 per cent and 33.1 per cent respectively...
.......Although the previous NBS Harmonised Nigeria Living Standards Survey (HNLSS) 2009/2010, which took a larger study sample into account had estimated poverty rate at 62.6 percent, the Breton woods institution said it had strong reasons to believe that "consumption was seriously underestimated in the large HNLSS household survey in 2009/2010."...

....It stated that an analysis of a panel survey data (GHS) of 5000 households for 2010/2011 and 2012/2013 provided "evidence that consumption is likely higher than previously estimated from the HNLSS survey.".....
...The NBS had since placed a temporary suspension on publishing unemployment statistics pending the adoption of a new methodology, it was gathered...

..The Bank also said an unofficial assessments using accepted International Labour Organisation (ILO) methodologies would suggest that the unemployment rate in Nigeria is less than 10 per cent compared to the 25 percent figure by the NBS...


I remembered when we argued about this, we repeatedly said the poverty figures by the NBS was erroneous.
drag_on

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 9:34am On Jul 23, 2014
Truly small things amuses small minds....how can you shout about a General appointed to the AU. South African military is force to be recon with and cannot be compared with Internationally assisted and trained Nigeria.

Here below a true force uncomparable with rag tag armies

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 9:38am On Jul 23, 2014
See the picture of Nigerian soldier wearing sandals in a battle zone and some with unfasten boots which indicates the state of unpreparedness

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by dragon2(m): 9:43am On Jul 23, 2014
Thiza: See the picture of Nigerian soldier wearing sandals in a battle zone and some with unfasten boots which indicates the state of unpreparedness

Is he carrying any weapon or helmet? And who told you that is a battle zone?
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by dragon2(m): 9:53am On Jul 23, 2014
Thiza: Truly small things amuses small minds....how can you shout about a General appointed to the AU. South African military is force to be recon with and cannot be compared with Internationally assisted and trained Nigeria.

Here below a true force uncomparable with rag tag armies

Do you remember this?

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Exam-cheat-is-training-army-20130407

Adriaan Basson, City Press
Johannesburg - The officer in charge of training soldiers for deployment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an exam cheat.

And in another embarrassment for the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), a top UN official sharply criticised the discipline and combat readiness of South African soldiers in Sudan in a recent letter.

Brigadier General Sithabiso Mahlobo, who was found guilty in 2002 of cheating in exams, is in charge of the training of soldiers who are in the process of being deployed to the war-torn North Kivu province of the DRC.

He is the commander of 46 SA Brigade in Kengray, Johannesburg.


In a classified letter, Lieutenant Colonel T Mashalaba, the commander of an infantry battalion of the SANDF, which was until recently deployed in the troubled Darfur region in Sudan, flatly refused to allow his soldiers to receive training from the UN and the African Union (AU) after one of his soldiers died in an ambush last year.

Mashalaba was in command of the 10 SA Infantry Battalion when Rifleman Vincent van der Walt, 23, died in the ambush in October.

Soldiers' lack of discipline

A letter from a senior Unamid official, in which the quality of South African soldiers’ training was sharply criticised, had been distributed among senior South African army officers just more than a month ago.

The letter, which was apparently also sent to top officials at the UN headquarters in New York, mentions the soldiers’ lack of discipline and their arrogance.

According to Mabanga, all South African soldiers are properly trained when they arrive at a mission and it is not acceptable practice to receive training from another country.

He said: “If any defects in our training are detected, they must be reported to us. We have not received any such communication from Unamid.”

He said the army has no knowledge of the accusations against Mashalaba.

We know all your training pictures is just hot-air.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by dragon2(m): 10:23am On Jul 23, 2014
SA-LOA-N-DF tongue tongue

“I’m just a citizen now, a pensioner,” said former finance minister Trevor Manuel when he testified this week at the Seriti arms procurement commission, which is probing allegations of graft in South Africa’s arms deal.

To his left sat the man he reportedly dubbed “the gorilla on my back”, anti-apartheid activist and retired banker Terry Crawford-Browne, who spent his life savings fighting the deal now estimated to have cost R70-billion.

“I believe that the selected package was affordable and within government’s fiscal envelope,” said Manuel. He signed loan agreements with four international banks in 1999 to buy frigates, submarines, fighter aircraft and helicopters to replenish South Africa’s ageing defence force equipment stores.

Critics, including Crawford-Browne, have long held that the deal was riddled with corruption and amounted to an elaborate confidence trick in which arms companies promised offsets ­ or countertrade ­ worth R100-billion and the creation of 65 000 jobs. They did not materialise.

http://www.armsdeal-vpo.co.za/articles17/grumpy.html

Pretoria - Cancelling loans secured for financing the 1999 arms deal would hurt the South African economy, former finance minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/cancelling-arms-deal-detrimental-1.1702025#.U898cThQF_A

South Africa purchased four frigates, three submarines, helicopters, jet training aircraft and Gripen fighter jets in a Strategic Defence Procurement Process that, in 1999, came with an estimated price tag of R30-billion. That figure has since ballooned to an estimated R70-billion, taking financing costs into account.
http://www.algarvedailynews.com/news/2353-south-africa-in-the-same-mess-as-portugal-over-german-submarine-deal

Loan defence force that can't maintain its capital assets,cant deploy in any sizeable number nor spread its shiny assets(e.g roovalk) across the broad spectrum of its Armed forces. now you are strugling to pay back. LOL
Don't annoy me or i will come back here with humiliating links and posts. angry angry angry
I still have em... cheesy cheesy cool cool

cut your coat according to your size tongue

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 11:26am On Jul 23, 2014
chris365:

ode. combat experience in arranged photo op. @mikeza just proved that the ones with the combat experience are rolling on wheelchairs.

sandf is a photo military. that's why you will never be chosen to lead in any AU or UN combat mission. your photo army will soon be saying "yes sir" to a real military with proven modern combat experience in COIN and successful peace enforcement operations.
professionals still look up to the big brother in policing Africa today. not photogenic military with shiny toys and inexperienced AIDS ridden cowards.

eat your heart outgrin.

Nigerian general appointed as AU Standby Force Chief of Staff

Brig.-Gen. Tijjani Kangbap Golau has assumed duty as the new Chief of Staff of the African Standby
Force in the Peace Support Operations Division of the AU Commission.
The News Agency of Nigeria in Addis Ababa reports that prior to this appointment Golau was Director,
Nigerian Army Centre for Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency.
Golau was deployed by Defence Headquarters to represent Nigeria in continental peace support
operations at the AU Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He replaced late Gen. I. I. Hassan who died in 2007, while serving in the same capacity at the PSOD of
the AU commission.
NAN reports that the officer is expected to enhance the full operationalisation of the African Standby
Force base on recommendations of the report of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari-led technical committee.
The Gambari committee had reviewed the progress and the challenges in the effort for the
operationalisation of the force aimed to address the current regional and continental security
challenges.
The office of the Chief of Staff is expected to ensure the operationalisation of the African Standby
Force with full capability by the target of Dec. 31, 2015.
The African Standby Force was established following adoption of recommendations of the meeting of
Ministers of Defence held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 20, 2004.
This was in accordance with the AU Policy Framework for peace and stability of the continent.


una think sey na only to dey snap photo. action speaks louder my friendgrin.

Yes, because we are so heavily involved in AU deployments.

Also, those positions are political not operational

Your man will be flying a desk

The men on the ground will be commanded by their own SANDF commanders

the ones with the combat experience are rolling on wheelchairs.

No, pic related.

On the other hand, Nigerian soldiers with CONVENTIONAL combat experience do not exist... while your "COIN experience" is limited to being unable to defeat RUF for a decaded (and having to be bailed out by the British and the USMC) and fighting BH WHO HAVE BEEN GETTING STRONGER SINCE YOU LAUNCHED YOUR OFFENCIVE.


Plus, the AU as an organization is lead by a South African... so your General will be saluting a South AFrican in anycase.

Boom, two different arguments used to wreck your one myopic argument grin grin grin

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 11:29am On Jul 23, 2014
agaugust:


http://www.punchng.com/news/nigerian-general-appointed-au-standby-force-chief-of-staff/


Bwahahaha grin grin

Now African Union has become the final judge on this forum grin grin

South African photo shooting army abandoned again by AU like UN did in Congo DRC grin grin

No world standard organization has any atom of respect of Hollywood army like SANDF grin grin

Brigadier-General Tijjani Golau of Nigerian army is now boss of African Union military force, so South African army officers and men are now under the command of a Nigerian soldier of an army that has real life combat experience of 2014, SANDF will bow down to Nigeria grin grin

Everybody wants Nigerian army to lead Africa into battle, yes will will do it, even Egypt will envy us cool cool

All world class organizations want a battle tested army that is ready to k.ill and be k.illed in combat like Nigerian army cool cool

The wise-men of planet earth want soldiers who have current year 2014 war experience and can handle a secret enemy that hides in forests like Boko Haram....like Nigerian army makes it impossible for Bokos to show their face and fight and stay, they always fight and run away across borders into Cameroon or Chad, and into secret forests. A true soldier stays to fight and win, Bokos are criminals and cowards who m.urder innocent and defenseless women and children...but Nigerian army is roasting the Bokos, UN and AU are impressed, they know SANDF will not survive a Boko Haram war, and luckily they have not been tested, but un-luckily they have not been rated too, so because they are unrated and cannot even be found on the rankings table, Nigeria becomes military boss over South Africa, we get the supreme job of leading Africa into battle from 2015 till the end of the world and kingdom come. cool cool

SANDF keep your soldiers alive, avoid war, avoid death, make more photos....your destiny is to sit down at the bottom of the ladder in current combat achievement by the judgement of international organizations grin grin

PHOTO : NIGERIAN ARMY, SOLDIERS WITH CURRENT ENEMY K.ILLING EXPERIENCE 2014, MEN WHOSE RIFLES HAVE 'TASTED' H.UMAN B.LOOD


South African soldiers show your ZERO experience 2014 grin grin

Nigerian soldiers show your HERO experience 2014
cool cool

.

Battle experience doesnt count for anything.

South Africa trains battle hardened American soldiers... surley if combat experience of individual soldiers was relevant, it would be the other way around?

Your "combat experience" argument is:

1. Your last refuge as you know our men are better armed, trained, equipped and led.
2. Actually an insult to Nigeria as you were unable to defeat RUF or Charles Taylor in a DECADE of combat, and unable to do anything at all about BH

You are a joke, and your General salutes a South African.
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 11:37am On Jul 23, 2014
dragon2: SA-LOA-N-DF tongue tongue

“I’m just a citizen now, a pensioner,” said former finance minister Trevor Manuel when he testified this week at the Seriti arms procurement commission, which is probing allegations of graft in South Africa’s arms deal.

To his left sat the man he reportedly dubbed “the gorilla on my back”, anti-apartheid activist and retired banker Terry Crawford-Browne, who spent his life savings fighting the deal now estimated to have cost R70-billion.

“I believe that the selected package was affordable and within government’s fiscal envelope,” said Manuel. He signed loan agreements with four international banks in 1999 to buy frigates, submarines, fighter aircraft and helicopters to replenish South Africa’s ageing defence force equipment stores.

Critics, including Crawford-Browne, have long held that the deal was riddled with corruption and amounted to an elaborate confidence trick in which arms companies promised offsets ­ or countertrade ­ worth R100-billion and the creation of 65 000 jobs. They did not materialise.

http://www.armsdeal-vpo.co.za/articles17/grumpy.html

Pretoria - Cancelling loans secured for financing the 1999 arms deal would hurt the South African economy, former finance minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/cancelling-arms-deal-detrimental-1.1702025#.U898cThQF_A

South Africa purchased four frigates, three submarines, helicopters, jet training aircraft and Gripen fighter jets in a Strategic Defence Procurement Process that, in 1999, came with an estimated price tag of R30-billion. That figure has since ballooned to an estimated R70-billion, taking financing costs into account.
http://www.algarvedailynews.com/news/2353-south-africa-in-the-same-mess-as-portugal-over-german-submarine-deal

Loan defence force that can't maintain its capital assets,cant deploy in any sizeable number nor spread its shiny assets(e.g roovalk) across the broad spectrum of its Armed forces. now you are strugling to pay back. LOL
Don't annoy me or i will come back here with humiliating links and posts. angry angry angry
I still have em... cheesy cheesy cool cool

cut your coat according to your size tongue

lol, and as we speak Jonathan is on his knees begging for a BILLION DOLLAR LOAN
http://www.punchng.com/editorial/jonathans-1-billion-loan-for-security/

And we have paid off 68% of our loans with payments to end in 2018
http://www.lhr.org.za/news/2014/arms-deal-cost-r46bn-treasury-reveals

And with that we got assets which you can only dream of

I reccomend you look in the mirror before you hurl insults

And we have paid off our loans
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 11:40am On Jul 23, 2014
dragon2:

Do you remember this?

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Exam-cheat-is-training-army-20130407

Adriaan Basson, City Press
Johannesburg - The officer in charge of training soldiers for deployment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an exam cheat.

And in another embarrassment for the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), a top UN official sharply criticised the discipline and combat readiness of South African soldiers in Sudan in a recent letter.

Brigadier General Sithabiso Mahlobo, who was found guilty in 2002 of cheating in exams, is in charge of the training of soldiers who are in the process of being deployed to the war-torn North Kivu province of the DRC.

He is the commander of 46 SA Brigade in Kengray, Johannesburg.


In a classified letter, Lieutenant Colonel T Mashalaba, the commander of an infantry battalion of the SANDF, which was until recently deployed in the troubled Darfur region in Sudan, flatly refused to allow his soldiers to receive training from the UN and the African Union (AU) after one of his soldiers died in an ambush last year.

Mashalaba was in command of the 10 SA Infantry Battalion when Rifleman Vincent van der Walt, 23, died in the ambush in October.

Soldiers' lack of discipline

A letter from a senior Unamid official, in which the quality of South African soldiers’ training was sharply criticised, had been distributed among senior South African army officers just more than a month ago.

The letter, which was apparently also sent to top officials at the UN headquarters in New York, mentions the soldiers’ lack of discipline and their arrogance.

According to Mabanga, all South African soldiers are properly trained when they arrive at a mission and it is not acceptable practice to receive training from another country.

He said: “If any defects in our training are detected, they must be reported to us. We have not received any such communication from Unamid.”

He said the army has no knowledge of the accusations against Mashalaba.

We know all your training pictures is just hot-air.

So you proved that one out of TENS OF THOUSANDS of officers is a fraud?

Well done.

SANDF trains harder than anyone else in Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkGDBczV_Tg

And we have the results to prove it.

Reminder: We killed more enemy in a "defeat" than you have killed BH to this date.

We have one of the longest range sniper kills in recorded history.

We defend towns. You lose towns and watch powerlessly as their inhabitants are slaughtered.

Your enemies parade equipment they have captured from you infront of cameras, while they violate your children.
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 11:42am On Jul 23, 2014
Naijas cannot forward any meaningful debates only rhetoric, insults and misplaced narrow nationalistic arguments which have been time and time again smashed by SHEKUR and his boys.

No conventional warfare was ever fought by Nigeria accept an internal civil war of Biafra.
Nigerian airforce has never fired a missile in anger against another plane.
Nigeria only establish a special forces capability about two years ago and still lacks a lot.
Nigeria only fought in Liberia and Sierra Leone against a rag tag bandit armies.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 11:45am On Jul 23, 2014
Negative Arguments wont make Nigeria a better army in Africa.....For more than 50 Years Nijas were lied to as being this great army until South Africa emerged in 1994 with an undisputable, advance and professional military which is 100 years ahead on Nigeria.

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 11:48am On Jul 23, 2014
South African designed, made and Produced.......not a joke as seen in Nigeria

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