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The Special Reserve Force(SRF) is the police's SWAT team while the Special field Force(SFF) are mainly border guards and babysitting government offices ...the SFF came first and MOST Civilians all think all cammo police uniforms are SFF and are ignorant of the SRF...Either way Any police cammo arriving at any mass disobedience in Namibia means trouble

MikeCZAR:
Special forces?


Selection course? Some are sent to SA for the selection I think since 2007.

Nope Special Field Force(SFF)...not really special forces...they are more of paramilitary section within the police mainly made up of former swapo combatants that were not given jobs at independence and in the 90's they demonstrated and arm twisted the government into giving them jobs and many of them landed in the SFF....I think Gottfried misidentified the unit IMHO because that uniform belongs to the Special Reserve Force(SRF) and they are more of a SWAT unit than the SFF...Its the army commandos that are sent to SA for selection...haven't heard of the Police SFF or the SRF in SA....I stand to be corrected though...

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38765:german-vessel-responsible-for-firing-on-fisherman-during-ex-good-hope&catid=51:Sea&Itemid=106

The German navy’s frigate FGS Hessen was responsible for accidentally targeting a fishing vessel during Exercise Good Hope last month.

The German embassy said that the captain of the Hessen used practice ammunition rather than live ammunition when his frigate accidentally targeted a ski boat whilst carrying out a live fire exercise on 25 March in southern Cape waters.

Commercial fisherman and skipper Anthony Day, with nine crew members, launched from Struisbaai harbour at about 02h30 in his 28-foot boat, the Arctic. They intended heading to Twelve Mile Bank, south-southwest of Struisbaai, to fish for Geelbeck.
Day said that while he was waiting for his crew before launching, a charter boat operator arrived, towing the black-painted boat with a radar reflector. Day spoke to them and was informed that the boat was going to be used as a target at the Denel Overberg Test Range, approximately 20 nautical miles to the northeast.

Day launched his boat whilst the target boat was still tied up alongside the quay. He headed in a south-south-westerly direction opposite to that of the Denel test range. In the early hours of the morning, the Hessen mistakenly identified the fishing vessel as the 14 foot radio controlled ‘Hammerhead’ boat that was to be used for target practice as both the target and the ski boat had very similar profiles.

The German embassy said five rounds were fired at the boat, landing around 20 metres from their target, after being mistakenly identified by the Hessen’s commander and firing supervisor. After being shot at, Day immediately put on his bright deck lights so that the people on the boat could be seen, and headed west at full speed.

The German military said South Africa was responsible for closing off the area for training, according to Netwerk24.

At the time of the incident, German and South African forces were conducting live fire exercises off the coast of the Overberg Test Range, a declared live firing area, as part of Exercise Good Hope VI. Both tactical phases and missile firing were done using RIM-7 Sea Sparrow short range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons and RIM-116 rolling airframe missiles as well as Umkhonto infrared homing missiles, 76 mm guns and smaller weapons.

The German frigates Karlsruhe and Hessen together with the support ship Berlin were involved in the tactical exercise, with Hessen tasked with shooting the target vessel.

Which African navies are really capable??

osystein:
What all these ratings show is how much potential Naija has, if we're already so strong despite the poor governance and infrastructure problems, no one will touch Naija when both of those are rectified.

True about that..Nigeria with its huge population has a lot of potential no denying that.But 'change' always meets resistance and overhauling will be no easy task.People benefiting from the loopholes of the system wont easily give up

osystein:
Ibrahim Index of African Governance

nuff said. SA is head and shoulders above Naija when it comes to governing.

1 Mauritius81.7+1.3
2 Cabo Verde76.6+1.3
3 Botswana76.2+1.3
4 South Africa73.3+0.5
5 Seychelles73.2+2.7
6 Namibia70.3+1.1
7 Ghana68.2+1.6
8 Tunisia66.0+2.2
9 Senegal64.3+4.6
10 Lesotho62.3+3.8
11 Rwanda60.4+4.6
12 São Tomé & Príncipe59.7+4.4
13 Zambia59.4+3.1
14 Morocco58.8+2.9
15 Tanzania58.2-1.7
16 Malawi57.6+1.9
17 Kenya57.4+4.1
18 Benin56.7-3.5
19 Uganda56.1+1.0
20 Algeria54.4+1.4
21 Burkina Faso53.3-1.7
22 Mozambique52.2-2.2
23 Gambia51.6-0.9
24 Swaziland51.5+1.3
25 Sierra Leone51.1+3.9
26 Egypt51.1-8.0
27 Gabon51.0+2.0
28 Mali49.5-5.7
29 Niger49.4+5.5
30 Comoros49.3+0.3
31 Liberia49.3+3.4
32 Ethiopia48.5+2.1
33 Madagascar48.2-1.1
34 Cameroon47.6+1.5
35 Djibouti46.8+0.7
36 Togo46.4+2.8
37 Nigeria45.8+0.6
38 Burundi45.3-0.1
39 Mauritania44.5+0.8
40 Côte d'Ivoire44.3+7.8
41 Congo43.4+3.1
42 Guinea43.3+6.5
43 Libya42.1-7.4
44 Angola40.9+0.3
45 Equatorial Guinea38.4+0.1
46 Zimbabwe38.0+5.4
47 Democratic Republic of Congo
34.1+0.8
48 Guinea-Bissau33.2-6.8
49 Chad32.3+2.5
50 Eritrea29.8-2.8
51 Central African Republic24.8
-6.2
52 Somalia8.6+0.5

Who in their right mind would even dare compare ZA to Nigeria in Governance terms .Nigeria has ALOT of catching up to do in that regard. but then again as highly ranked as ZA it is faced by troubles(just like any other society) but those troubles by no means mean that they are badly(badly in a wider African context and the index proves so) managed as people might lead themselves to believe on this thread.The ANC government isint perfect but it is getting the job done and South Africans being as vocal as they are they will NOT settle for less from their government and they will continuously complain and object to ANY drop in standards and that has given an impression that ZA 'is' or 'belongs' at the bottom of the list.

NaijaPikinGidi:
And the thieving South Africans continue to show how stupid they are! With a helpless Zuma unable to bring the SANDF and SA Police to scared to act decisively.


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See the South African criminals.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp67H3UdvSk

Zuma needs to act before more blood is shed.One life lost is 1 too many..

Nigerdeltaboi:
which game reserve this wan escape from ?

your proving the point mate...instead of intellectually opposing the post you resort to name calling and personal insults..play the ball not the man...but then if you cant apply your mind and constructively debate the post then resort personal INSULTS on the individual