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Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 8:31am On Jul 24, 2013
Mike..ZA:
Did you hear your Olesegun,was given a boat or denied to observe the Zimbabwe elections? Ask what this comment has to do with you again LOL,I guess you're ashamed to be Nigerian.

A weak attempt to digress/derail from the SANDF failures around Africa. An idi.ot of your calibre will keep looking for mud to sling around each time you come across a Nigerian. Your story is as irrelevant as the leprous fingers that typed them! Who are the Pan African Forum? A group of Kenya-based attention seekers? Of what impact do their views have on the superior and well-informed decision of AU Heads of States that chose Obasanjo to be the Chief Observer of the Zimbabwean elections? SADC cannot be trusted by AU to be impartial hence they ignored your Thabo Mbeki ... so don't come here peddling stupid irrelevancies!

I am a Nigerian and will fly my Green White Green colours proudly for life!! That's why you'll always remain GREEN with envy!!

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 7:24am On Jul 24, 2013
Mike..ZA:
"No country" with well organised and powerful armed forces,would send its wounded soldiers abroad for treatment.

And what has that got to do with my own comment? grin
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 12:56pm On Jul 23, 2013
andrewza:

Seleka never over ran our base. So you talking out your ass. I siad they would not let's us fly in our renforments in to CAR.

Seleka never overran your base ... so why are you blaming France for refusing your retreating troops refuge around the Airport? Why were SANDF nowhere to be found when Seleka were posing and taking photographs in your deserted base?

Who ever told you that telling lies will make you handsome?

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 12:50pm On Jul 23, 2013
andrewza:

If you think the world cares about africa you should check your self in to a mental instustion.

Moronic tendencies of Mr. AndrewZA. So is it the South African lying media that cares about Africa. You must be a certified mental case beyond medical redemption!!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 12:48pm On Jul 23, 2013
andrewza:

Seleka never over ran our base. So you talking out your ass. I siad they would not let's us fly in our renforments in to CAR.

You are talking with your head right inside your butto.cks while still lying through your teeth! No country will legitimately be in need of reinforcement to combat a common enemy and be denied access/ability to land reinforcement. Had that been the case, then how did SA take up the matter using available diplomatic channels!

Please tell lies and excuses to yourselves!!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 12:05pm On Jul 23, 2013
andrewza:

Our media has more intrest in it. Sort of non of it was ileagel but there were and still are SA companys in CAR those companys pay the goverment Tax the goverment is ANC.

The world media has as much interest. So what was MsauZA's point?
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 12:02pm On Jul 23, 2013
andrewza:

The french would let us evac from the airport but would not let us bring in renforcments.

The SA solders at the palace was the training team that the solders out side bangue were there to protect. Not one of the training team was hurt.

Please can you stop with all your shifting excuses already! The last time it was you who mentioned the French were in charge of the airport and wouldn't let SANDF retreat towards the secure airport area after Seleka overran your base ... now this? Please stop all the lies!!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 10:35pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Cut it anyway you want. The fact is that European football is better and African players stream to Europe as soon as they get the chance. They do not play in the Naai-gerian league because the Naai-gerian league is useless, compared to the European league. You should not be bragging. You should be hiding in embarrassment. Naai-geria battles a brain-drain situation and is hungry for professionals. Yet people stream out to better systems. To better countries. grin grin

Only a Naa-gerian would celebrate a brain-drain challenge under those circumstances. grin

Ok - I have to go now. I cannot spend my life arguing with Naai-gerians all day. There are more inspiring things out there.

Chow now.

Our league does not match the European leagues but obviously, our players are fit and highly sought after to play in those leagues.

In deed you are South Africa's best dribbler on this thread. You continue to dribble yourself to dizziness! What the world and South Africa lack in football and multidisciplinary skilled profesionals ... Nigeria continues to supply. It speaks volumes of the grossly understated capacity of our institutions and the world-class human capital that Nigeria churns-out regularly. Curiously you fail to answer why locals in your "better" country do not, have not, and cannot match the superior qualities of our Nigerian-trained professionals. Try a different sport!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 10:08pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Once again - see how South Africans responded. We aren't a ghetto, where people can just do as they wish. Naai-gerians defend this.

South Africa does not.

Have fun reading the below kiss

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MINISTER IN UNIFORM UNSUITABLE

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=233221&sn=Detail&pid=71654

"The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Ms. Lindiwe Sisulu's appearance in uniform at Freedom Day celebrations at the Union Building was unsuitable (see here). T[b]he Minister is the political head after the President as supreme commander of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).[/b] The wearing of the uniform can be seen symbolically as the mixing of politics with defence force issues. Such actions politicises the SANDF even further and is unsuitable," says Mr. Pieter Groenewald (MP), chief spokesperson on Defence for the Freedom Front Plus.

"One of the core findings of the Interim Defence Force Service Commission was precisely that the SANDF is still too politicised and negatively affects the morale of the members. It was found that there are still two systems in place for defence force numbers for soldiers. A system for soldiers from the previous regime and a system for the new regime.


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http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/sisulu-s-dress-code-slammed-1.1062118

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu's appearance in uniform at Freedom Day celebrations was “unsuitable”, the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) said on Thursday.

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http://news.iafrica.com/sa/724529.html

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Try again All4Naija. You failed at this time grin grin





That's the real wannabe SA army General. She wasn't in the military rank and file or top brass yet your weak and spineless SANDF general prepared her a pretty uniform and none ... not even boots for poor Jacob Zuma? That is the real meaning of hijacking! Checkout the last photo with the fat SANDF generals chuckling like school kids behind the headmistress ... so hilarious! And you all had the guts to mind our President's constitutional business?

Now ... this shows the difference between a disciplined military command structure and a disorganised military weapons modelling force. The greater difference yet resides in the beauty of Nigeria's thriving democracy and constitutional values where the military is subservient to a democratically-elected President and Commander-In-Chief whose powers, rights and priviledges are spelt out in the constitution.

So afraid to defend the indefensible, you clearly took the easy path by disowning the mockery brought by Lindiwe Sisulu and Jacob Zuma to your SANDF ... a clear constrast with us Nigerians who overwhelmingly love to see our elected Presidents decked in their military uniform as the Commanders-In-Chief.

Bottomline: You are South Africa ... we are Nigeria ... therefore, mind your business while we take care of our superior business. Don't come declaring a problem for us, when where none exists.

Petty jealousy!!

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 9:31pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Let's see, Africa exports football players to Europe. Therefore, African football is much better than Europen football undecided

No. grin Better emoticon.

Naai-gerians lost in the middle of a debate.

The point is you are in dire need of professionals grin

But you cannot hold on to your professionals. They prefer to go to better countries. Better countries, being South Africa, the Uk, the US etc.

Answer me this: Why can you not attract international professionals at the same level? . You do have shortages, don't you?

You know why? Your system is useless and has no foundations. So people leave you and you cannot plug the holes. Brain drain.

Lame attempt boy!

More like this: African footballers bring an attractive, bullish and a forward-moving style to the game ... something that is missing in European football. Not surprised that your brain has failed to figure out the reason(s) for the undying interest by European scouts for African football talents. Demand equals supply. European football economics ... is about sustaining local/international viewership ... it's about the fans and what the fans want to see that is lacking from local players! SA lacks the brains to work in those nice university buildings so we provide them enmass!

You sit in your corner and think there are no foreign professionals in Nigerian institutions? You have not done your research ... and I will not do it for you!

A useless system that produces useful materials to educate SA's huge population of 33% capacity brains must be a great and superior system from strong foundations.
Our high quality human capital comes-off our university production lines in steady numbers, so don't stress on Nigeria's behalf ... we produce enough to go round !

Not sit down and be a good boy!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 8:57pm On Jul 13, 2013
To finally put the envy of South Africans -- AndrewZA, Mike..ZA, SAEngine, CraigB and crew to shame with regards to Nigeria's President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces - President Goodluck Jonathan's constitutional right to wear his nice-fitting uniform ... Can these same South Africans explain why civilian lady Lindiwe Sisulu pictured below is dressed in Military uniform as an ordinary Minister of Defence and not the spineless president Jacob Zuma?






[img]http://news.iafrica.com/assets/13/1119/160012/577500.JPEG[/img]

[img]http://cdn.mg.co.za/crop/content/images/2012/06/13/Lindiwe-and-JZ.jpg/676x380/[/img]

So much for the NO civilian in army uniforms blabbing! Hopefully, our ever comical CraigB can help provide us with at least a basis for this weak military command hierarchy. This definitely clearly points to the disorganised lines of command/order/communication within SA's highly unionised and indiscpline SANDF. These pictures show how casual serious military business is handled.


Can someone give those fat SANDF trio in the background a round of applause.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 7:45pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Ok, you've become a one-liner. I've come to predict you. You've lost.

And suddenly when pinned to a corner (seemingly by a simple one-liner) you conveniently drop your ranting about "warrantless spying methods"? Show more grit and spine boy!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 7:23pm On Jul 13, 2013
agaugust:

NYSC produces 300,000 fresh nigerian graduates every year. no shortage of smart brains. some other 'big' africa countries depend on educated immigrants to come and sustain their 'more adavnced' country where mathematics and science is a difficult mountain for its citizens to climb grin

True talk my brother!

And for real South Africans get scholarships to study DJ-ing! No brains for the hard maths and science stuff.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 7:11pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Ok, you've become a one-liner. I've come to predict you. You've lost.

It must hurt you so deeply whenever I reduce you to just one line!
Okay ... here's a second line. Like it now?

Chei! No be small thing o!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 7:08pm On Jul 13, 2013
saengine:

Your children miss daddy. Thats the only thing you should be worried about, not me buying agustine a ticket. Im sure they cant wait 4 you to arrive at OR Thambo.


Humour me some more young man! You seriosuly could earn yourself a career in comedy at this rate! No! I'll arrive via the Airforce Base near Pretoria. Let me know ... I can have the beer you're dying for delivered to an address of your choice! Such is the desperation of a South African comedian. Just name your brand.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 7:00pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

No shortage of smart brains, you say. Well, show us were these "smart brains" prefer working in Naai-geria. They get brain-drained out, because of the uselessness f the Naai-gerian system.

Anyway, you've become a cheer leader on the subject grin

I should go eat. My job is done here kiss

Again you coyly agree silently that the brains from Nigeria are in hot demand ... which speaks to the quality of output of Nigeria universities ... something the so-called university rankings fail to figure out.

Yes, go eat so you can replenish your wasted energy! It must be such hard labour responding to the high-level debates here. Dammit ... it's your low brain capacity that's causing the rapid energy drain!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 6:49pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

I repeat- governments do spy. The trick is to find finesse. Please - do us all a favour and find a South African who celebrates being spied on like your backward Naai-gerian lot do. Just one South African please.

You mail & guardian article proves my point. South Africans don't take kindly to being spied on willy-nilly.Our media exposes it and we have the opportunity to confront government. So, yes - thank you for the article. The very South African article cool. We can all agree, that given the article alone, the SA government couldn't get away with a balloon over Joburg.

That how civilised nations respond to warrantless spying. But noooo, not in Naai-geria! Citizens themselves say : "we'll done government! Please fly a balloon over us and spy on us". They celebrate it.

The fact that Naai-geria cannot find a more civilise way to deal with its perceived threats is an indictment to the country. The fact that your Naai-gerians celebrate the barbaric zeppelin balloon is an indictment to all Naai-gerians.

Oh, please make up your mind. Decide whether the balloon is a space thing or spy thing. Do let us know.

Before I forget, your 33% quip has long lost its potency. You need another one.

So the American forces in Afghanistan that have also applied a similar device lack finesse because CraigB thinks/says so? You don't take kindly to being spied on ... cannot stop being spied, and yet continue to spy on others.

This quote is from the report the had a very apt title: Spy wars: South Africa is not innocent

"And, much like the United States, South Africa spies on its own citizens illegally, and continues to do so despite knowing the spying cannot be justified under the Constitution. That includes listening in on the conversations had by specific people, supposedly individuals who require watching, but also extends to the bulk harvesting of information about law-abiding citizens – with little to nothing in the way of oversight or assurances that the data will not be misused, and a history of exactly such misuse"

http://mg.co.za/article/2013-06-21-00-spy-wars-south-africa-is-not-innocent

Don't come here acting embarrassingly stupid!

Finally, as long as you have failed to deny the 33% benchmark pass for your matriculating kith and kin ... by your own admission it has made the desired impact ... and continues to do so very potently. For once CraigB speaks the truth ... unknowingly!

Now go home to mummy!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 6:34pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

There's no substance in what you just said grin

... Says the deluded owner of a brain built to maximum 33% capacity.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 6:32pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Show me a single university in the world that does not have international professors?

Fact is Naai-geria loses it's professionals to better countries, because it is useless. Professionals from Naai-gerian would rather go elsewhere. How many of your doctors and professors do you lose to better countries?

Just recently, you tried to argue that our better trained army personnel get poached by other countries. So, by your logic, these South African army personnel are going to help build these useless countries they get poached to? [color=#990000][/color]

You don't know how to debate! grin grin

Here's what your professor has to say about the better country that is South Africa grin

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/online-special/what-nigeria-should-learn-from-south-africa/

I am posting the whole thing plus the comments, before you try to ignore it:




‘What Nigeria should learn from South Africa’
January 26, 2013 at 4:08 pm
Written by Lekan



All the copy and paste was needless. However, you have tacitly just proved that Nigeria's homegrown, home-trained, and world-class academic and skilled "professionals" run the show in South Africa, yet your 33% brains continue to guide you in self-denial and condescending talk about universities in Nigeria and the rest of Africa.

Keep maintaining the buildings for us!!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 6:24pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Of course it's the wrong equipment for our nation. We would never allow the government to use it. It will never fly over Joburg or Cape Town. South Africa isn't a ghetto that flies balloons over its cities.

For want of something to say, you keep embarrasing yourself.
It's quite an interesting trait for a growing kid like you!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 6:22pm On Jul 13, 2013
saengine:

Yes 007. Because you've hacked into my ABSA bank account and know my bank balance. Focus on your secret mission in Africa and when you come back home to SA i'll buy you a few beers.

Another poor attempt at being a comedian! You sound desperately eager to get a free beer from me! Pathetic fellow calling his piggy-bank/coin box a bank. My children have better bank balances to show.

I no fit laugh abeg!

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 6:17pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Oh is that so? Naai-geria's brain drain is now called a "good gesture". The fact is your teachers would rather be in South Africa and not Naai-geria. Heck, your teachers would rather be in any other country but Naai-geria.

You can't afford to export any teachers grin, but you do still. You can't hold on to them. cheesy

Better countries always poach professionals from poor countries. That's what happens when you don't improve your own systems. You currently lack teachers yourselves, yet you still export them? undecided

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http://news.onlinenigeria.com/nigeria-news/4555-fg-lacks-funds-to-pay-teachers-outstanding-allowance.html

FG lacks funds to pay teachers outstanding allowance

The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said the Federal Government lacks funds to pay teachers the outstanding allowance of N1.44 billion owed them for the 2011 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) training programme.
- See more at: http://news.onlinenigeria.com/nigeria-news/4555-fg-lacks-funds-to-pay-teachers-outstanding-allowance.html#sthash.FWjIE6mg.dpuf

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NIGERIA LACKS EMPLOYABLE TEACHERS

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/education/19724-nigeria-lacks-employable-teachers

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http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/contending-with-teacher-shortage-in-public-private-schools/

More challenges may confront the Nigerian education sector as primary, secondary schools currently encounter problem of shortage of teachers. The ugly development is incidentally noticed across the country. The trend is more pronounced in public schools because of the increase in children’s enrolment.

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Oh, and your 2009 article grin is in direct agreement with the above. What happened since 2009 anyway, given that in 2013, reports say that you still have shortages? grin

You never stop to outdo yourself just as you always fail to address/rebut the salient points instead choosing to digress.

Point is ... SA's nice university buildings are meant for the hot brains and intellectual minds from outside of South Africa to help improve the your local dull brains from its current 33% levels. You fail to address the perennial teachers strikes across South Africa and the books delivery failure of your education sector managers to the Limpopo Province -- one of the dullest population centres in South Africa.

Nigeria is never in short supply of academic/intellectual manpower ... they come-off the production line every year and get introduced to the system via our profound NYSC Corp programme.

We can take this further! Try again.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 6:00pm On Jul 13, 2013
saengine:

No one is stopping foreign media from going to DRC. You can even go if you want to, and report for nairaland.com. I'll buy you a ticket.

Buy yourself a train ticket to Soweto before dreaming of getting a plane ticket for someone!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 5:54pm On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Which goes to show that your and your Naai-gerian brothers are talking for the sake of talking. Scipher too is clueless.

No one's saying they are. Spy balloons fall under the category of warrantless spying systems.

Because of their range, they spy over whole populations and aren't selective. That's the point. .

Now you Neanderthals are celebrating that, like true Naai-gerians. The world says no to warrantless spying by their own governments and you uncivilized lot say "Yes, please government. This is an achievement. Spy on us!"

Look - you don't even understand what the issue is about warrantless spying. All you people that have responded to me. Typical Naai-gerians. Clueless.

I repeat. South Africa is not a ghetto. We are a democracy and we will not have spy balloons hover above cities. Only Naai-geria could do something like that over Abuja. Naai-geria has no foundations and the voters know nothing about their own rights.

You are lost inside your rear-end! In which world do you live in? Our use of the spy balloons are warranted for spatial information gathering in places/locations of military interest in wartime and other special situations as the military intelligence commanders deem fit. You seem so terrified by the word "spy" hence the tantrums about "warrantless" spying! Something you have no clue about. The President and the military commanders give warrant for spy ops whenever necessary ... a common practice the world over! It's the game of being ahead of your enemies.

Any perceived threat to Nigeria's national security interests is a trigger for deployment of intelligence/spy operations. Your 33% brain cannot figure out the fact that spying - better referred to as intelligence gathering - is so complex that being a democracy becomes an irrelevant talking point? Talking about ghetto nature, the link below is a pointer to the local nature of your SA spy and intelligence agencies.

http://mg.co.za/article/2013-06-21-00-spy-wars-south-africa-is-not-innocent

You'll need to deal with your hypocrisy and delusions rather than bringing up unrelated issues about voters and rights into the debates. But do bare in mind that the EFF will be romancing your clueless 33% brained voters very soon.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 4:16pm On Jul 13, 2013
saengine:

Unlike Nigerian troops SA troops dont have time to ask for birth certificates and identity documents from rebels shooting at them. I guess Nigerian troops 1st ask for documents before shooting back. I dont know undecided

More of the same comedy coming from SAns.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 3:22pm On Jul 13, 2013
Hezron Lorraine: ...

Loving these photos to death meeeeen!!!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 1:55pm On Jul 13, 2013
Possible talking points have been highlighted in bold type.
http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/05/17/sandf-learning-from-bangui-to-prepare-for-congolese-peacekeeping
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SANDF ‘learning from Bangui’ to prepare for Congolese peacekeeping
by Hopewell Radebe, 17 May 2013, 10:17

THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is drawing lessons from its battle with Seleka forces in the Central African Republic to prepare for future peacekeeping operations in Africa, army chief Lt-Gen Vusumuzi Masondo said on Thursday.

The SANDF lost 14 soldiers during the battle against the rebel forces in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui in March.

South African soldiers are deployed in peace missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Sudan, but preparations are under way to send troops to spearhead offensive operations against an array of irregular but war-hardened forces in the eastern Congo.

It is the first such move in Africa’s history to have a United Nations mandate to physically neutralise and disarm M23 rebels groups.

Three battalions from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi will make up the 3,069-strong force, called an intervention brigade, that will be based in Goma, the capital of the chronically unstable North Kivu province.

An SANDF battalion at full strength numbers between 850 and 1,000 soldiers.

"The South African army is indeed suitably prepared and equipped for the conditions that it may encounter during peace support operations," Lt-Gen Masondo told reporters in Pretoria.

However, he warned that although everything was being done to prevent casualties on the battlefield, no battle could be totally controlled.

"Even with all available intelligence resources focusing on trying to establish just that, it is the quality of soldiering that in the end decides the result when conflict is inevitable," he said.

Lt-Gen Masondo said the SANDF had fulfilled all its "joint force employment" commitments sanctioned by the African Union and the UN, including internal missions such as border guarding, for the 2012-13 financial year. He conceded, however, that the defence force was "overstretched, especially in the infantry, engineer, intelligence, signal and support capabilities".

"An increase in requests for internal and external support has led to the army deploying available force levels for extended periods exceeding what is deemed the international norm," he said. "Such strain can only be sustained for a limited period, whereafter mission readiness may become compromised."

The SANDF also had to comply with internationally accepted standards for the rotation of personnel, protective measures and logistical support, he said.

Other than in conflict situations, the SANDF also deploys soldiers along South Africa’s borders in the battle against smuggling, illegal border crossings, livestock theft and rhino poaching. Thirteen companies are deployed along the country’s borders.

Since January last year, South African soldiers contributed to the confiscation of 15,391kg of dagga and 2,782 dagga plants, apprehended 12,409 undocumented immigrants, recovered 76 vehicles, confiscated contraband to the value of R18.3m, and recovered 98 illegal firearms.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 1:44pm On Jul 13, 2013
andrewza:

beat me to it

Improved effort after the bitter learning from CAR? Is the SA media also in on the effort to portray a stronger SANDF? The writer's opening lines would suggest so. However, the story from the translation still remains sketchy, so let's expect that there are some direct English sources available to corroborate the story.

This UN mission has its task cut out squarely.

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/05/17/sandf-learning-from-bangui-to-prepare-for-congolese-peacekeeping
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 10:07am On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Respected? What is your academic ranking? I can give you Stellenbosch's academic ranking.

Don't give us a statement that no one can quantify. Academically, where are you ranked in the world? Numbers please. Not words.

You said our military "is too slow to run an institution ". I was all too happy to show you that America does it like South Africa. Same academic system for military studies. So, AMERICAn defence are too slow to run an institution too? undecided

You spoke too soon and now you're in a sticky situation. May I please have your academic ranking as well as your internationally published, peer reviewed papers.


Ignorance is your greatest problem. My silence on this matter is for a reason. Materials at our disposal cannot be used here verbatim. I am still trying to extract what is possible in order to give you guys a quick run down without a compromise to operational identities and internal sources. Just be patient. All I can say for now is that you have beautiful buildings filled with more foreign manpower -- lecturers and postgraduate (masters, doctoral, and post doctoral) students/candidates than your local South Africans in a roughly 7:3 ratio. Without them your rankings would be nothing to write home about. On the surface your NRF database can give you some insight on authors of published research work and patents. Yes, the authors' University or institution takes the credit ... but the intellectual output and quality of research remain each author/researcher's personal effort (foreign effort).

Having said this, the story of the current rankings of SA universities cannot be divorced from the influence and effort of foreign faculty members who constitute close to 60-70% of SA's academic workforce. Refute this at your own peril.

Take a look here for starters:
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200910210423.html
http://www.ngopulse.org/press-release/south-africa-needs-thousands-more-and-better-teachers-every-year
http://www.africa-platform.org/resources/nigerias-technical-aid-corps-pearl-south-south-cooperation

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 9:25am On Jul 13, 2013
CraigB:

Weak argument.

You're all coming on here to celebrate a spying system that civilised nations are rejecting. Warrantless spying over general populations is backward.

There's nothing strategic about flying a balloon - assuming you ever will get to that stage. Your balloon will never fly over any other country's air space. What enemies? It's meant to spy on Naai-gerians! undecided

South Africans will never allow their government to do that. Heck, every democratic, civilized country will reject that. You're behind the curve of progress.

Strategic intelligence is about finding ways to avoid the brazen barbarism that's proposed in Naai-geria. Not that you'd know anything about that. You're Naai-gerian, after all. No societal foundations in that place.

Let DMC tune you straight. cool


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


Spy balloons are not Armed Drones. Spy balloons are not systems/network wide computer hacking and surveillance or eavesdropping like you appear to suggest in your comment. Clearly you reason and talk like a juvenile. The strategic deployment for war/conflict surveillance must be beyond your 33% comprehension. Lack of strategic military intel capabilities in SANDF should by now be a source of worry for you SAns. This is a big salute to the warped and barbaric stoneage societal foundations deeply entrenched in your South Africa. Just keep blabbing. It's your folly in full display again.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 9:03am On Jul 13, 2013
agaugust:

[size=16pt]why is south africa full of foreign medical doctors ?

why do many of the foreign medical doctors leave south africa for america/europe eventually ?

why do immigrants get jobs in south africa and the south africans born there do not get the same jobs ?

why does south africa claim to have good universities and yet has great shortage of medical doctors ?

why is tiny cuba helping south africa to produce medical doctors if south africa has better universities ?

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2013/01/17/massive-nation-wide-doctor-shortage

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honestly i dont know, i never traveled to or lived in south africa. they say nigerian education is not good, but why are my friends medical doctors graduates of nigerian universities working in south africa ? why do some of these nigerian medical doctors leave south africa eventually and relocate to work as doctors in america/europe ?

the number of medical doctors in a country determines how it will cope with wounded people both civilian and military in time of big war or enemy large scale military invasion.


any answers to my questions ?

You are highlighting the facts that I am basically sifting through from a dossier by an internal source. They'll hide these facts as always with pictures of nice buildings.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GidiNaijaPikin: 1:16am On Jul 13, 2013
Hezron Lorraine: what is this one saying?
Ur post further shows year height of senselessness.
Democracy,what do u know about it.who taught u history or government.

Whenever u are challenged by nigeria's superiority over SA.its either u come up with ur strategies or play,SA doesn't need that cause u are better.
Keep hiding behind the lines.don't equip your spy network.
You think US is wasting money and resources maintaining the strongest spy network on earth that covers the whole earth.
Nigeria may look cheap to you cause you always claim we pile up outdated and dysfunctional toys as weapons and artilleries,but one thing we would always have an advancement over you guys or any other african country is our current spy technlology.
Believe it we have very active watchdogs in many regions you don't know.

South afica is a democracy,u don't need spy balloons hovering over your cities.
Please@craigB.u are the biggest joke here on NL.

Someday, they'll all come back to this thread to piece the puzzle together. It could be too late then.

I am shaking my head and smiling in pidgin!

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