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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 6:56pm On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
A classic rant without a single piece of support for any of the statements.

Those given the light of day have embarrassingly been proven wrong.

Again, how do any of the statements address the issue of Nigeria's military being pathetic.

And again, citations required for statements made.

Again, where the military argument fails, racism creeps up.

I can smell your desperation and anxiety across this platform.

This sewer rat is hurting so bad. die-vluit is losing it. Your opinion doesn't count. You come at me with so much haste and fury. I won't want to slay you in this state.

I shall humble you when you are sober and at your best.

For now, fade away, scum.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 6:50pm On Mar 01, 2015

Patchesagain:
Maybe if you did some research before you opened your mouth you wouldent humiliate yourself
South African literacy rate is over 93%
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html

what's your secret?
What's your secret for being so devoid of pride,shame and diginy?

Common sense says a country where over 80% of its population only came into contact with civilization and decency in 1994 will still be won't to savagery and barbarism.

Patchesagain, tells me Zulu and Xhosa boys and girls have 93% literacy level. You must have escaped from the queue at the synagogue.

Tell me, how is the educational integration going ? You gave a link but I want you to read on this excerpt :
SA’s shocking literacy stats

October 22 2013 at 07:52am
By Leanne Jansen Comment on this story

AP
File photo: Experts have blamed poor litercay levels on pupils being taught to parrot rather than read independently.
Durban - The literacy level of South African Grade 5 pupils is a “national catastrophe”.

The consequence of pupils being taught to “parrot” rather than read independently was that, after five years of school, 13 percent of Grade 5s (11-year-olds) were illiterate and most were able to score no more than four out of 20 on a comprehension exercise, new data from the national education evaluation and development unit, has revealed.

Speaking in Durban on Monday, Nick Taylor, the head of the unit which reports directly to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, said that, from the classroom research conducted in urban and rural areas, it had become “quite clear that most of our teachers can’t teach reading”.

This was despite several years and billions of rand worth of teacher training later.

Earlier this year, Taylor’s unit released the first national evaluation of how pupils in grades 1, 2 and 3 (the foundation phase) in urban schools were taught, marking a shift off the emphasis on Grade 12.

The upshot of the report was that pupils were not taught to solve numeracy problems or read independently because most teachers did not know how to teach these skills.

This year the unit has extended its work to later grades, focusing on reading in rural schools. Its final report will be handed to Motshekga early next year.

“As far as I’m concerned this is a national catastrophe,” Taylor told a meeting of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), at which he was the guest speaker, and which was attended by principals, school governing body members and politicians.

Taylor said it was “deeply disturbing” that in the classrooms visited by the unit this year, just 5 percent of Grade 5 pupils could read at the required rate of 80 to 90 words a minute.

In the urban Grade 2 classrooms the unit studied last year, it found that while the average eight-year-old was meant to be reading 58 words a minute by the end of the second term, and 71 words a minute by the end of the fourth term, this was not the case.

Instead, when the reading fluency of the top three pupils in each class was observed, researchers found that most were reading between 20 and 29 words a minute.

Teachers could no longer afford to shut their heads of departments (HODs) out of their classrooms, because if the situation was to be remedied, reading had to be declared a “national priority” and professional development needed to take place at school.

Taylor said that teachers were putting far too little emphasis on the ultimate goal, which was independent reading – children were simply “singing in unison”.

Despite teachers’ poor subject knowledge, the large majority of them were considered qualified.

In 1990, 53 percent of teachers held a teaching qualification. By last year, that figure stood at 96 percent. But there was a gap between qualifications and competence.

“While it was true that resourcing, policy and school leadership are all very important, once children are in classrooms, learning depends heavily on the teacher.”

Taylor said that the growth in the number of teachers who held teaching qualifications had been fuelled by the Advanced Certificate in Education courses, which were offered part-time by universities. But the courses had failed to address poor subject knowledge.

Turning to his recommendations, Taylor said that teachers’ unions would be key to turning the situation around.

They needed to help dispel the belief that for teachers to be monitored by their school management team was “about judging”.

The notion that school managers should not visit classrooms was both “rife” and “disastrous”.

“When teachers go into their classrooms, they close the door and that is their kingdom.”

Taylor said that as far as teacher training was concerned, afternoon workshops were “a waste of time”, and that district-based subject advisers were overwhelmed, being responsible for up to 300 schools.

“I want to promote the idea of in-school professional development. The HOD is the person on site who knows her teachers, who can help her teachers on a daily basis,” Taylor said.

Basil Manuel, the president of Naptosa, told the meeting it was “unacceptable” that HODs were not visiting classrooms and not evaluating teachers for fear of upsetting certain teachers.

It was the core responsibility of an HOD to manage the curriculum and monitor its delivery, Manuel said.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 5:55pm On Mar 01, 2015

Patchesagain:
This is all completely wrong

1. Literacy rate in South Africa is 92%
.

your first attempt at defense is a tactless, bogus claim.

You would even deny your name just to get even with Nigeria.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 5:48pm On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
In other words, you have no citations and are just spewing racist rubbish that you can't even support.

Why? Because you have failed in the primary argument that the Nigerian military is pathetic.

hymn, die-vluit is spoiling for a fight. Whooping your Zulu azz no longer tickles my fancy.

In a less powerful country the book haram menace would have been another civil war.

Nigeria contained Ebola
We are containing book haram .

That's why Egypt is calling for a military cola with Nigeria.

Citation-destitute is what I term you. Now shoo!!

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 2:35pm On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
Citation needed.

Citation needed.

Also, guess then black people are not disenfranchised, as per your post.

No, we will not. Not when failure to prove that Nigeria does not have a pathetic military leads to racist posts.

If you need citation for the fact that SA legislation mandates 75% of black employment, then I demand evidence that prove you're southafrican?

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 1:49pm On Mar 01, 2015

iconize:
I've been in the background chirping.
Whats up with you, man?

lol, Doing great and having an amusing Sunday with Mandela boys.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 1:26pm On Mar 01, 2015

Patchesagain:
First - you lied about whites being 40% of the victims of violent crime.

Second - that legislation re-dresses the injustices of the past and is helping to normalize the socio-economic structure of the country. Simular legislation is in place in the US, EU and Australia as well as Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia to name but a few.

You are obsessed with race. You are also posting off topic.

Yes we know about legislation that seeks to balance the demographic structures in countries, especially the US.

Unfortunately, what is happening in southafrica is the extreme approach.

Show me where 75% of any demographic MUST be employed when literacy level us only 36%?

Show me where private companies owned by individuals are denied licence because certain groups are not employed in a stipulated percentage.

Which other country will empower by legislation that a certain demographic be employed to all positions into the entire hierarchical structure irrespective of competency? It is only in southafrica.

The only other country which employed such unnecessary, racist policy was Zimbabwe, and
Mugabe has a sad story to tell.

As for telling lies, I don't. You can dub me Leslie Facts.

For the detainment,lol, incase you haven't notice, whenever military matters become overheated, socio-economic engagement are like deserts after a meal.

We naturally will rail in back to military matters eventually.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 11:10am On Mar 01, 2015

@iconize where have you been?

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 10:42am On Mar 01, 2015

Patchesagain:
Lezz, you are a low life racist.

I pity you.

Realism isn't Racism.

Truth is truth. Fact is fact. Don't hide your inefficiency under that term.

Everyone listen, a black southafrican screaming racism!!!!

Southafrica is an official racism entity.

White is barely 9% but of all murders in southafrica, they are at the receiving end of 40%

You want to talk about racist legislation that mandates whites to employ blacks in their own built company?
That gives blacks undue power to become shareholders in a white company?

That denies white job opportunity even when they are more qualified? I cant go on repeating this.

But truth hurts a butthurt.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 10:21am On Mar 01, 2015

Patchesagain:
Until you actually give us some facts, you have nothing to contribute.

Look, look, here comes the chief military Pharisee!!!

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 9:59am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
And the only thing that will stop the circles is the following:

1. Proof that south africa has no military

2. Proof that south africa doesn't sowns less of its gdp on defense that some countries in africa.

Prove that or accept that "mosmish" will keep being repeated every time you post.

now your reservoir for spontaneity and improvised facts is empty.

You are officially declared BORING.

Take a Sunday pap please.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 9:51am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
How does this long and incoherent rant of butthurt address the fact the nigerian military is pathetic and that the SA military is better?

you are not so truthful, are you?

The weapons and machine guns that were employed to slay you in the apartheid days have long been destroyed and the soldiers retired..
Now I understand that such brutality plays a significant role in your perception of what military might is.

What you have now are acquired military hardware your Bantu and xhosa brethren are yet to fully comprehend.

And in all your depaetments- army, airforce and navy are peopled my unqualified recruits over half of whom are medically unfit.......FACTS from your own media and defense statements.

You are welcome here to rebuild your military on the pages of nairaland where your ability to live in deceit and hypocrisy has become a new benchmark.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 9:39am On Mar 01, 2015

Msauza:
1. The former white apartheid government must be blamed for their failure to develop townships and instead modernising only their suburbs to the European standard.

2. Yes we envy Nigerians because we can be drug peddlers in their own country, messing up the future of their school children with drugs, dirtying their places and flats meant for accommodation and defrauding their citizens with 419 schemes. Thank you.

nope, you envy Nigeria for showing the world what blacks can do in a black only country. Black power having the biggest economy on the continent, producing the 6th fastest growing economy in the world.

Conducting peace keeping operations in Africa and internationally.

Expanding entrepreneurs all over Africa.

Launching 3 satellites in orbit.

Having the 3rd largest movie industry worldwide.

Being Africa's music capital.

Having the biggest concentration of billionaires... etc

All just under 55 years.

In contrast everything in southafrica is credited to the 9% Anglo-dutch settlers.

You never contributed to a thing in your country.

That is why Africa can never get any respect globally even if southafrica goes to the moon and back unaided.

You owe the Anglo-dutch everything.

When Julius Malema was addressing his supporters at outside the university, he confessed that if they seized white land, the whites would mess up the economy.

That's where Nigeria comes in. Africa's true hope and leader.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 9:24am On Mar 01, 2015

jln115:
Yes, ill tell you again! do some research before commenting, South Africa only spends 1% of its GDP on defence, and also if we didnt know how to operate our subs how did we manage to sink an entire NATO fleet in an exercise ? as for the "only 6 qualified pilots" comment, its not even worth a replay.

most ridiculous Sunday troll for my amusement.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 1:33am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
If yours existed at all, you'd know not to post on a military thread military statements you can't support.

That would save you from irrelevant rants in the end.

Today no one is more of a moemish than you.

1. Moemishism one - SA has more military ambitions than anyone else.

2. Moemishim two - insisting that the above example of id1ocy is being "repeated" in another post

3. Moemishism three - SA has no military.

You won three awards today and no one can take them away from you.

you are going in literary circles of frustrations, my Zulu pig.

The opinion of a mentally fatigued parasite like you wouldn't worth a thought except by your likes.

Keep fighting for a chance for your elusive self-worth

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 1:20am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
I took responsibility for myself when I saw the moemish (you) for what he is.

listen, little man, you are the embodiment of stupidity and immobility.

You have only taken responsibility twice in your magot existence.

(1) when you blaimed whites for all your personal and collective failures.

(2) when you envied Nigeria for being everything you can't.

You deny that arguing with Nigerians doesn't give you a temporal, personal fulfillment "high" from the malady of your subdued condition?

Why else are you still here as if your very life depends on.

You need to unfuck yourself and we're helping you achieve that, douchebag.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 1:07am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
I don't see a denial. I see a rant to add on to more rants.

When I say you're a moemish, I am understating things.

I don't see where you deny that South Africa spends less of its GDP on defence than even Nigeria does.

I don't see where you prove that South Africa "has no military"

I see nothing but rants from our village id1ot.

your IQ is only high enough to know where the next free food stamp from the ANC is coming from.

Of course you wouldn't see anything othethan naked Zulu women dancing with braless boobs flapping from side to side.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 12:41am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
Still doesn't amount to a denial that South Africa spends less of its GDP on defence that some African countries.

Still doesn't change the fact that your entire "ambitions" post on this page is a moemish.

Still doesn't change the fact that you are a moemish.

There's nothing to engage. You're a moemish.

all your literary language are tactile admission that my claim of facts is making your Zulu azz uncomfortable.

Southafrica has one of the highest military defense spending in about 9 years put together.
But half witted, junkies like you couldn't comprehend simple maintainable procedure.

As cave men , you never knew the vastness of the African continent, when you were freed you thought since the white man has domiciled in southafrica so long, every other part of the continent must be uncharted and under developed.

Hence, you rushed into CAR pretending to be the America of Africa.......

You left in a hurry with your tails behind your legs and the realization that you were all bush rat until we fought for you to know what civilization looks like.

You dievluit is still suffering from the trauma of post apartheid realization.

You came here hoping to gauge your baby-step progress to self actualization and realization with the masters.

Zulu wizard who can't tell a simple truth to save his mother.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 12:29am On Mar 01, 2015

[quote author=DieVluit post=31185778]What is not your forte is mental engagement.[/quote that must be a fancy word for a waste-pipe like you.

Good to see you beginning to take responsibility for yourself.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 12:26am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
In other words, you can't deny that South Africa spends 1% of its budget on defence,while other countries spend up to 4%

See why you and your "ambitions" comment are both a moemish?

Moemish of the year, my man.

I know, white schools were forced to take you in even when you failed the entrance tests, all thanks to ANC.

But mental engagement and comprehension is making your pap filled, Zulu brains overheat.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 12:18am On Mar 01, 2015

DieVluit:
Dude, you have won the moemish award - good to see that the " South Africa has no military" rubbish is gone. I have never seen a more stûpid statement in my entire life. I'd be wasting my life if I dissected your vomit.

whose vomit is worth dissecting?

Literary engagement isn't one of your forte.

Speaking about your life, it has no measurable impact going by the amount of time you have squatted here trying to make a meaning of your oblique, post apartheid existence.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 12:13am On Mar 01, 2015

jln115:
"I repeat, NO OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRY HAS SA MILITARY AMBITION YET YOU STILL LAG BEHIND THE COMPLETION."
Are you stup1d? we only spend 1% of our GDP on our military budget,while the rest of Africa spend an average of close to 4% of their GDP on Defence, if we had military ambitions and spend 4% of GDP on defence, that will mean we have a budget of $20 BILLION dollers.

1% if your GDP ? Bought 3 submarines you didn't know how to operate.......they failed.

Bought 24 gripen jets with only 6 qualified pilots more than half of those jets are grounded.

Tell your tales to a girl you want to impress.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 12:06am On Mar 01, 2015

jln115:
"I repeat, NO OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRY HAS SA MILITARY AMBITION YET YOU STILL LAG BEHIND THE COMPLETION."
Are you stup1d? we only spend 1% of our GDP on our military budget,while the rest of Africa spend an average of close to 4% of their GDP on Defence, if we had military ambitions and spend 4% of GDP on defence, that will mean we have a budget of $20 BILLION dollers.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 11:53pm On Feb 28, 2015

DieVluit:
Yet another display of moemishism. You win a second award.

your lack of credible defense has turned you into a monosyllabic dirtbag

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 11:31pm On Feb 28, 2015

DieVluit:
You win the moemish of the year award today.

Shove the sarcasm inside your Zulu azz.
SOUTH AFRICA DO NOT HAVE A MILITARY.

She has been trying to rebuild after the fall of apartheid by incorporating Zulu and Bantu fighters into the army. The majority of which are illiterates

The frustrating fact is this. Southafrica is INTENTIONALLY, PURPOSELY, WITH ALL SERIOUS EFFORT TRYING TO BE THE GREATEAT MILITARY IN AFRICA.

No other African country has that ambition military wise but yet you are a military failure.WHAT A SHAME.

Your little neighbour Angola has surpassed you.

Egypt are your betters as are Ethiopia and Algeria.

Nigeria will make you quiver in terror. In an open war. your illiterate, half educated, HIV soldiers will be out numbered 5 to 1.

Your soldiers cannot even fire effectively the weapons you will purchase, you don't even have fuel to sustain any military campaign effectively.

Your little cash will be divided into logistics, maintenance, anti retroviral drugs and fuel.

I repeat, NO OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRY HAS SA MILITARY AMBITION YET YOU STILL LAG BEHIND THE COMPLETION.

WHAT A SHAME!!_

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 10:33pm On Feb 28, 2015

DieVluit:
How does this address the fact that South Africa has a better military than Nigeria? The fact that Nigeria has a poor military is addressed by your post, how?

And is Zuma singing in parliament?

south Africa doesn't even have a military.

What southafrica has is trying to rebuild a military after the failure of the sandf merger.

If southafrica is to be Nigeria, you will be fighting a civil war by now.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 10:26pm On Feb 28, 2015

Msauza:
Man it is either you have a problem with your hearing or understanding. ZUMA HAS NEVER IN ANY OCCASSION SANG "KILL THE BOER". The article says ZUMA's ANC sings kill the Boer, not Zuma. They are still also very incorrect to say that. The song was sang by JULIUS MALEMA long after it was sang by his fellow home boy PETER MOKABA.

ZUMA sang "Umshini Wam" roughly translated as "give me my machine". The song does not say anything about killing the whites or Boer. Your first link is deceiving and incorrect. We used to sing those songs and know the lyrics well. Zuma's song does not say kill the Boer. period.

of course, there's always something wrong with the sources http://www.south-africa-the-real-issues.org/Followup/Newsletters/05_ZumaANCSingingShootBoer.aspx.

Even a YouTube link is also falsified, hmm.

ANC defends the action. Lol.

Wasted time.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 9:10pm On Feb 28, 2015

MikeCZAR:
Just accept you were wrong.

Zuma never sang what you say he sang in parliament.

you people live in constant denial, accepting nothing, not even simple truth. Here's your source http://www.south-africa-the-real-issues.org/Followup/Newsletters/05_ZumaANCSingingShootBoer.aspx

And if you want to watch, make yourself comfortable Jacob Zuma Sings Kill the Boer -Video Dailymotion www.dailymotion.co... May 7, 2013

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 8:44pm On Feb 28, 2015

Patchesagain:
2013 is two years ago.

Parliamentary oversight is normal in democratic countries.

indeed it is 2 years ago.
The source says your military does not have enough cash to run your jets.

Parliament is considering selling them off.
You don't have qualified pilots ( just 6) and the airport facility is rotting away.

Man, it going to ge a long hard years of climbing to the level of Angola your neighbour. That's if your country has the political will power, cash and trained pilots to do their bit.

Honestly it's not even a problem that can be solved in 10 years, never mind 2.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 9:26am On Feb 28, 2015

Patchesagain:
ancient artical that has long since been debunked

consult the archives

hahahaha. That source is 2013. But don't worry, I never expected anything less. The same way you people claimed CAR was a huge success despite Zuma having to appear before parliament. Despite the whole world asking "what is southafrica doing in the CAR?

Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 8:52am On Feb 28, 2015

Patchesagain:
South Africa is aquiring new torpedoes

DM2A4 Seehecht

- completely immune to countermeasures
- 50km range
- 90kph speed

war battles are twofold.

(1) Acquirement of weapons.

(2) Having the man power and skills to operate these military aquirement in battle situation.

Southafrican soldiers is a true reflection of your companies, firms, and institutions. The legislation of fixing 75% blacks in areas they lack expertise has ruin everything in southafrica- ESPECIALLY YOUR MILITARY .

Read this Four months after admitting that 12 of its 26 Gripen jet fighters had been placed in storage because they were too expensive to operate and there were not enough qualified pilots to fly them, South African officials admitted that the maintenance contracts for all the Gripens had expired in April. That made long term use of the Gripens dangerous. This contract was with a reliable, and expensive, South African firm (Denel). The maintenance contracts pay for ongoing support for the aircraft to include updates and warnings on problems other users have encountered as well as access to manufacturer engineers and maintenance experts. Aircraft become more dangerous to operate (if they operate at all) without regular maintenance and these maintenance contracts are a critical part of that. Some South African politicians are now calling for the Gripens to be sold, as there is not likely to be sufficient money to operate them and retain qualified pilots.

Currently only about half of the remaining 14 Gripens are flyable and there are only six qualified Gripen pilots. Corruption, shrinking defense budgets, and political pressure to find more black combat pilots and technical personnel has led to the South African Air Force having fewer operational aircraft. All this has been going on for over a decade.

For example, back in 2009, the South African Air Force stopped automatically releasing data on how many hours combat pilots flew for training. When the numbers were finally obtained, it was discovered that in 2008, fighter pilots were in the air for 325 hours (less than two hours a month per pilot). In contrast, pilots on VIP flights (carrying politicians and government officials) were up there 1,932 hours. There are about fifty transports and 80 helicopters in the air force at the time, and that number has continued to shrink.

In 2009, the air force had only twenty fighter pilots and only nine Gripen fighters. The remaining 17 were delivered by 2012. In 2008, the last of the 66 Cheetah fighters (rebuilt French Mirage IIIs) were retired. In 2008, the last full year that Cheetahs were operational, fighter pilots got 2,084 hours in the air and the year before that it was 2,448 hours. It’s believed that only six of those twenty fighter pilots were competent to handle these aircraft in combat. Most competent pilots have left the air force because of the lack of flying hours. Many of the pilots remaining got in under a quota system that attempts to add more racial diversity to the air force.

Not surprisingly, many South Africans believe that the South African Air Force (SAAF) has been falling apart for years. The most obvious evidence of this is the decrepit state of aging buildings, runways, and aircraft. But the biggest problem is getting, and keeping, technical people. This is complicated by a government program to integrate previously all white institutions. This has been most difficult in areas that require a lot of technical training and education. Like pilots and aircraft maintainers.

The government has set a racial goal for SAAF pilots and wants them to be 75 percent black and 25 percent white. A lack of qualified black air force personnel means that this goal has still not been met. The morale problem started getting a lot worse back in 2005, when the three top rated graduates of pilot training school, who would normally go on to fly fighters, were told that, because they were white, they would instead fly helicopters or transports. Three less qualified black pilots would go on to fly fighters. When commanders noted the morale problem, and public outcry, they declared that it was no longer the policy to send the best pilots to fighters but to spread the best pilots around to all flying communities.

The problem here is that flying fighters is the technically most demanding job for pilots, and the best pilots only stay in the SAAF to fly fighters. If they wanted to fly helicopters or transports they could make more money, and fly more often, as civilian pilots. So the SAAF is ending up with less competent fighter pilots (which ultimately results in more accidents) and fewer, and less capable, helicopter and transport pilots as well. Since the SAAF pilots are currently selected more for their race than for their ability, the morale of most pilots will remain quite low.

A similar situation occurs in other technical specialties, like maintaining the aircraft. Fewer whites are enlisting for these jobs, and more existing techs are quitting for civilian jobs. There is also pressure on civilian airlines to integrate, but the pressure is not as great because politicians fly those airliners and want the highest quality pilots and maintainers for those aircraft.

Even with the current situation it won’t be easy getting that many black pilots, as blacks with the skills to be pilots tend to prefer better paying civilian jobs. And there aren’t many black pilots to begin with .

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by lezz(m): 1:15am On Feb 28, 2015

Msauza:
Sorry!! you are not AAA n American but just a bloody poor Nigerian who is just fantasising about being an American.

Well, you are right, not all states in America have abolished death penalty, but many of such states have not changed from their evil past of propagating racism. It is always predominantly blacks who happen to be put under death raw when they commit felony as compared to their white counterparts.

Man, America is not such a paradise that they always show you on Hollywood. South Africa is much more developed than other places that I have seen both in America and Europe. It is not to say that I overrate SA, but I have to admit SA is beautiful.

one of your sport ministers compared the English league to the south African league.

I have since gone numb to all your claims.

Some places in Niger republic is more beautiful than America!!!

Man when we say your cities are rotting away it is FACT. ALL THE WHITE EXCLUSIVE AREAS HAVE NOW
TURNED SLUMS WITH BLACK MIGRATION; FROM DURBAN TO JOBURG

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