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I think the South Africans on here should just stop arguing, there is no point.
From the Nigerians I've seen in SA, they love arguing. Love raising their voices.
Even when they're in a good mood it's always loud and uncouth.

It doesn't matter what you post, they wont believe it, simply because they don't want to.
When South African media outlets interview REBELS who say SA troops killed a lot of them, it's
propaganda. But when South African media also (incorrectly) say SA troops fled, then they take
it as fact. What kind of mentally ill person does that?

When you post articles about the Nigerian military shooting randomly at civilians and killing many,
they completely ignore it. So at the end of the day there is no point arguing. That's how they are,
accept it. Rather just post pics of military hardware, and discuss.

This might have been posted before.

Project African Warrior, upgrade of the R4 assault rifle by SA company Denel Land Systems



https://img580.imageshack.us/img580/9035/21a0910o9999h062cp1.jpg

http://aaa.africanoutlookonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2377:residents-again-accuse-nigerian-soldiers-of-killing-civilians

"Soon after the bomb went off, military vehicles arrived and soldiers besieged the neighbourhood, shooting indiscriminately and setting houses and shops in and around the market on fire," one resident told AFP.


Sounds like a very professional outfit.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/04/03/sa-soldiers-carved-us-up-say-rebels

"We lost more than half of the the men only in my unit of 500 men.”

Straight from the mouth of a Seleka rebel commander. But best believe the idiots
on this site will still find a way to ignore this fact, claim that it is a lie.
How pathetic

HOW DEADLY CAR BATTLE UNFOLDED...CONTINUED

South Africa has since withdrawn the bulk of its small force in the CAR following the fall of the CAR government.

The South African government had wanted to relieve the troops and deploy a stronger force to stabilise the situation pending a decision by the AU, but the French government – whose troops control the only viable airport – would not permit deployment of new combat forces lest it draw an attack on the airport or on French citizens in Bangui.

Information from Uganda suggests that South Africa is, instead, deploying some force elements there and perhaps also to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to provide early action capability should Seleka endanger the remaining South African troops in the country, or should the AU decide on a military intervention.

The small South African force was deployed to the CAR on January 1/2, to protect the two training teams already there under a 2007 Memorandum of Understanding, and to help stabilise the security situation after a startlingly swift rebel advance from the east of the country to near Bangui. Aircraft had to be chartered for the purpose, as the SA Air Force does not have the strategic air transport capacity for even such a small undertaking.

CONTINUED....

This is for the people who said SA Troops ran away from Seleka rebels in CAR.


HOW DEADLY CAR BATTLE UNFOLDED

By Helmoed Römer Heitman

From March 22 until about 9pm on March 24, 200 South African soldiers fought a series of running battles outside Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR) against 3 000 or more well-armed opponents. And they did so while the CAR Army (Faca) evaporated and the peacekeeping forces of the Central African Standby Brigade disappeared from the scene.

That series of running battles claimed 13 soldiers and 27 others were wounded, but the force retained its cohesion and was able to fall back from two separate engagement areas to its base and to hold it until their attackers gave up trying to overrun them and proposed a ceasefire and disengagement. By then the rebels had suffered as many as 500 casualties, based on estimates by officers with considerable operational experience and estimated by a number of NGOs in the country. In the process the soldiers fired off more than 12 000 rounds of 12.7mm machinegun ammunition, 288 rockets from 107mm rocket launchers and 800 bombs from 81mm mortars, and thousands of rounds from 7.62mm machineguns and 5.56mm rifles.

This was one of the hardest-fought actions that the SA Army has experienced, and the soldiers fought well, even outstandingly. That is not only reflected in the fact that this small unit retained cohesion to the end of the action, but also in the casualties that it inflicted on its opponents: such casualties that it was the Seleka rebels who proposed a ceasefire and disengagement.

Their valour was underlined by the French force at Bangui airport when it held a formal parade to bid farewell to those who died.

Continued.....