The South African military is no more as powerful as it used to be. Two decades ago apartheid South Africa had he most feared fighting machine on the continent. Its armed forces numbered in the hundreds of thousands. It has the best Tanks and artillery guns. Its airforce was second none, it had a highly professional military and at the height of its power managed to build nuclear weapons despite UN sanctions against the the apartheid controled South Africa. Africa trembled when South africa talked and at a time it was said that the combined military might of all countries in sub saharan Africa (except Nigeria and Egypt)was no match to the SANDF, such was the awesome might of South Africa.

Today South Africa is not as militarily powerful as it once was. In an ironic twist the decline of the Nigerian and South African military followed a similar pattern. The transition of power from apartheid South Africa to the ANC set in motion the crippling of the SANDF,likewise in Nigeria the transition of power from the military to the democratic civilian government signalled the begining of Nigeria’s military decline. At a time when %70 South Africa’s military commanding officers were White the Black controlled ANC ‘s overriding priority was to prevent a military coup, to do this they defanged the South African military, mothballed several project and cancelled planned military aquisitions until the structure of its armed forces reflected a racial balance. Same way the new democratic government in Nigeria, for fear of a military coup (Nigeria has been under military dictatorship for 40 years in its 55 year history as an independent nation) led the Nigerian government to cripple its military, only this time Nigeria went a step futher by effectively driving the airforce-hitherto the chief coup plotters,to extinction, lock up its fighter jets, cancelled......

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Chelseafan99:

. Africa trembled when South africa talked and at a time it was said that the combined military might of all countries in sub saharan Africa (except Nigeria and Egypt)was no match to the SANDF, such was the awesome might of South Africa
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egypt is not a sub saharan africa country.

Chelseafan99:
Same way the new democratic government in Nigeria, for fear of a military coup (Nigeria has been under military dictatorship for 40 years in its 55 year history as an independent nation) led the Nigerian government to cripple its military, only this time Nigeria went a step futher by effectively driving the airforce-hitherto the chief coup plotters,to extinction, lock up its fighter jets, cancelled....e

the Nigeria military was so weak,during the military regime .expecially during the term of ibb,abacha and abdulsalam