ZDee:


hello my Ibo slave, i see that you're still denying your IbonESS...

1960 nigeria. the blek brotherly luurve


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2014 Nigeria. the blek continues

ibos roasted in the North

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LONG LIVE BIAFRA, THE LAND OF THE RISING
SUN!!!!

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Henry120:


You can keep denying all you want, it doesn't make the report false.

Also, bookmarked for future references.

Henry120:


Actually, your defence minister confirms you lack common tents?

LMAO

Msauza:





Let me debunk it once and for all

http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/nelson-mandela-timeline-1800-2014

Henry120:


South Africa’s Military Arms Troubles
October 16, 2014 - Uncategorized - African Military, South Africa

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is drowning in a sea of mismanagement, corruption, political manipulation and strategic myopia.

While this state of affairs will probably not result in an imminent ‘attack’ on the Union Buildings, as was the case in 2009 when justifiably angry rank-and-file soldiers protested over conditions of service, the ongoing fallout is much worse.

It’s hard to know where to begin but let’s start with the basics. Section 200(1) of the Constitution states that, “the defence force must be structured and managed as a disciplined military force”. If we take the standard dictionary definition of discipline to mean “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience”, then it is clear that those who are in charge of structuring and managing the SANDF are in serious breach of its core constitutional imperative.

There is a litany of such ‘indiscipline’. Despite a mountain of evidence stemming from the 1990’s arms deal detailing gross mismanagement and corruption involving SANDF and Department of Defence (DOD) officials as well as senior politicians, hardly any of those responsible have been held to even the most minimal of disciplinary standards.

The ongoing official investigation into the arms deal – the Seriti Commission – is turning out to be more of a whitewash than a clean-up. As has become the standard practice of SANDF and DOD officials as well as associated politicians, the main agenda of the Seriti Commission appears to be to ensure that the myriad ‘indisciplines’ are shielded from any meaningful democratic scrutiny and action.

When the SANDF deployed over 1000 soldiers to the DRC in June 2013 the generals and politicians spoke glowingly about the professionalism of South Africa’s defence forces and their contribution to ‘peace-keeping’ in Africa[b] but did not tell us that the soldiers lacked some of the most basic equipment. It was only through an associated court case later that the Minister of Defence was forced to admit that “our soldiers do not have tents … ”.[/b]

While the rank-and-file soldiers in conflict zones were being treated like 2nd class citizens, SANDF head honcho, Lt. General Solly Shoke spent over R100 000 of taxpayers money flying 1st class to a conference in Malaysia earlier this year.

The DOD has brazenly cast a veil of secrecy over its recent attempts to buy a new luxury VIP jet (no prize for guessing who the beneficiaries are) worth almost R2 billion. When parliamentary questions were asked, Defence Secretary Dr Sam Gulube noted that the matter was a “sensitive project” (read: classified) because it had been conveniently shifted to a ‘Strategic Capital Acquisition Master Plan’ project list, no doubt a secret itself. Public knowledge about a SANDF deal for purchasing over 200 armoured infantry vehicles worth close to R15 billion was zilch until the actions of some brave whistleblowers.


When opposition parliamentarians recently asked Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for further details of the SANDF acquisition projects she refused, stating that the information does not belong in the public domain. Not to be outdone in the secrecy stakes, Defence Secretary Gulube told parliament’s defence committee that any attempts to enforce greater scrutiny of the government’s arms procurement programmes would be a threat to national security.

All of this has to be set against the backdrop of the 2014 Defence Force Review which has been approved by the Cabinet and is now making its way through parliament’s labyrinthine corridors.

Despite receiving R42 billion in the 2014/15 budget and untold billions more continuing to be spent on the 1990s arms deal and on other acquisition projects that we know little to nothing about, the Review unequivocally acknowledges that the SANDF is in a “critical state of decline”. It lists a host of serious problems and crises:

The escalating costs associated with the purchase, use and maintenance of the 1990s arms deal programme has resulted in a majority of the fighter planes, helicopters, training jets and naval vessels purchased being mothballed. Those that are in use suffer from chronic under-use and a lack of technical/ maintenance personnel and trained pilots.

Spares, general equipment, ammunition stocks and fuel reserves are “generally depleted”. One instructive example of the resultant impact is that South Africa now has “little airspace or maritime domain awareness” (read: the SANDF can hardly track who and what is in South African airspace and waters).

Nearly 55% of the overall budget is spent on personnel costs, even though SANDF rank-and-file earn relatively little. Despite increased personnel spending, there is a massive shortage of competent personnel at all levels and those with scarce and professional skills are leaving at “concerning rates”.

Practical training and exercises have been cut to the bone such that the SANDF is unable to “execute [its] widening spectrum of tasks” while medical care to SANDF personnel is in a generalised state of crisis .

The SANDF suffers from “fragmented management and information systems [that] inhibit integrated and systemic decision making”.

Predictably though, the Review’s solution to these systemic crises of decision-making, strategic planning and human and financial management is to throw more money into the SANDF pit in order for it to carry out its “constitutional requirements”.

Those “requirements” are interpreted as revolving largely around a military “strategic posture” defined by the “the role that it wishes to play both regionally and continentally”. In other words not, as the actual Constitution states, “to defend and protect the Republic its territorial integrity and its people… ” but to satisfy a politically constructed and elite centred ‘need’ to play big brother in Africa.


We should all take the words of Andrew Feinstein, that fearless exposer and critic of the South African and global arms trade, to heart. He warns us that this ‘shadow world’ “often makes us poorer, not richer, less not more safe and governed not in our own interests but for the benefit of a small, self-serving elite, seemingly above the law, protected by the secrecy of national security and accountable to no one.”

Before it is too late, South Africans need to not only actively demand accountability for past ‘indisciplines’ and abuse of public funds and trust but ensure that our military forces and projects focus on what they are supposed to do – to serve and answer to, the people.

patches689:


DA defence spokesman David Maynier said “because of bungling at Armscor”, SANDF soldiers do not have the equipment they need to execute their mission in the DRC.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/armscor-fails-to-supply-sandf-1.1589325#.VEFDw_mSx8F

Henry120:


Your defence minister stated categorically you don't have Tents. Yes, i'll like to have this discussion.

Is she now lying on the pathetic state of the SANDF?

patches689:


Where did she say "The SANDF lacks tents"?

Are you just going to do your usual thing?
SANDF has all the tents it needs, the supply of tents to Congo via ARMSCOR mismanagement was the problem.

Henry120:


I didn't know they needed tents to execute their mission.

Go read the article again, you Defence minister said your soldiers have no tents in the DRC.

Now too broke to afford tents?

Henry120:


Not according to the article, you don't.

iconize:


My apartheid dog is back.
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MikeZA:
My brother @Patches689 has already dealt with this joke.

Henry120:


You believe this, and you're a bigger slowpoke than initially thought.

All that is written in that article were source from comments attributed to named government personnel.

patches689:


Dude, at this stage there is zero point in replying to you.

Our defence minister said there were no tents in the DRC

Because ARMSCOR messed up the supply contracts

Cause and effect, simple as that. We can go
around in circles as much as you want, but this issue has been put to bed.

patches689:


Dude, at this stage there is zero point in replying to you.

Our defence minister said there were no tents in the DRC

Because ARMSCOR messed up the supply contracts

Cause and effect, simple as that. We can go around in circles as much as you want, but this issue has been put to bed.

patches689:


Uhh... you mean the whole one relevant quote from a member of government?

A quote which was taken completely out of context?

The other quotes are about military acquisitions being secret... wow... so humiliating...

Henry120:


Your defence minister said you lacked tents in the DRC after a lawsuit was instituted against her office.

patches689:


Which artical?

The biased misleading one?

Or the one that says Armscor messed up getting the tents from point A to point B?

Henry120:


Bwahahahahahahahaha, now it's one quote..... LOL

We are progressing somewhere.

Henry120:


It is misleading because it details the pathetic state of your military.

Henry120:


You believe this, and you're a bigger slowpoke than initially thought.

All that is written in that article were source from comments attributed to named government personnel.

MikeZA:
I doubt Nigeria even has tents.

And winter clothing such jackets for its soldiers,seeing that they're still struggling to get standard uniforms.

ZDee:


[s]Stop denying your igboness, maybe I should invite those Ghanaian and yorubas who know your ethnicity, feeling ashamed? huh?

Blek luurve in 2014.

Genocide In Nigeria: Igbos Face Extinction - Politics¶
15. HISTORY OF MASSACRE AGAINST IBOS (City/Town
and Year)
v Jos 1945 v Kano genocide 1953
v 1966 pogroms- over 50, 000 killed
v 1967-70 – over 2,000,0000 killed
during the bloody civil war
v Kano 1980
v Maiduguri 1982
v Jimeta 1984
v Gombe 1985
v. Zaria 1987
v Kaduna & Kafanchan 1991
v Bauchi & Katsina 1991
v Kano 1991
v Zangon-Kataf 1992
v Funtua 1993
v Kano 1994
v Kaduna 2000
v Kaduna 2001
v Maiduguri 2001
v Kaduna 2002
v Beheading of Gideon Akaluka in
December of 1996 in Kano
v Saint Moritz killed December 2001
v Post April 2011 Presidential Election:
10 youth-corps men & women and
numerous citizens murdered because a
Christian Southerner was elected.
v Jos Christmas Eve 2010
v Madalla Christmas day 2011
v Mubi January 6 2012

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patches689:


First, its not a report.

Second, its biased, so very blatantly.

You can bookmark it all you want. Its fairly irrelevant.

Look at the author


Apply critical thinking

Come to a conclusion.

vdGeist:
Mr lezz, everything you've posted has been posted before. Don't be excited. We've seen it all.

Go through this thread and other one I linked to . We can do this all day.... You won't shock anyone.

from this thread, this was posted.

over 70% of Nigerians live in slums

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http://blueprintng.com/new/2013/07/09/69-70-of-nigerians-still-live-in-slum-conditions-un/&sa=U&ei=rgdfUoO1C47b4AOroYH4BQ&ved=0CCcQFjAE&usg=AFQjCNHpbHmMZMZPdPa7MmsNAQPTI0ljZQ


SA housing stats
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MikeZA:
I doubt Nigeria even has tents.

And winter clothing such jackets for its soldiers,seeing that they're still struggling to get standard uniforms.

MikeZA:
I doubt Nigeria even has tents.

And winter clothing such jackets for its soldiers,seeing that they're still struggling to get standard uniforms.

Henry120:


Bla bla bla

This is not the first article detailing the sad state of the SANDF. We've seen many articles with the same body, from totally different sources. Again, neither would African-defense post a story which is un-confirmed.

Yes, I have applied critical thinking, and I have come to the conclusion that the SANDF is worse than what is reported.

You lack the basics from tents to aviation fuel to maritime and airspace domain awareness.

Your defence review and your defence minister has un-ambiguously stated your military is in a pathetic state of decline, saddled with an array of equipment it cannot maintain, operate or service.

This is the state of your military.

patches689:


Correct. Then what did she say? What came out in the lawsuit? Who got fired?

We lacked tents in the DRC

The SANDF is based in South Africa

Come, slowly we will get you to comprehend: We have something in Point A, we didnt have that something in point B.

Henry120:


You should start from providing tents to your poorly equipped troops in the DRC.

You guys live in a fantasy land. How do you manage to live in a delusional state.

Impressive.