saengine: 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.

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

agaugust: .


[size=20pt]south african army sets new african record ?[/size]


ongoing research indicates that south african army seems to have set a new african military record by their FASTEST defeat, retreat and escape of a major military power nation in africa. information available still puts south african army on top list as the fastest collapse, defeat, retreat, abandon equipments, and escape, as well as begging for safe route out of battle zone during their disastrous battle against the seleka rebels of CAR last month march 2013.


courtesy of @patriot4

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" South African peacekeepers in CAR to support government troops suffered casualties but failed to stop the rebel advance."


"South African troops retreated to their barracks and were seeking safe passage to the airport, Ms Martin said"


web link source

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21915901
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This is a United Nations staff on ground informing BBC NEWS.

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truth, south African army failed/defeated in combat and retreated/ran away in combat and seeking/begging for safe passage/escape route from the men/boys of Seleka rebels fighters.[/size]


International disgrace in deed !


. posted by augustine, aka @agaugust...abi, ema wo awon boys wonyi, won ti pari south africa ke, oga o ! yeee paripa !
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patriot4: Link please !
This is a verry beautifull story, but sadly it is just fiction.

KidStranglehold: The strongest military in Africa goes to Egypt and South Africa(even though they got their butts whooped by the Angolans and Cubans ) Those are the strongest military's in Africa IMO. IIRC Egypt has the largest.

KidStranglehold: The strongest military in Africa goes to Egypt and South Africa(even though they got their butts whooped by the Angolans and Cubans ) Those are the strongest military's in Africa IMO. IIRC Egypt has the largest.

agaugust:



your own brain puts losers and failures on top. I guess you are a loser/failure too


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zaandrew:


You the one who resorts to insults and lies when he is prooven wrong. Yet you want to call some one a looser and a failure.

agaugust:

You are the one who insulted me so much that your posts were hidden twice and you got banned. You have called me a fool many times when you read painful truths about south African military failures.

You are the one that writes insults to people when they prove you wrong.

Good you got banned again as usual. I hope you learnt your lesson.

zaandrew:

Those posts where dircected at playmode. And where not insulting.

I call you a fool because you are a fool. I am not insulting you. If you wish I can. I don't need to swear or youse vulgar langue to do so either.

agaugust:


Calling me a fool is already vulgar language. So what's worse than that ?

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zaandrew:

Fool is not vulgar. If you worked in a milltary enviroment you have heard far worse things.

souldust: i can see the SAs are taking lessons in our swagalicious pidgin english. Well done to you. The language is fast colonizing Africa. You are being smart and proactive by learning it.

Benefits: it is simple to learn since it has the queen's english and local languages in it.

It has very few rules, if any, making it very flexible and ipso facto, the perfect language that we can use to express ourselves completely.

With it, living in any part of Naija is very simple since almost everyone speaks it.

agaugust:


when you meet jacob zuma president of south africa, call him a fool to his face and he will promote you to the next navy rank.

DictatorZAR:

Don't get your hopes up son I'm just easing the tensions.

DictatorZAR:

Now tell GEJ he should tell he's incompetent soldiers who killed 187 people last weekend to prepare properly before they take on ragtag BOKO BOYS who once again showed how pathetic your military is.

souldust: dont let your hatred for us stop you from learning another language which can be very interesting and sweet. Trust me.

souldust: the fight against Boko haram is something difficult. The people in that part of thje country still sympathize with BH. You know how SOME muslims think. Any attack against any radical group is seen as an attack on Islam.

I have them here at the university campus with me. No matter how logically correct your arguement against islamic radicalism is, these people will refuse to see reasons instead, will dismiss you with the lamest of all arguements. When i say lame, i mean lame.

You guys are lucky down there at the tip of the continent that you do not have islam and that you are far away from islam.

DictatorZAR:

Now tell GEJ he should tell he's incompetent soldiers who killed 187 people last weekend to prepare properly before they take on ragtag BOKO BOYS who once again showed how pathetic your military is.

DictatorZAR:

I don't hate I only despise people who are ignorant. I myself have 4 naija friends who I hang out with once or twice a month, so don't you just assume when I throw a few bricks Nigeria's way that I hate. The same thing can also be true on naija's side also.

People only hate what they don't understand, all of us on this thread who argue with vigor has learned a lot from each other no matter how our Ego's would deny it, underneath we have established a line of communication that would only do us all good in the long run. This thread is arguably the best ever on Nairaland ever besides all the bigotry.

This is playmode,i have posted twice to debunk that lie you told about your navy and airforce but for some reason my username was banned

Dude you can lie to people who are not on the ground but can't lie to some who lives in SA and has access to SA news on the go.I will try to post my reply again and hopefully i won't get banned.

DictatorZAR:

So when I disagree with I'm called ignorant

Why the hell would someone come here and post blogs and forums as proof. Listen here there's only two to three blogs we here both SA and Naija's use as factual one of them is a nigerian site Beeagle and SA's defenceweb. If you want to be relevant here post links by Janes Weekly or SIPRI before you come and make foolish claims here.

You said the SAS sub was in dry dock as we speak for your info the SAS Modjadji was in a fender bender and within 10 days it was repaired and took part in Nato exercises yet you come here and talk nonsense. If you want us or should I say me to respectfully engage you on issues you want to raise here you have to go do upto date research before you post old nonsense that was addressed 50-100 pages ago.

The same nonsense you said about SANDF not having enough Gripen pilots this came from SA's DA "shadow minister" who was proven wrong by defenceweb and SAAF defence force website's (SAAF forum).

There a lot of indiscretions in your posts here especially the one on what militaries should procure to be considered credible, because things like carriers are for forward or external force projection and it depends entirely on what a country's militart budget and secondly the country's Foreign Policy is in protection of its strategic assets and mandates. Foreign Policy is the reason why large industrial countries like Germany who is a top hardware manufacturer and a big economic player don't have any nuclear weapons nor do they have aircraft carries even though they can easily build one anytime.

I suggest If you want to be part of this topic you must ready yourself for insults or else you're in the wrong thread and I would recommend THE intimacy.U.ALITY SECTION because if you can't provide valid proof and for a argument I will insult you whenever I feel like doing so.

agaugust: .

south africa, home of the devil

where humans are roasted alive in fire, and they have a government, police and army !

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DictatorZAR:

So when I disagree with I'm called ignorant

Why the hell would someone come here and post blogs and forums as proof. Listen here there's only two to three blogs we here both SA and Naija's use as factual one of them is a nigerian site Beeagle and SA's defenceweb. If you want to be relevant here post links by Janes Weekly or SIPRI before you come and make foolish claims here.

You said the SAS sub was in dry dock as we speak for your info the SAS Modjadji was in a fender bender and within 10 days it was repaired and took part in Nato exercises yet you come here and talk nonsense. If you want us or should I say me to respectfully engage you on issues you want to raise here you have to go do upto date research before you post old nonsense that was addressed 50-100 pages ago.

The same nonsense you said about SANDF not having enough Gripen pilots this came from SA's DA "shadow minister" who was proven wrong by defenceweb and SAAF defence force website's (SAAF forum).

There a lot of indiscretions in your posts here especially the one on what militaries should procure to be considered credible, because things like carriers are for forward or external force projection and it depends entirely on what a country's militart budget and secondly the country's Foreign Policy is in protection of its strategic assets and mandates. Foreign Policy is the reason why large industrial countries like Germany who is a top hardware manufacturer and a big economic player don't have any nuclear weapons nor do they have aircraft carries even though they can easily build one anytime.

I suggest If you want to be part of this topic you must ready yourself for insults or else you're in the wrong thread and I would recommend THE SEXUALITY SECTION because if you can't provide valid proof and for a argument I will insult you whenever I feel like doing so.

gamerepub:

This is playmode,i have posted twice to debunk that lie you told about your navy and airforce but for some reason my username was banned

Dude you can lie to people who are not on the ground but can't lie to some who lives in SA and has access to SA news on the go.I will try to post my reply again and hopefully i won't get banned.