agaugust:


Currency value does not show which economy is stronger, 1 SA Rand = 10 Japanese Yen.

Does that make South African economy 10 times stronger than Japan's economy? Olodo !
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mzilakazi:

The French never helped us at all, they were only busy to deport French nationals and none of them was ever involved in the Bangui battle. SANDF had a protection force for which I was part to look after the safety of the instructors. However, we only had limited firepower yet very sophisticated weapons.
http://www.africandefence.net/five-things-you-never-knew-about-the-south-african-military/
Or do you want us to turn your military into Seleka? to suffer the wounds that Seleka suffered, bwahahaha…

EVarn:
@dievluit,you forget that there is no universal definition of what a "frontier market" is,a frontier market and an emerging market are closely tied together,though an emerging market is considered the most mature,but it is opened for debate which of the markets is truly progressive on the long run.a common trait of the frontier market is the trademark lack of a stock exchange,but then again,nigeria has a stock exchange;so,can nigeria be considered a frontier market?.perhaps,five years ago,nigeria could have been considered a frontier,but today,it is in doubt what countries like nigeria can be called,we are an emerging frontier market;which makes us an emerging economy.contrary to your presumptious claims that nigeria has no adequate infrastructure nor manufacturing capacity on ground to be considered an emerging export oriented economy,we have an emerging industry in automobile,textile and petrochemicals.how many refineries does SA have?,you speak of shale boom,but how many oil cracking facility does SA have?

agaugust:


Yet it was your 250 SANDF soldiers that beat Usain Bolt in a race to the airport to beg French army for protection

EVarn:
is that the best you have?.then i must say you're sorely lacking.

EVarn:
on the seleka war front

agaugust:


You mean like this.....?
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agaugust:


Yet it was your 250 SANDF soldiers that beat Usain Bolt in a race to the airport to beg French army for protection

agaugust:


Currency value does not show which economy is stronger, 1 SA Rand = 10 Japanese Yen.

Does that make South African economy 10 times stronger than Japan's economy? Olodo !
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EVarn:
how sophisticated were your weapons?,wasnt it you who claimed that SANDF troops werent able to take any sophisticated weapon into CAR due to france's jealousy and suspicion?.to the best of my accurate knowledge,SANDF went into CAR with rifles and a few armoured patrol/surveillance vehicles,how then did they 'defeat' the young but well armed seleka rebels?.
dont even compare the NA with the weak SANDF in terms of infantry skills,we'd slaughter your troops for chrismas!.

patches689:


or what about the illiterate boko haram that have captured APC's and brand new MRAPs from you?

patches689:


The answer to your question is inside your question

We smashed Seleka simply due to our infantry skills and superior situation awareness and tactical maneuvers.

We pulled them into carefully set up killing feilds, where we brought 80mm mortars and 12,5mm HMG's to bear on confined areas

Once they countered and started turning our flanks, we pulled back and let them walk into the next killing field.

Nigerian infantryman are poorly trained, this is a well known fact - by comparison it takes a recruit 2 years of training to become a rifleman in the SANDF

patches689:


We only went to the airport after Seleka offered us a cease-fire and we accepted it

that was over 13 hours after we first engaged them

Henry120:


A blue Streit MK3, while the Army's Streit are in desert Camo, no proof, it is for the Nigerian Army.

An unmarked tracked APC, again no Proof it is for the Nigerian Army.

Learn to substantiate your evidence boy.

dievluit:

patches689:
The answer to your question is inside your question
We smashed Seleka simply due to our infantry skills and superior situation awareness and tactical maneuvers.
We pulled them into carefully set up killing feilds, where we brought 80mm mortars and 12,5mm HMG's to bear on confined areas
Once they countered and started turning our flanks, we pulled back and let them walk into the next killing field.
Nigerian infantryman are poorly trained, this is a well known fact - by comparison it takes a recruit 2 years of training to become a rifleman in the SANDF

MikeCZAR:
Post realistic stuff nd stop this unicorns stories. Then I'll start correcting and taking you seriously

MikeCZAR:
They clashed on several areas/fronts, please tell us in which area did what you're saying happened.

Patchesagain:


Lol

So i guess boko haram just stumbled across them in the bush?

mzilakazi:


His life was in danger and that of his family.

Patchesagain:


Lol

So i guess boko haram just stumbled across them in the bush?

mzilakazi:


I fail to understand how could BH ever write a letter to the pres to conscentize him about the deteriorating standard of the military equipments. Don't you think BH would be troubling a sleeping dog by making it aware that it is sleeping. Your accusations do not make sense at all.


http://www.naij.com/348712-army-commander-author-of-scandalous-letter-threatened.html

and I can bring I. many more.

DieVluit:


Symbol of a dying flame like the US economy is recovering today, as we speak? Sure, dude. Growth at 5% is not development. Development is doing things that make sure that you don't have devalue your naira when the oil price goes to the dogs. The South African economy is the most sophisticated economy in the entire continent of Africa, far richer than Nigeria's and most developed. Growing in size did not save the naira. The Nigerian GDP has failed to save you. We are no saying this to hurt you but it just is what it is.

MikeCZAR:


Pirates hijacked and have taken NNS Aradu with SBS on-board.

lezz:
cry us a river! Most developed economy doesn't help you from being number 2 on the continent. Hurts i know. Southafrica is like an old prôstitutę dude.
Nigeria is the new bride.

Let Japan brag about development and China will tell the sun has left your sport. Nigeria is on the spotlight deal with.

And the sooner you adjust to life as number 2 on the continent, the milder you disillusionment will hit you.

Any surprise we have the most concentration of billionaires on mother continent?

I shall always China you anywhere, anyhow.

mzilakazi:


The problem is that you don't know when is the right time to use both words in practical situations.


GDP must be used when we want to investigate which country has the largest economy.

GDP per capita must always be used when we investigate for which country is the richest.

Nigeria's economic growth is expected to fall below 5% in 2015, that is in accordance with IMF report and SA is expected to grow to above 3%.

However, the devaluation of Naira had many negative impacts over billionaires of Nigeria as their number has now reduced bitterly. What is possible is that the list will now reduce to only four in Forbes list of African Billionaires.

DieVluit:


Wannabe accountant

In Nigeria's case, the fall of the Naira meant the depletion of your foreign reserves in an attempt to save it. Close to $30 bn was spent trying to save the Naira and in the end that didn't help. Your depleted foreign reserves is a great injury to an economy that knows only importation in the main. The fall of the Naira also meant that your rebased GDP has lost upwards of $ 40 bn in value.

The weakness of the Naira means that the cash in the hands of every Nigerian will buy less. You do know that "cash is a store of value", don't you? Well, you cash stores less value today.

My friend, all these things and more spell weakness.

Your question about Japan shows how much of a simpleton you are. If you really were educated in 'these things', you wouldn't even have asked it. Japan has the fundamentals. Nigeria does not, which is why I speak only about Nigeria and not Japan or anyone else. The fall of the Naira has exposed the weaknesses of the Nigerian economy. Not that we didn't know about them anyway. http://businessdayonline.com/2014/12/oil-price-crisis-exposes-failure-of-nigerias-economy-managers/

Centrifude:


Dude the U.S has Already cut oil trade with Nigeria, the oil price is almost half of what it was in September and Nigerias Oil accounts for more than 70% of you GDP which means that you are not going to stay in the number one spot for long, we said it before your economy is very unstable let's just wait and see what the drop in Oil prices in going to do to you.

We managed to stop our economy from falling into a recession even while we had crippling strikes throughout our mining and metal industries.

Centrifude:


Dude the U.S has Already cut oil trade with Nigeria, the oil price is almost half of what it was in September and Nigerias Oil accounts for more than 70% of you GDP which means that you are not going to stay in the number one spot for long, we said it before your economy is very unstable let's just wait and see what the drop in Oil prices in going to do to you.

We managed to stop our economy from falling into a recession even while we had crippling strikes throughout our mining and metal industries.

patches689:


Yes, our Purchasing Power Parity is far superior to japans - meaning we have a more powerfull and capable currency
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPP

Japan maintains an inflated currency in order to controll their massive government debt

agaugust:


China is demanding for more Nigerian oil.
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