Today Die Volksblad had a article"Taai opleiding wag" aboutnext months deployment to the DRC.
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PRETORIA. From the Army's premier infantry now undergo intense training to prepare them for their mission as part of the aggressive multinational ingrypingsbrigade in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
According to Lieutenant General. Vusi Masondo, head of the army, helping commanders earlier this year in the Central African Republic (CAR) was involved in the Battle of Bangui, to hone their.
Inspectors from the United Nations (UN), in view of the unique features of the brigade already established in South Africa to prepare for the South Africans evaluate.
They will now undergo further training to fill any possible gaps in their training, said Masondo.
The soldiers are expected to be deployed to the DRC in June, where they are part of the brigade of about 3000 soldiers.
Tanzania will be the leading country and contribute more than 1000 soldiers, while Malawi will contribute a battalion.
The Tanzanian team has been deployed in Goma in the east of the DRC to make right for the rest of the force.
The UN Security Council approved the establishment of the brigade earlier approved an aggressive mandate an end to the M23 and other rebel groups' reign of terror in the country.
The brigade is expected to end June or early July with its operations.
South African soldiers will mainly infantrymen of 6 SA Infantry Battalion (6 SAI) in Grahamstown. They will be supplemented by paratroopers and special forces. There is still out on whether South Africa two of its Rooivalk attack helicopters and two Oryx helicopters deployed in support of the force, said Masondo.
South Africa has already a magsterkte of about 1000 soldiers who were part of the UN Mission in the DRC (Monusco). The soldiers are now under transferred ingrypingsbrigade.
At the same time, the soldiers in the past six months in the DRC, now rotated back home to make way for the new group.
6 SAI is the army's luggeleide Battalion, which means they are accustomed to helicopters to be deployed to an area of conflict.
According to Masondo, the army's obsolete and battered equipment problem, but he is confident that the ingrypingsgroep will be adequately equipped to meet the requirements.
He expressed the hope that the Treasury may have excess money somewhere outside the defense budget will find that the army will assist with the procurement of new equipment.
"Lack of equipment that our soldiers can train optimally," he said at a briefing in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Lieutenant General. Derrick Mgwebi, chief of joint operations, is now at the UN in New York to get all the necessary documents and rules of warfare to sign for the new brigade.