#SHSI Episode 9 - WHY IS THE SOUTH AFRICA ARMY FIGHTING IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO & MOZAMBIQUE?

The South African National Defense Forces is currently fighting or actually let me use the correct term, they are engaged in peacekeeping missions in DRC & more recently have started a withdrawal from northern Mozambique, military missions that have and are costing the country billions but there is an important national and regional security reason for this and I want us to discuss it. So In this video even though its going to be a little bit longer than the usual I want you to stick around because you will leave here knowing a little bit more about the world around you. We as South Africa are currently and recently active in two conflict zones an you should probably know a little more about. As of earlier this year, we had around 1495 troops in northern Mozambique fighting even though we are scaling back from fighting an ISIS breakaway insurgency as well as 1200 troops engaged in a peace mission in Eastern DRC That’s 2700 troops in active conflict zones. Even as recently as Oct 31st The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was allocated an additional R3.6 billion by the finance minister in the latest ‘mini budget’ tabled on Wednesday, but many in the defence industry still feel that our army is underfunded and battling to meet its mandate. So with all that said lets get into nuts and bolts of these conflicts and see what their current state is and also how we are fairing and why they started in the first place.