does anybody know about the situation with south africa?

Question

south african government tried to get their people to leave the british army because they dont want to get involved with it. last thing i heard was that the government said that the south african soldiers have to ask for permission to stay in army and they are not allowed to go on tour,if they do they can get charged. but these soldiers are in afghanistan etc now. has anything changed then?

Answer 1

Apartheid was already eliminated but there is trouble in the military.

Answer 2

From what I can gather the anti-mercenary bill that's recently been passed says a South African cannot serve in a foreign army or security forces abroad without the govt's permission (don't know about tours of duty). The name of the bill says it all, it is supposed to target "gun for hire" mercenary types who operate in neighbouring African countries (remember the whole Mark Thatcher debacle?) not people serving in legitimate armed forces. I heard the British govt were considering giving SA soldiers serving in the British army either citizenship or British passports, don't know how true that is or when it would happen.

Answer 3

The south african government has changed the nationality rules with respect to south african on other countries passports. In the past you could be an SA citizen but holding a UK passport, now if you have a GB passport you loss your SA citizenship.
One of the big double standards about SA is that currently there are over 300 private SA contractors working in Iraq alone. All are ex SA Army and all have SA passports.