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Who says this: "reinforced by the Afrikaners' historical distrust of large standing armies"? Evidence please! Paul Beardsell 09:28, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Information: The statement was made in the Library of Congress Country Studies. Elf-friend 13:13, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

And I see that source quoted here also: http://www.photius.com/countries/south_africa/national_security/south_africa_national_security_early_development_of~2500.html But note the disclaimer at the bottom of the page: Accuracy is not claimed! And I know of at least one other flaw in that article. It was quite possible to be called up for National Service before one's 18th birthday. So we are using questionable material here. Paul Beardsell 21:37, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well, the impression I get from that site is that they're just issuing a disclaimer for their use of second-hand info, and directing any queries to the authors of the LoC Country Studies and CIA:WF material. It doesn't however say anywhere that the material from both those sources is unreliable.... Impi 22:33, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well, Paul, if you see any factual errors in an article, please fix them. That's one of the advantages of Wikipedia - anybody can edit. And I don't see why one factual error would neccessarily cast doubt on the whole source. Elf-friend 11:26, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I find it quite hard to believe that over 1500 ratel varients are operated by South Africa, is this figure true? 23 Jan 2005 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.186.83.53 (talk • contribs).

You're right, there's actually around 1,200 of them in service, as per the following article (in Afrikaans) Denel, EADS se Opvolger vir Ratel Oor 3 Jaar Gereed. Impi 15:41, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Graphic of the Army Structure

I'm currently working on a project to create graphics of the structure of some Armies. i.e. France. I want to make also a graphic of the South African Army, but the information at this point is not sufficient, as on the official homepage of the Army under the link “Structure” nothing can be found! Does anyone have information how the South African Army is structured? Thanks noclador Noclador 02:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)