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Don't these problems sound familiar? Perhaps the SAAF can implement an overseas recruiting program similar to the ADF where prior service military personnel from certain other military forces can join?
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&ar...0808060522211C600571
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&ar...0808060522211C600571
Cash crisis cripples SAAF
Graeme Hosken
August 08 2008 at 06:58AM
The South African Air Force (SAAF) is almost powerless to defend the country from an aerial attack or control the country's skies...
...The cashflow problems have revealed that the military has been rendered almost entirely powerless to repel an aerial attack against South Africa.
Of the 366 posts available for the Gripen, Hawk and Augusta helicopter programmes, which include air and ground crew, nearly half (153) are vacant...