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defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Newspaper clippings of SAAF sorties, achievements and awards. The underwhelming efforts of the SA Air Force (SAAF) to mark its centenary appropriately last year – aided and abetted to a large extent by an unforeseen pandemic and national state of disaster – will partially be offset by a SAAF Association (SAAFA) project. SAAFA marked its 75th anniversary last year and, like the SAAF, also suffered, with planned prestige events cancelled and even monthly fundraising luncheons and other events suffering the same fate. Marthie Visser, chair of the newest SAAFA branch (Whale Coast) and former communications head honcho for the SAAF and the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), felt the anniversaries, notwithstanding the rigours of COVID-19, deserve to be commemorated. She came up with the concept of using newspaper and magazine clippings about air force and Association activities and achievements in their broadest sense in a comm ....