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Showdown: Battle of Bangui authors head to court for access to deployment reports


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The authors of Battle of Bangui are preparing for a court battle to compel the defence minister to grant access to deployment reports.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula partially complied with a court order to give reasons why their PAIA request was denied.
The defence department said the matter was
under litigation, so it would be difficult to comment .
The authors of Battle of Bangui are preparing for a showdown in court as they prepare an application to compel the minister of defence and military veterans to hand over two deployment reports.
They maintain the government should be held to account for the avoidable loss of South African lives . ....

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The Battle of Bangui: South Africa's blunder into bat...


The bodies of 13 fallen South African soldiers were laid out in a row in the improvised mortuary set up by Lieutenant Colonel Bucibe and Captain Mahlo at the French base. On Sunday night, most of Charlie Company slept soundly in their sleeping bags in the hangar they had been allocated. But the medics were woken by their hosts. The bodies, which had lain in the tropical sun all day, were beginning to putrefy. One of the sub-standard body bags was leaking. “Now we must transfer it to another bag because they don’t want all these fluids leaking onto the floor. We had to deal with that – me and her,” Bucibe said, referring to Mahlo. “We were undertakers.” ....

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