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SADC military officers receive training in SA

    JOHANNESBURG

    Senior military officers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) converged in Benoni, about 30 km east of Johannesburg, on Monday for a two-week United Nations peacekeeping training course, news reports said on Wednesday.

    Opening the course, Deputy Defence Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was quoted as saying that the officers should be ready to be deployed for peacekeeping duties anywhere in Africa. “The learners we have here are some of the key operational planning staff in their respective countries,” she said. “In future, these individuals could well find themselves deployed to a UN mission headquarters as members of staff,” she added.

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