The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2001 as part of the United Nations peacekeeping operation. At a price tag of R20.7-billion a year, the operation is absorbing a sixth of the UN’s peacekeeping budget.
South African soldiers have been fighting in a distant land for 20 years
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