(29 Jan 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Mooi River, South Africa – 14 July 2023
1. Various of South African National Defence Force troops patrolling at the Mooi River toll gate
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Johannesburg, South Africa – 29 January 2025
2. South African National Defence Force spokesperson, Siphiwe Dlamini, walking
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Siphiwe Dlamini, South African National Defence Force spokesperson:
"The M23 has been taking villages and towns over the past month or so, and we know that, until they got to a place called Sake where our operational base is located, where we are also co-located with Tanzania, Malawi, and ourselves, together with some of the MONUSCO (United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) people. So they attacked that base and when our base came under attack we then responded. And we did indeed push them back."
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ARCHIVE: Mooi River, South Africa – 14 July 2023
4. South African National Defence Force troops patrolling
5. Close of gun
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Johannesburg, South Africa – 29 January 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Siphiwe Dlamini, South African National Defence Force spokesperson:
"Our soldiers are back in their bases, they are no longer engaging with M23. The engagement is between M23… so in their positions, they have all their possessions with them. And again, getting more support to them is something that we are working on to avoid any loss of life. But to make sure that even those that are bringing in those supplies are actually secured."
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ARCHIVE: Soweto, South Africa – 23 April 2020
7. Mid of troops
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Johannesburg, South Africa – 29 January 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Siphiwe Dlamini, South African National Defence Force spokesperson:
"On Monday, again, when, we went back to our bases because the FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) was retreating, I’m sorry, surrendering to M23. We then went back to base and in the base where we were fighting ensued around our base where the FARDC and M23 started launching mortars against each other. And one of those or a couple of those fell on our base and unfortunately, we lost three people. The fourth person who passed on was the one who had injuries (in previous attack in Sake)."
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ARCHIVE: Soweto, South Africa – 23 April 2020
9. Various of soldiers in an armoured vehicle speaking on loud loudspeaker
10. Wide soldiers patrolling in Soweto
STORYLINE:
The South African military said on Wednesday it was working on sending more support and supplies to its troops in Congo where at least 13 of its soldiers have died during clashes with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the last few days.
It was also working on repatriating the bodies of the fallen soldiers, a process that is expected to take longer than usual because of the volatile situation in Goma.
Speaking to The Associated Press on Wednesday, South African National Defence Force spokesperson, Siphiwe Dlamini, said he was not privy to information regarding whether more troops would be sent to the region as reinforcement, a decision likely to be discussed at the Southern Africa Development (SADC) extraordinary summit in Harare, Zimbabwe on Thursday.
South Africa soldiers are part of the mission sent to Congo by the Southern Africa regional bloc SADC.
"Our soldiers are back in their bases, they are no longer engaging with M23… So in their positions and they have all their possessions with them," he said.
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