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Introduction - South Africa: | Location - South Africa: | People - South Africa: | Government - South Africa: | Economy - South Africa: | Communications - South Africa: | Transportation - South Africa: | Military - South Africa: | Military branches | South African National Defense Force (SANDF): South African Army, South African Navy (SAN), South African Air Force (SAAF), Joint Operations Command, Joint Support Command, Military Intelligence, Military Health Service (2007) | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; women have a long history of military service in noncombat roles dating back to World War I (2004) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 10,354,769
females age 18-49: 10,626,550 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 4,927,757
females age 18-49: 4,609,071 (2005 est.) | | Military note | with the end of apartheid and the establishment of majority rule, former military, black homelands forces, and ex-opposition forces were integrated into the South African National Defense Force (SANDF); as of 2003 the integration process was considered complete | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 512,407
females age 18-49: 506,078 (2005 est.) | | Refugees and internally displaced persons | refugees (country of origin): 10,609 (Democratic Republic of Congo), 7,548 (Somalia), 5,764 (Angola) (2006) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 1.7% (2006) | | Trafficking in persons | current situation: South Africa is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; women and girls are trafficked internally - and occasionally to European and Asian countries - for sexual exploitation; women from other African countries are trafficked to South Africa and, less frequently, onward to Europe for sexual exploitation; men and boys are trafficked from neighboring countries for forced agricultural labor; Asian and Eastern European women are trafficked to South Africa for debt-bonded sexual exploitation
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show increasing efforts to address trafficking in 2005 | | Disputes international | South Africa has placed military along the border to apprehend the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing economic dysfunction and political persecution; as of January 2007, South Africa also supports large numbers of refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (33,000), Somalia (20,000), Burundi (6,500), and other states in Africa (26,000); managed dispute with Namibia over the location of the boundary in the Orange River; in 2006, Swazi king advocates resort to ICJ to claim parts of Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal from South Africa | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |