By the way during the apartheid days the military was still largely black, and as I mentioned there was little apartheid in the ranks during the periods when fighting was occurring (during more peaceful times that was different). There are records of white officers openly refusing regulations that prohibited wounded white soldiers and black soldiers from being airlifted on the same plane. Actually a lot of the friction was primarily between Afrikaners and English (dutch white south Africans and British white south Africans).
Anyways - no argument from me that the military is not as big or well funded as it was thirty years ago (it is better equipped however, but that's a different thing). My argument on my post was that it's infantile for some to assume that the S.A. forces will be routed by the Seleka rebels. Not happening. This is a revenge mission, and the South Africans could send the bloody Soweto police and even they would be sufficient against the CAR rebels.
No argument there.