South Africa's Ageing White Mercenaries Who Fought Boko Haram

Battle-hardened soldiers, many of them paramilitary leftovers of the apartheid regime, have pursued private wars simply to put bread on the table. Leon Lotz was once a member of the Koevoet – “crowbar” in Afrikaans – a paramilitary police unit created by South Africa’s apartheid regime to root out guerrillas in what is now Namibia.

Second South African Military Contractor Fighting Boko Haram Killed In Nigeria

Johannesburg - The South African private military contractor who died when his tank was attacked in Nigeria knew what his mission might entail, his wife Almarie told Netwerk24.

South Africa’s Covert Role In The Fight Against Boko Haram

For two weeks now, stories about the regional alliance between Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin through a Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) aimed at taming Boko Haram have been prominent.

Nigeria Hires South African Mercenaries To Rein In Boko Haram

In what an analyst described as a 'last minute bid to shore-up his chances of re-election in the face of imminent defeat at the Presidential election', President Goodluck Jonathan reportedly gave the nod to hire 'Private Military Contractors' from South Africa to help rein in Boko Haram.