South Africa has a 50 year history of producing highly skilled, mostly white mercenaries. 'Humanitarian Gestures' like the Presidential Pardon just granted in Equatorial Guinea are almost always covert political deals designed to enrich the power brokers involved. Simon Mann and the South African mercenary leaders had been jailed for 34 years each for their role in the plot.
In theory the 4 South Africans should be prosecuted when they arrive here as arranging mercenary activity here was made illegal in 1998 under the Foreign Assistance Military Act,. Our government's policy is "30 Aug 2006 ... Mosiuoa Lekota, the defence minister, said the law would keep mercenaries from subverting democracy in Africa”.
Looking at the TV visuals of this sad looking, slack shouldered motley old crew it's obvious that the macho, Ramboesque image of the mercenary is pure fiction
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