Talk:South African Defence Force

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Hey people this page has a picture of an apartheid era public notice. As a military organization the SADF did indeed perpetrated crimes against civilian citizens of South Africa, but by having a public notice you're implying that its sole mission was internal (meaning civilian public interference). It seems inappropriate to have a public notice which has nothing to do with the SADF on this page (unless it is located directly in the contents of the article). It is appropriate to write about what the SADF did, but to make implications via a public notice like the one currently on this page is misuse of the idea behind the objectivity of an encyclopedia. The picture should be removed/replaced. By all means keep the history of the picture being on the page, but it doesn't belong on the page. Actually now that I think about it, the objection goes as far as having the picture in the location it is. If it was not in the main organization details box (top right), it seems fine because then you'd be identifying actions taken by the SADF and not implying it's sole mission. Also view template discussion. Rob Leach 19:07, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This must be wrong... or am I missing something

Under the section "Personnel" there is a line that reads:

- Prior to the dissolution, the SADF had 1.2 kilo Newtons of force:  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Valroe (talk • contribs) 15:11, 28 November 2007 (UTC)