ANC leader Jacob Zuma arrives for Supreme Court hearing
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1. Wide exterior of Supreme Court of Appeal
2. Supporters of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma singing outside court
3. Various of Zuma arriving at court
4. Front cover of Zuma's court file
5. Wide interior of court room
6. Zuma greeting his legal team and sitting down
7. Zuma's lawyer
8. Wide of National Prosecuting Authority legal team
9. Wide of police on street alongside Zuma supporters
10. Zuma supporters singing
STORYLINE
An appeal against a judgement which invalidated charges against African National Congress president Jacob Zuma started in South Africa on Friday.
Zuma made a low key arrival which largely went unnoticed by supporters gathered at Hertzog Square opposite the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
Local residents seemed oblivious to the significance of the case that will be heard by five judges and which involves the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), former president Thabo Mbeki and ANC president Zuma.
The NPA is seeking to have a Pietermaritzburg High Court ruling from September 12 overturned on appeal.
In that ruling the judge said that the NPA's decision to charge Zuma was unlawful because he had not been allowed to make representations to the National Director of Public Prosecutions before he was charged.
Zuma was facing a charge of racketeering, four charges of corruption, a charge of money laundering and 12 charges of fraud.
Mbeki was expected to get 45 minutes to argue why he should be allowed to intervene in the battle between the NPA and Zuma or be admitted to the legal fray as a friend of the court.
Mbeki wants to be allowed to challenge the judge's inferences of political meddling against him, which he claims led the ANC to recall him from his position as president of the country.
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Rhodesian Light Infantry | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:32 1 History
00:02:40 2 Organisation
00:02:49 2.1 Commandos
00:03:52 2.2 Base Group
00:04:33 2.2.1 Signals Troop and Tracking Troop
00:06:15 2.3 Support Group/Commando
00:07:43 3 Ranks
00:09:18 4 Operations
00:10:01 5 Fireforce Actions
00:15:01 5.1 Tactics
00:18:32 5.1.1 The Sweep
00:20:13 5.1.2 The Stop Position
00:20:59 5.1.3 Air Power
00:22:22 6 Other Actions
00:23:16 6.1 Patrols
00:24:46 6.2 Externals
00:26:34 7 Technical
00:26:43 7.1 Equipment and Armaments
00:31:56 8 Miscellaneous
00:32:05 8.1 Communications
00:33:52 8.2 Deployments
00:34:51 8.3 Medical
00:35:38 8.4 Enemy Armaments
00:37:39 8.5 Training, Culture, Foreign Volunteers and Women
00:42:15 8.6 Nicknames, Mascots and Commando Insignia
00:49:16 9 Casualties
00:51:16 10 Conclusion
00:53:41 11 Notes and references
00:53:55 12 External links
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The 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI), commonly The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks (Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia) as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Barely a year after its creation, it was relocated to Cranborne Barracks (Salisbury) where its headquarters remained for the rest of its existence. The Regiment became part of the Southern Rhodesian Army when the Federation dissolved at the start of 1964 and later that year reformed into a commando battalion — Rhodesia's equivalent of the 75th Ranger Regiment (United States).
After Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965, the RLI became one of the country's main counter-insurgency units during the Rhodesian Bush War, which pitted the government security forces against the rival guerrilla campaigns of Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA).
An all-white regiment, the RLI was made up wholly of professional soldiers until 1973, when capable conscripted national servicemen were first introduced. Foreign volunteers from across the world, many veterans of foreign conflicts, also joined and became a key part of the Regiment. The RLI was nicknamed The Saints or The Incredibles, and regarded, through astounding success with both internal Fireforce operations in Rhodesia and external preemptive strikes against guerrillas based in Mozambique and Zambia, as one of the world's foremost exponents of counter-insurgency warfare.
So prominent were the airborne aspects of typical RLI operations that the battalion became a parachute regiment in 1976. The RLI served under the short-lived government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, and the interim British government that followed. After serving under the new government of Zimbabwe for a brief period, the unit was disbanded in October 1980.
The RLI's tactics and training contributed to repeated successes in its counter-insurgency operations. The advantage this gave them... says United States Army Lieutenant-Colonel Dave Grossman, ...added up to nothing less than total tactical superiority. Alexandre Binda writes that the RLI ...earned for itself an enviable reputation as one of the world's foremost anti-terrorist forces, while Major Charles D. Melson, chief historian of the United States Marine Corps, calls it The Killing Machine.