South African Air Force has 4 student pilots undergoing training in Cuba

South African Department of Defense head of communications, Siphiwe Dlamini, confirmed this week that 24 personnel from the SAAF are undergoing training in Cuba.

SAAF-BAE Hawk-001
By Leo za1 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Four of them will be there over the next four years to be trained as pilots while another five are learning to be air traffic controllers.

Eight are undergoing aviation engineering courses while seven are doing three-year aviation technical training courses.

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