The third batch of South African National Defence Force SANDF troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC is expected to land at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria today.
Two hundred and forty-nine SANDF members have undergone demobilisation at the Tempe military base in Bloemfontein.
The soldiers are set to return to their base camps today.
This follows their arrival from the DRC on Friday. The phased withdrawal of troops that were part of a peacekeeping mission of the UN and SADC follows the termination of their deployment to the eastern DRC.
The SANDFs Major-General Godfrey Thulare says, For each group, they are going to spend four days in Bloemfontein the first group, which was here since Friday, is actually going back to their units. This group that will arrive this morning - they will start with the demobilisation programme in the morning. We will give them time to rest, and then after breakfast, we can take them through the demobilisation for three days. The process is the same for all the groups, and at the end we will send them back home with the intention that they are ready to be reintegrated into their communities and their families.