The South African Army will begin learning what they're calling "full-contact karate" as the basis for their new hand-to-hand combat training program. With fears of civil unrest due to a rising crime rate, the army might potentially be called in to support local police forces necessitating the need for some form of close combat practice.

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Major General Patrick Njabulo Dube ordered that infantry units begin using karate training as the basis for crowd control management. Hand-to-hand combat instructors were taken through six weeks of karate instruction and have now finished training their first class of soldiers in what's been described as an "intensive" seven-day course.