SA’s fascination with Cuba continues Are Cuban engineers here to teach us how to cope when our infrastructure implodes? 29 April 2021 - 05:00 Paul Ash A delegation of Cuban doctors and health practitioners at Livingstone Hospital. Picture: Werner Hills SA’s fascination with Cuba continues. There are Cuban doctors working in SA hospitals. Defence force personnel have apparently had unspecified military training in Cuba — which, among other things, involved sending one of the air force’s few remaining C-130 Hercules transport aircraft on a costly courier job to Havana last year to pick up some of their kit. The names of more than 2,000 Cubans, killed in Angola between 1975 and 1989, are on the memorial wall at Freedom Park in Pretoria.