A Uruguayan soldier who was part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) ...

South African lawmaker Carl Niehaus on Tuesday, February 4, criticised the Chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), Gen. Rudzani Maphwanya, for failing to attend parliamentary ...

A week after the first of 13 South African soldiers were killed by M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ...

Gen Rudzani Maphwanya has said the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) fired rockets into Rwanda. Maphwanya appeared before a parliamentary committee along with defence minister Angie Motshekga to explain ...

Maphwanya says the families of the 14 soldiers who died ten days ago - have been receiving all the necessary support to deal ...

We in the SANDF come from the people and serve for the people. As such, we will march together with our people in the defence of our beloved South Africa, our motherland! It is with a heavy heart that ...

The fallen troops were part of a multinational SADC force deployed to stabilise the region amid ongoing clashes between the ...

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

The South African National Defence Force is leading the mission. Their mandate is to support the DRC government, a member of the 16-member SADC group, in restoring peace, security and stability.

Following the deaths of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members during combat in the eastern Democratic Republic ...

With an outstanding line-up of expert speakers ranging from a deputy defence minister to serving senior members of the ...