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It’s been over a month since SADC leaders convened an extraordinary summit in Harare. They decided to terminate the ...
Our soldiers are not trapped. That's the assertion from the chief of the defence force. General Rudzani Maphwanya says the ...
Defence Minister Angie Motshekga on Saturday gave an update on when South Africa’s soldiers will return home from the ...
Defence Minister Angie Motshekga confirmed that plans were underway to bring back SANDF troops stationed in the DRC, but ...
A new voice – this one belonging to economic historian and policy analyst Nicholas Woode-Smith – has joined the growing ...
Despite increasing demands on the country's defence force, funding for the military has been steadily declining ...
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers scheduled to come home are trapped in the DRC. The Goma airport was shut down after a violent confrontation between M23 forces and SANDF ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed at least 2 900 soldiers in February last year to support combating illicit armed factions in eastern DRC.
A former colonel is calling for the prosecution of the military's top generals, arguing they have violated several ...
With the fiscal framework for South Africa’s 2025/26 national budget approved – by a small majority in Parliament this week – the military component of government in the form of the SA National ...
Don't expect much from the first episode of the SANDF podcast. It runs for little over four minutes, detailing each branch of ...
It’s been over a month since SADC leaders decided at an extraordinary summit in Harare, to terminate the peacekeeping mission in the eastern DRC.