The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has not been deployed to Matatiele in the Eastern Cape to control a peaceful march. Rather, soldiers happened to be present and provided support to the ...

Denel must undergo an urgent overhaul and leadership revamp to secure South Africa’s defence sector, the Democratic Alliance ...

The Infantry Formation of the SA Army now owns a new “cutting edge sniper rifle system” delivered through Project Tedu. Acquisition of the system was done by Armscor, which called the mid-March ...

The Joint Standing Committee on Defence convened on 4 April 2025 for a critical oversight session with the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), during which tensions flared over ...

Ethiopia was led by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition of four ethnic-based political parties representing Tigray, Amhara, Oromo, and Southern nations, nationalities ...

Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu has called for a renewed and results-driven partnership between the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the business sector, stressing the need for urgent and ...

A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a return to civil war in the world’s youngest nation. In early March 2025, ...

Minister Angie Motshekga’s Department of Defence (DoD) was commended by the Public Service Commission (PSC) for settling supplier payments timeously. PSC Commissioner Anele Gxoyiya, according to ...

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South Africa’s Police Summit on 8 April takes place against the backdrop of major financial constraints facing the South African Police Service (SAPS). The organisation’s 2025/26 budget of R121 ...

The Hatfield, Pretoria, building housing the headquarters of South Africa’s Department of Military Veterans (DMV) is seemingly not a good place to work in. This was acknowledged last Friday in a DMV ...

The cold winds blowing between the United States and South Africa temporally thawed a little this past weekend when the United States Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) Expeditionary Mobile Base ...