A Southern African Development Community (SADC) extraordinary summit on Thursday terminated the mandate of the SADC Mission ...

South Africa’s defence budget has increased by just R400 million from 2024/25 to R55.94 billion for the 2025/26 financial ...

Eskom, in collaboration with the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS) Energy Safety and Security Priority Committee, is continuing its crackdown on criminality within the ...

Intense fighting has ravaged Sudan since 15 April 2023. The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its erstwhile comrades-in-arms, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, has created one of the ...

Just on six months after it was revealed that a SA National Defence Force (SANDF) service chief was to acquire two Audi Q7s, another appears to be following SA Air Force (SAAF) number one Lieutenant ...

Imports of major arms by African states fell by 44% between 2015–19 and 2020–24, which was mainly due to decreases in the arms imports of Algeria and Morocco, new research from the Stockholm ...

A naval war between African states is unlikely. Rather, the primary maritime security threat is from non-state actors using ...

Unlike in South Africa where Armed Forces Day this year came and went with almost no commemoration, Cuba, some 17 000 plus kilometres away, saw a ‘successful’ Armed Forces Day being observed. The ...

Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya recently hosted the Military Attaché and Advisory Corps (MAAC) at Air Force Base (AFB) Waterkloof to talk defence. The gathering this week in the Brigadier General MK ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa, also Commander-in-Chief of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), yesterday (11 March) told Parliament the Southern African Development Community (SADC) would meet “soon, ...

The State Security Agency (SSA) has denied allegations that employees over the age of 50 are being forced into early ...

The United States has taken a significant step in strengthening defence ties with Mali, with the Malian Armed Forces hosting ...