Chief, Lieutenant General Wiseman Mbambo, was in Pakistan earlier this month (July) where, reports have it, “revamping” of ...

The longstanding European Union (EU) naval operation off the east African coast – Atalanta – again showed its ability by co-ordinating the rescue of a merchant vessel crew in the Red Sea following an ...

Displaying a tenacity not often seen in Parliamentary defence oversight, a National Council of Provinces (NCOP) public representative bounced back from an attempted public humiliation to “demand full ...

Recent efforts to resolve the M23 crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken a new turn. After the breakdown of the Angola-led Luanda talks in mid-December 2024, a joint East ...

The Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Industries Association of South Africa (AMD) has announced a new Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson following the departure of former SA Air Force Chief Fabian ...

SA Air Force (SAAF) bases and facilities in Gauteng and Limpopo are preparing for Exercise Eagle Dawn to test capabilities and align the airborne service with deployment requirements. The exercise is ...

He warned that the effectiveness of Parliament has been ambiguous for some time, with many struggling to comprehend that portfolio committees, particularly those overseeing Defence, have been raising ...

Violence and insecurity in the Great Lakes region and the Lake Chad Basin of central Africa are on the rise, the senior United Nations (UN) staffer in the region warns. Abdou Abarry, Head of the UN ...

Being a South African legal beagle in uniform doesn’t mean military skills are ignored as a group from Defence Legal Services Division found out over a two-week period in a wintry Drakensberg. The ...

Gotsell is confident this one will not go away thanks to a proposal approved by Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD). The proposal will see all Hawks and SIU investigations into ...

A shortage of qualified flight engineers, pilots and aircraft has meant that the South African Air Force (SAAF) belatedly managed to send only a single Oryx helicopter to help with flood relief ...

Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum on Friday interrogated Armscor and the Department of Defence (DoD) over delays, underfunding, and systemic risks undermining the South African ...