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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The full design, development and production capability of the South African Defence Industry (SADI) was established over a roughly 30-year period leading into the 1990s. The sector started contracting ...

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has intensified patrols along sensitive sections of the border with Mozambique and Eswatini, uncovering a series of illicit activities. Troops from 5 ...

On 26 May, Seedy SK Njie, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia, met in Vienna with Arnold Kammel, Minister and Secretary General of the Austrian Ministry of Defence. The two officials ...

The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) received detailed briefings from South Africa’s key anti-corruption bodies on Tuesday, revealing the scale, complexity, and slow ...