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South Africa’s defence establishment is staring down a policy and funding crisis decades in the making. At a recent session ...
Nearly a dozen South African companies as well as state defence material agency Armscor, the Border Management Authority and ...
Coinciding with the Securex 2025 exhibition held at Gallagher Estate this week, Integrated Convo (ICP) has launched three new ...
While much attention has been given to the tactical successes of the 2025 African Chiefs of Defence (ACHOD) Conference held ...
The three most recent continental peace mission deployments by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) cost more ...
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the top man in the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping hierarchy, used the example of what is now Namibia ...
In the wake of an oversight visit to a Postmasburg, Northern Cape, suburb, a local councillor “received a commitment” from ...
Soldiers deployed on border protection as per the Operation Corona standing tasking were in action along five of South Africa’s land borders in May with contraband confiscation and stolen vehicle ...
South Africa’s participation in the now-defunct Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (SAMIDRC) was once lauded as an example of the country’s ...
On 18 May, at 20:00 in the early evening, the British Naval Auxiliary vessel RFA Tidespring (IMO 9655535) arrived off Cape ...
Defence materiel division Armscor falls under the Department of Defence (DoD) and as such receives about 5% of the DoD budget. It received an allocation of R2.83 billion in 2024/25, which will rise to ...
This week saw European Union (EU) naval assets work alongside Indian Navy platforms during a three-day exercise with the emphasis on enhancing and improving maritime security co-operation in the ...