An appearance in the Pretoria High Court this week by former Defence Minister and National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula – who is facing corruption and money laundering charges – saw a ...

The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational jihadist group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the ...

Vice Admiral Admiral Monde Lobese’s SA Navy (SAN) is fully onboard the latest Cuba/South Africa military collaboration – Project Kgala – which the official SAN publication has it will “ensure ...

Like its new colleague the Border Management Authority (BMA), the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has to put up with and under-funding and, to a lesser extent, short staffing. In July, Commissioner ...

Sudan’s south-western city of Nyala in Darfur recently became the centre of a significant political development. After more than two years of fighting Sudan’s army, an alliance of armed and political ...

Skies in South Africa are turning into a living laboratory for next-generation drones, where pioneering advances in technology are pushing the boundary of what’s possible. Far from the amateur quad ...

Further evidence of the necessity for a properly compiled and managed military veterans’ database comes from the Gauteng Department of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation (SACR). A written reply by ...

The South African government has long positioned itself as global human rights champion, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in South Africa’s approach to conventional arms control – or at ...

There is no longer an obstacle blocking promotion prospects for a uniformed SA Air Force (SAAF) staffer thanks to the country’s largest military labour organisation. Sandu (the SA National Defence ...

Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) and Rwandan forces in early 2025 triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity across the Great Lakes region. In February, the African Union (AU) endorsed a Southern African ...

The South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) five Oryx transport helicopters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not stranded there, and will return home. On the weekend, City Press reported that ...

SA Army soldiers confiscated more than R4 million worth of contraband and narcotics from smugglers along four South African land borders in July as part of the standing Operation Corona border ...