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 ...

The South African Air Force (SAAF) faces a R7.7 billion shortfall to fund aircraft support contracts over the next three years, with state defence materiel agency Armscor saying the SAAF maintenance ...

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 ...

As African and American senior enlisted leaders meet in military uniform—some from storied militaries, others building new traditions—what takes place transcends the idea of ...

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 ...

Mathipa, assassinated on the N1 in 2023, had been investigating a 2022 kidnapping linked to military vehicles and the secret offloading of cargo from the Russian vessel Lady R at the Simon’s Town ...