South Africa's president has reprimanded defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and docked her pay for three months for taking a delegation to Zimbabwe on an air force plane, his office said.

To maintain high levels of fitness and physical agility among its soldiers, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has initiated a week-long programme of intensive sporting and recreational ...

South Africa’s military is not a luxury; it is a constitutional necessity. Yet it is being dismantled by political neglect, ...

Theo Neethling receives funding from the National Research Foundation. It’s an amalgamation of the former apartheid era South African Defence Force, the militaries of the former nominally independent ...

In my previous article, I emphasized that viable alternative approaches can meet South Africa’s defence needs effectively, ...

The South African Army participated in an obstacle course at the Chief of the South African National Defence Force's Military Skills Competition 2025.

South Africa is ready to help insurgency-hit Mozambique with support from its intelligence services or military, but its neighbour would first need to request that help, South Africa's foreign ...

SANDF has assured its members that all operational allowances owed to personnel deployed to the Republic of the Congo have been paid.

The SANDF’s Cyber Command is small, opaque and poorly integrated into core defence operationsLegacy COBOL systems and outdated infrastructure expose ...

One of South Africa’s challenges appears to be the relentless creation of controversial soundbites and scant broadcasting for ...

General Rudzani Maphwanya leads a medal parade at Ysterplaat Air Force Base, honouring SANDF members for their decades of ...

The Mubambiro base near the eastern Congolese town of Sake has become a death trap for the 2,400 South African troops stationed there. Hemmed in by mountains crawling with rebels of the M23, a Tutsi ...