In early June 2015, South Africa’s National Assembly passed the Defence Review, which outlines the country’s long-term defence policy and strategic trajectory. The review indicates that ...

THE state of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is under intense scrutiny. The debacle in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) captures the crisis. Engulfed since 1994 ...

Despite repeated promises, South Africa still has no updated, funded defence policy. The 2015 Defence Review (DR), meant to guide SANDF renewal, was never implemented. It now stands as a symbol of ...

South Africa’s defence establishment is staring down a policy and funding crisis decades in the making. At a recent session ...

The DA calls for urgent and concrete action: A full audit of the SANDF’s reconnaissance, surveillance, and response ...

Darren Olivier, a director at African Defence Review with nearly two decades’ experience in conflict analysis, believes that South Africa should withdraw from DR Congo, “simply because it no ...

The department of defence is still reviewing South Africa’s bilateral agreement ... Thandi Modise said she had “given instructions to review Project Thusano”. Tsotetsi made the remarks ...

South African defence spending has dropped to 0.7% of GDP, from 1.5% of GDP in the late 1990s, said Darren Olivier, a defence analyst at African Defence Review. That has created a chasm between ...

US lawmakers dropped a potential review of South Africa’s ties with Washington ... President Joe Biden on Monday signed a version of a key annual defense-policy bill that didn’t contain ...

South Africa now spends a paltry 0.7% of GDP on ... It has called for another defence review and for withdrawal from Congo. But many suspect Cyril Ramaphosa, the president, is afraid of looking ...