Strong only on paper? Fact-checking Angie Motshekga's claim about South Africa's military might The Global Firepower website did rank South Africa's military third in Africa in 2024 but it's unclear ...

In the wake of the Public Private Partnerships for Defence and Security 2025 conference earlier this month, an appeal has ...

This crisis has raised the question: should South Africa have a new Defence Review? To date, democratic South Africa has had two defence reviews. The first was conducted in 1997/98, and the second ...

A post circulating on X claims to show a new armoured vehicle that South Africa's Border Management Authority is supposedly ...

Despite a defence budget of over R55 billion, South African troops in the DRC are reportedly running out of ammunition and food. In January, 13 South African soldiers died fighting Rwandan-backed ...

Given these constraints and the changing global and regional geopolitical landscape in which the SANDF operated, the government appointed a task team to draft a second defence review, following the ...

RAWALPINDI: A high-level defence delegation from the Republic of South Africa, led by Dr Thobekile Gamede, Acting Secretary of Defence, called on Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakis­tan and South Africa on Wednesday agreed to dee­pen their defence cooperation, focusing on joint ve­­ntures, technology tra­ns­fer and capacity building. The understanding ...

the spokesmen for South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs and the BMA rejected the claim as “fake news”. Darren Olivier, the director at African Defence Review, which focuses on news about ...