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The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and the South African Police Service (SAPS) have launched a joint ...
It is believed the soldiers had an altercation in the early hours of Saturday morning before the fatal attack.
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 ...
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 ...
Holomisa’s special task is led by the implementation of the 2015 South African Defence Review, in conjunction with section heads. The review dealt with a long-term defence policy and defence ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...