Due to generally rising tensions worldwide, armed forces and governments – with much deeper pockets than any time after the ...

Armscor and the South African Navy have set the new date for the completion of the SAS Isandlwana’s refit as October 2027, ...

Modern operations involve more sensors, more platforms, and more information than ever before. The challenge is no longer ...

Peacekeepers on 29 May recognises outstanding service and honours fallen heroes. This year, the African Union (AU) ...

Egypt’s armed forces, specifically its navy, will boost maritime capability in the Mediterranean and Red Seas compliments of ...

Parliament, in the form of its Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD), wants sight of the Department of Defence (DoD)/SA ...

A Gauteng High Court costs ruling in favour of Sandu (the SA National Defence Union) ahead of the commencement of legal ...

A repair and maintenance project (RAMP) at 1 Military Hospital in Thaba Tshwane, on which over R1 billion has been spent in ...

In late January 2025, South Africans discovered their national weather service had been taken offline by a cyberattack from an unknown source. The attack that took down the weather service on 26 ...

South African Army soldiers tasked with border protection will, at some future stage, carry body cameras while on patrol. Armscor, the State-owned defence acquisition and project management company, ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has informed the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, of the South African government’s decision to withdraw its contribution of soldiers to the United Nations ...

The perennial “guns versus butter” debate has once again surfaced in discussions about South Africa’s defence budget. The argument is familiar: in a country facing poverty, unemployment, ...