A sense of relief will most likely fill Air Force Base Bloemspruit on Friday 13 June as the first group of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers return home after their deployment to ...

Nineteen months after the SA Navy (SAN) lost three submariners in a bad weather incident off Kommetjie in the Western Cape, the Board of Inquiry (BoI) report remains a classified document, to the ...

The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo’s Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration ...

The full design, development and production capability of the South African Defence Industry (SADI) was established over a roughly 30-year period leading into the 1990s. The sector started contracting ...

The newest addition to the South African landscape of organisations representing military veterans has set itself up as an advocacy group rather than either a lobby or pressure group. The difference ...

Asylum seekers could be “bounced” between countries at the border if South Africa’s One-Stop Border Post Bill is passed in its present form, says the Scalabrini Centre. The bill proposes joint border ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) is leveraging lifestyle reviews and financial disclosure regulations to monitor and manage the integrity of its senior personnel. In response to a parliamentary ...

Gunshot detection systems no longer require dedicated specialist sensors, and can now easily run on mobile phones and smartwatches. One such system, Triangula, was on display the Securex exhibition at ...

Violence and insecurity in the Great Lakes region and the Lake Chad Basin of central Africa are on the rise, the senior United Nations (UN) staffer in the region warns. Abdou Abarry, Head of the UN ...

Events and deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) earlier this year contributed in no small measure to the postponement of two major annual SA National Defence Force (SANDF) events. Armed ...

South Africa’s Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Angie Motshekga, has expressed her strong admiration for the South ...

Three years after a then opposition Member of Parliament (MP) took it on himself to initiate a criminal case in connection ...