SANDU expresses cautious optimism as SANDF troops prepare for a safe return home after 63 days of confinement.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has reached an agreement with M23 rebels to facilitate the withdrawal of ...

South Africa's premier military hospital has been left in ruins after decades of failed renovations that have ballooned from ...

Despite increasing demands on the country's defence force, funding for the military has been steadily declining ...

Ongoing cuts by the United States (US) under President Donald Trump could mean the fifth Exercise Shared Accord may not take place this year. As with previous Shared Accords the 2025 iteration was ...

The Department of Defence's annual reports show that the number of SANDF members dropped from almost 80,000 in 2013/14 to just below 70,000 ten years later. Olivier's opinion is that "in virtually ...

They identified several issues hurting the SANDF, including budget cuts, poor equipment maintenance and the quality of its training programmes. "As has been clear for some time, decades of ...

SADC announced that its troops, which include forces from South Africa, Malawi, and Tanzania will be pulled out of the ...

“That because the expansion and re-equipment of the SANDF would have given it a solid flow of orders and R&D funding on the back of which it would have been able to market aggressively (assuming ...

The SADC has officially terminated its DRC mission, but the timeline for SANDF troops’ return remains unclear.