Editor Engelbrecht Archive

RDL Technologies is a step closer to unleashing its "Rogue" close-in weapons system (CIWS) on the world market, after a series of...

November 2005 The Army is fashioning a vision for the next 15 years and its chief has asked the public to contribute. Lt...

Kenya is copying and customising South African defence reforms, policy and planning to suit its own circumstances in a bid to stamp...

Defence oversight is still weak in Mozambique, a study on military budgets in Africa has found.FEATURE-AU-DEFENCE-MOZ by Leon Engelbrecht    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia...

Africa has to stop treating military budgets as unique, a conference on the matter heard at the weekend.    Armed forces in Africa...

Donor pressure for budget reform in Africa was often met with official dishonesty, case studies in eight countries have found. AU-DEFENCE-DONORS    ADDIS ABABA,...

The SA Navy was the unwitting catalyst that triggered South Africa's defence oversight revolution when it went to Parliament in 1995 to...

 Ethiopia's defence spending was irrational, a first-of-its-kind study on defence budgets in Africa has found.FEATURE-AU-DEFENCE-ETHIOPIA by Leon Engelbrecht    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia May...

On the way from the airport, our taxi had no headlights, one functioning windscreen wiper to rearrange the water from a torrential...

Women are making rapid progress in the SA Navy, Vice-Admiral Refiloe Mudimu said on Monday. ...

The Navy plans to better contribute to peacekeeping in Africa by setting up a naval rapid deployment force (NRDF), Vice Admiral Refiloe...

"In a further development, military commentators in South Africa have discussed the creation of an Indigenous Military Peacebuilding Initiative (IMPI)..." "Sub-Saharan Africa Regional...

If recent events in the Ivory Coast did not sufficiently highlight the urgent need to implement a programme akin to the Indigenous...

The arrival of the third and fourth Saab JAS39 Gripen D aircraft in SA follows a series of reports in the mass...

Arms acquisition is, was and will always be unpopular with the public.Telling want from need in the quest for  responsible armaments acquisition by...

The nature of the media-military relationship is one of mutual ambivalence, suspicion and antagonism, for a variety of reasons.The military through media...

No African country was objectively spending enough on defence, a conference on military budgetary processes in Africa heard on Thursday.AU-DEFENCE-BUDGET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia;...

Three regular brigades, backed by Special Forces, Airborne troops and Reservists. That is the answer to the question vexing SA Army chief...

In case of emergency, hold talk shop. That's the executive summary of the recently adopted Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mutual Defence...

By the end of this decade Africa should have a six brigade UN-style force ready to police the continent's trouble spot. In...