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Saab’s launches Workplace Acceleration Programme to help SA graduates

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To help combat the growing challenge of high unemployment, Saab Grintek Defence has partnered with the Sisekelo Institute of Business and Technology to launch...
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New delivery dates for SAN patrol vessels

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Diplomacy & Peace

Mozambican IDPs back home

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Industry

Milkor expands communications and system integration capabilities

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Thandi Modise visits Russia for Moscow Conference on International Security

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SVI VPAM 7 test in preparation for Land Cruiser 300 armouring

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At SVI engineering we take ballistic protection seriously. Although the EN1063 B6 standard covers the specification of the materials used in providing protection against...
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SANDF sending 10,000 soldiers to KZN to help people who are...

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The SANDF will be sending 10,000 soldiers to KZN to help people who are affected by the floods. But the military has had severe problems...

SA DEFENCE

SA Defence

Thandi Modise visits Russia for Moscow Conference on International Security

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Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise has arrived in Russia to attend the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security at the invitation of...
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SANDF displays and recruits at Sedibeng Presidential imbizo

SA Defence Kim Helfrich -

SA Navy receives Nigerian Army College delegation

SA Defence Guy Martin -

Minister Modise should account for lack of disciplinary action on corruption

Editors Pick Kim Helfrich -
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INDUSTRY

Industry

Saab’s launches Workplace Acceleration Programme to help SA graduates

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To help combat the growing challenge of high unemployment, Saab Grintek Defence has partnered with the Sisekelo Institute of Business and Technology to launch...
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Milkor expands communications and system integration capabilities

Industry Guy Martin -

Denel details its strategy to stabilise and grow the Group

Editors Pick Guy Martin -

Denel finally pays staff their outstanding salaries

Editors Pick Guy Martin -
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AEROSPACE

Aerospace

UPDF delegation calls on SAAF Museum

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A call on the SA Air Force (SAAF) Museum at Air Force Base (AFB) Swartkop was an early stop on the itinerary of a...
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Mali commissions new aircraft

Aerospace Guy Martin -

Ex Winter Solstice preparing SAAF for out of country deployment

Aerospace Kim Helfrich -

22 Squadron celebrates 80th anniversary

Aerospace Guy Martin -
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DIPLOMACY & PEACE

Diplomacy & Peace

Mozambican IDPs back home

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On one hand, hostilities continue while on the other people displaced by ongoing conflict in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado are being moved home. According to the...
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Is Africom the key to unlocking South Africa’s economic growth?

Diplomacy & Peace Guy Martin -

ISS analysis supports SADC deployment in Mozambique

Diplomacy & Peace Kim Helfrich -

External and internal factors hamper peace processes in Africa

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SANDF should be red-faced after CNavy didn’t exit as announced

Editors Opinion Kim Helfrich -
At best it can be described as a failure to communicate. At worst, it’s an indictment of poor management and succession planning showing all...

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Joining the South African National Defence Force

If you are looking for a career in either one of the SANDF arms of service...

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AFRICAN MILITARIES

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SEA

Sea

New delivery dates for SAN patrol vessels

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The first new multi-mission inshore patrol vessel (MMIPV) is flying the fleet ensign as she undergoes operational testing and evaluation but it’s going to...
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US Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk visits The Gambia, Sierra Leone

Sea Guy Martin -
The US Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk has made port calls in The Gambia and Sierra Leone under its forward deployment to the US Naval...

Ex Oxide 2022 will be west coast based

Sea Kim Helfrich -
With COVID-19 no longer deemed a danger, it’s full steam ahead for Exercise Oxide, which is set down for 14 to 30 November. The joint...

Navy planning submarine spares acquisition

Editors Pick Kim Helfrich -
The SA Navy (SAN) looks to be planning ahead when cognisance is taken of an Armscor issued request for information (RfI) for the 2023/24...

LAND

Editors Pick

More Mambas on the move

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Almost a month after the first batch of refurbished Mamba armoured personnel carriers (APCs) left De Brug for Wallmannsthal, they are today (Friday, 12...
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Cote d’Ivoire reveals new armoured vehicles

Land Guy Martin -
Cote d’Ivoire’s military has unveiled the acquisition of multiple new armoured vehicle types, at a parade celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the country’s independence....

Chinese private security firms are growing their presence in Africa: why it matters

Land Guy Martin -
Chinese private security companies have found a profitable niche market in Africa: guarding Chinese executives and construction sites. They’re also securing Chinese vessels at...

ATMIS 24 APCs better off

Land Kim Helfrich -
Mobility of African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) troops has been boosted with an additional 24 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) donated to the...

MARITIME SECURITY

Maritime Security

EU NavFor Op Atalanta 41st rotation underway

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Italian Rear Admiral Fabricio Bondi handed command of the European Union (EU) naval force Atalanta headquarters to a Portuguese commodore with a notable first...
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Illegal fishing thrives due to lack of knowledge, patrol capacity

Maritime Security Guy Martin -
Coastal African states are sounding the alarm that a lack of resources to patrol waters, combined with limited surveillance of vessel activity, are enabling...

Indian Ocean piracy on the decline, with Yemen conflict riskiest to seafarers – report

Maritime Security Guy Martin -
Piracy in the northern Indian Ocean has decreased over the last decade, and now the greatest threat to seafarers in the region is state-backed...

Op Irini notches up 22 board and search missions

Maritime Security Kim Helfrich -
The fragile situation in Libya means Operation Irini, the EU (European Union) tasking enforcing a United Nations (UN) arms embargo on the North African...

CIVIL SECURITY

Civil Security

The great crime of Marikana

David Bruce -
One act was central to converting what had already been a week of killing and confrontation at Marikana in 2012 into a massacre. That...
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SA Government says it is working hard to ensure effective policing

Civil Security Guy Martin -
President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is working to provide the South African Police Service (SAPS) with the resources it needs to carry out its...

What’s behind terrorist attacks on churches in Nigeria

Civil Security Guy Martin -
In early June 2022, 40 people died, including children, in a mass shooting and bomb attack on a Catholic church in the city of...

Police operations net 53 suspected illegal miners

Civil Security Guy Martin -
Police in Gauteng have arrested 53 suspects for illegal mining while also seizing equipment during an operation in Kagiso. The weekend arrests were made by...

BORDER SECURITY

Border Security

15 SAI ready for busy Op Corona deployment

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Limpopo-based 15 SA Infantry (SAI) Battalion is good to go and will take up border protection duties next month (September) in what will likely...
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Funding and technology necessary to “plug” borders

Border Security Kim Helfrich -
Safe and secure borders – air, land and sea – are critical for any country’s sovereignty and at the same time assure investors the...

Questions raised about border guards

Border Security Kim Helfrich -
Centurion-headquartered civil rights organisation AfriForum is unhappy about the newest addition to the country’s security forces – 200 border guards appointed and deployed to...

Op Corona hits Overstrand – again

Border Security Kim Helfrich -
Ahead of another Operation Corona maritime tasking in the Gansbaai area of Western Cape, the Maritime Reaction Squadron (MRS) of the SA Navy (SAN)...

HUMAN SECURITY

Human Security

Minister honours ranger dedicated to conservation

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Ahead of World Ranger Day on 31 July, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy paid tribute to Timbavati’s Head Ranger, Anton...
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US Army helps improve South African schools, clinics

Human Security Guy Martin -
Students in at the Zwelemfundo Public School in East London, South Africa, are learning in new and improved classroom facilities now thanks to a...

SA Army raises R100 000 for KZN flood victims

Human Security Guy Martin -
The South African Army has donated R100 000 to victims of flooding in KwaZulu-Natal. On 20 July, SA Army Chief, Lieutenant General Lawrence Khulekani Mbatha,...

‘Ethiopia’s other conflict’: what’s driving the violence in Oromia?

Human Security Guy Martin -
In November 2020 an outbreak of violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region captured worldwide attention. The conflict was between Tigrayan forces and the forces of...

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NATIONAL SECURITY

National Security

State security mandate set out

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At the apex of the South African government’s various intelligence operations is the State Security Agency (SSA) – since last August in the portfolio...
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South Africa needs stronger security in place to stop the sabotage of its power supply

National Security Guy Martin -
President Cyril Ramaphosa recently outlined plans to solve the country’s devastating electricity supply crisis. But he didn’t mention the country’s ability to protect its energy...

South Africa has been warned that it faces an ‘Arab Spring’: so what are the chances?

National Security Guy Martin -
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it...

Sahel-based violence ripples across borders into coastal countries

National Security Guy Martin -
Attacks by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali are rippling out of the Sahel and across the borders of countries to the...

CYBER DEFENCE

Cyber Defence

Militarising the Metaverse

Kiru Pillay -
The term “metaverse” is becoming ubiquitous with Facebook betting on the metaverse and being renamed to Meta. The metaverse is the convergence of two well-established...
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US, Moroccan Special Forces team up for inaugural cyber training

Cyber Defence Guy Martin -
US Army Soldiers with the 3rd Special Forces Group Tactical Information Support Centre, Expeditionary Cyber Team 2, and Royal Moroccan Special Operations Forces have...

SA Military Academy team flies the flag high at international cyber strategy challenge

Cyber Defence Kim Helfrich -
The national defence force acknowledges it is working on cyber defence, but as with much else in the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) the...

Interpol, Hawks and US Secret Service swoop on cyber-criminals

Cyber Defence Kim Helfrich -
A gang suspected of swindling a US-based company of Euro 455,000 (about R7,2 million) was taken down in raids across Johannesburg led by investigators...

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

Speeches, documents & resources

Speech: Thandi Modise on the 6th UN Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium

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Remarks by Minister of Defence znd Military Veterans, Thandi Modise, on the occasion of the 6th United Nations Partnership for Technology In Peacekeeping Symposium,...
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SA Soldier Magazine Volume 29 No 1 2022

Speeches, documents & resources Guy Martin -

Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Armed Forces Day 21 Feb 2022

Speeches, documents & resources Guy Martin -
Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Ms Thandi Modise, Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Mr Thabang Makwetla, Secretary for Defence, Ambassador Sonto Kudjoe, Chief of...

Report of the expert panel into the July 2021 civil unrest

Speeches, documents & resources Guy Martin -

MIDDLE EAST

Middle East

SA condemns deadly attack directed on United Arab Emirates

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The South African government says it is concerned about the escalating tensions in the Gulf region after a deadly drone attack by Yemen's Houthi...
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Iraqi official says US-led troops end combat mission, as planned

Middle East Justin Cronje -
Iraq's national security adviser said on Thursday that US-led forces had ended their combat mission in Iraq, a move that transfers all remaining troops...

Khashoggi murder suspect identified by passport, not name – French source

Middle East Justin Cronje -
A Saudi man held at a Paris airport over suspected links to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested because his passport triggered...

Yemen’s Houthis target Aramco, other Saudi sites in missile, drone attacks

Middle East Justin Cronje -
Yemen's Houthi movement said on Tuesday it fired several ballistic missiles and 25 armed drones into Saudi Arabia, targeting Aramco oil facilities in Jeddah...