Tag: budget
R240 billion for security cluster allocated in 2024 defence budget
More than R750 billion has been allocated to the security cluster over the next three years to up the ante in Government's fight against...
Defence budget will continue shrinking
National Treasury allocations to the Department of Defence (DoD) for the national defence force, military veterans, Armscor and the Castle of Good Hope among...
Lack of funding could see SANDF lose ability to execute constitutional...
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) heard a litany of woes – all pertaining to the parsimonious manner the Department of...
SA allocates R664.3 billion to improve safety, security over three years
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has allocated R664.3 billion over the next three years to improve the country’s safety and security, and the criminal justice...
Budget cuts a recipe for SANDF disaster
“The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) is now in a full-blown crisis,” is African Defence Review (ADR) director Darren Olivier’s curt summation of the...
Lack of defence funding will reduce operational output
A single sentence in the latest Department of Defence (DoD) annual report sums up the increasingly worsening situation of South Africa’s armed forces and...
In the eye of the storm – Defence against the pandemic
Speech by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula during a mini plenary session to debate the adjusted Department of Defence budget vote in...
Defence salaries a “critical challenge” – portfolio committee
While welcoming additional funding for the national defence force “earmarked for COVID-19 related activities”, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) again...
Additional funds for police
Minister Bheki Cele’s police service received an additional R3,7 billion thanks to an adjusted budget allocation from National Treasury for the “the visible policing...
DoD Op Notlela budget request slashed by R1.5 billion
Those tasked with overseeing finances at the Department of Defence (DoD) to ensure the national defence force effectively contributes to the National State of...
China defence spending rise at three-decade low, still to grow 6.6%
China’s defence spending this year will rise at the slowest rate in three decades but will still increase by 6.6% from 2019, as the...
StatsSA government spend groupings show defence is low priority
It’s common knowledge defence and spending on it is a poor relation when it comes to government budget planning and execution.
Just how far down...
Treasury/DoD disconnect a problem for defence funding – Marais
Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow defence and military veterans minister Kobus Marais maintains a “disconnect” between National Treasury and the Department of Defence (DoD) is...
Suggestion for future defence funding to be mandate, not budget, driven
A joint Department of Defence (DoD)/National Treasury (NT) task team paints a gloomy picture in terms of defence funding other than the allocation given...
Defence minister sounds budget alarm bells
For the second year running, Minister for Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has sounded alarm bells about the continuing ability of the South...
SANDF underfunded and being outpaced by militaries in the region –...
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has warned that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is underfunded and is being outpaced by...
Fifty-nine percent of defence budget is salaries
The need to reduce the number of people working in government service, including the national defence force, was forcibly brought home by Finance Minister...
No new taxes in Tunisia budget
Tunisia's parliament approved a 2019 budget imposing no new taxes on individuals and easing the burden on some sectors after years of tax hikes...
Armscor defence budget allocation slashed
State-owned defence and security acquisition agency Armscor is in for a belt-tightening year on the heels of being informed its funding allocation...
Fund defence now or risk having to pay in casualties in...
Respected military analyst Helmoed Heitman is in agreement with Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, that the national defence budget should...
Discipline needed in SANDF – DA and FF+
Opposition parties – the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) – both bemoaned the sorry state of affairs in...
Defence budget must be mandate driven – Mapisa-Nqakula
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula today told Parliament defence should be a mandate driven department and not one that is...
Chief: Defence Reserves pleads for no further budget cuts
Final preparations are underway for Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, to deliver her budget speech in the National Assembly on...
Alternatives for funding SANDF duties
Talk of "sweating" defence assets and facilities to provide much-needed extra funding for an ailing SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has been...
Defence budget makes no provision for Defence Review funding – DA
The allocation of R47.9 billion for the 2018/18 financial year to defence by former finance minister Malusi Gigaba during his sole national...
Defence allocation from National Treasury again down on previous year
The budget unveiled by former Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba showed again defence is a poor relation in the government family. In real...
Defence allocation from National Treasury for 2018/19 down on previous year
The budget unveiled by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba on Wednesday showed again that defence is one of the poor relations in the...
More money from National Treasury for SANDF wages and salaries in...
Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow defence and military veterans minister Kobus Marais says he is both discomforted and concerned about the revised mid-term...
DoD/Treasury budgetary task team making progress
The proof of the pudding, if there is going to be any, will only be seen when the defence budget is tabled...
UN peacekeeping budget to be cut by $600 million
United Nations states struck a deal on a $7.3 billion annual peacekeeping budget, diplomats said, cutting $600 million from current costs and...
Defence budget cut impacting on Reserve Force wages and salaries
A just over 30% cut in the salaries and wages allocation of the national defence budget is impacting negatively on the utilisation...
Algeria’s Bouteflika urges spending cuts, warns on foreign debt
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ordered his government to keep reducing imports and to rationalise spending to cope with a sharp fall in...
Budget talks in Nigeria
Nigeria's presidency and lawmakers are still in talks over the record 7.44 trillion naira ($24.45 billion) budget for 2017, a government official...
Parliament hears contrasting views on Department of Military Veterans’ performance
The picture of a better functioning Department of Military Veterans (DMV) presented to Parliament by the Defence and Military Veterans Minister was...
Mapisa-Nqakula acknowledges SANDF under-funded; looks to other revenue sources
Just how far behind the financial curve the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has fallen was aptly illustrated this week when the...
Nigeria ups Niger Delta amnesty budget
Nigeria has almost tripled the budget for an amnesty programme for militants in its oil-producing heartland, the presidency said, a key factor...
Shrinking budget hits SA Navy operations
The reduction in funding for the South Africa Navy is being felt in the operational budget, which is affecting fleet maintenance, but...
SA defence budget shrinks again
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was allocated R46.8 billion in the 2017/18 national budget on 22 February, representing an increase...
Defence budget up by three percent to R48.6 billion
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's national budget for the 2017/18 financial year sees defence and public safety getting R198.7 billion to ensure South...
Current budget allocation insufficient for SANDF – DA
On the positive side of the ledger the Department of Defence (DoD) can point to spending 99% of its allocated budget, meeting...
Department of Defence spending 55% of its budget on personnel
The Department of Defence is spending 55% of its budget on personnel, with R24 out of R45 billion rand of its 2015/16...
Department of Defence forced to reduce personnel budget
The compensation of employees is the largest single expenditure item within the Department of Defence (DoD) and accounts for 57% of departmental...
SA Army budget up
The South African Army is the single largest component of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) and receives the lion's share of...
Substantial drop in the SAAF budget
The SA Air Force's budget for the 2016/17 financial year is R284 million less than it was granted by National Treasury for...
Navy will spend quarter of its budget on combat capability
The single largest allocation of funds to the maritime arm of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) – at just over a...
Finance Minister allocates another half a billion to defence
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene this week boosted the Department of Defence (DoD) war chest by just over half a billion when he...
Defence budget vote address is opportunity not to be squandered by...
When Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula stands up in the National Assembly on May 19 to speak in support of...
Defence spend at largest bases
Estimates of National Expenditure (ENE) set out in the 2015/16 budget by finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene show what the spend at close...
MONUSCO gets biggest share of UN peacekeeping budget
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) will take the single largest share of the international body's peacekeeping budget for...
Minister Mapisa-Nqakula’s heartening maiden defence budget
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's maiden budget, presented to Parliament three weeks short of her first year in office, was...
