Tag: Cuba
Guantanamo detainee released to Cabo Verde
The U.S. Defense Department on Sunday announced that a long-held inmate at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, had been...
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied...
Cost of flying SANDF chief and “delegation” to Cuba close to...
That close to half a million Rand can be spent on foreign air travel when key defence areas are being neglected,...
SANDF Chief visits Cuba, why asks the opposition
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party wants to know – and in full detail – why SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief,...
Guantanamo shrinking but Obama goal of closing prison still elusive
Observed from behind a one-way mirror and heavy chain-link fence, a handful of bearded detainees in baggy t-shirts mill around inside a...
Solidarity not happy with Cuban technicians working on SA military vehicles
Trade union Solidarity has criticised the Defence and Military Veterans Minister for her decision to outsource the SA National Defence Force's (SANDF)...
SANDF aims to repair 4 000 vehicles
The South African Army is aiming to repair 4 200 of its vehicles under Operation Thusano, using Cuban technicians to work on...
Exclusive: Cuba now teaching flying and air traffic control to SA...
Cuban/South African military co-operation has ratcheted up another notch since the start of this month with 24 SA Air Force (SAAF) members...
White House says it is drafting plan to close Guantanamo
The White House said on Wednesday it was in the final stage of drafting a plan for closing the Guantanamo prison for...
Aspiring South African military doctors studying in Cuba
Twenty-five South Africans are currently in Cuba studying medicine compliments of the SA National Defence Force's (SANDF) SA Military Health Service (SAMHS).
This...