Tag: Darren Olivier
SA “integration programme” for Cuban-trained military doctors questioned
Thirteen SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) personnel are back in South Africa following six years of “military medicine” training in Cuba and find themselves...
More questions around Lady R in the wake of judicial inquiry
South African President and SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Commander-in-Chief, Cyril Ramaphosa, has yet to reveal which parts of the Mojapelo inquiry into the...
Gripen flies after 12 month grounding
Months of uncertainty ended on Monday (5 September) for the SA Air Force’s (SAAF’s) front line combat fleet when a single-seat Gripen C (tail...
Hawks looking for a helicopter
Specialist crime fighting unit the Hawks has asked Parliament for an extra R100 million to buy a helicopter.
The request, made late last...
Does South Africa have a working synthetic aperture radar satellite?
David Maynier, the DA shadow defence and military veterans minister, will not be flavour of the month in the Defence Ministry and...
Defence budget “increase” just under producer price inflation rate
The amount of money made available to the Department of Defence (DoD) and its two major components – the SA National Defence...