Tag: day
Guterres on peacekeeping
An indicator of the difficulties faced by peacekeeping missions in Africa comes from UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who told the Dag...
Guterres in Mali for International Peacekeepers Day
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was in Mali on Tuesday to honour the service and sacrifice of peacekeepers around the world and...
International Day of UN Peacekeepers
Tomorrow is the International Day of UN Peacekeepers and Africa will be strongly in focus with an event in South Africa and...
International Day of UN Peacekeepers
Tomorrow is the International Day of UN Peacekeepers and Africa will be strongly in focus with an event in South Africa and...
International Mine Awareness Day
Today is International Mine Awareness Day, set aside by the UN to raise awareness about the threat of mines, unexploded grenades and...
No Independence Day parade in DR Congo this year
Democratic Republic of Congo will not hold its annual Independence Day military parade because of security concerns, an adviser to President Joseph...
International Peacekeeping Day to be marked at UN headquarters
The United Nation Headquarters will observe the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on Wednesday, 24 May.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will lay a...
Police will be out in force on election day
More than 50 000 policemen and women will be deployed at more than twenty-two thousand voting stations across the country next Wednesday...
UN Peacekeepers Day
The UN tomorrow marks Peacekeepers Day, the 65th anniversary of the first time the world body assembled and deployed a force to...
Scaled down SANDF contribution for Freedom Day
Parts of the South African military machine will be on display during Saturday's national Freedom Day celebrations at the Union Buildings in...
International Mine Awareness Day
Now in its eighth iteration today is UN International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.
With an estimated 110 million...
First Armed Forces Day parade
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula today inaugurated a day to honour South Africa's National Defence Force as well as soldiers of times past.
She...
February 22 is Armed Forces Day
South Africa will on Friday officially pay tribute to its men and women in uniform when the country's first Armed Forces Day...
SAAF in “good shape”
Financial and other resource constraints have not prevented the South African Air Force (SAAF) from successfully completing each and every task assigned...
Air Force Day parade back on track
After four months at the helm of the SA Air Force (SAAF), Lieutenant General Zakes Msimang will maintain tradition and host his...
Armed Forces Day – sanity prevails
The announcement that February 21 will from now on officially be Armed Forces Day is a welcome one.
When the first "official" Armed...
Armed Forces Day makes permanent return
After a hiatus of a year, Armed Forces Day will be marked on February 21, 2012, and will become a permanent feature...
