Tag: Department of Defence

Apparent security breaches and shortcomings at 93 Ammunition Depot are reasons for concern when the presence of what AfriForum calls “foreign militias” in South...

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson’s lack of faith in the record of government property assets is boosted by a Department of Defence...

Pushing for more financial resources, implementing the 2015 Defence Review and filling vacant posts are some of the priorities new defence minister Angie Motshekga...

Rise Mzansi is one of the many political parties criticising the latest defence budget, calling the current allocation ‘indefensible’ as the South African National...

The deaths of nearly a dozen South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this year were due...

The meagre 2024/25 defence budget continues a trend of declining spending that is hollowing out South Africa’s defence capability to the point where the...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga must work to turn the defence force around, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) maintains, and will fully...

The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) wants the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to focus its efforts on border security as the country’s borders...

Underfunding of the South African Department of Defence (DoD) has turned the defence force into a ‘drill squad with no capacity’ and an extended...

After three ministers of defence and military veterans, the 2012 South African Defence review, renamed in 2015 and approved by the National Assembly (NA),...

The Head of Legal Service of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), Major General Eric Mnisi, is facing a probe after former defence...

The Department of Defence (DoD) received stark warnings from its audit committee chair during a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military...

Production of annual reports and financial statements in the defence and military veterans portfolio cost over R1.6 million over the past three financial years. The...

Mainly due to funding constraints, South Africa’s Department of Defence (DoD) is missing more of its performance targets. In a presentation to the Portfolio Committee...

South Africa’s Department of Defence (DoD) maintains its information communication technology (ICT) system – two weeks after a cyberattack reportedly siphoned 1.6 terabytes of...

The Ammunition Corps of the Department of Defence (DoD) now boasts 105 qualified fitters in its ranks thanks to 17 newcomers who made it...

The man at the helm of personnel in the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) told a recent, and reportedly overdue, communication period the South...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise has said that to root out financial irregularities in the Department of Defence (DoD), she has ordered...

The lack of pertinent information in presentations to Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) saw questions posed to the acting Secretary for Defence...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise made it clear she alone cannot move Denel from the control of its current government shareholder to...

Thandi Modise’s Defence Ministry is currently short of six senior staffers with the offices of the Secretary for Defence (SecDef) and Chief Financial Officer...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise has said she is committed to supporting South Africa’s defence industry because a healthy defence industry will...

Secretary for Defence (SecDef) Gladys Kudjoe is the accounting officer for the Department of Defence (DoD) and the Auditor General (AG) has pointed to...

In her first foreword to a Department of Defence (DoD) annual report, Thandi Modise acknowledges “a view needs to be developed on what level...

The defence component of Thandi Modise’s Ministry was on the receiving end of a small funding increase by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana during yesterday’s...

The senior communicator in the Department of Defence (DoD) condemns – in indignant terms – a fraudulent procurement document which stoops as low as...

Minister Thandi Modise’s Department of Defence (DoD) is, according to the Auditor General (AG), the “worst offender” among government departments when it comes to...

Parliamentarians were told there are nine “broad implications” of a declining defence budget when the Department of Defence (DoD) presented its latest annual performance...

Thandi Modise’s Ministry of Defence and Military Veterans (MoDMV) is tasked with providing strategic direction to, among others, direct national defence policy with the...

Around 250 delegates are expected to attend June’s sixth United Nations (UN) Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping International Symposium in Pretoria. The 21 to 24...

“Disaster”, “weak political leadership”, “broken entity” and “embarrassing” were some of the words used by the Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow defence and military veterans...

With a budget of R49 billion for the current financial year, the Department of Defence (DoD) is underfunded by 50%, as its full cost...

A group of former Department of Defence (DoD) staff are going the legal route to complain about their positions being terminated following last year’s...

Allegations of fraud and corruption involving over R110 million naming current Secretary for Defence Gladys Kudjoe while she held a senior position at the...

United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader, retired general Bantu Holomisa, maintains all is not well with the rental lease entered into between the Department of...

As the custodian of Department of Defence intellectual property (IP), Armscor has been tasked with identifying and making accessible IP for commercialisation. The National Defence...

An indication of the importance the Department of Defence (DoD) attaches to international relations through what it terms “a layered approach” in support of...

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, believes that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is moved from being a mandate driven...

The Department of Defence’s spending on salaries, the shrinkage of the Special Defence Account and ability to pay for urgent equipment upgrades were some...

Towards the end of 2006 South African Department of Defence (DD) top management attended a week-long Defence Management Seminar at Mount Grace, Magaliesberg. The...

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s Ministry of Defence and Military Veterans is one of the most expensive in President Cyril’s Ramaphosa’s Cabinet, an analysis prepared for one...

The Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province demonstrates the need for states to develop and fund capable defence forces able to respond to...

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has uncovered irregularities of more than R40 million in the Microsoft software licences procurement contracts awarded by the Department...

The Department of Defence is investigating more than half a billion rands’ worth of corruption and fraud cases, the Portfolio Committee on Defence and...

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, the Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) Ministerial Task Team (MTT) presented their report on sexual misconduct cases within...

Outgoing Secretary for Defence Dr Sam Gulube has urged the local defence industry and defence force to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the country...

Gladys Sonto Kudjoe has been appointed as the new Secretary for Defence and will take office from the beginning of August as incumbent Dr...

Armscor is faced with a major reduction in funding due to South Africa’s reduced defence budget, and this is affecting its ongoing projects, the...

The South African Department of Defence is facing more bad news in terms of its budget allocation. Although it has been granted an additional...