Tag: Engineer Formation
SA Army hosts appreciation dinner for Sappers’ bridge building efforts
In recognition of its efforts to build bridges for primarily rural communities, the South African Army School of Engineers on Friday hosted an appreciation...
Call to can SA Army Extended Command Cadre Conference
Notwithstanding operational deaths and battle injuries close on four thousand kilometres from South Africa as well as a cancelled Armed Forces Day, the SA...
Next batch of Amapanyaza report for training at Dunnottar
Dunnottar-based 1 Construction Regiment earlier this month (October) welcomed 400 fledgling Gauteng traffic wardens for training ahead of deployment on the streets of South...
Engineer Formation GOC talks demining with senior UNMAS personnel
The demining curriculum of the SA Army Engineer Formation’s School of Engineers looks set to move onward and upward thanks to the expertise residing...
Engineer School stands accused of ill-treating SANDF “biological assets”
In the last year of her tenure as President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Thandi Modise received no less than five...
Call for soldiers to be part of emergency water supply in...
With electioneering hotting up ahead of the 29 May national and provincial election, the Democratic Alliance (DA) potentially stole a march on the majority...
Another Sapper assisted rural bridge taken into service in KZN
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was in deep rural KwaZulu-Natal yesterday (Wednesday, 31 January) overseeing another rural bridge completed with input from the SA...
SA Army Engineer Formation key part of Welisizwe bridge initiative
The role of the SA Army Engineer Formation is pivotal in ensuring the success of the Welisizwe bridges project, which will see Cyril Ramaphosa...
Engineer Formation remains part of rural bridge project
The SA National Defence Force (SANDF), specifically by way of the SA Army Engineer Formation, continues to be a vital cog in national government’s...
NARYSEC helps unlock youth potential, recruits hear
The officer currently responsible for SA Army force structure told new arrivals at 1 Construction Regiment the involvement of the SA National Defence Force...
Engineer Formation committed to 95 rural bridges
The SA Army Engineer Formation, familiarly the Sappers, is integral to improving the lives of rural people by way of putting in place Bailey-type...
Valuable lessons learnt in KZN Op Chariot deployment
Looking back at the devastating KwaZulu-Natal floods and the contribution made particularly by the SA Army Engineer Formation, the colonel who commanded Joint Operations...
Mbatha calls on Sapper regiments
Further evidence of Lieutenant General Lawrence Mbatha’s hands-on approach to being the number one in the SA Army comes with a call on the...
KZN Op Chariot deployment to end in September
The deployment of military personnel in the wake of April’s devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal is set to end in mid-September according to Major General...
Another Welisizwe bridge ready for use
Last month’s devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal provided added impetus to the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure’s (DPWI’s) Welisizwe rural bridges programme, of which...
Sappers’ bridge building expertise harnessed in KwaZulu-Natal
The Engineer Formation of the SA Army will, via an agreement with the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI), erect 18 bridges in...
Ramaphosa commits Sappers to building rural bridges
The SA Army Engineer Formation can look forward to a busy year if President Cyril Ramaphosa’s indication for a major upscaling of government’s Welisizwe...
Ex Super Sapper tests Army engineers’ mettle
The SA Army Engineer Formation is well and truly a support entity for the sharp point of the landward force and the Sappers in...
Twenty year-long project ends with new earthmoving equipment for Sappers
The Engineer Formation of the SA Army has taken new earthmoving and civil construction equipment into service along with tractor-trailers to transport it as...
Praise for Sappers deployed to “fix” Vaal pollution not justified
The praise heaped on the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), in particular the Engineer Formation of the SA Army, by outgoing Chief General Solly...
Sappers add mobile medical facility to inventory
The SA Army Engineer Formation has another “weapon” in the form of a specially outfitted container in its armoury to keep coronavirus at bay.
The...
Sappers integral to De Lille’s rural bridge programme
The SA Army Engineer Formation will be “in business” for at least the next three years if an announcement by Public Works and Infrastructure...
Sappers end Vaal River project deployment
Come the end of this month (January) the SA Army Engineer Formation will end its involvement in the Vaal river clean-up, with Gauteng-based East...
Sappers expected to finish Vaal River project by March 2020
More money in the form of R341 million from government will be used to finish rehabilitation of wastewater treatment infrastructure in the Vaal Triangle...
Sappers to build a bridge at Matatiele
The SA Army’s Engineer Formation is again on the receiving end of a ministerial request, this time to assess assistance to an Eastern Cape...
Vaal River infrastructure repair underway
In October Finance Minister Tito Mboweni told the nation "the military" would be part and parcel of a major clean-up of the...
Army Engineer Formation repairing Vaal water infrastructure
Starting today (Monday 26 November) the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) is rolling up its sleeves and starting work on "cleaning the...
Defence Minister to visit soldiers deployed to rehabilitate the Vaal River
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is scheduled to visit southern Gauteng tomorrow to see first-hand progress on the "Vaal River...
SA Army does Vaal River assessments ahead of pollution clean-up operation
In October Finance Minister Tito Mboweni told South Africa the military would be part of ridding the Vaal River system of pollution....
Engineer Formation does a recce on the Vaal River
The "crisis" in the Vaal River system highlighted by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in his mini-budget has, according to the South African...
Army Sappers to build bridges in Eastern Cape
SA Army Chief Lieutenant General Lindile Yam said the Engineer Formation of the landward force has completed nine assessments for bridges to...
SA Army Engineers building Bailey bridges in E Cape
The South African Army's Engineer Corps this weekend started construction of the first of three Bailey bridges in the rural Eastern Cape...
