Tag: Maynier

The Minister of Defence maintains "continuous reductions" in the defence budget hamper efforts to make South Africa's borders more secure. Not so...

Two examples of lengthy delays in awarding defence equipment contracts involving millions of Rand have, for the present, made unlikely bedfellows of...

Frustration with the Department of Defence and Military Veterans' continuing failure to provide information on arms acquisition and other SA National Defence...

The continuing lack of answers and accountability from the Department of Defence (DoD) on its acquisition programme has frustrated opposition Democratic Alliance...

South Africa's latest deployment in support of African peace and stability, in the Central African Republic (CAR), has come under fire, in...

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is set to meet her finance colleague, Pravin Gordhan soon to start a new...

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says the military is not now buying a new Boeing 777-2-LR aircraft for President...

Opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans David Maynier wants greater clarity on military capital acquisition and capability....

Note to readers: This is an extract of a speech to be delivered by DA Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans,...

South Africa's Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Lindiwe Sisulu, is trying to cover up the true extent, and cost, of President...

A fire in offices rented by the State Security Agency at the Durban headquarters of the SA Revenue Service (Sars) is being...

A spate of mysterious break-ins and fires at some of the state security agency's provincial headquarters are believed to be linked to...

The opposition Democratic Alliance party (DA) says it welcomes Auditor General Terrance Nombembe confirmation that an investigation will be conducted into expenditure...

WikiLeaks has revealed South Africa helped Madagascar's ousted president to import crowd control weapons before he lost power. The Sunday Independent newspaper...

WikiLeaks has revealed South Africa helped Madagascar's ousted president to import crowd control weapons before he lost power. The Sunday Independent newspaper...

Opposition Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier has described the national industrial participation programme (NIPP) linked to the arms deal as a "monstrous...

The opposition Democratic Alliance party has shuffled its "shadow cabinet" with David Maynier retaining the Defence and Military Veterans portfolio. James Selfe...

Upholding national security is not a matter of choice but an obligation placed by section 198 of the Constitution on both the...

Human Rights Watch has found paperwork in Libya showing South African armoury Truvelo supplied sniper rifles to the government of Muammar Gaddafi...

The Protection of State Information Bill will not be tabled in the National Assembly today after the Parliamentary Caucus of the ruling...

The Democratic Alliance says alleged concerns about the personal safety of Cabinet ministers have become a handy excuse to dodge parliamentary questions....

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says a defence review is absolutely vital "because it provides an opportunity to reset the mandate, capabilities and...

Lawmakers will today resume their fraught deliberations on the controversial Protection of Information Bill. MPs on Thursday last week struggled to agree...

A leaked arms industry report has red-flagged serious flaws in government's conventional arms sales regulatory body, the City Press and Rapport newspapers...

1.   Introduction. Mr Hakan Buskhe, the Chief Executive Officer of Saab, last week revealed that BAE Systems had transferred R24 million...

South African-made sniper rifles have been captured from forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper, Rapport, reported yesterday....

The Democratic Alliance (DA) will hand over a six-page memorandum to Themba Godi, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa,)...

On the 15th of April 2010 members of the portfolio committee on defence and military veterans finally broke out of the "parliamentary...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and Members of Parliament have visited the Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Swaziland border where soldiers...

The opposition Democratic Alliance party says Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Lindiwe Sisulu, is on flimsy constitutional ground in deciding to...

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu wants an apology from the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and says she...

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says the defence department is in the process of acquiring eight brand new Mercedes luxury vehicles, at a...

The Ministry of Defence says Parliament should ask it to brief members on the state of readiness of the SA National Defence...

Mnyamezeli Booi, chairman of the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans has issued a rare media statement to publicly...

The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party says Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu still has to provide a follow up...

African National Congress (ANC) Members of Parliament have savaged the acting Secretary for Defence (director general), Tsepe Motumi, effective accusing him of...

There is still no comment from government on what was on Sunday reported to be a "damning confidential report by the Auditor...

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) has again failed to table quarterly reports in Parliament. David Maynier,...

Defence and Military Veterans minister Lindiwe Sisulu now has two policy and two special advisers. She retained long-serving defence policy adviser Sue Rabkin, who...

The Airbus Military A400M Loadmaster strategic transport has made a successful three hour 47 minute (27 minute first flight, just over a...

The South African Air Force is to refurbish its sole Dassault Falcon 900 VIP (Very Important Person) transport assigned to 21 Squadron...

The South African Air Force's pilot, air traffic controller and technical crew numbers remain in the doldrums despite efforts from the flying...