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Centurion headquartered trade union Solidarity maintains five practical tests must be passed before the ammunition ...

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) heard – virtually – from a Transversal Ministerial Task Team (TMTT) on its plans to ...

The National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) is now able to issue permits again after its system was offline for weeks, it has informed Parliament. Sipho Peter Mashaba, Directorate ...

Turkiye’s Assan Group has acquired South Africa’s Dynaflow Technologies, which specialises in fuzes for bombs and other applications. Assan Group announced the acquisition in May, saying the move ...

The South African government has released its new National Security Strategy (NSS) for the 2024 to 2028 period, marking the first update to the National Security doctrine since 2013. The document sets ...

Full rollout of the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) new uniform will take place in the 2026/27 financial year following extensive wearer trials. This is according to the Council for ...

Mpumalanga-based General Botha Regiment will as part of its latest activation for border protection, “test drive” the new SA National Defence Force (SANDF) work dress during winter operations. Better ...

The United Nations (UN) human rights office reports there are “at least 58 states and territories” worldwide still contaminated by anti-personnel mines (APMs), close to 30 years since the ...

In late January 2025, South Africans discovered their national weather service had been taken offline by a cyberattack from an unknown source. The attack that took down the weather service on 26 ...

Due to generally rising tensions worldwide, armed forces and governments – with much deeper pockets than any time after the Cold War – have never been so keen to procure weapons, and this was clearly ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has informed the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, of the South African government’s decision to withdraw its contribution of soldiers to the United Nations ...