Following the extraordinary outburst by a top military general that our politicians have turned the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) into a “Mickey Mouse” operation, it was to be expected ...

They stuck to their guns that SANDF is one of 16 forces involved in the mission while justifying the resources utilised. Questions about the soldiers' capabilities were also a common thread.

THE Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Angie Motshekga, has revealed that the defence force has enlisted the help of Chinese companies to assist in fixing some of its ageing maritime fleet ...

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Lieutenant-General Ntshavheni Maphaha has accused government of running a Mickey Mouse defence force. This comes after 14 SANDF soldiers were ...

SANDF chief Rudzani Maphwanya on Thursday came out guns blazing against cuts to the defence budget and critics of the South African deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...

The remains of falled SANDF soldiers handed over at the Swartkop Air Force Base in Centurion on 13 February 2025. Picture: Nigel Sibanda The Citizen A South African National Defence Force (SANDF ...

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Defence Force (SANDF) has successfully repatriated the remaining wounded soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who are now on their way to receive ...

SA National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers have returned to SA from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some of the members were critically injured and had to be admitted to hospital for critical care.

Chair of Parliament's portfolio committee on defence, Dakota Lekgoete, said that comments by General Ntshavheni Maphaha that politicians had turned the South African National Defence Force (SANDF ...