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Simulators fine-tune skills for Ex Vuk’uhlome

The hive of activity at the SA Army Combat Training Centre (CTC) in the lead-up to Exercise Vuk’uhlome V sees, among others, infantrymen and women a...

New Surgeon General sets five priorities for SAMHS

Now into his third month as South Africa’s eighth senior military medic, Lieutenant General Nsizwa Skosana has set himself and the SA Military Healt...

Russia offers Mi-17 helicopters to South Africa

Russia has expressed readiness to supply South Africa with aviation equipment, including Mi-17 helicopters, and equipment to modernise the country’s...

AVSA questions SAMHS outreach priorities as veterans await healthcare benefits

The Amalgamated Veterans of South Africa (AVSA) has called on Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga to explain why military healthcar...

Cameroon to receive Metal Shark patrol boat

Louisiana, United States-based boatbuilder Metal Shark has been awarded a US Coast Guard Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract to produce a patrol boa...

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Police and soldiers target cross-border crime in Limpopo

The ongoing South African border safeguarding operation is not confined to the immediate surrounds of the country’s four thousand eight hundred plus...

Treasury tells the SANDF to make do

On 16 October, Parliament’s defence committee asked for an urgent meeting between South Africa's finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, and defence min...

Opinion: Military history cannot be suspended because its interpretation is disputed

The second South African Military Heritage Symposium, held at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town on 27 and 28 October 2026, brought together militar...

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