Malema demands withdrawal of SA troops from DRC, slams military ... step should have been to bring them home. Instead, he noted, 800 more troops were deployed. He went on to claim that remaining ...

Since December 2023, about 3 300 SANDF soldiers have been used to combat illegal mining carried out by informal miners ... it diverted military resources from their primary defence mandate.

The SANDF has provided little clarity on the situation in the DRC and what went wrong. There needs to be transparency and accountability, and action taken to ensure that a military disaster like ...

The remains of the 14 SANDF soldiers who were killed in the DRC arrived at the Swartkop Air Force Base in Pretoria where they were handed over to their families during a military ceremony on 13 ...