Despite increasing demands on the country's defence force, funding for the military has been steadily declining ...

A Southern African Development Community (SADC) extraordinary summit on Thursday terminated the mandate of the SADC Mission ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has tabled the 2025 Budget Speech with R5 billion going to the SANDF and it's work in the DRC.

South Africa’s defence budget has increased by just R400 million from 2024/25 to R55.94 billion for the 2025/26 financial ...

The SANDF is set to retain the R5 billion allocated by the National Treasury in the 2025/26 Budget for its peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This happens as the SADC ...

President Ramaphosa said that the SADC-East African community was working on securing a permanent ceasefire and getting ...

Despite a defence budget of over R55 billion, South African troops in the DRC are reportedly running out of ammunition and ...

The size of the SADC deployment has never been made public but analysts estimate it to number around 1,300 troops.

Mashatile paid tribute to the fallen SANDF soldiers, describing them as “brave patriots who gave their lives in the service ...

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 ...

The remainder of the soldiers, who were still in the DRC, are scheduled to arrive in South Africa at a later stage. The 14 soldiers were part of an SANDF contingent deployed to the region as part of ...

South Africa is believed to have some 3 000 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) personnel deployed in the DRC, split between the UN’s MONUSCO peacekeeping force, and the Southern ...