The visit follows a tragic event at Macadamia, where SANDF Military Police were conducting routine patrols under Operation ...

A security expert says calls to deploy the SANDF in Bekkersdal highlight policing and consequence management failures.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has refuted claims that the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the DRC is aimed at protecting his mining interests. SOUTH African Presidency ...

The second contingent of soldiers touched down on home soil on Sunday, two days after the first group landed back in South Africa. FILE: General Rudzani Maphwanya addressed the annual global ...

The Provincial Disaster Management Centre has been informed that the South African National Defence Force will be deploying a company of soldiers in the Western Cape today as part of the national ...

The SANDF and the South African National Defence Union (Sandu) met on Tuesday to discuss claims by soldiers returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that they have been short-paid in ...

SANDF chief General Rudzani Maphwanya (right) greets soldiers who returned from the DRC at the Waterkloof air base on 15 June 2025. Picture: Jabulile Mbatha/EWN PRETORIA - Scenes of jubilation played ...

A SANDF soldier has died and another remains missing after a patrol vehicle was swept away by a flooded river during ...

SANDF last month confirmed the rotation of Operation Mistral troops serving under the UN's MONUSCO mission in the DRC. Members of the joint standing committee on defence in parliament and a senior ...

The Co-Chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence, Dr Malusi Gigaba, has expressed concern at unfounded, disingenuous, and illogical comments attributed to Mr Nicholas Gotsell, a member of ...

In an unprecedented move in post-Apartheid South Africa, hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in Marikana to assist police in dealing with striking mining workers. The South African Defence Force, ...