By now much of the dust has settled around the battle which waged for roughly 13 hours a few kilometres outside Bangui at checkpoint PK12.
Injured South African soldiers in the capital Bangui may be facing further medical hardship at a hospital that has no staff or doctors to run it.
The South African government is sending more soldiers to the Central African Republic, potentially exposing them to a looming civil war.
The lure of arms deals and diamonds – and possibly other mineral resources – sucked the ANC into the Central African Republic.
Following clashes with rebels in the Central African Republic, the SANDF has released the names of the 13 South African soldiers killed.
The South African National Defence Force says rebels in the Central African Republic regretted the action that led to the death of 13 SA soldiers.
President Jacob Zuma says 13 South African National Defence Force members died during clashes with Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic.
Jacob Zuma should have withdrawn South Africa’s troops when the Central African Republic’s leader failed to honour an agreement, says the SANDF union.
South African soldiers were killed and injured during the clashes in the Central African Republic, says the South Africa National Defence Force.
The United States Africa Command says it will respect African countries that do not wish to have American soldiers operating from their countries.
The Democratic Alliance has called for an immediate investigation into the SANDF’s donation of retired military helicopters to the Zimbabwean army.
Women at the South African Infantry School in Oudtshoorn have been ‘heavily’ reprimanded for being pregnant, says military trade union Sandu.
Afriforum has won a bid to prevent the South African National Defence Force from delivering Alouette III Air Force helicopters to the Zimbabwean army.
Fears have surfaced that retired military helicopters from the South African National Defence Force will be used to prop up Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF.
Fears have surfaced that retired military helicopters from the South African National Defence Force will be used to prop up Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF.
A total of 523 Denel workers are to be laid off, a claim the company denies, trade union Solidarity has stated.
For all its failings, the military remains effective in one regard: instilling fear. And striking workers at Marikana felt that fear this week.
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Germ expert’s counsel calls for the discounting
of evidence on ethics based on a lack of context.
The defence department’s "hopelessly inadequate" budget is affecting its operations, says Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.
<b>Mmanaledi Mataboge</b> accompanied South African soldiers on a recent mission to the DRC and left with more questions than answers.
Soldiers at the Lenz military base have slammed SANDF management after a comrade was found dead in his room — a month after he went missing.
Troops will be deployed on the Kruger National Park border with Mozambique, and the SA’s borders with Swaziland and Lesotho this year, the SANDF says.
The SANDF will soon generate income to cover needs that the force’s shrinking budgets cannot meet.
There is universal consensus on the need for state insurance in the form of military establishments.
The business jet controversially bought for the use of former president Thabo Mbeki in 2001 is not good enough for President Jacob Zuma.
<b>Sean O’Toole</b> and <b>Paul Botes</b> take a journey along the border from Pontdrift to south of Komatipoort to find the gaps in a broken system.
Major Catherine Labuschagne is the world’s only
female Gripen pilot after being trained in-house.
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The South African Air Force has grounded its fleet of Pilatus Astra PC-7 MkII aircraft following the death of a pilot in a plane crash on Tuesday. The fleet would remain grounded until further notice, South African National Defence Force headquarters said on Wednesday.