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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/ 16 January 2008
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.