President and Commander-in-Chief Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday evening attended the repatriation ceremony of the 14 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers killed in ...

JOHANNESBURG - The Defence Force maintains its soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are safe. Fourteen soldiers were killed near Goma and their remains have since been repatriated back to ...

General Rudzani Maphwanya, the chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), has slammed critics who claim the SANDF is ill-equipped while on a mission in the Democratic Republic of ...

THE SA National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will not be recalled despite growing calls for the peacekeeping mission to be abandoned.

We extend our condolences to the families and friends of the soldiers who lost their lives in the CAR. The highly questionable deployment of the SANDF to the CAR, which was authorized by President ...

One of the 13 SANDF soldiers who were killed in the DRC hails from Tubatse. Moffat Molapo (53) died sometime during a two-day battle against M23 rebels near the city of Goma. Molapo was from ...

While details surrounding their deaths have not been revealed, SANDF Rear Admiral Prince Tshabalala said the soldiers still in the DRC are safe and are well armed. "The soldiers can defend ...

The soldiers' deaths on Thursday and Friday came amid a week-long visit this week by Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga to the DRC to, among other things, "assess the ...

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has dismissed claims circulating on social media that its forces surrendered to M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The SANDF said ...

While the red carpet and president Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech were among the evening’s biggest talking points of the evening, there is one thing that will forever remain in the memory of this year’s ...