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Shoke served in the SANDF for more than two decades. President, Cyril Ramaphosa made an appearance to witness Shoke's farewell during a change of command to SANDF to Lieutenant-General Rhudzani Maphwanya. The longest serving outgoing chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), General Solly Shoke, has raised concerns about the continuous SANDF budget cuts. He said it was important that South Africans began to acknowledge the SANDF for the hard work they did. News24 previously reported that the SANDF was under "extreme stress" amid budget constraints which could see R15-billion ...

───   13:56 Fri, 28 May 2021 PHOTO: Twitter/GCIS The outgoing chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), General Solly Shoke, has officially handed over the ropes of the defence force to Lieutenant-General Rudzani Maphwanya. President Cyril Ramaphosa witnessed Shoke’s farewell during a Change of Command parade at the Pretoria Military Sports Ground in Thaba Tshwane on Friday. General Shoke will retire on Monday after more than two-and-a-half decades of service and hand over the command of the SANDF to Maphwanya. Earlier, President Ra...

defenceWeb Written by Kim Helfrich - 15 Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) publicly acknowledged the “exceptional leadership” of outgoing SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief General Solly Shoke last week conveniently omitting a spat between the two some nine months ago. Last June the same committee issued a statement via Parliamentary Communication Services taking what was termed “strong exception” to the non-appearance of South Africa’s top soldier at a briefing. One of Parliament’s two defence oversight committees was to be briefed on what to date saw...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Cyril Ramaphosa. Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the appointment of the Chief of the South African National Defence Force and members of The Military Command of the South African National Defence Force, 14 April 2021. Fellow South Africans, I address you this evening as the Commander-in-Chief of the South African National Defence Force on new appointments to the leadership of our armed forces. By virtue of the powers vested in me by our Constitution and legislation, it is my responsibility to appoint the Chief of the South African National Defence F...

defenceWeb Written by Kim Helfrich - 288 The communicators in the national defence force have done it again, shooting themselves in the proverbial foot, just over a month after defenceWeb asked if they are losing the plot. Soon after our editorial was published the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) took to its social media platform to announce a workshop in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Journalism (IAJ) to better its communication skills and standards. That effort appears to have been fruitless when the Directorate: Corporate Communication under the leadership of Brigadier Gene...