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defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Bakery commemmorative plaque is unveiled by Major General Mzikayise Joseph Tyhalisi. Soldiers at Army Support Base Johannesburg and its units will soon have “base-baked bread” on their mess tables. This follows an instruction from General Officer Commanding the Army Support Formation, Major General Mzikayise Joseph Tyhalisi. Captain Desiree Boipelo Kolokoto, Acting Staff Officer 2, Corporate Communication SA Army Support Formation, reported that the two-star general instructed all support base commanders to “establish bakeries” and “bring them to ...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - A soldier on Operation Notlela patrol. It’s an early start to the year’s work by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) which meets tomorrow (3 February) with compensation of employees (CoE), the single largest expenditure item in the defence budget, on the agenda. The PCDMV will hear (in all probability virtually) a presentation from Vice Admiral Asiel Kubu, SA National Defence Force (SANDF) human resources chief, on measures to reduce “cost pressures on the CoE shortfall in the Department of Defence (DoD)”. In ...

defenceWeb Written by defencde - Aerial view of AFB Ysterplaat, home to 110 Squadron. South African Air Force (SAAF) assets are boosted by the availability of 61 civilian aircraft via nine reserve squadrons. The squadrons operate from, but are not limited to, air force bases with some flying out of civilian airports and what the national defence force’s Director: Corporate Communications, terms “air strips”. They number from 101 to 111, denoting their status as reserve. Other SAAF operational squadrons carry double digit numbers, examples are 21 (VIP), 28 and 41 (transport), 15, 17 and...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - SAMHS isolation facility outside I Military Hospital. With the first anniversary of South Africa’s COVID-19-induced national state of disaster looming, it should be remembered the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), in particular elements of the SA Army and SA Military Health Service (SAMHS), were among those leading initial preventive efforts. Acknowledged as the country’s first real exposure to coronavirus, a repatriation flight aboard an SAA airliner brought 114 South Africans home from the epicentre of the virus in Wuhan, China, to a bout of isolatio...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Lockdown duty patrols are now conducted under the Op Ligcolo banner. At the height of South Africa’s COVID-19 induced lockdown, the landward force showed its mettle by deploying no less than 33, mostly infantry, companies in a 72 hour period. This fact was used by SA Army Chief, Lieutenant General Lawrence Mbatha, to illustrate the important role of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), its services and divisions in operations other than war (OOTW) when he addressed the Junior Command and Staff Duties class of 2021 at the Army College last week. “As pa...