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The military as it exists today was created in 1994, following South Africa's first nonracial election in April of that year and the adoption of a new constitution. It replaced the South African Defence Force and also integrated uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), and the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) guerilla forces.
Chief of Defence Intelligence. Lt. Gen Thalita Mxakato. The Defence Intelligence Division of the South African National Defence Force ( SANDF-ID also known as Defence Intelligence) is the primary military intelligence agency of South Africa which came into being on 27 April 1994. [3] [4] The other intelligence agencies of the country are:
The South African Army is divided into functional branches, known as corps. Most consist of units, but some, such as the SA Staff Corps, consist only of personnel who are assigned to headquarters and units. The following is a list of corps established since 1912. The SA Defence Act Amendment Act, No. 22 of 1922 re-organised the Permanent Force.
Department of Defence (South Africa) / -25.813; 28.260. The Department of Defence is a department of the South African government. It oversees the South African National Defence Force, the armed forces responsible for defending South Africa . As of June 2024 the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans is Angie Motshekga.
The Department of Military Veterans is a sub-department of the Department of Defence that is responsible for providing support and services to veterans of the South African military, including veterans of the armed wings of anti- apartheid movements ( Umkhonto we Sizwe and APLA ). The political head of the department is the Minister of Defence ...
Small arms and infantry weapons. 15-round magazine standard-issue sidearm. License-built Beretta 92 F. 15-round magazine standard issue side arm alongside the Z88. 32-round magazine indigenously designed 9mm submachine gun. 35-round magazine standard service rifle. Modernized in 2010 under Project African Warrior. Carbine version of the Vektor ...
The medal issued to mark Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 was also ranked as a South African award, because she was Queen of South Africa as well as of the United Kingdom and her other realms and territories. Republic of South Africa. South Africa became a republic outside the Commonwealth on 31 May 1961. Order of Good Hope 1967–1986
The South African Defence Force ( SADF) ( Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. Shortly before the state reconstituted itself as a republic in 1961, the former Union Defence Force was officially succeeded by the SADF, which was established by the Defence Act (No. 44) of 1957.