The SANDF is South Africa’s last line of defence, for use when diplomacy, the intelligence services and the military’s own attempts at deterrence have failed.

security.11 Given that armed forces, including the SANDF, continue to train for warfighting and down train for military OOTW, what challenges does participation in peace missions pose?

Oct 25, 2024 · Since 1994 the South African government’s commitment to peace and security in Africa inexorably drew the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) into extensive involvement in …

Post-apartheid defence policy in South Africa developed in an open and consultative manner. It developed in phases, starting with the negotiations for the Interim Constitution of South Africa (1993), …

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) strategy determines its ends as objectives from national security policy and its ways as concepts.9 Concepts, thus guide the implementation of …

This paper focuses on violence in relation to the South African Defence Force (SADF) in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the post-1994 dispensation.

With this context and against the backdrop of South Africa's emerging security paradigm in the post-apartheid epoch, this article aims to analyse and assess how the SANDF has been used as an …