What’s Going on in Lesotho?
Might it be a coup? Might it not? KRISTEN VAN SCHIE and DARREN OLIVIER discuss what is known, and how far the situation resembles 1998.
South Africa’s Defence Budget Speech – The important bits
The now-2014 Defence Review is coming into legislation and it had better be financed. JOHN STUPART sees grounds for optimism.
South Africa’s Airlift Crisis
The South African Air Force (SAAF) faces an airlift crisis. While the demands on its fleet continue to increase, including larger and riskier missions thousands of kilometres from South Africa, its aged transport aircraft are unable to keep up and the stopgap chartering of Illyushins and Antonovs has proven to be unreliable when it mattered.
Casualties in APCLS attack on MONUSCO/FARDC positions
Six killed, five wounded from MONUSCO and the FARDC in APCLS attack on 30 April.
Inside the South African Defence Review
In this podcast John Stupart and Darren Olivier discuss the defence review and its implications.