African Defence Review: Recent Episodes
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African Defence Review’s THOMAS HOLDER went out on patrol with members of the SANDF through the streets of Johannesburg. During the country’s nationwide lockdown, conventional police units have been bolstered by the deployment of military forces throughout the country.
Claim 1: This was the last SAAF C-130 and now there are none left ❌ False: There are five other operational C-130BZs in service (serials 401, 402, 405, 406, 409). One of those will soon resume flying these missions. This claim is based on confusion between the terms ‘serviceable’ and ‘operational’. In SAAF terms, an […]
In May, an image was posted on social media, in which members of the ‘Ambazonia Defence Forces’, a secessionist militant group conducting an insurgency in the Anglophone region of Cameroon, purportedly displayed newly acquired firearms. The ADF (not to be confused with the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group operating in the DRC and Uganda) is […]
The A-Darter IR-guided short-range air-to-air missile (SRAAM), developed jointly by South Africa and Brazil & co-funded by their respective air forces, has turned out to be an impressive achievement, with performance figures far in excess of what many believed the partnership could produce. As a fifth-generation missile, with a maximum range in excess of 20 […]
Denel might well be bought out by Saudi Arabia. But before that happens there is a lot of paperwork and moral questioning that must occur. ADR's Darren Olivier points that, although we're now at this unsavoury choice between sacrificing human rights or thousands of skilled jobs, Qatar may have had a plan B option all along.
When violence broke out in the streets of Harare in August, 2018, ADR's Thomas Holder was on the scene. In one of his photos, the key to identifying just which unit was involved in the killing of three Zimbabweans is revealed. ADR's John Stupart explains.
On Wednesday, 1 August 2018, Zimbabwean protestors took to the streets of Harare. The country's controversial elections - the first since the ousting of dictator Robert Mugabe - had indicated that the ruling party, ZANU-PF, would retain power. Pro-opposition members of the public took to Harare's streets in protest. The Zimbabwean military reacted with lethal force, deploying armoured cars and troops to the streets. ADR's Thomas Holder was on the ground in Harare.
A spate of attacks in rural northeastern Mozambique has set the region on edge. Beheadings, IED attacks, and a growing economic marginalization of a muslim community in a region soon to be flooded with oil wealth has combined into the early signs of a major insurgency. ADR’s JOHN STUPART speaks with GABRIELLE REID, sub-Saharan African […]
The South African Ministry of Defence has for the first time revealed the operating and deployment costs of the three Denel Rooivalk combat support helicopters deployed to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO). The figures were provided as an answer to a Parliamentary question raised by Kobus Marais, the shadow minister of […]