Authorities in South Africa revealed at the time that most of the mercenaries had been on the secret payroll of the South ...

A wall of remembrance and a statue honouring those controversial Koevoet soldiers who died in service were unveiled this weekend. In attendance were numerous Koevoet veterans: some still bearing the ...

Pretoria - The South African Defence Force in the 1980s actively assisted Mozambican resistance movement Renamo to execute five men suspected of assassinating Renamo's secretary-general Orlando ...

A joint committee has been set up to further discuss whether names of South African Defence Force (SADF) soldiers killed in the apartheid era should be included on the wall of names in Freedom Park.

Last week’s discovery of mass graves in Namibia proves once again that truth often is the first casualty of war. In the conflict between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People’s ...

Johannesburg - Eeben Barlow, who headed the Executive Outcomes private security firm, has been named as the person behind a secretive former South African Defence Force (SADF) contingent that is ...

A new book by former officers discloses details of a failed operation to assassinate ANC leaders in exile. A secret operation in apartheid's dying days to blow up the entire ANC national executive ...

Did the last leader of the apartheid-era defence force really contribute to a peaceful transition to democracy, or did he extort damaging concessions from black people from the then future president, ...