SANDF opens 2025 MSDS applications - defenceWeb
Feb 12, 2024 · The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has opened its Military Skills Development System (MSDS) applications for 2025, allowing young and deserving South Africans the chance to join the military. The closing date for applications is 15 March 2024, with successful candidates to report for duty at the beginning of 2025. The MSD System takes […]
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Dec 4, 2024 · Organisers invite interested parties to participate by submitting papers, with the call for submissions closing on Friday, 17 January 2025.Proposals can be sent to Ros Hinchcliffe at [email protected].Those interested in sponsoring the event are encouraged to contact Robert Mace at [email protected] for more information.. Join us at the Public-Private Partnerships for Defence & Security ...
Wagner Group is now Africa Corps - what this means for Russia’s ...
Feb 15, 2024 · In August 2023, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died after his private jet crashed about an hour after taking off in Moscow. He had been Russia’s pointman in Africa since the Wagner Group began operating on the continent in 2017. The group is known for deploying paramilitary forces, running disinformation campaigns and propping up influential […]
Guidelines for joining the SANDF through the Military Skills ...
Jun 25, 2021 · The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has opened applications for its 2022 Military Skills Development System (MSDS), giving young South Africans the chance to serve in the SANDF for a two-year period. Advertisements were published for the MSDS Intake 2022 in mid-June 2021. The closing date for applications is 30 July, with successful applicants […]
SAMIDRC extended to December 2025 - defenceWeb
Nov 22, 2024 · The Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been extended by a year. The extension decision was taken on Thursday 21 November at an extraordinary SADC Heads of State summit in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. The mission is staffed by Malawian, …
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BMA recruiting border guards - defenceWeb
Mar 17, 2022 · The fledgling Border Management Authority (BMA), signed into law in July 2020 is, according to a February DHA (Department of Home Affairs) human resource circular, looking for 200 people to patrol borders and inspect at ports of entry. Business Insider reports the BMA needs money – around R8 billion – and a battalion of competent […]
SANDF’s 2024 MSD applications open until February
Jan 16, 2023 · Due to budget cuts, the Military Skills Development (MSD) intake into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is only taking place every two years, with applications for 2024 now open. The last MSD intake was in January last year and the next is in January 2024, with applications closing at the end of February. […]
Military veterans’ pensions being rolled out - defenceWeb
Apr 28, 2023 · According to Deputy Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thabang Makwetla, the roll-out of pension benefits for South African military veterans is “commencing”. A statement, issued to coincide with a 25 April Government Gazette on “proposed regulations regarding the military veterans pension benefit 2023” signed off by Minister Thandi Modise, notes budget constraints put a hold […]
Joining the South African National Defence Force - defenceWeb
Oct 3, 2019 · The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has four arms of service, namely the SA Army, SA Air Force, SA Navy and SA Military Health Service and offers young, fit and mentally strong citizens the chance to follow a military career by joining the Military Skills Development System (MSDS). If you are looking for a […]