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Department of the South African government From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Department of Defence is a department of the South African government. It oversees the South African National Defence Force, the armed forces responsible for defending South Africa.
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Formed | 1912 |
Type | Department |
Jurisdiction | Government of South Africa |
Headquarters | Armscor Building, Erasmuskloof, Pretoria 25.813°S 28.260°E |
Employees | 79 045 |
Annual budget | R50 000+ million |
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Website | www |
As of June 2024[update] the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans is Angie Motshekga.[1]
In August 2023, a Russian Hacker Group named “Snatch” claimed to steal 200TB of classified information, contracts and personal identity information. They allegedly posted a 1.6TB Compressed Archive on the dark web.[2][3] The Department of Defense claimed that it was “fake news” and no data leak occurred.[4]
Snatch claimed it specifically chose the week of the 15th BRICS summit to release the data since the spotlight was on South Africa. [3]
South Africa has recently been involved in other controversies, notably being accused of providing and selling arms to Russia, performing military exercises with Russia and not taking a stance on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.[4]
The Macro-Structure of the Department of Defence as Approved by the Minister of Defence on 15 August 2008 is below:[5]
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