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| Formed | 1912 |
| Type | Department |
| Jurisdiction | Government of South Africa |
| Headquarters | Armscor Building,Erasmuskloof,Pretoria 25°48′47″S28°15′36″E / 25.813°S 28.260°E /-25.813; 28.260 |
| Employees | 79 045 |
| Annual budget | R50 000+ million |
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| Website | www |
TheDepartment of Defence is adepartment of theSouth African government. It oversees theSouth African National Defence Force, thearmed forces responsible for defendingSouth Africa.
As of June 2024[update] theMinister of Defence and Military Veterans isAngie 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 thedark web.[2][3] The Department of Defence claimed that it was “fake news” and no data leak occurred.[4]
Snatch claimed it specifically chose the week of the15th BRICS summit to release the data since the spotlight was onSouth Africa.[3]
South Africa has recently been involved in other controversies, notably being accused of providing and selling arms toRussia, performing military exercises withRussia and not taking a stance on theRussian 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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