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The presidency has hit back at people demanding answers about the deaths of 13 SA soldiers deployed to the Central African Republic, warning they threaten state security.
A defence department spokesperson has said that the SANDF will cover the extra expense of a recent deployment of soldiers and weaponry on 20 hired freight flights to Uganda.
A meeting of Parliament's joint standing committee on defence was an internationally embarrassing disgrace, the DA says.
Questions remained on why South African troops were singled out, apparently by rebels, in the Central African Republic, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says.
An admission that South African troops were not prepared for attack in the Central African Republic means government failed them, the FF Plus says.
The South African National Defence Force was deployed to the Central African Republic to protect the country’s president, Francois Bozize, a document shows.
The African National Congress has welcomed the government's decision to withdraw South African soldiers from the Central African Republic.
South African soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic were not there to wage battle, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says.
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has conceded that South African troops were not prepared to deal with an attack in Central African Republic.
The SANDF decides the composition of forces it deploys based on the task at hand, Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga has said, in response to a report that specialised soldiers were not supposed to be part of the CAR operation.
South African troops will pull out of Central African Republic, President Jacob Zuma has told a regional summit on the post-coup crisis.
President Jacob Zuma breached the Constitution by sending troops to the Central African Republic, opposition parties say.
President Jacob Zuma has breached his constitutional obligation by sending troops to the Central African Republic without requesting parliamentary approval, Cope's Mosiuoa Lekota says.
The SA National Defence Force has denied reports suggesting it is massing troops in central Africa, saying it is waiting for direction from government on whether to withdraw its forces.
While government has come under fire for the way in which South African troops were deployed to the Central African Republic, it has emerged that SA has sent even more troops, fighter planes as well as transport planes to troubled central Africa.
