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Project Thusano was initially intended to focus on the maintenance and repair of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) operational vehicle fleet but has morphed to include expensive supplementary agreements such as training soldiers as medical practitioners and mechanical engineers in Cuba. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images

Department of defence still reviewing SA-Cuba agreements

It has been 19 months since then defence minister Thandi Modise said the bilateral agreement and its controversial sub-contracts were being assessed

African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) member and police minister Bheki Cele.  (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images)

High-ranking ANC ministers lose seats as MK party rises in South African elections

There will be no return to parliament for Bheki Cele and Thulas Nxesi on the slimmer ANC list

Defence Minister Thandi Modise. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Security cluster will leave ‘nothing to chance’ in upcoming general elections

Defence Minister Thandi Modise says the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster will protect the public

Not true: Gayton McKenzie, president of the Patriotic Front and mayor of Central Karoo District Municipality , denies his party is funded by gangsters and drug money linked to the late William ‘Red’ Stevens. Photo: Gallo Images/Sunday Times/Dudu Zitha

Recording alleges that gangsters, drugs fund the Patriotic Alliance

A regional treasurer has been caught explaining how the PA has allegedly been financed

File photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images

Almost 3000 military vets push ahead with reparations claim of R4.2m each

The claim is based on the R500 000 each veteran was promised in 1994, which they say today works out to be R4.2 million.

The Mojapelo panel has completed its investigation into the Lady R controversy and is drafting a report to President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Facebook/ Lorraine Goddard Bradbury)

Mojapelo panel has six weeks to investigate Russian ship arms claim

Headed by a retired supreme court of appeal judge, the panel will look into what transpired and whether legal obligations were flouted

A view of the False Bay yacht Club and the South African Naval Docks in Simons Town, (Photo: David Harrison)

Lady R, the talk of Simon’s Town when residents had front seat view of the Russian ship

The harbour master was ordered to allow the Russian cargo vessel to dock at the naval port and told not to board it

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Is Ramaphosa’s South Africa still a player on the continent?

The country’s role in Africa has diminished somewhat since the Thabo Mbeki era and Ramaphosa is losing relevance

US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety.

US ambassador ‘shooting blanks’ in guns for Russia claim

Russia and local experts have said the ammunition and weapons manufactured in South Africa is of Nato and not Russian military standard

Defence minister Thandi Modise. (Photo by Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Minister Modise’s response to US is petulant and doesn’t grasp the seriousness of the tectonic shifts in geopolitics

We are slap bang in the middle of a battle between two of the traditional global superpowers in the US and Russia and not appreciating the precarious position we are in. This is…

South Africa’s defence minister, Thandi Modise. (Gallo)

South African Defence Minister, Modise: ‘We did not send fokol to Russia, not even a piece of Chappies’

The minister of defence said she was tired of anti-Russian phobia in the country

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Sergei Chirikov/AFP)

CALLAND: Giving or selling arms to Russia would instantly make SA a rogue state

The timing of the US accusation is intriguing, but if the allegations are true, Ramaphosa should resign and his government should fall

(John McCann/M&G)

Russia-Ukraine: Why South Africa will not jump into bed with the West

Anyone still waiting for Pretoria to launch a social media projectile at Moscow is sorely disillusioned

Reparations: ANC launches its election manifesto in Durban (. Military veterans, who were members of the Non-Statutory Forces, are planning to protest at the ANC’s elective conference on 16 December in protest against their not being compensated.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Military veterans plan R10 billion class action

The former soldiers want the state to pay them R4 million each in reparations

ANC women back Ramaphosa as party nominations close

The women’s league wants Thandi Modise to be the party’s deputy president

Defence Minister Thandi Modise. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Government has not compromised South Africa by not choosing sides in Russia/Ukraine war, Modise insists

Defence minister justifies her visit to Moscow amid war in Ukraine

Defence Minister Thandi Modise . (Gallo)

Modise’s trip to Russia highlights ANC’s ‘blind spot’

The trip to Russia reflects a divide between the international relations and defence departments

South Africa’s defence minister, Thandi Modise. (Gallo)

Defence minister Thandi Modise in Moscow for security conference

Discussions about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are absent from the official programme

Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction.

Bathabile Dlamini’s last-ditch attempt to save ANCWL thwarted

NEC member Thandi Modise earlier this month recommended that the women’s league be disbanded because it was a fractured structure

The “radical economic transformation” grouping within the ANC says the step-aside rule has been abused to fight political battles.(Gallo Images/Frikkie Kapp)

ANC to strengthen step-aside rule after fiery NEC meeting

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is said to have been among the voices that spoke against the amendment