Vice Admiral Monde Lobese, maintains annual performance plans and Defence Reviews are “mind games” that will not be ...

At the SA Navy Gala dinner on Saturday evening, Admiral Lobese said he believes the navy's operations are being deliberately undermined by budget cuts.

Deputy Minister Bantu Holomisa highlights alarming funding issues raised by Navy Chief Vice-Admiral Lobese, exposing a staggering R63 billion budget cut since 2017 that threatens the SANDF's ...

The recent decision by the Department of Defence (DoD) to threaten disciplinary action against the Chief of the South African ...

‘National Treasury can’t be allowed to be a … government of its own, over and above the current government. [It] has been ordered by the Commander-in-Chief [President Cyril Ramaphosa] to fund the ...

Navy Chief Admiral Monde Lobese has again sounded the alarm over the underfunding and incapacitation of the navy and the rest of the army. Lobese says maritime security is at risk, citing a shortage ...

ANC secretary-general Fikile "Vutha" Mbalula has described as "worrying" the growing phenomenon of generals within the SANDF speaking ...

Starved of resources, riddled with criminal infiltration, crippled by weak command and warped by political interference – ...

Fikile Mbalula has sharply rebuked Admiral Monde Lobese for questioning the integrity of government officials regarding SANDF ...

The Department of Defence and Military Veterans says Minister Angie Motshekga will be taking “appropriate steps” against Navy Chief Vice Admiral Monde Lobese, for what the department termed ...

South Africans should expect more outbursts from senior government officials who are tired of the status quo, says political ...

Vice Admiral Monde Lobese warns that Cabinet-approved cuts to the Defence Force may be influenced by criminal networks and likens them to ‘closing down the Political Killings Task Team’.