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Department of Defence (South Africa)
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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.
As of June 2024[update] the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans is Angie Motshekga.[1]
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2023 Alleged Hack
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 Defence 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]
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Organisation and structure
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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