Formed 1912 Employees 79 045 | Type Department Annual budget R34 605 million | |
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Jurisdiction Government of South Africa Headquarters Armscor Building, Erasmuskloof, Pretoria | ||
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 2012 the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans was Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
Organisation and Structure
The Macro-Structure of the Department of Defence as Approved by the Minister of Defence on 15 August 2008 is below:
References
Department of Defence (South Africa) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA