SANDF
Unfenced army base outside Makhanda claims another life
At least six people have been killed or injured by explosives from the largely unfenced 6 SA Infantry Battalion training area
News | 20 November 2025
Army destroys shacks in Marievale, leaving families homeless
Lawyers for Human Rights plans to go to court again
News | 10 July 2024
The strangest vegetable gardens in South Africa
On an old military base in Cape Town, unlawful occupants are growing vegetables alongside the soldiers
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Feature | 31 January 2022
How a determined community is fighting the army’s attempts to evict them
Happiness Village’s residents fear for their lives and face unlawful evictions, beatings and intimidation, legal action and shack demolitions
Feature | 9 September 2021
Military health workers denied Covid-19 vaccines
“Endangering [your] own forces is a criminal offence. The surgeon general should resign immediately”
By Elsabé Brits
News | 24 March 2021
Historic pub faces eviction by South African army, say owners
The beautiful stone pub has underground passages where mine workers used to train
News | 16 March 2021
Demand for police to investigate torture allegations against SANDF
“We have been living in fear because both the police and army are failing to protect us”
News | 5 March 2021
Soldiers shot me in my shack by mistake, says Crossroads man
Vuyisa Sityebi lost a kidney and part of his intestine
Brief | 12 August 2020
SANDF cuts Happiness Village off from the world, places community leader under house arrest
Lawyers say army has no right to conduct “military exercises” in and around the informal settlement
News | 26 July 2020