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0"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><i>10 other official names:</i></span></span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <span title="Afrikaans-language text"><i lang="af"><span style="font-size:85%;">Departement van Verdediging</span></i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:68%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/Afrikaans_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Afrikaans language">Afrikaans</a>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <span title="Southern Ndebele-language text"><i lang="nr"><span style="font-size:85%;">umNyango wezokuVikela</span></i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:68%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/Southern_Ndebele_language" title="Southern Ndebele language">Southern Ndebele</a>)</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <span title="Xhosa-language text"><i 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Africa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data">Armscor Building, <a href="/wiki/Erasmuskloof" title="Erasmuskloof">Erasmuskloof</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pretoria" title="Pretoria">Pretoria</a><br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Department_of_Defence_(South_Africa)&params=25.813_S_28.260_E_type:landmark_region:ZA"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">25°48′47″S</span> <span class="longitude">28°15′36″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">25.813°S 28.260°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-25.813; 28.260</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employees</th><td class="infobox-data">79 045</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Annual budget</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_African_rand" title="South African rand">R</a>50 000+ million</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Minister responsible</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Angie_Motshekga" title="Angie Motshekga">Angie Motshekga</a>, <br /><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_and_Military_Veterans" title="Minister of Defence and Military Veterans">Minister of Defence and Military Veterans</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Deputy Minister responsible</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Thabang_Makwetla" title="Thabang Makwetla">Thabang Makwetla</a>, <br />Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Department executive</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 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rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Act,_2002&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Defence Act, 2002 (page does not exist)">Defence Act, 2002</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dod.mil.za/">www<wbr />.dod<wbr />.mil<wbr />.za</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Department of Defence</b> is a department of the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_South_Africa" title="Government of South Africa">South African government</a>. It oversees the <a href="/wiki/South_African_National_Defence_Force" title="South African National Defence Force">South African National Defence Force</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Armed_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed forces">armed forces</a> responsible for defending <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>. </p><p>As of June 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Defence_(South_Africa)&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_and_Military_Veterans_(South_Africa)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (South Africa)">Minister of Defence and Military Veterans</a> is <a href="/wiki/Angie_Motshekga" title="Angie Motshekga">Angie Motshekga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2023_Alleged_Hack">2023 Alleged Hack</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Defence_(South_Africa)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 2023 Alleged Hack"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Dark_web" title="Dark web">dark web</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Department of Defense claimed that it was “fake news” and no data leak occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Snatch claimed it specifically chose the week of the <a href="/wiki/15th_BRICS_summit" title="15th BRICS summit">15th BRICS summit</a> to release the data since the spotlight was on <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>South Africa has recently been involved in other controversies, notably being accused of providing and selling arms to <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, performing military exercises with <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> and not taking a stance on the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian Invasion of Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation_and_structure">Organisation and structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Defence_(South_Africa)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Organisation and structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Macro-Structure of the Department of Defence as Approved by the Minister of Defence on 15 August 2008 is below:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DOD_(South_Africa)_Structure.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/DOD_%28South_Africa%29_Structure.jpg" decoding="async" width="774" height="366" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="774" data-file-height="366" /></a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Defence_(South_Africa)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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