{"id":166321,"date":"2025-08-02T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166321"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:17:46","slug":"defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=166321","title":{"rendered":"Defence budget | Motshekga defends defence budget allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; There\u2019s been rising concern about South Africa\u2019s National Security and the ability of the SA National Defense Force to protect the nation and the numbers aren\u2019t helping. The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Angie Motshekga, appeared in parliament on Wednesday to outline her department\u2019s budget. The budget for the Department of Defence<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; There\u2019s been rising concern about South Africa\u2019s National Security and the ability of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation-300x200.webp",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/166321-defence-budget-motshekga-defends-defence-budget-allocation.webp",480,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}