---
category: Foreign Government
end: 1994
location: Pretoria, South Africa
start: 1957
summary: The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the apartheid-era South African
  military that entered into a formal cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense
  Forces known as the SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement (SIMWA).
tags:
- Organization
- Military
- SouthAfrica
---

The [South African Defense Force](/organizations/south-african-defense-force/) (SADF) was the military of [South Africa](/places/south-africa/). It entered into a military cooperation agreement with the [Israel](/places/israel/) (IDF) known as [SIMWA](/misc/simwa/) (SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement).[^1]

Under [SIMWA](/misc/simwa/), if either country faced a shortage of matériel during war or military operations, the other country would provide supplies from its own stockpiles. The [SADF](/organizations/south-african-defense-force/) also agreed to invest in [Israel's](/places/israel/) nuclear program and provide testing grounds in the Indian Ocean for [Israeli](/places/israel/) nuclear tests.[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.