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French frigate Floreal visits Cape Town

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On 1 November, unlike all previous visits by NATO warships, an unannounced arrival off Cape Town was the French Navy (Marine Nationale) Frigate FS...

SA National Defence Force exercises right of entry into the Mother...

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The City of Cape Town, endearingly dubbed the Mother City, reaffirmed the right for eleven units across all Services and Divisions of the South...

Mini Navy Festival in Cape Town cancelled – SANDF Freedom of...

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The SA Navy (SAN) has cancelled its mini-festival set for Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront this weekend in the wake of the tragic submarine accident...

Winde counting the cost of Cape Town’s taxi strike as police...

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Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has said the provincial government remains gravely concerned at the devastating impact caused by the strike called by the...

A look at recent Cape Town visitor, PLAN replenishment ship Weishanhu

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Any naval flotilla that is operating far from home, and carrying out long, tedious, patrols is always going to come up against their endurance,...

Chinese Navy resumes port visits to Cape Town

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The 43rd Chinese naval escort taskforce of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) arrived in Cape Town on the morning of 24 July for...

Nigerian Navy tank landing ship visiting Cape Town

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The Nigerian Nayv’s new tank landing ship (LST) NNS Kada has arrived in Cape Town while on its delivery voyage in what is a...

Port call of the French Mission Jeanne d’Arc in Cape Town

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French task force ‘Jeanne d'Arc’ 2022, a five-month operational deployment of a two-vessel Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), arrived in Cape Town on the morning...

FBI, Hawks net R100 million internet scam suspects

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Eight foreign nationals, aged between 33 and 52, were on Tuesday morning arrested for their links to an alleged R100 million internet scam during...

USS Hershel “Woody” Williams completes repairs in Cape Town

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The US Navy’s Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) USS Hershel “Woody” Williams has become the first such vessel to complete repairs in South Africa after...

Cape Town city fathers anti “their” Reserve Force regiments changing names

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There’s been at least one objection to the Reserve Force regiments/units name changes. It was made by the City of Cape Town and has...

Transnet says has identified and isolated the source of IT disruption

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State-owned firm Transnet said on Friday it had identified and isolated the source of the disruption to its IT systems, which impacted its container...

SVI opens Cape Town office

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SVI Engineering has opened its second national office, in Cape Town, in response to the growth in the local armoured vehicle industry plus the...

UAV Industries hired to inspect and quantify fire damage at UCT...

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Following the devastating mountain blaze that raged through the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus and surrounding areas, insurance companies have sought the assistance...

SAPS deploys 200 officers to Cape Town crime hotspots

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Police Minister General Bheki Cele has welcomed the deployment of 200 police officers to the Western Cape as force multipliers in violence-laden hotspots across...

Police clamp down on Cape Town extortion rackets

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A Police Ministry intervention to curb extortion rackets in Cape Town has recorded significant progress in clamping down on the crime. The intervention by Police...

Soldiers and police enforce lockdown in Cape Town

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Soldiers last week joined safety and security cluster colleagues, the police, to defuse tensions in Cape Town’s Joe Slovo Park after protests which saw...

Cape Town truck attacks

Crowds attacked delivery trucks in Cape Town stoning, hijacking and ransacking vehicles to take food and other provisions during the coronavirus lockdown, city authorities...

Veecraft awarded tender to manufacture Transnet workboats

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Veecraft Marine has been awarded a Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) tender to design, manufacture and assemble two twin-screw, diesel powered workboats for the...

Russian Navy vessels arrive in Cape Town amid COVID-19 lockdown

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Two Russian Navy ships of the Baltic Fleet arrived in Table Bay Harbour on Monday morning, but all planned activities have been curtailed due...

French frigate Nivose visiting Cape Town next week

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The French surveillance frigate Nivose will be in Cape Town between 21 and 26 January this year on a routine stopover, and will be...

Foreign warships arrive in Cape Town for inaugural naval exercise

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After six months of planning, warships from Russia and China arrived in Cape Town this past weekend for the inaugural Exercise Mosi, a multinational...

SANDF soldiers arrive in Cape Town.

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South African soldiers were deployed to gang-ridden Cape Town suburbs on Thursday to help quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds this year and...

Defence Force reaps benefits of Armed Forces Day activities

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The South African Navy, hosts of the 2019 iteration of Armed Forces Day, is planning a huge spectacle in and around Cape Town. Armed Forces...

SANDF to make a mark in Cape Town in February

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Cape Town will next month host two major events on the South African national calendar with the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) prominent in...

Damen’s first Fishing Seminar deemed a success

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Damen has said its first Fishing Seminar, held in Cape Town, was a great success, with more than 60 participants attending from a broad...

Quick Cape Town stop for PLAN task force

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Following an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden and port visits in North Africa, the 27th Chinese naval escort task force...

Soldiers to guard Cape Town water points

Soldiers are going to be deployed within weeks in beleaguered Cape Town where Day Zero for water supply looms ever larger on...

France sees continued benefits in patrolling southern oceans

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As part of a patrol mission to the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, French Navy (Marine Nationale) surveillance frigate Le Nivôse (F732)...

Soldiers ready to assist in protecting Cape Town water – report

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While the jury is still out on the possible deployment of soldiers to assist Western Cape police fight crime, indications are soldiers...

Russian Naval Task Force surprises Cape Town

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The Russian Federation Navy's Northern Fleet detachment, including the Severomorsk large anti-submarine destroyer, paid a surprise visit to the Port of...

Cape military heritage route launched

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A heritage route covering the military history of the Cape Town area has been launched recently. "Military history is an integral part...

Cape Town to spend R12m on more CCTV cameras

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Cape Town's CCTV network is set to increase as the city's Strategic Surveillance Unit plans to spend nearly R12 million to install...

Cape Town is the world’s ninth most dangerous city

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Cape Town had the ninth highest homicide rate of cities around the world last year and Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Johannesburg rank...

Royal Navy ice patrol vessel calls on SA Navy

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South African sailors, particularly working in hydrographic and climate musterings, have had the opportunity of garnering first-hand information from their colleagues aboard...

Brazilian Navy vessel visits Cape Town

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The Brazilian Navy offshore patrol vessel BNS Amazonas visited Cape Town on a port call earlier this month, and follows a visit...

“Symbolic victory” against Mugabe as government property in South Africa auctioned

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A residential property in Cape Town owned by the Zimbabwean government was auctioned for R3.76 million on Monday in a symbolic victory...

Cape Town extends TETRA radio network

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Motorola Solutions and radio distributor Altech Alcom Matomo have completed an extension of the digital Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) communications network in...

L’Albatros heads for home after 31 years patrolling the Indian Ocean

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The French Navy offshore patrol vessel Albatros (P681) arrived in Cape Town on Wednesday 3 June, having completed her final Indian Ocean...

Some rest for L’Adroit during busy mission

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In the third of its four month deployment, the French patrol vessel L'Adroit arrived in Cape Town on Monday May 12 for...

French OPV to make port call in Cape Town

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Come Monday South Africa's naval fraternity will see a current, state-of-the-art offshore patrol vessel (OPV) in local waters when the French Navy's...

SAAF helps fight major Cape Town blaze

The appearance of a 22 Squadron Oryx helicopter slinging a Bambi bucket this week signalled the re-entry of the SA Air Force...

Dutch Foreign Trade Minister visits Damen Cape Town

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Damen Shipyards Cape Town, where two new tugs are currently under construction for the Navy, this week hosted the Dutch Minister for...

Chinese Navy Escort Task Group visits Cape Town

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Three vessels comprising the 16th Escort Task Group of the Chinese Navy arrived in the Port of Cape Town on Tuesday morning,...

Royal Navy supports maritime security on West African coast

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The Royal Navy (RN) Type 23 anti-submarine frigate HMS Portland arrived in Cape Town last Friday, having spent three months undertaking maritime...

ANC looters rampage through central Cape Town

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Hundreds of protesters looted shops, overturned rubbish bins and smashed car windows in Cape Town on Wednesday as police struggled to contain...

Cape welcome for French naval vessels

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The French Navy surveillance frigate Nivôse docked at the Cape Town V&A Waterfront on Wednesday morning, to the delight of the crew. Home...

South African Airways to host 69th IATA AGM and seventh World...

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that South African Airways will host the 69th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and...

defenceWeb shines at 2012 Indian Ocean Naval Symposium

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defenceWeb has been congratulated by Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu for its contribution to publicising the third Indian Ocean...

EADS Defence & Security and Integcomm win a key TETRA contract...

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EADS Secure Networks, an integrated activity of EADS Defence & Security, has been awarded a contract through its South African partner Integcomm for the...