Tag: Mudimu
Second term as Armscor chair for Mudimu
Retired vice admiral Johannes Mudimu has been appointed Armscor chairman for a second three year term.
The former chief of the SA Navy...
Armscor’s new strategic direction is firmly in place – Mudimu
Looking back on his first full year as chairman of Armscor, retired SA Navy chief Johannes Mudimu maintains a new strategic direction...
New Indian Ocean naval journal launched
Those responsible for maritime safety in the Indian Ocean and its littoral countries must not only be capable sailors and masters of...
IONS chairs confident piracy can be beaten…eventually
The third Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) will contribute to the defeat of piracy, the past and present chairmen of the symposium...
Plans for Salisbury Island elaborated
The South African Navy has shared more details of how it plans to enlarge its presence at Salisbury Island in Durban. Salisbury...
Southern Africa is safe – SA Navy chief
The chief of the South African Navy says that southern Africa is safe from the threat of piracy, but that Southern African...
SADC confident of beating piracy, SMC says
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) believes it can manage local threats from piracy in the southern Indian Ocean region if it...
Sisulu rubbishes “aircraft carrier” report
Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, has described a report that South Africa was to procure an "aircraft carrier"...
Piracy prosecutions poor
Transnet General Manager for Security Major General Rodney Toka says only a small fraction of the pirates operating in seas around the...
Navy needs survey ship, PVs by 2015
The SA Navy will need a replacement hydrographic survey vessel as well as new offshore as well as inshore patrol vessels (PV)...