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No funds for SAN midlife upgrades doesn’t stop issue of a...

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A Request for Information (RfI) is a long way from a tender being awarded and work starting. This seemingly isn’t of concern to Armscor,...

Deputy SAN Chief temporarily in charge of SA’s maritime service

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The maritime service of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) is under the stewardship of an acting chief until a successor to Vice Admiral...

SA Navy’s first MMIPV still busy with OTE

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The first MMIPV (multi-mission inshore patrol vessel) to be taken into service by the SA Navy (SAN) – SAS King Sekhukhune I (P1571) –...

Navy keeping cards close to chest on Ibsamar platform deployment

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With a month go to before the SA Navy (SAN) takes part in its first major real time exercise with foreign fleets in over...

New delivery dates for SAN patrol vessels

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The first new multi-mission inshore patrol vessel (MMIPV) is flying the fleet ensign as she undergoes operational testing and evaluation but it’s going to...

UPDF delegation in Simon’s Town

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The Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) delegation visiting South African military museums interrupted its study tour for a courtesy call on Flag Officer Fleet...

Op Corona hits Overstrand – again

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Ahead of another Operation Corona maritime tasking in the Gansbaai area of Western Cape, the Maritime Reaction Squadron (MRS) of the SA Navy (SAN)...

Ex Oxide 2022 will be west coast based

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With COVID-19 no longer deemed a danger, it’s full steam ahead for Exercise Oxide, which is set down for 14 to 30 November. The joint...

Navy planning submarine spares acquisition

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The SA Navy (SAN) looks to be planning ahead when cognisance is taken of an Armscor issued request for information (RfI) for the 2023/24...

SS Mendi centenary a highlight for Hlongwane as CNavy

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Immediate past SA Navy Chief, Mosiwa Hlongwane, rates the centenary commemoration of the SS Mendi sinking in 2017 as one of his fondest memories...

SA Navy seems set for an interim chief

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Indications are the maritime service of the national defence force will, like the air force and the army previously, have an acting chief as...

Operational testing and evaluation is Sekhukhune’s first tasking

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The latest addition to the SA Navy (SAN) fleet, SAS Sekhukhune (P1571) following commissioning last week, is now an “active” platform with operational testing...

Sekhukhune commissioned at NS Durban

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Just over a month after she was handed to the SA Navy (SAN), the first of three multi-mission inshore patrol vessels (MMIPVs) was yesterday...

SA Navy patrol squadron numbers two platforms

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“Something old, something new” probably best describes the present state of the patrol squadron on the SA Navy planning board. The “old” part of the...

SAS Spioenkop arrives back in Simons Town

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The South African Navy’s Valour class frigate SAS Spioenkop (F147) has returned to her port in Naval Base Simon’s Town after a months-long deployment...

Planning on track for Exercise Oxide 2022

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SA Navy (SAN) fleet headquarters in Simon’s Town next week welcomes a three officer French Armed Forces delegation for an Exercise Oxide mid-term planning...

Senior academic reflects on history of the SA Navy

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Senior Professor (Emeritus) and Research Fellow at the University of Free State (UFS) Andre Wessels compiled a brief history of the SA Navy (SAN)...

Reutech supplying weapons and radars for Biro, Hotel

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Reutech is supplying Super Sea Rogue turrets, machinegun turrets and radars for the four vessels being acquired by the South African Navy under Projects...

Dorado boats integral to MRS patrols off Mozambique

An integral part of the maritime component of SAMIM (Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique) is shallow water island patrols conducted by elements...

Ibsamar recce team in Gqeberha

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Another step forward for the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), particularly its naval component as hosts of Exercise Ibsamar 2022, came this month (April)...

Maritime security threats in Africa fall under the spotlight

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Chief of the South African Navy, Vice Admiral Mosiwa Samuel Hlongwane, unpacked Africa as the last maritime security frontier, and explored future threats and...

Mozambique duty for SAS Spioenkop

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A South African Navy (SAN) Valour Class frigate with a Maritime Reaction Squadron (MRS) element aboard is doing duty in Mozambican waters as the...

New Silvermine perimeter fence nearing completion

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It’s guard duty for the Maritime Reaction Squadron (MRS) of the SA Navy (SAN) while new fencing goes up at the Silvermine communications facility...

Ibsamar planning underway, no exercise date given

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SA Navy (SAN) fleet headquarters in Simon’s Town this week hosted an initial planning meeting for a tri-nation naval exercise in South Africa at...

Newspaper apologises for SA Navy cannon firing fake news

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A newspaper report of an SA Navy frigate gun firing a 76 mm round into Simon’s Town, denounced as fake news, elicited an apology...

Remembering SAS Donkin and the Navy in Eastern Cape

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Gqeberha’s involvement with the SA Navy (SAN) via Naval Station Port Elizabeth (NSPE) and a former part-time force unit saw the Officer-in-Charge of the...

End of the road for SAS Adam Kok

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SAS Adam Kok (P1563) started life as a Minister Class strikecraft, was later planned to be refurbished as an offshore patrol vessel (OPV), ended...

Ex Good Hope is back

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Years of inactivity for joint exercises come to an end for the maritime and airborne services of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) at...

Frigate weapons alignment

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Part of SA Navy (SAN) frigate maintenance is weapons alignment with a scheduled session recently successfully completed by the weapons section of the Armscor...

Armscor quality assurance in action on Project Hotel

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Quality assurance and project management are watchwords Armscor sticks strictly to at SAS (Sandock Austral Shipyards) in Durban where the new hydrographic vessel for...

“Crippling” onslaught on SA Navy human resource component

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SA Navy (SAN) Chief Vice Admiral Mosiwa Hlongwane presided over two medal parades in November, telling personnel in the maritime service he was “thankful”...

Simon’s Town’s significance in SA military history showcased

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The most senior warrant officers’ course in the SANDF (SA National Defence Force), the Joint Warrant Officers’ Programme (JWOP) based at the Warrant Officers...

SAN OPVs back from Op Vikela deployment

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Flag Officer Fleet Rear Admiral Musawenkosi Nkomonde provided further insight into some of the myriad problems the SA Navy (SAN) – and the overall...

Experienced patrol vessel man commands first SA Navy MMIPV

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When the first of the new multi-mission inshore patrol vessels (MMIPVs) takes to the water for sea acceptance trials next year, she will be...

Navy continues Warrior Class with new MMIPVs

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The Warrior Class in the SA Navy (SAN) will be boosted by another three hulls with the first due to be taken into service...

New Naval College OC

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Hard on the heels of a new officer commanding for SAS Saldanha, the SA Navy’s other major training facility in the form of its...

New boss for SAS Saldanha

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Come tomorrow (Thursday, 21 October) SAS Saldanha, the major training unit for the SA Navy (SAN), will have a new officer commanding in the...

US Navy and Africa Command engaging with SA Navy during ship...

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Senior officers from the US Navy and US Africa Command (Africom) are holding talks with the SA Navy as part of the United States...

SAN maintenance plus COVID-19 makes Navy miss sea hours target

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The slippery downslope the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) finds itself on budget-wise, from personnel through to prime mission equipment and much else, is...

Lockdown regulations cut SANDF museums visitor numbers

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With Heritage Month ending the three known SA National Defence Force (SANDF) museums have, in common with other repositories of history, been hamstrung by...

Navy “pre-occupied” with arrival of new platforms

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The first of three new inshore patrol vessels, officially known as multi-mission inshore patrol vessels (MMIPVs), has not yet made her maiden voyage to...

SAS Mendi on the way to full operational status

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Proof positive the necessary skills are still available in and to the SA Navy (SAN) comes from its official quarterly publication which reports SAS...

The Past Week in Defence #63 (19 July – 25 July...

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In this week’s edition, peacefulness decreases slightly in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria receives its first six Super Tucanos, the insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado grows...

Deputy defence minister at Silvermine

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A high-level delegation with the Deputy Defence and Military Veterans Minister at the helm was recently at Cape Town’s Silvermine military base – one...

SAN Hydrographic Office marks 70 years of service

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The crew of SAS Protea (A324), affectionately and widely known as the SA Navy’s “White Lady” because she is not armed, serve on the...

SA Navy annual security conference goes virtual

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South Africa’s maritime service is taking up the cudgels of the virtual information era thrust on the world by COVID-19 and will on Friday...

Reserve Bank – not Armscor – will pay shipyards for new...

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Main contractors on the two SA Navy (SAN) projects currently underway need not concern themselves about receiving payment for building four new seagoing platforms...

MMIPV names await Ministerial approval

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The Ministerial stamp of approval is all that remains for the new SA Navy (SAN) platforms – its multi-mission inshore patrol vessels (MMIPVs) –...

Midlife upgrades for SAN platforms on hold pending funding – Armscor

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The midlife upgrades of SA Navy (SAN) prime mission equipment – its frigates and submarines – are at concept and feasibility study phases with...

Naval Base Durban shipshape for first MMIPV

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Naval Base Durban, home to the patrol squadron of the SA Navy (SAN), is on track to welcome the first multi-mission inshore patrol vessel...