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South Africa has made a number of impressive contributions to regional and local maritime and oceanic governance thus far in 2013. However, the resulting global, regional and national commitments...
Activists attending this week’s Rio+20 United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development have expressed satisfaction that attention was being given to issues of ocean management - a key...
The recent successes in arresting pirates who had seized a Filipino merchant vessel in the northern part of the Mozambican channel is good news for efforts to quell the scourge of piracy in the...
South African Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has confirmed that the country will increase its naval budget.
Answering a question from Engineering News Online at a press conference at the 2012...
Earlier this month, South Africans were shocked to find out that problems with two VIP-planes destined to transport the country’s president and deputy-president forced the Air Force to hire...
The South African Government has now finally made a decision concerning anti-piracy operations, following the successful hijacking of a fishing vessel off the Mozambique coast in December 2010 and...
Pirates have reached the Southern African seas. The European Union Naval Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR) documents two confirmed cases of piracy off the Southern African coastline. The first is a...
The continuing importance of Africa's maritime security has been highlighted by the widespread acts of piracy increasingly reported off the coasts of Somalia and Nigeria. Just as troubling as these...