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SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY (3) answer(s).
 
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Building South Africa's naval capability: heyday, decline and prospects / Potgieter, Thean   Article
Potgieter, Thean Article
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Summary/Abstract Up to the abrogation of the Simon's Town Agreement in 1975, the South African Navy acquired the bulk of its equipment from Britain. Efforts to purchase corvettes and submarines from Portugal and France were cancelled during the 1970s as a result of the pariah status of apartheid South Africa. An indigenous naval shipbuilding industry developed in South Africa and succeeded in the building six Israeli-designed missile strike craft under licence and a locally designed replenishment vessel (the SAS Drakensberg) amongst others. After the end of apartheid South Africa purchased frigates and submarines from Germany, while on-board installation and integration of weapon systems and sensors were done in South Africa in cooperation with local and international armaments companies. As South Africa retains a small commercial shipbuilding industry it is anticipated that some of the naval vessels the South African Navy would require in future might be channelled to local shipyards.
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Neighbourhood watch: South Africa's continental role expands / Romer-Heitman, Helmoed   Journal Article
Romer-Heitman, Helmoed Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
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South African Navy and African maritime security / Baker, Deane-Peter   Journal Article
Baker, Deane-Peter Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract The onset of pirate attacks on merchant vessels off the Horn of Africa in recent years has put Africa's maritime security increasingly in the international spotlight. Recent times have also seen the advent of the African Union and with it a commitment to "African solutions to African problems." Despite this, African states have made little active contribution to securing Africa's maritime domains. Yet, as the scholar and analyst Augustus Vogel, of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C., points out, doing so
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