High-tech defence company aims to benefit country

20th June 2014

By: Keith Campbell

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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South African high-technology company Denel Dynamics must meet the challenges and seize the opportunities facing it - not only for the sake of the company itself but for the sake of the country as a whole. So asserted company CEO Tsepo Monaheng on Friday, addressing staff and guests at the conclusion of the 2014 Denel Dynamics Show and Tell event.

Denel Dynamics specialises in missiles and other guided weapons, unmanned air vehicles and space technology. It is part of the State-owned Denel defence industrial group.

"We have a responsibility, we have the people looking up to us," he affirmed. "The [defence and high-tech] solutions are expected to come from us. If we don't respond positively to the requirements, we will have failed the country."

He emphasised that the company needed to make South Africa a "partner of choice" to cooperate with, to do business with and to supply solutions. "There's business that we have to manage successfully, there are strategic imperatives we need to respond to."

Denel Dynamics needed to continue to develop products, systems and services that were required by the South African National Defence Force. And it had to do the same for customers in friendly countries. "We have to export, we have to compete in the international market. We have to [further] develop engineering capabilities."

Export success will allow the company to continue to support wider South African industry (Denel Dynamics has a significant local supply chain). That, in turn, will help the country's economic growth.

"We have a worrying situation in the employment of people, especially young people," he stressed. "If we continue to create jobs in the industry around us, we will be helping meet this challenge."

He noted that the company was internationally respected. "We must maintain the company on this level." This required the continuous development of new products. "Young engineers," pointed out Monaheng, "want exciting and technically empowering work."

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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