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SIU investigates possible IP theft from defence firm Denel

By: Reuters 20th November 2019 South Africa is investigating the alleged misappropriation of intellectual property rights belonging to State defence firm Denel, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) confirmed on Wednesday. The IP relates to air-to-air missiles, stand-off weapons, surface target missiles, air defence and... →
Mine workers demanded more protection before deadly Burkina Faso attack 
By: Reuters 19th November 2019 Five months before an ambush killed 39 colleagues, local workers at a Canadian-owned gold mine in Burkina Faso pleaded with managers to fly them to the site rather than go by a road that was prone to attacks, two people present at the meeting said. The employees wanted the same protections as... →

Semafo's Burkina Faso headquarters
New shape for Denel beginning to be unveiled 
By: Rebecca Campbell 15th November 2019 Denel CFO Carmen Le Grange on Friday indicated the businesses that the State-owned defence group was exiting or was planning to exit, as part of its turnaround strategy. She was addressing the 2019 Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Conference in Pretoria. The turnaround plan had ten elements, she... →
South African government seeks growth in the local defence industry 
By: Rebecca Campbell 15th November 2019 The South African Government has set growth targets it hopes that the local defence industry will achieve over the next few years. This was reported by Secretary of Defence and Military Veterans Dr Sam Gulube on Friday. He was delivering the keynote address at the 2019 Aerospace, Maritime and... →

Secretary of Defence and Military Veterans Dr Sam Gulube
SAA starts receiving latest-generation jets
By: Rebecca Campbell 15th November 2019 State-owned national flag-carrier South African Airways (SAA) has confirmed that it will soon be operating four latest generation widebody Airbus A350-900 airliners. This announcement coincided with the delivery to the airline of the first of these advanced aircraft (the A350-900 airframe is made... →
France won’t pretend everything is okay with Nato
By: Bloomberg 13th November 2019 France can’t keep pretending all is right within Nato, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said, another sign it will continue its public critique of an entity that’s been Europe’s security umbrella since World War II. Speaking on Tuesday at an interview in his offices in Paris, Philippe defended... →
Vusumuzi Masondo takes new role as Military Ombud
By: African News Agency 13th November 2019 The South African military ombud office welcomed its newly appointed Military Ombud, Lt Gen (Ret) Vusumuzi Masondo at a swearing in ceremony on Friday at SAMHS Training Formation in Thaba Tshwane. Masondo has replaced Lt Gen (Ret) Temba Matanzima who served in the position for aseven years, after... →
Denel achieves record distance, accuracy during long-range testing
By: Marleny Arnoldi 12th November 2019 State-owned arms manufacturer Denel achieved record distances and unmatched accuracy during long-range artillery testing, in the Northern Cape, last week. Tests of long-range guns manufactured by Denel Land Systems, and ammunition produced by Rheinmetall Denel Munition, were conducted at the... →
SAA may fire a fifth of its workforce as part of restructuring

By: Bloomberg 12th November 2019 South African Airways (SAA) has started a restructuring process that could see the cash-strapped State-owned carrier cut its workforce by almost a fifth. As required by South African law, the airline has started talks with labor unions about its plans, which could affect 944 of its 5 149... →

If South Africa has the will, it could have its own satellite constellation
By: Rebecca Campbell 8th November 2019 South Africa has the technological capability to create its own constellation of nano- or micro-satellites to enable the country, the Southern African region, or even the whole African continent, to implement the Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of People (IoP) across the country, region... →
Radical new engine precooler technology passes critical test
By: Rebecca Campbell 8th November 2019 UK advanced aerospace propulsion technology development company Reaction Engines has successfully tested its revolutionary engine precooler at airflow temperatures representative of Mach 5 – that is, five times the speed of sound. Mach 5 marks the start of the hypersonic speed regime. The... →
While some local aerospace sectors are thriving, others are in a rough patch
By: Rebecca Campbell 8th November 2019 The South African aerospace industry embraces the public and private sectors. It includes manufacturers; maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service providers; and research and development (R&D) institutions. It covers general, commercial and defence aviation (including manned and unmanned... →

Thales files to challenge permanent stay denial with SCA, ConCourt
By: African News Agency 5th November 2019 Thales, the multinational French arms manufacturer that has been accused of graft alongside former president Jacob Zuma, has filed a conditional application with the high court for leave to appeal the denial of its permanent stay of prosecution at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). At the same... →
Zuma files notice appealing permanent stay of prosecution ruling
By: News24Wire 5th November 2019 Former president Jacob Zuma says the Pietermaritzburg High Court "mis-focused" on the gist of his permanent stay of prosecution application and was biased against him when it dismissed it. Zuma said this in his notice, dated November 1, appealing a ruling by the court which dismissed his... →
Aerial evolution is not just for the birds
By: Rebecca Campbell 1st November 2019 Evolution has played almost as important a role in the development of aircraft as it has in the development of birds, although the timescales are very different, argued Boeing 787 Dreamliner chief test pilot Ricardo Traven at the recent 2019 Aeronautical Society of South Africa conference in... →
Air warfare being changed by a revolutionary fighter
By: Rebecca Campbell 1st November 2019 Fifth generation (5th Gen) combat aircraft are totally transforming the nature of air combat, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II test pilot Billie Flynn told the recent 2019 Aeronautical Society of South Africa conference, in Pretoria. The F-35 multirole fighter is the second 5th Gen combat... →
Airbus reports revenues for first nine months of 2019 up, year-on-year
By: Rebecca Campbell 30th October 2019 Europe-based global aerospace group Airbus released its consolidated financial results for the first nine months of this year on Wednesday. The company also released is guidance for the full year. Revenues for the period came to €46.2-billion, which was 14% up on the €40.4-billion achieved in... →

Airbus reports revenues for first nine months of 2019 up, year-on-year
SOEs adding to govt spending pressure; e-tolls to remain 
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 30th October 2019 South African Airways is one of a number of State-owned enterprises adding to spending pressures on government, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni reiterated on Wednesday. He pointed out that the airline was insolvent and, in its current configuration, unlikely to ever generate sufficient cash flow... →
Event seeks to stimulate earth observation sector in South Africa
By: Rebecca Campbell 25th October 2019 The 2019 Earth Observation (EO) Challenge is now under way. This is the fourth iteration of the competition, conceived by the South African National Space Agency (Sansa), designed to stimulate and promote the local Earth observation products and services sector. In this year’s challenge, which... →
Russia signs deal to supply Niger with 12 attack helicopters - RIA
By: Reuters 24th October 2019 Russia and Niger have signed a deal for Moscow to supply 12 Mi-35 attack helicopters to Niger, a senior official at Russia's federal military-technical cooperation service said on Wednesday, the RIA news agency reported. The contract was announced as Russia welcomed dozens of African heads of... →
Russian bombers land in South Africa
By: Donna Slater 23rd October 2019 Two Tupolev Tu-160 bombers finally landed at the Waterkloof Air Force Base on Wednesday afternoon. Their journey to South Africa had initially been delayed as a result of bad weather in Russia. →

One of two Tupolev Tu-160 aircraft that landed at the Waterkloof Air Force Base on Wednesday.
At R175bn, govt's cumulative irregular spend now tops its annual budget for police and defence 
By: News24Wire 23rd October 2019 The cumulative irregular expenditure incurred by government departments and public entities - up to and including the current financial year - now stands at R174.88-billion. The "closing balance" figure at the end of the 2017/18 financial year was R139.81-billion, and was R115.51-billion in... →

Ethiopia probes alleged dam misspending that slowed construction
By: Bloomberg 23rd October 2019 Ethiopian authorities are probing missing funds a military contractor already accused of graft was meant to spend on a showpiece dam on a Nile tributary that’s raised tensions with Egypt. Military-linked Metals & Engineering Corp, which was replaced as a contractor on the Grand Ethiopian... →
Russian nuclear bombers sent to South Africa in rare cooperation
By: Bloomberg 23rd October 2019 Russia will on Wednesday land the world’s biggest military aircraft in South Africa, the Tupolev Tu-160 ‘Blackjack’ bomber, in a rare display of cooperation between the defense forces of the two countries. The two bombers, which are capable of launching nuclear missiles, are the first to ever... →
South Africa could have its own satellite constellation – if it has the will 
By: Rebecca Campbell 22nd October 2019 South Africa has the technological capability to create its own constellation of nano- or micro-satellites to supply the country, the Southern African region, or even the whole African continent, to enable the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of People (IoP) across... →

A computer-generated image of a 6U-Nanosatellite designed by SCS
The secretive election of the world’s top nuclear peacekeeper
By: Bloomberg 21st October 2019 When the head of the world’s nuclear watchdog died in July, his death was kept secret for four days. Many people didn’t even know Yukiya Amano was sick. The process that will see his post finally filled this week is shrouded in just as much mystery. The ambassadors of the 35 nations on the... →
Rolls-Royce strengthens position in race to develop electric aero-engines
By: Rebecca Campbell 18th October 2019 Renowned UK industrial technology group Rolls-Royce has completed its purchase of Siemens’ eAircraft business. The deal was originally announced in June. eAircraft was the German electrification, automation and digitalisation group’s electric and hybrid-electric aerospace propulsion unit. “We are... →
Scale of Denel’s problems revealed in annual report 
By: Rebecca Campbell 18th October 2019 South African State-owned defence industrial group Denel recently released its annual report for the 2018/2019 financial year (FY). By just about every metric, the group’s position deteriorated from FY 2017/2018 to FY 2018/2019. In FY 2018/2019, revenues were R3.8-billion, down from R5.8-billion... →
The revolutionary fighter changing air warfare
By: Rebecca Campbell 17th October 2019 Fifth generation (5th Gen) combat aircraft are totally transforming the nature of air combat, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II test pilot Billie Flynn has told the 2019 Aeronautical Society of South Africa conference, in Pretoria. The F-35 multirole fighter is the second 5th Gen combat aircraft... →

Evolution is not just for the birds
By: Rebecca Campbell 17th October 2019 Evolution has played almost as important a role in the development air aircraft as it has in the development of birds, although the timescales are very different, argued Boeing 787 Dreamliner chief test pilot Ricardo Traven at the 2019 Aeronautical Society of South Africa conference, in Pretoria,... →
Advanced computer games generation setting new fighter pilot standards
By: Rebecca Campbell 16th October 2019 Young pilots, straight out of flight school, are adapting much more rapidly to the latest, most high-technology, fighter jets, known as Fifth Generation (5th Gen) designs, than veteran fighter pilots with many years experience. This was highlighted by Lockheed Martin F-35 test pilot Billie Flynn... →
Zuma to appeal decision to deny permanent stay of corruption charges

By: Reuters 15th October 2019 Former President Jacob Zuma will appeal a high court decision to deny him a permanent stay of prosecution on charges related to a R30-billion arms deal, his lawyers said on Tuesday. Zuma had applied for the stay of prosecution for alleged fraud, racketeering and money laundering relating to the... →

Zuma back in court as corruption case resumes
By: Bloomberg 15th October 2019 Former South African President Jacob Zuma was back in court on Tuesday as the start of his trial for graft, racketeering and money laundering charges inched closer, a decade after prosecutors tried to shelve the case amid allegations of political interference. The hearing in the High Court in the... →
Denel winds up Aerostructures 
By: Reuters 11th October 2019 Denel is winding up its struggling Aerostructures aircraft parts business after receiving government approval, the state arms company said on Friday. Denel, a cornerstone of South Africa's once-mighty defence industry, is battling to emerge from a financial crisis and has pledged to shutter... →

Jacob Zuma to stand trial for corruption

By: News24Wire 11th October 2019 Former president Jacob Zuma is expected to be tried on 18 charges of fraud, corruption, money laundering and racketeering next week. This is after the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg handed down judgment on Friday, in the stay of prosecution application which Zuma and his... →
Regulator needs more capacity to aid SA’s embattled aerospace sector
By: Rebecca Campbell 11th October 2019 Prominent members of the Aeronautical Society of South Africa (AeSSA) have called for the capabilities and capacities of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) to be strengthened, so that it can undertake internationally accepted certification of transport aircraft designed and... →
Russia denies it has any troops stationed in Mozambique
By: Bloomberg 8th October 2019 Russia’s government denied it has any troops in Mozambique, after reports that a Russian soldier was killed in the southern African country. “There are no Russian soldiers in Mozambique,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday in Moscow. →
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