HeyJaredMphahlela James Thaba
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Africa’s defence innovation challenge is no longer about ideas, it is about the ecosystem - DefenceWeb (opens the original)
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Africa’s defence debate has reached an important point. The question is no longer whether the continent needs stronger defence industries, greater technological capability or more sovereign capacity. There is broad agreement on all three. The more difficult question is how to connect them. That question provides the next step in an argument I have developed through a series of contributions to DefenceWeb over the past year. I have written about technological dependence, the technologies South Af
Analysis: Beyond wishful thinking - SA needs to rethink how defence capability is built - DefenceWeb (opens the original)
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The debate about the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) Journey to Greatness should move beyond whether the strategy is affordable. The more important question is whether South Africa is prepared to change the way it generates military capability. The criticism that the South African National Defence Force’s Journey to Greatness risks becoming another aspirational defence strategy without the resources to implement it deserves serious consideration. South Africa has been here befor
Building Africa’s defence innovation ecosystem: Sovereign capability beyond manufacturing - DefenceWeb (opens the original)
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Africa faces a complex security environment marked by terrorism, organised crime, maritime insecurity, cyber threats, geopolitical competition and rapidly evolving military technologies. Yet many African countries still depend heavily on imported defence equipment and foreign technologies to meet their security needs. This dependence raises an important question: can Africa achieve genuine strategic autonomy without developing its own defence industrial and innovation capabilities? Africa’s defe
Beyond the sovereignty debate: Defining defence sovereignty for SA - DefenceWeb (opens the original)
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Very few concepts have featured as prominently in recent discussions at the Defence Industry Legotla on the future of South Africa’s defence industry as sovereignty. Whether discussing defence capability, industrial development, innovation, procurement or exports, the term is repeatedly invoked as the strategic objective that should guide national decision-making. Yet despite widespread agreement that sovereignty matters, there appears to be far less agreement on what the term actually means. Re
Defence Industry Lekgotla a rare opportunity to reset SA's defence innovation agenda - DefenceWeb (opens the original)
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South Africa’s Defence Industry Lekgotla comes at a pivotal moment. The country’s defence capability is under increasing pressure from fiscal constraints, ageing equipment, rapidly evolving technologies and an increasingly contested global security environment. At the same time, the defence industry continues to demonstrate remarkable resilience, retaining world-class engineering expertise and internationally competitive niche technologies despite years of declining investment. The Lekgotla pres
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