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Shows & exhibitions
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Africa Aerospace and defence 2010.
Cape Town, with its harbour and suburban Ysterplaat airbase, provides an outstanding venue for a regional tri-service equipment show. South Africa represents not only a business gateway to much of sub-Saharan Africa, but also a substantial defence equipment market in its own right, one, thus far, largely dominated by European manufacturers.
The South African National Defence Force (Sandf), formed in 1994 in the wake of the country's first democratic elections, has now digested its first post-Apartheid wave of arms purchases, and is preparing for a second. Aside from replacing some seriously ...See the full content of this document
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