South Africa's Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has announced the acquisition of one or more new VVIP aircraft during the course of the current financial year. According to the minister, the added aircraft will give the South African military its own airlift capacity. 
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
► SOUTH AFRICA: Government to forge ahead with plans to acquire "one or more" VVIP jets.
South Africa's Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has announced the acquisition of one or more new VVIP aircraft during the course of the current financial year. According to the minister, the added aircraft will give the South African military its own airlift capacity. 
Thursday, December 6, 2012
■ SOUTH AFRICA: Wreckage of missing SAAF C47 found in the Drakensburg; 11 dead.
The wreckage of a South African National Defence Force C47TP Dakota (the military version of a DC3) belonging to 35Squadron, that went missing in heavy weather on Wednesday near Nelson Mandela’s home town of Qunu, en route from Pretoria's Waterkloof Air Force Base to Mthatha, Eastern Cape, has been found in the Drakensburg Mountain range near Ladysmith, with no survivors aboard.
Monday, September 24, 2012
● SOUTH AFRICA: (Pics) Africa Aerospace & Defence 2012.
South Africa, and Africa's, largest exhibition of air, sea and land capability, Africa
Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2012, swung into action today at Air Force
Base (AFB) Waterkloof near Pretoria, South Africa.
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