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Buildings used exclusively by the fleet’s submarine corps will be renamed in a final and lasting tribute to the three mariners who lost their lives a year ago.
A Cape Town woman is relieved to be alive after an ordeal with an allegedly intoxicated SA Navy employee who slammed into her car on Simon’s Town main road last week.
SAS Assegaai, formerly known as SAS Johanna van der Merwe, is the last remaining of the three French-built submarines that were operated by the South African Navy from the 1970s into the 1990s.
The lack of transparency and communication about the exercise’s nature and necessity has disappointed residents, who are worried about the possible harm to endangered marine wildlife.
The fact that they were braaiing means it’s likely a South African vessel, but with dodgy Russian ships loading and offloading something in the night, and the SA Armed Forces apparently not being able to keep a canteen running, we can be forgiven for being curious.
IOL has reported that the navy is trying to “conceal a training exercise that went wrong”. The veracity of the report has now been called into question.