"The hard choices are no longer theoretical. Every year of delay allows decay to make them instead.
Leaders can either make deliberate decisions, guided by realistic achievable priorities, resources and accountability, or allow those decisions to be imposed by deteriorating readiness, shrinking capability and institutional decline."
@kobusda writing for @defenceWeb_Afr
South Africa’s defence debate has reached the point where polite language is no longer useful. The country has spent years speaking about strategy, posture, transformation, regional influence, maritime security, border safeguarding and future capability.
https://t.co/YzRvpsHHhg
A core team of experienced engineers surrounded by solid institutional culture with a pipeline of hungry younger engineers allowed to do their job, conduct research, and challenge each other in a respectful manner can literally change Denel overnight. Let the bean counters and attorneys keep a solid balance sheet and the product out of trouble by complying to specs and contract dates.
The people that know how to make things fly and go boom are very few and spread out in the world. Let them do it in the best and most profitable manner!
@IanECox Thank you Ian! This is so true. B2G diplomacy is alive and well in the 🇺🇸 US-RSA 🇿🇦 relationship. It has taken years of effort and sitting under many trees to get to this moment.
"Denel’s invitation to submit Expressions of Interest comes months after US-based defence and security firm Omusha revealed it was pursuing a hundreds of millions of rands investment in Denel PMP to restore production, create jobs, modernise ops, and ultimately export ammo."
@mark_barnes56 What a story!
Is it better to own 100% of nothing or 40% of a productive, dividend paying asset? Ideologues in control answered that question quite plainly.
Incredibly sad story for the workers and the potential prosperity of the country.
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South Africa needs a more serious conversation about Denel and its strategic role in the readiness of our sovereign defence capabilties. Too much of the current debate swings between two positions: let Denel fade away, or restore it.
https://t.co/0c7xozpHtG
I have a small sample size, of my generation of (then) young men at a large congregation that dismissed this, felt incredible guilt dating outside the flock while our female church peers embraced this and stayed out of the market. Years (decades) later as men we ended up divorced because we chose expedient instead of better quality, many families torn. Sadly, some of the females ended up never marrying, some would've been amazing mothers and wives with a common communal experience that only shared upbringing experiences can provide.