The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Ms Lindiwe Sisulu and Mozambique’s Defence Minister, Filipe Nyussi, will tomorrow, 1 June 2011, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on piracy and trans-border crime.
In February this year, 2011, the Cabinet mandated the Department of Defence to put together a strategy to address piracy issues in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) waters.
Ministers, Sisulu and Nyussi are going to brief members of the media as follows:
Date: 1 June 2011
Time: 13h30
Venue: Defence Headquarters, Armscor Building Corner. Nossob and Boeing Streets-Off Rigel Avenue from N1 North, Erasmuskloof, Pretoria
RSVP:
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