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SAS Drakensberg (A301).
Parliamentâs Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) heard the South African military, in all probability in the form of the Joint Operations Division, âprompted a conversationâ with Mozambique as regards the âmodus operandi and executionâ of the regional anti-piracy tasking Operation Copper.
In what a committee member termed âa masterstroke of under-statementâ given the volatile situation in northern Mozambique where beheadings, widespread intimidation and the capture of villages, towns and ports are common, the briefing points to a reconsideration of operations in the existing mandate of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) anti-piracy initiative.