NAVAL GAZING
All at sea as Mosi II shows up the sorry state of South Africa’s navy
War games off east coast lay bare the country’s seagoing shortcomings
In Berlin, a Russian tank destroyed in Ukraine was parked in front of the Russian embassy. In Warsaw, the sound of an air-raid siren and explosions woke Russian diplomats in their embassy compound at 6am. In The Hague, a barrel organ belted out the Ukrainian national anthem at the Russian embassy. In London, the road in front of Russia’s embassy was painted yellow and blue in the colours of the Ukrainian flag.
On South Africa’s coast between Durban and Richards Bay, the navy was playing war games with its counterparts from Russia and China, the significance of the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine apparently lost on the participants...
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