Denel Dynamics, formerly Kentron, is a
division
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Denel
Denel SOC Ltd is a South African State-owned enterprise, state-owned aerospace and military technology conglomerate established in 1992. It was created when the manufacturing subsidiary, subsidiaries of Armscor (South Africa), Armscor were spli ...
SOC Ltd, a
South Africa
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armaments
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development and manufacturing company wholly owned by the
South Africa
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Government
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. It underwent a name change from Kentron to Denel Aerospace Systems during the early part of 2004 and later to Denel Dynamics. Denel Dynamics is located in
Centurion
A centurion (; la, centurio , . la, centuriones, label=none; grc-gre, κεντυρίων, kentyríōn, or ) was a position in the Roman army during classical antiquity, nominally the commander of a century (), a military unit of around 80 le ...
, South Africa. Several sites are operating according to ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certified.
Key products
UN arms embargo violation
Four South Africans working for Kentron were arrested in March 1984 in
Coventry
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and charged with violation of the
UN arms embargo – which outlawed the export of arms and military equipment to
apartheid South Africa
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.
The Coventry Four were granted
bail
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against a deposit of £200,000 and a guarantee by a diplomat from the South African embassy who waived his
diplomatic immunity
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Pik Botha
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, (27 April 1932 – 12 October 2018) was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a li ...
, refused to allow them to return for their trial.
See also
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Armscor (South Africa)
Armscor (stylized as ARMSCOR), the Armaments Corporation of South Africa is the arms procurement agency of the South African Department of Defence. It was originally established in 1968 as an arms production company, primarily as a response to ...
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Military of South Africa
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Military history of South Africa
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South African Air Force
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