Africa

50 years in South Africa

With the company’s largest operations outside of Europe in Africa, HENSOLDT is proud to call the region ‘home’. From a start-up over 50 years ago, HENSOLDT now has over 600 staff in the region today.

In South Africa, the company designs, manufactures, and sells a variety of highly technical solutions for defence and security applications which are exported around the world.  Moreover, HENSOLDT employs a few dozen staff in Algeria for a project there.

HENSOLDT is committed to growing its presence in Africa. It consolidated its two South African subsidiaries, GEW Technologies (Pty) Ltd and HENSOLDT Optronics (Pty) Ltd, under the HENSOLDT brand. This strategic move will better leverage HENSOLDT’s global footprint to open new market opportunities for the company’s South African products, such as jammers, RF direction finders, and gimbals.

With Tellumat, HENSOLDT's most recent signed acquisition (expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020), the company aims to achieve a combination of both strategic goals, focusing on radar technology capabilities specifically in South Africa.

Together with its strong partners in Africa, HENSOLDT is finding innovative solutions to defence and security challenges.

Highlighted offers in the region

  • Xpeller - Counter UAV System Counter the rising threat of drone attack

    Xpeller is a modular security solution that scales and integrates multiple sensors and countermeasures to protect sensitive areas against the threat of small drones. From airports to single buildings and high-profile events to military camps, Xpeller detects, identifies, and neutralises drone threats using RF direction finders, radars, optics, jammers or capture drones.

    Counter UAV Solutions

  • ARGOS-II For Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)

    ARGOS-II is designed for installation on helicopters, fixed wing aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles to provide observation and targeting capabilities for military, border and maritime patrol and law enforcement missions.

    ARGOS-II

Sales representations in the region

Pretoria

HENSOLDT South Africa
(GEW business unit)

13 De Havilland Crescent
Persequor Technopark
Pretoria
South Africa
+27 12 421 6200

Cape Town

HENSOLDT South Africa
(Radar business unit)

64-74 White Road
Retreat
Cape Town
South Africa
+27 21 710 2000

Irene

HENSOLDT South Africa
(Optronics business unit)

Nellmapius Drive
Highveld
Centurion
South Africa
+27 12 674 0215

Cape Town

HENSOLDT South Africa
(GEW business unit)

5 Dreyersdal Road
Bergvliet
Cape Town
South Africa
+27 21 001 2936

HENSOLDT NEWS

Africa Region

Oliver Dörre to succeed Thomas Müller in 2024 as Chairman of the Management Board as part of an early and long-term succession plan

Taufkirchen, 21 March 2023 – Oliver Dörre (53) will succeed Thomas Müller (64) as Chairman of the Management Board of HENSOLDT AG. This was decided by…

HENSOLDT UK awarded contracts for the Philippine Navy

Enfield, UK, 17 March 2023 – Sensor solutions specialist HENSOLDT UK has been awarded two contracts by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to supply Kelvin…

Aliette Quint to become president of HENSOLDT Nexeya France

Aliette Quint set to succeed Pierre-Olivier Besombes on 1 May 2023

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HENSOLDT Marketing Africa

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