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Mthatha Airport was again placed under military control temporarily following the death of Nelson Mandela on 5 December 2013, as his state funeral was to be held in the nearby rural village of Qunu where he grew up. [11] [12] [13] Mthatha Airport was converted into a no-fly zone reserved for heads of state attending the funeral. [11]
The airport was renamed Mthatha Airport. After the end of apartheid, some sections of the African business and professional community migrated to traditionally white areas of economic activity, and this has been widely cited as a cause of economic recession in the municipality, but a number of construction projects offer hope for renewal.
1 January 1994 to present: Country South Africa: Branch South African Army: Type: Motorised infantry: Part of: South African Army Infantry Formation: Garrison/HQ: Mthatha, Eastern Cape: Motto(s) Courage Sans Peur (Courage without Fear) Equipment: Mamba APC: Insignia; Company level insignia
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On 3 May 2017, Airlink became the first airline in history to make a commercial charter flight to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, landing a BAe Avro RJ-85 at the newly constructed Saint Helena Airport to pick up passengers stranded there when the island's only link with the outside world, the British Royal Mail Ship RMS St Helena ...
The aircraft was on a flight from AFB Waterkloof to Mthatha Airport when it crashed near Giant's Castle in the Drakensberg, killing all eleven people on board. [2] Shortly before the crash at 09:45 hours South African Standard Time (07:45 UTC), [3] the crew reported that they were flying on instruments at 11,000 feet (3,400 m) in instrument meteorological conditions.
The airport larger than most others in the country, spanning more than 26.9 square miles. Fort Worth and Dallas leaders’ decision decades ago to put the airport on the acres of open farm land ...
On 8 October 1993, Mzwandile Mfeya (12 years), Sandiso Yose (12 years), twins Samora and Sadat Mpendulo (16 years) and Thando Mtembu (17 years) were shot dead in a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid on an alleged base of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the Pan Africanist Congress' military wing, at the Mpendulo family home in the Northcrest suburb of Mthatha.