Florence Mkhize is an environmental protection vessel operated by the South African Ministry of the Environment.

At 14 metres (46 ft), and capable of 65 knots (120 km/h; 75 mph), she is smaller and faster than four earlier environmental protection vessels.

[2] At the launch of Florence Mkhize, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South African Ministry of the Environment, asserted the vessel's design was unique.

Florence Mkhize spent her first four months in commission countering perlemoen poaching in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth.

[3] All of the South African environmental patrol vessels are named after anti-apartheid heroines, like Florence Mkhize.