LETTER: Armscor was irredeemably corrupt

It was glaringly evident in 1994/1995 during the Cameron commission of inquiry into Armscor that SA’s war industry was managerially incompetent and irredeemably corrupt. Undeterred, war business lobbyists continue to sprout their canard that the apartheid era developed a formidable homegrown industry .

Similarly, a CIA front company, International Signal Corporation, provided Armscor’s missile technology, and the designs for the G5 and G6 artillery originated with Canada’s Gerald Bull. Not only did the war business fail dismally in preventing the downfall of apartheid, but we still face the consequences of a bankrupted country. Yet hundreds of billions of rand continued to be wasted on Denel and the arms deal scandal — of which Denel was supposed to have been the prime beneficiary via the offset obligations.

There is fortunately no conceivable foreign military threat to justify an SA war industry. It is, however, diabolical that SA arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have contributed to Saudi/UAE war crimes in Yemen, and the consequent humanitarian disaster. Is Heitman also proud of that record?

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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