The players in the weapons scandal involving bribes of about $300 million escaped justice
The TRC revealed that sexual assault at the hands of Umkhonto weSizwe operatives was not uncommon, though little has been said since
The former chief of acquisitions for the South African National Defence Force denies having a hand in dodgy deals and influencing tender awards.
According to evidence from official investigations, the former defence minister was central to claims about corruption surrounding the deal.
Former Scopa chairperson Gavin Woods says Joe Modise, who died in 2001, benefited from the arms deal – although not in cash.
Former minister Ronnie Kasrils’ usefulness as a witness at the arms deal inquiry has been called into question.
The third edited extract from <i>The Devil in the Detail — How the Arms Deal Changed Everything</i>, analyses the helicopter contract.
President Jacob Zuma’s decision to investigate wrongdoing in the multibillion-rand arms deal has brought hope to the family of Puso Tladi.
A R24-million commission was hidden from Saab by its partner, BAE Systems.
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/ 27 October 2010
The tepid statement made by the Hawks reveals the pitfalls of creeping hegemonic power.
Unexplained deposits in Joe Modise’s bank account add to the mounting questions about the arms deal.
‘Modise had the most to gain fom Hani’s assassination,’ says RW Johnson in his new book.
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/ 28 November 2008
The Scorpions unit launched massive raids on Wednesday in what appears to be a final bid to lance the festering sore of the arms deal.
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/ 21 September 2008
Some South African officials indeed appear to be pursuing a ”no transparency” approach.
Bheki Jacobs, who died last week at the age of 46, was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the liberation struggle.
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/ 21 December 2007
What a country. Both our president-in-waiting and our police chief separately face the prospect of corruption and racketeering charges; our previous national director of public prosecutions was accused of once being an apartheid-era spy and all but hounded out of office for pursuing the first investigation; our current national director was suspended by the president for pursuing the second, writes Sam Sole.
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/ 13 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki was involved in the African National Congress (ANC) leadership’s blocking of a parliamentary investigation into alleged bribery by BAE Systems and other weapons firms in South Africa’s biggest arms deal to date, according to a former MP who was driven out of the ANC for spearheading the inquiry.
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/ 12 January 2001
An arms dealing scandal in Russia looks set to upset the international weapons trading career of Joe Modise.
Threats to expose moles in the ANC were behind the attempt to gag this newspaper.
Defence Minister Joe Modise had clearly not been briefed about the Directorate of Covert Collection when he moved to interdict this paper last week.