H. Van Vuuren, <i>Apartheid, Guns and Money - A Tale of Profit</i>

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Publication date (Print, pub): 1 January 2019

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Extract from a radio programme, South Africa – Freedom for Sale, May 2018. The programme was produced in collaboration with Open Secrets, a South African NGO that exposes, and seeks accountability for, private sector economic crimes. Hennie Van Vuuren is the Director of Open Secrets.
Interim findings of the People's Tribunal on Economic Crime, 7 February 2018, p. 4, para. 7: https://corruptiontribunal.org.za/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Peoples-Tribunal-Preliminary-Findings-1.pdf
UN Resolution 418 (1977), 4 November 1977, http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/418
Open Secrets, ‘Op-Ed: The People's Tribunal on Economic Crime – holding power to account’, The Daily Maverick, 6 February 2018: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-02-06-op-ed-the-peoples-tribunal-on-economic-crime-holding-power-to-account/
Interim findings of the People's Tribunal on Economic Crime, n. 2 above.
Armscor's mission was to procure, develop and produce weapons for domestic consumption by the South African Defence Force.
During the special institutional hearings on the role of the business sector, the TRC queried assertions by South African arms producers that their products would be used against an external aggressor. ‘Certainly, given the extent of government propaganda about Communism and the “total onslaught”, it is possible that many people did hold this opinion. However, once the army rolled into the townships in the 1980, the scales should have fallen from the eyes of all perceptive South Africans’. TRC, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, 1998, vol. 4, p. 37, para. 78.
Nicoli Nattress, ‘The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Business and Apartheid: A Critical Evaluation’, African Affairs, 98 (392), July 1999, p. 390.
TRC, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, 1998, vol. 4, p. 58, para. 161.

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[1] Extract from a radio programme, South Africa – Freedom for Sale, May 2018. The programme was produced in collaboration with Open Secrets, a South African NGO that exposes, and seeks accountability for, private sector economic crimes. Hennie Van Vuuren is the Director of Open Secrets.

[2] Interim findings of the People's Tribunal on Economic Crime, 7 February 2018, p. 4, para. 7: https://corruptiontribunal.org.za/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Peoples-Tribunal-Preliminary-Findings-1.pdf

[3] UN Resolution 418 (1977), 4 November 1977, http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/418

[4] Open Secrets, ‘Op-Ed: The People's Tribunal on Economic Crime – holding power to account’, The Daily Maverick, 6 February 2018: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-02-06-op-ed-the-peoples-tribunal-on-economic-crime-holding-power-to-account/

[5] Interim findings of the People's Tribunal on Economic Crime, n. 2 above.

[6] Armscor's mission was to procure, develop and produce weapons for domestic consumption by the South African Defence Force.

[7] During the special institutional hearings on the role of the business sector, the TRC queried assertions by South African arms producers that their products would be used against an external aggressor. ‘Certainly, given the extent of government propaganda about Communism and the “total onslaught”, it is possible that many people did hold this opinion. However, once the army rolled into the townships in the 1980, the scales should have fallen from the eyes of all perceptive South Africans’. TRC, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, 1998, vol. 4, p. 37, para. 78.

[8] Nicoli Nattress, ‘The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Business and Apartheid: A Critical Evaluation’, African Affairs, 98 (392), July 1999, p. 390.

[9] TRC, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, 1998, vol. 4, p. 58, para. 161.