South African defense contractor Denel has targeted the unstable and wartorn Middle East in an effort to increase profits. South Africa has a history of selling arms to any bidder, regardless of the geopolitical implications.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Archive for July, 2001
From the Daily Mail & Guardian:
Joe Modise, the former minister of defence and one of the figures central to the multi-agency probe into corruption in South Africa’s R50-billion arms deal, had a six-bedroom mansion constructed partly at the expense of state-owned armaments company Denel – which operates with taxpayers’ money.
Popularity: 6% [?]
The South African government’s unsettling denial of the crime situation and its clear inability to deal with violent crime is making the world take notice. According to CBS 52,000 rape cases were reported in South Africa during 2000, even though the “vast majority” of incidents are never reported. When pressed for a response, minister of police Steve Tshwete could only lash out at the media: “We want to dismiss with contempt this whole notion that South Africa is a rape case.”
Popularity: 6% [?]
Unknown gunmen shot and killed eight men in a Johannesburg hostel. No motive is known at the moment.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Will Pelindaba cause a large part of South Africa to glow in the dark for the next ten thousand years?
Popularity: 5% [?]
A twelve-year-old girl cheated death when she was shot in an attempt to steal her cellphone. The attack occurred in Johannesburg in full daylight.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Thousands of landless South Africans have been conned into buying land from the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) – land it does not own. Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza has threatened to have the occupiers arrested, while condemning the actions of the PAC. The landless paid R25 for the plots of land near Kempton Park.
Popularity: 7% [?]
British customs officers claim that South African drug smugglers are using Edinburgh airport as a point of entry to the UK. Since 1999, seventeen seizures have been made at the airport
Popularity: 7% [?]
