Edna Molewa’s assertion that SA has no trade with Israeli settlements is false. Settlement products are available at my local supermarket. Furthermore, SA’s standard rifles, the R series, are licensed variants of Israel’s standard rifle, the Galil. The Israeli armaments industry itself receives a fee for every R4, R5 or R6 Denel produces. Sure, this dates back to Israel’s cosy relationship with apartheid SA, but the ANC government has had almost 23 years to replace R series rifles. Clearly and hypocritically they couldn’t be bothered. Furthermore, for all SA’s supposed stance on multilateral co-operation and UN compliance, prior to the non-UN-sanctioned US-led invasion of Iraq, SA sold tens of millions of rand of optical guidance systems to the US for their smart bombs and hundreds of millions of ammunition to the UK. Clearly hedging its bets, SA has simultaneously sold arms to Azerbaijan and Armenia, which are technically at war and clashed last year, resulting in hundreds of death...
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