LETTER: It’s past time for the war business to close down
Other ‘unpleasant results’ of bloated militarism have been the murders perpetrated by SANDF soldiers during the Covid-19 lockdown, plus as so-called ‘peacekeepers’ elsewhere in Africa
War lobbyist Helmoed Römer Heitman (“Neglecting defence can have unpleasant results (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-09-17-letter-neglecting-defence-can-have-unpleasant-results/),” September 17) evidently needs to be reminded of his role, together with Armscor, in unleashing the arms deal corruption that has destroyed SA’s hard-won constitutional democracy.
The BAE Systems/Saab Gripen fighter aircraft contracts were (and still are) hugely controversial in Sweden. Saab bribes, described as funding for an industrial training school, funded the ANC’s 1999 election campaign. Of course, the school never happened...
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