LETTER: Europe owes SA
It is also vindication for a handful of journalists, including Karyn Maughan, who have doggedly exposed the corruption unleashed on SA during the 1990s
Fantastic news that President Cyril Ramaphosa has decided not to oppose the Corruption Watch/Right2Know challenge to the Seriti commission’s whitewash of the arms deal Ramaphosa Will Not Fight Challenge to Arms Deal Probe (April 15). It is also vindication for a handful of journalists, including Karyn Maughan, who have doggedly exposed the corruption unleashed on SA during the 1990s by the British, German, Swedish and French governments in collusion with the hierarchy of the ANC. By contrast, our dysfunctional judiciary system — including the Constitutional Court — sadly failed to see that the arms deal was strategically, economically and financially irrational, and thus unconstitutional. The warships and warplanes were bought for bribes instead of defence against any conceivable foreign military threat or any other strategic purpose. The rationale for the arms deal, that R30bn spent on armaments would magically generate R110bn in offset benefits, has predictably proved spurious. ...
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