LETTER: Dodgy Denel must be shut down
The cash-strapped arms manufacturer is in bed with a dubious German munitions firm and is complicit in the Yemen humanitarian crisis
09 July 2019 - 05:00
During the late 1980s the late Oliver Tambo rightly described Armscor as a “Frankstein monster that cannot be reformed and must be destroyed”.
The Cameron commission of inquiry in 1994/1995 likewise found that Armscor was both incredibly corrupt and managerially incompetent. Armscor’s offspring, Denel, continues to go from one corruption scandal to the next...
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