The government may be aiding and assisting the commission of an internationally wrongful act by selling millions of weapons worth billions of rands to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitter regionalised war in Yemen resulting in a desperate humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies, including Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), have profited handsomely from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict.
In doing so RDM may be guilty of contributing to gross human rights violations in Yemen, a small republic in the southern Arabian Peninsula.
This according to an investigation by NPO Open Secrets titled “Profiting from Misery South Africa’s war crimes in Yemen”. The report is to be released on 3 March 2021 during a webinar with
Daily Maverick which can be attended virtually at noon.