Sowetan Live | Franny Rabkin | 15 June 2021

The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) and Open Secrets, the non-profit organisation investigating economic crime, will be in the Pretoria high court on Tuesday afternoon over the government-issued permits that allow SA arms companies to export weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

In court papers, the two organisations say these two countries are fuelling the war in Yemen, a conflict that has been called the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. Yet SA has, since 2016 exported over 20% of its arms to them — in breach of the law and the constitution.