SaferWorld Domestic accountability for international arms transfers: Law, policy and practice 31 August 2021 |  Open Secrets and SALC’s legal case to have the Gauteng High Court review the export of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE has been included in Saferworld’s latest publication, Domestic accountability for international arms transfers: Law, policy and practice.…

James De Villiers | News24 | 9 June 2021 The transparency non-profit organisation, Open Secrets, and the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) last week launched an urgent Gauteng High Court application in Pretoria to review the sale of weapons made in South Africa to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).  Saudi Arabia and…

Atilla Kisla | Mail & Gaurdian | 7 June 2021 Following illegal and unethical arms trades to countries with very poor human rights records under apartheid, democratic South Africa established a legal framework so that the mistakes of the past would not repeat themselves.  But 26 years later, the plan to implement a system that…

The New Arab | Suraya Dadoo | 3 May 2021 As the country stood on the brink of democracy in November 1993, Nelson Mandela proudly promised that in the new South Africa human rights would be the “light that guides our foreign affairs.” However, decades later, South African-made weaponry has been deeply involved in the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.…

Sunday Times Live |Suraya Dadoo | 21 March 2021 | As the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) continues to approve weapons sales to countries engaged in war crimes in Yemen, SA’s arms industry bears a shocking similarity to its apartheid-era past. A new investigation by South African civil society group Open Secrets has laid…

Salaamedia | 19 March 2021 Is South Africa putting profits before #Yemeni lives in Yemen’s civil war? Zen Mathe, Researcher at Open Secrets, takes a closer look. #IftarDrive #Ramadan

Power Talk | 19 March |  In this next segment, we look at a piece co-written by Zen Mathe which reports that South Africa has abandoned its commitment to human rights in exchange for the chance to profit from weapon deals. This in turn has made us complicit in war crimes in Yemen. Lukhona Mnguni…

Daily Maverick and Open Secrets | 3 March 2021 | It may seem to many people in South Africa that what is happening in war-torn Yemen is a tragedy unfolding far away without any direct connection to us, and with little we can do. This is not true. This report reveals that, since the war…

Newzroom Afrika | 7 March 2021 | An explosive report by Open Secrets has revealed that when civil war broke out in Yemen in early 2015, South African arms companies exported weapons to Saudi Arabi and the UAE worth billions of rands. Newzroom Afrika speaks to Open Secrets researcher, Zen Mathe and human rights lawyer,…

etv | 4 March 2021 | An investigation has lifted the lid on South Africa’s possible involvement, in gross human rights violations in Yemen. Details are contained in a new report called “Profiting from Misery”, put together by the NPO, Open Secrets. It has reportedly found that state-owned arms manufacturer, Denel and others, sold weapons…

Breakfast with Refilwe Moloto | Cape Talk | 5 March 2021 Michael Marchant of Open Secrets talks to Refilwe Moloto about an investigation that shows South African arms companies are selling weapons to those waging war on Yemenis for nearly a decade.

SABC News | 5 March 2021| A new Open Secrets investigative report, Profiting from Misery: South Africa’s Complicity in War Crimes in Yemen reveals the South African arms companies that have cashed in on the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates two central parties to the Yemeni conflict. For more,…

Salaamedia | 4 March 2021| Salaamedia’s Inayet Wadee speaks to Open Secrets’ researcher Michael Marchant about the role of South African and German arms corporations in the Yemen war. Read Profiting from Misery: South Africa’s Complicity in War Crimes in Yemen

New Open Secrets report says South Africans should demand an end to the flow of weapons to this tragedy.

The Voice of the Cape | 3 March 2021 | Since the outbreak six years ago of regionalised war in Yemen that has resulted in humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies have profited from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict.This is according to investigations by NPO Open Secrets.Online for comment is…

Weapons produced in South Africa are awash in Yemen and being used by numerous parties in that war, says a report by Open Secrets.

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