South Africa is blocking arms sales to countries including Saudi Arabia and the ...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa is blocking arms sales to countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE in an inspections dispute, endangering billions of dollars of business and thousands of jobs in its struggling defense sector, according to industry officials.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which account for at least a third of South Africa’s arms exports and are engaged in a war in Yemen, have rejected the inspections which they consider a violation of their sovereignty, the sources said. “We’ve got one clause that’s disabling us from exporting 25 billion rand worth of value today, right now,” Simphiwe Hamilton, the head of the AMD, told Reuters.
The UAE did not respond to the Amnesty allegations. The Saudi military coalition did not respond to CNN’s allegations, but a senior UAE official denied it violated end-user agreements. The industry officials told Reuters that South Africa had long included a clause in its end-user certificates requiring on-site visits, though it was rarely acted upon.
An NCACC official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, would not comment on the reason for the new format, and industry officials said they had not been told.
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