14 June 2025 - 20:54
Source: Iol
South Africa: EFF demands urgent parliamentary discussion on arms exports to Israel

South African political party EFF wants an urgent debate in Parliament over the alleged failure by the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) to prevent South African manufactured weapons from being transferred to Israel.

AhlulBayt News Agency: The Red Berets moved the motion earlier this week that the National Assembly debate, as a matter of urgency, the NCACC’s failure to uphold domestic and international arms control obligations.

MP Carl Niehaus said the National Assembly should note the NCACC’s non-implementation of the end-user certificates for arms and ammunition produced by South African companies such as Rheinmetall Denel Munitions (RDM).

“We condemn the export of South African arms to apartheid Israel – a state charged by South Africa with genocide at the International Court of Justice. We reject this complicity as a hypocritical betrayal of our heroic Struggle against apartheid and our human rights commitments,” Niehaus.

The call for the debate comes on the heels of a detailed letter from Niehaus to the Joint Standing Committee on Defence, in which he presented allegations regarding South Africa's non-compliance with international arms control commitments.

He had also sent two sets of questions to Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on the matter.

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