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Apartheid Guns and Money: a Tale of Profit / by Hennie van Vuuren; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The apartheid state was at war. For two decades before 1994, while internal resistance grew, mandatory sanctions prohibited the sale of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. The last white regime was confronted with an existential threat. A global covert network of nearly 50 countries was constructed to counter sanctions. In complete secrecy, allies in corporations, banks, governments and intelligence agencies helped move cash, illegally supply guns and create the apartheid arms money machine. Whistleblowers were assassinated and ordinary people suffered. This is an exposé of that machinery created in defence of apartheid and the people who made this possible: heads of state, arms dealers, aristocrats, plutocrats, senators, bankers, spies, journalists and members of secret lobby groups. They were all complicit in a crime against humanity. Motivated by ideology or kinship most sought to simply profit from the war. Many have until now relied on lingering silence to erase the uncomfortable truth. This meticulously researched book lifts the lid on some of the darkest secrets of apartheid’s economic crimes, weaving together material collected in over two-dozen archives in eight coun

Who reads Apartheid Guns and Money: a Tale of Profit /?

Author

Hennie van Vuuren;

Publisher

C. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited; Hurst; Hurst & Co.

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787382480

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Political Science