JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC on Thursday denied opposition allegations that the country's arms control body had authorized "dodgy" deals such as a weapons exhibition for North Korea and possible sales to Iran, Syria and Libya.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said a number of "dodgy" deals had "slipped through the cracks" when the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) last met in 2008.
David Maynier, a Democratic Alliance MP and shadow defense minister, told Reuters this week the NCACC had authorized a marketing permit for a South African-based company in the past three years to demonstrate and exhibit military support equipment for North Korea.
"Maynier clearly does not want the facts to get in the way of a good story. The authenticity and/or legitimacy of his alleged sources is highly dubious. It is high time that the DA backed up its conspiracy theories with hard facts," the African National Congress (ANC) said in a statement.
Wether every accusation is correct I couldn't say, but clearly the ANC has been using weapons sales to rouge states as a means to pump hard currency into their pockets.
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