Apartheid guns and money a tale of profit
In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To counter this, a global covert network of nearly f...
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London
Hurst & Company
2018
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Schlagworte: |
Economic sanctions
> Illegal arms transfers
> Apartheid
> Waffenembargo
> Waffenhandel
> Gesetzwidrigkeit
> Militärhilfe
> Geldwäsche
> Schmuggel
> Außenhandel
> South Africa
> Politics and government
> Appropriations and expenditures
> Foreign relations
> Südafrika
> Korruption
> Wirtschaftskriminalität
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Zusammenfassung: | In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To counter this, a global covert network of nearly fifty countries was built. In complete secrecy, allies in corporations, banks, governments and intelligence agencies across the world helped illegally supply guns and move cash in one of history's biggest money laundering schemes. Whistleblowers were assassinated and ordinary people suffered. Weaving together archival material, interviews and newly declassified documents, Apartheid Guns and Money exposes some of the darkest secrets of apartheid's economic crimes, their murderous consequences, and those who profited: heads of state, arms dealers, aristocrats, bankers, spies, journalists and secret lobbyists. These revelations, and the difficult questions they pose, will both allow and force the new South Africa to confront its past |
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Beschreibung: | Register, Literaturhinweise Seite 515-611 |
Beschreibung: | viii, 611 Seiten Diagramme, Illustrationen, Karten |
ISBN: | 9781787380974 978-1-78738-097-4 |