The United States ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, had claimed the Russian ship Lady R was loaded with arms and ammunition at a naval base near Cape Town last December. The inquiry ...

The U.S. on Thursday accused South Africa of supplying arms to Russia for its war in Ukraine in a three-day covert naval operation near Cape Town in early December. Ambassador Reuben Brigety ...

South Africa is also replete with illegal weapons and criminal syndicates, and has a long history of arms-smuggling. Many questions remain unanswered. What specific materiel might have been taken ...

On Friday, a minister responsible for arms control and a foreign ministry spokesman said South Africa had not approved any arms shipment to Russia in December. “We didn’t approve any arms to ...

Rheinmetall Resonant South Africa is Rheinmetall’s response to the growing demand for ammunition, it said.

and she indicated that arms were offloaded, not loaded onto the ship. The South African government, a key partner for the U.S. in Africa, has stated numerous times it has a neutral position on the ...

JOHANNESBURG, May 28 (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to investigate U.S. allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa >> South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations that the country supplied arms to Russia on a ship that docked ...

The second explanation is that South Africa’s government knew full well it was exporting arms to Russia — whether out of a misplaced loyalty to Moscow harking back to the days of the Soviet ...

South Africa’s government appointed Tsepo Monaheng as head of arms manufacturer Denel SOC Ltd., the latest attempt by the authorities to turn around state companies that have been plagued by ...

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 4 (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that an independent inquiry has found no evidence that a Russian ship had collected weapons from the country ...