Defence consultant and analyst, Helmoed Heitman, said he still did not believe that weapons were loaded onto a Russian cargo vessel, known as the Lady R, and shipped to Russia.
For months there’s been speculation that arms were loaded onto the ship destined for Russia.
United States ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, also accused the South African government of supplying weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine.• US embassy says it will let SA be judge of Lady R report findings• ‘No evidence weapons were loaded onto the ship’: Ramaphosa on Lady R probe However, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that an independent panel led by retired Judge Phineas Mojapelo found no evidence that weapons were loaded onto the ship."South African manufactured ammunition doesn't fit their weapons and the heavy ammunition is manufactured by RBM which is 51% German-owned and they wouldn't supply anything to them.
Ramaphosa also told the nation that the panel's full report would not be made public due to national security concerns."I think the way everybody handled it was just plain silly. There's nothing particularly spectacular about ordering ammunition from Russia for Russian weapons, there's nothing secret about those weapons, they've been on shows at our open days, so everybody knows we've got them. Just the handling of it was so abjectly stupid.
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