South Africa's arms industry is an interesting phenomenon.
Virtually nonexistent in 1960, the industry developed with almost
unprecedented rapidity and by the mid '80s employed more than
150,000 people. Motivated by the quest for security and involvement
in regional wars, South Africa was one of a handful of states in
the developing world willing to bear the economic burden of a
massive arms industry and the result was an armaments industry like
no other in Africa. With the advent of majority rule in 1994, the
new South African government faced many difficult choices,
including the future of an important pillar of the thoroughly
discredited apartheid government-the armaments industry. After more
than a decade of majority rule, the armaments industry is a key
government partner in the new South Africa and a global actor in
its own right. This book explores the significant historical and
ideological obstacles the new South Africa overcame and the
rehabilitation of the arms industry in the 1990s to serve and
ultimately contribute to the country's redevelopment.
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