arm17. Marconi Arms Apartheid

arm17. Marconi Arms Apartheid

arm17. Marconi Arms Apartheid
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Description

This report argued that Marconi’s contract to supply troposcatter communications equipment to South Africa was a breach of the arms embargo imposed by the 1974 Labour government. The equipment was to be used to send information from the South African forces fighting SWAPO guerrillas in northern Namibia to the Defence Department’s computer centre in the Cape. The AAM argued that the arms ban should cover all equipment with ‘dual purpose’ military and civilian use and that no equipment should be sold to the South African defence forces.

Category
Author
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Copyright
AAM Archives Committee
Holding Institution
AAM Archive, Bodleian Library
Catalogue
MSS AAM 1498
Date/Year
1976
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