Research Catalog

Title

Eye on the money : one man's crusade against corruption / Terry Crawford-Browne.

Author

Crawford-Browne, Terry.

Publication

Roggebaai [South Africa] : Umuzi, 2007.

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Description

238 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

'The clerk of the court called all rise as Judge Blignaut swept in, dressed in his black gown. He sat down, and moments later we rose again as he swept out, having pronounced the verdict. 'The clerk handed [my lawyer ] a copy of the judgement. I received my own copy by email that afternoon. [My lawyer] commented that it was an outrageous precedent that costs were being awarded against me in an issue brought in the public interest.' The issue was the South African arms deal scandal. The costs were almost a million rand. The plaintiff was Terry Crawford-Browne. As the scandal around the arms deal gathered force during the late 1990s, Crawford-Browne launched a campaign against an armaments acquisition programme that has locked South Africa into twenty years of debt repayment. With no discernible foreign enemy, he asked, why did we need such sophisticated weaponry? The answer was simple: in any arms deal the commissions are huge. With considerable courage, the man who acted for Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the banking sanctions campaign of the 1980s has taken on the post-apartheid government for its betrayal of the struggle against apartheid. In a poignant, telling account he describes the ANC's slide from the moral high ground of the sanctions campaign to the corrupted lowlands where weapons of war are traded.

Subject

• Mbeki, Thabo
• Crawford-Browne, Terry
• Political corruption > South Africa
• Weapons industry > Corrupt practices > South Africa
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781415200216
• 1415200211

LCCN

^^2008556350

OCLC

• 174098244
• SCSB-11162686

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library