In the media
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11 March 2014
Power FM
Andrew Feinstein, former ANC MP and author of The Shadow World: Inside the global arms trade, was interviewed by Power FM's Chris Vick about the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into the arms deal.
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27 March 2014
EnCA television
The Arms Procurement Commission is being slammed by some of the deal's fiercest critics.
Arms deal critics Andrew Feinstein, Hennie van Vuuren and Paul Holden say the commission drastically needs to improve its processes if its legitimacy is to be assured.
The activists, who say the commission into the multi-billion rand arms deal is fast becoming a farce, believe efforts to ensure the commission’s legitimacy are being thwarted.
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27 March 2014
SABC News
Arms deal wistleblower, author and former African National Congress member of Parliament Andrew Feinstein and his two collegues Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren say they will pursue all legal avenues to ensure that those who took bribes in the multi-billion rand arms contracts, are made to account.
Andrew Feinstein has challenged the Seriti Commission of inquiry into the Arms deal to make sure that those implicated in the arms deal are held accountable.
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3 March 2014
Talk Radio 702
Arms deal wistleblower, author and former African National Congress member of Parliament Andrew Feinstein speaks to Talk Radio 702's John Robbie about concerns around the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into the Arms Deal.
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27 February 2014
Mail & Guardian Online
In spite of a perceived lack of trust in the arms deal commission, activists Hennie van Vuuren and Andrew Feinstein on Thursday said it must be allowed to complete its mandate, adding that anything less would be a "betrayal of the South African public".
Feinstein and Van Vuuren, both authors who have written extensively about the arms deal, said in spite of the commission's difficulties, it must be allowed to finish in the hopes that the truth will prevail.
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27 February 2014
Times LIVE
Two of the arms deal's fiercest critics believe the truth will eventually come out.
Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein and arms deal researcher Hennie van Vuuren said yesterday that challenges ranging from postponements to resignations would not stop the Arms Procurement Commission from doing its work.
The commission, chaired by Judge Willie Seriti, is investigating allegations of fraud, corruption or irregularity in the acquisition of arms for the South African National Defence Force.
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27 February 2014
Business Day
Two of the arms deal’s fiercest critics expressed concern on Thursday about the flow of statements that has put limitations on their ability to cross-examine witnesses.
On Thursday, former African National Congress MP Andrew Feinstein and arms deal researcher Hennie van Vuuren said that the questioning of witnesses at the commission so far had been inadequate, and failed to address a number of issues.
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27 February 2014
South African Press Association
There were several weaknesses in the way the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into the 1999 arms deal was set up, activists said on Thursday.
Former ANC MP and author Andrew Feinstein and researchers Hennie van Vuuren and Paul Holden, who had all been subpoenaed as witnesses, questioned the probe chaired by Judge Willie Seriti.
"We were somewhat bemused when the commission's chairperson stated in a letter to Terry Crawford-Browne that they had seen no evidence of wrong-doing," the three said in a statement, read to reporters in Pretoria.
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27 February 2014
SABC News
Three Arms Deal critics say they will pursue all legal avenues to ensure that those who took bribes in the multi-billion rand arms contracts, are brought to book.
Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein expressed dismay at challenges in accessing classified and top secret documents.
Feinstein and co-author Hennie van Vuuren called on the commission this afternoon to "repay taxpayers with the full, unfettered truth of the Arms Deal"
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23 February 2014
Sunday Times
By Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren
This past week marked a significant milestone in the seemingly unending saga that is the arms deal.
That a former minister of trade and industry, Alec Erwin, was required to testify at the Seriti arms procurement commission represents an important step in the process of deepening the roots of democratic accountability in South Africa.
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