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Implication of South African-based Companies,
Entities, and/or Individuals in any International Atomic
Energy Reports
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 526
PUBLISHED IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 17 OF 27 AUGUST
2004
MS R TALJAARD (DA) TO ASK THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
Whether any (a) South African and/or (b) South African-based
companies, entities, and/or individuals have been implicated
in any International Atomic Energy Agency reports on
Libya's nuclear weapons programme; if so, (I) what is
the name of each and (ii) what are the further relevant
details? N732E
REPLY:
(a) and (b) No South African companies or individuals
have been identified in reports presented by the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Libya's nuclear weapons
programme.
The Directorate of National Public Prosecutions, the
South African Police Service and the Council for the
Non-Proliferation of Weapon of Mass Destruction, however,
recently conducted a search at the premises of two South
African companies, Tradefin Engineering and Krisch Engineering,
with a view to the prosecution of the companies and
individuals involved for transgressions of the provisions
of the Act on the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction (Act No. 87 of 1993) and the Act on Nuclear
Energy (Act No. 46 of 1999). A number of arrests have
been made, and the case has attracted widespread publicity.
The IAEA has been co-operating with the South African
authorities in these investigations.
In view of the South African Government's principled
policy on disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control,
which is designed to prevent the transfer of any military
equipment and/or material, equipment or technologies
that could be used for the development or production
of weapons of mass destruction to countries of proliferation
concern, any attempted proliferation of these capabilities
would be viewed in an extremely serious light.
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