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Joe Modise

Date of Birth: 23 May 1929
Place of Birth: Doornfontein, Johannesburg
Died: 26 November 2001


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Farewell to arms

And senior members of the ruling party including the first post-apartheid defence minister Joe Modise and the then deputy president Thabo Mbeki seem to have calculated that major new arms purchases from Western powers would bring lucrative fringe benefits including funds to help pay for the ANC's 1999 election campaign (AC Vol 44 No 18 BAE's role in SA's big arms deal)...


BAE's role in SA's big arms deal

BAE won the contract even though it was not viewed as a leading bidder because the Hawk jet cost double its basic price but the then Defence Minister the late Joe Modise intervened to prevent Italy's Aermacchi from winning the contract...


Butter on those guns

QIS was told four days before the deal was due to be finalised that the planes were no longer for sale on the orders it says of the late Joe Modise then Defence Minister while he and Ron Haywood Chairperson of Armscor were putting together their own deal to buy and refit the planes...


Spooky

Another director was Phaundi David Mabaso an associate of former Defence Minister Joe Modise formerly a senior officer of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) then Secretary General of the MK Veterans' Association...


Arms for oblivion

Former Defence Minister Joe Modise rejects out of hand allegations that he took kickbacks...


Military manoeuvres

Lekota's predecessor Joe Modise appeared to have been listening too much the old-guard South African generals and then by Western arms salesmen - both groups seem to have prodded him into making a series of bad decisions storing up problems for Lekota...


Transatlantic tryst

The two defence chiefs - Minister Joe Modise (who retires after the polls) and Secretary William Cohen - have both said things Mugabe dislikes...


Military mayhem

South African Defence Minister Joe Modise was asked to help...


The China re-connection

Instead a delegation arrived which included the African National Congress Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe and Defence Minister Joe Modise who oversaw talks on a quiet farm between Kaunda's family and the government represented by Presidency Minister-without Portfolio Eric Silwambwa and civilian intelligence boss Xavier Chungu)...


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