Political activist and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein has spent most of the last decade investigating the global arms industry which he believed to be responsible for 40% of all bribes paid anywhere on earth. The film based on Feinstein's resulting book, The Shadow World, was launched in April and has been winning awards everywhere from the New York's Tribeca Film Festival to Edinburgh, where it was adjudged the best movie on show.

Feisty Feinstein – urging SA to act now or pay “tens of billions” in nuclear bribes

Andrew Feinstein, the one time loyal cadre, says he couldn't vote for the ANC today and warns that unless South Africans take to the streets, "tens of billions" in bribes will be paid in the nuclear power deal.

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11 Jul 2016, 3:30 am

By Alec Hogg

Andrew Feinstein is educated, brave and incorruptible. A feisty activist, in 1994 he became an MP in SA's first democratic Parliament. He was working up the ladder until asking uncomfortable questions about the R70bn Arms Procurement Deal. Soon afterwards, Feinstein was frozen out, demoted and, in 2001, resigned very publicly and left for the UK. Six years later his book on the saga, After The Party, was outsold in SA only by the bible.

I met with Feinstein in London on Friday to talk about the Seriti Commission, President Jacob Zuma's "whitewash" which cleared everyone involved in SA's Arms Deal – particularly those who pocketed $300m in bribes. While Feinstein's insights on that matter were fascinating, what rocked me was that it was simply the appetizer for the real feast – the proposed nuclear build programme.

This was one of my most fascinating but disturbing interviews in some years. Go listen or read the transcript. All of it. The one time loyal cadre says he couldn't vote for the ANC today and warns that unless South Africans take to the streets, "tens of billions" in bribes will be paid in the nuclear power deal. Forewarned is forearmed.

Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein, who wrote the bestseller After The Party, reckons South Africa's proposed nuclear build deal could generate "tens of billions" in bribes for politically connected elites.

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