Johannesburg - Reports suggesting southern Africa faced a potential arms race because of Zimbabwe's purchase of $240m worth of Chinese fighter jets were alarming, said the Democratic Alliance on Tuesday.
"The sale of these weapons to Zimbabwe would appear directly to contravene a request made by Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to China to stop selling arms to sub-Saharan Africa for this reason," said chief whip Douglas Gibson.
"Zimbabwe's purchase of these weapons also defies a 1998 appeal made by Kofi Annan that defence expenditure in Southern Africa be frozen for 10 years at 1.5% of countries' GDP."
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