Military andNuclear Collaboration withSouthAfricaalsoinformed t.heCommonwealth Committee ofForeign Ministers onSouthern Africathatthenewsingle-sent Cheetah aircraft hadbeenstationed neartheZimbabwe borderattheLouisTd.chard ah base,thattheplaneswereequipped withimproved fuel-efficient Snecmahtar engines ofFrenchdesign, andthatworkwasbeingcarried outbyIsrae11 technicians inSouthAfrica. TheMinisters werealsoinformed thatIsrael hadalso assisted SouthAfrica byproviding converted in-flight-refuellirI9 BQeing 707 aircraft, whichhelpedtoextendtherangeofSouthAfrican aircraft asforanthe United Republic ofTanzania andthatthoseaircraft werealsoequipped for electronic surveillance. Thethirdareaofco-operation between Israel andSouth Africainvolved Chile. Adealwasworkedoutbywhichthelatterwouldsellold -94-16F-5aircraft toIsrael. ThecostofthedealwaGesl.imftted al'.$IJSfiOmill10n in addition tothe16F-5aircraft for12Kfirbombers tobebought. byChllo. Theold engines ofthe16F-5aircraft wereexpected tobereplllc:ed withflewoneAby Israel, andtheaircraft areexpected tobedelivered toSouthAfrica. 'lI 10.TheCommonwealth Ministers werefurther informed thatSouthAfrica had recruited alargenW1lberofIsraelis aswellasotherforeign nflUouals(ur1t.s internal armaments industry andthatPretoria hadembarked onl'\mC\sldve nrm8l1'lents build-up following thewithdrawal ofitstroops fromAn901a. 01 11.ABritish MemberofParliament, TonyMarlow, whowusoni:.IvlGittothe occupied WestBankandGazaStripinSeptember 1988,was repurte~ ftRs8yingthathe hadbeentoldthatSouthAfrican armygenerals dressed incivilian clothes were advising theIsraelis onhowtocurbthePalestinian up~isin9' Aspokesman for SADFstatedthatitwasnotSADFpolicytocomment onthemovement. ofitsmembers, eitherwithinoroutside SouthAfrica. However, IsraelJ military (IC[icJaI8 denied thereport. !J/Ill. OTH~kCOLLABORATION 12.TheC,pecial Committee hasstatedinitsprevious reports that.IH:onomic relations between Israel andSout.hAfrica depend ondiamonds, qol<landother precious metals, whichareexported chrough London andZurich. 'fherefore, the tradefigures between thetwocountries donotreflect therealextehtoftheir co-operation, taJciDCiJintoconsideration thefactthatIsraelisIIIIE!Qfthemajor exportcentres intheworldfordiamonds andjewellery. 13.According toUgures provided bytheGovernment ofIsrael elHwerniugitstrade rel......i.ons",ithSouthAfrica, therewasadecrease intheirtradeJu1900.101 However, reports emanating fromSouthAfricaindicated thecontl'fuy. Therinwu:..l.Ql MAil(Johannesburg) reported thata "In1987totaltradebetween Israel andSouth Afri(~E\ was$7.47m1llion. In 198~,thofigur~roseto$341million. In1988imports ofgoodsfromSouth Africa toIsrael exceeded exports bysome$80million,Amongt.hemajor products imported byIsrael fromSouthACricaer'!mineral~I'oductn, petrol, coalandbasemetal. In1988,eXQorts f~omIsraeltotalled $1J1million of whichtheleaders werechemical products, precious st.ones findmetaIR and machinery. Alsoincluded weremedical andoptical products, ,ubbel, plastics andtextiles."ill 14.Inaddition tomassive imports ofcoalfromSouthAfrica, t.herehavebeen attem~ts touseIsraelasaconduit forSouthACrican coalgoingLoWestorn Europe. Official discussions tookplacebetween represEllltali vesoethetwo Goverrunents tomakearrangements fortheimport andstol'aIJe ('fSouthAfrican coal forthepurpose ofre-exporting itt~Wectern Europe. ~~wever, thetsrneli Deputy Kinister ofFinance declared thAthewouldstopanyattempt tore-·export South African coal.Takingintoconsideration thecontroversy concerning there-export ofSouthAfrican coal throug~ rsrael,itissuggested thatWestEuropeAn Goverr.ments andanti-aparthe~ organizations shouldmaintain vigilance toprevent suchcircumvention ofrestrictions ontheimportofSout.hAiricall (loal.!.a.1 15.SouthAfrican institutional investors werereported tobeinvolved Inrescuing theailingIsraeli Koorgroup. Koorwasoffered $500million inA20-year loanat 8.5percentbyaJohanneRburg company calledCentral Trust. KOUlplayed an important roleintheongoing cr,-cperat.ion between Israel andSO\tt.tlAfr\<:0.Its