In the early nineties, South Africa was already on the eve of a tumultuous period of social change, and this was probably most evident in the military industry, where investment and production had slowed down across the board.

As early as 1989, South Africa's defense spending was about 4.5% of GDP, but in 1990 and 1991, military spending shrank sharply to 1% of GDP.

First up was the costly No. 10 multi-purpose project, one of which was the South African codename "Carver", which cost nearly $3 billion (at the exchange rate at the time) from '85 until 1991.

In terms of these funds alone, at the exchange rate of the late eighties and early nineties, it was already quite possible to purchase 100 F-16 fighters.

South Africa has also invested heavily in the development of technology and infrastructure for the "carver" project, and even now it has produced the second batch of test aircraft.

However, according to estimates, the "carver" will have to invest at least $1.5 billion in the future to successfully advance the project to the final stage, and this huge amount of money is obviously impossible for South Africa, which has begun to reduce its national defense at this time, to bear it, and the project is inevitable.

After all, right next door, South Africa also has another big money-burner: the Tea Falcon helicopter.

However, the progress of the Tea Falcon is clearly closer to completion, and it is estimated that the Tea Falcon helicopter project is in the final stages of completion, and it is also a higher priority in terms of urgency.

Coupled with the in-depth cooperation of the Republic and some resources to compensate for this project, according to South Africa's estimates, a maximum of 150 million US dollars can be invested to complete the finalization and production of the tea falcon.

Of course, there are actually many reasons why the carver chose to give up, including the export intention of the J-10B promised by the Republic.

As long as South Africa ends the current apartheid, the Republic can take over the South African military's procurement needs for a new generation of fighter jets, and export no more than 50 J-10B fighters to South Africa at cost price to ensure South Africa's national defense needs.

Selling the J-10B at cost price is certainly indispensable, but South Africa still took out nearly $3 billion in real money to support the No. 10 project, and no matter how much it has to be counted as a joint developer.

The sale of about 50 fighters at friendly prices is a reflection of human touch, and it is also a responsibility of a great country!

In this world, the countries that can manufacture modern military fighters, of course, can have one less, even if they pay a little price for this, in fact, it is acceptable.

As long as South Africa does not produce the carver fighter born from the No. 10 in the future, in the future, the No. 10 will definitely be the foreign signboard of the Republic's aviation industry, and it can fully participate in the competition in the global market.

The entire No. 10 project turned in a big circle, and finally returned to the hands of the Republic itself, borrowing South African funds to complete the development, and now it has reached the final stage of intensive test flights, plus the flight test materials moved back from South Africa, as well as the design test personnel, which in turn has greatly accelerated the progress of the domestic No. 10 project.

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The situation in South Africa is even worse than in the early 80s of the Republic, where there has been a large-scale loss of qualified personnel and a waste of technology.

In this case, the old friend of the South African people, Wang Dashanren, came again, and he sent the warmth of the cold winter to the South African military industry this time.

Throughout the 90s, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the global storage of knives and guns directly led to the cold winter of the military industry, and at this time, coupled with the already turbulent domestic turmoil in South Africa, many things were really easy to operate.

As a result, Wang Zhengguo directly packaged various economic bricks from Germany and Northern Europe through various connections, and drove them to South Africa to advocate privatization.

Mandela had been successfully released from prison at this time, and in March 1990, he was appointed vice president and acting chairman by the ANC National Executive Committee.

There is absolutely no objection to calling the white South African President de Klerk, who took office in 1989, a South African version of Gorbachev, given that Namibia, in northwestern South Africa, officially declared independence in 1990 after the powerful man came to power.

Look, this is definitely a miniature version of Gorbachev, and there is nothing wrong with it at all.

So how does Mandela count? Actually, it's very simple to take the right seat: Yeltsin of South Africa.

These two are deeply influenced and deceived by the color revolutions in Europe and the United States, and they are the promoters and leading parties of the division and disintegration and decline of their respective countries.

Now they are advocating privatization, and they are all countries such as Germany and Sweden that implemented privatization transformation in the 80s, and they are still top economic bigwigs, plus expert guidance from Europe.

Well, this is a typical prescription for the situation, and it is simply not too happy, and the future of South Africa is very bright!

To say that the military industry on the South African side, in addition to the aviation industry, there are really not many that can really be optimistic, the G series artillery is considered one, the follow-up MGL-140 gun grenade launcher, and the famous MRAP anti-mine anti-ambush vehicle ....

The above are the most profitable existence in the South African military industry in the future, take these parts into your pocket in advance, as for the rest, you always have to leave a little bit for others, and you can't be too greedy.

However, South Africa is rich in mineral resources, as the world's fifth largest exporter of mineral resources, most of the mineral resources in the era of Belarusian South Africa were state-owned.

In terms of the most eye-catching diamond industry in South Africa, Wang Zhengguo contacted an old friend of the Republic, as the first batch of European and American students to study in China after the reform and opening up of the Republic: Deng Dade, who is currently the president of the Greater China Region of the Scandia Bank in Sweden.

Deng Dade mainly studied the reform of state-owned enterprises, he not only studied the reform of state-owned enterprises in the republic, but also put forward various suggestions for the reform of Swedish state-owned enterprises, and later presided over the comprehensive deepening of the reform of Swedish state-owned enterprises in the nineties, and became the director of the Swedish "State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission"!

In addition to Dundad's own professional background, this guy's father is also a well-known master of the jewelry industry in Sweden, and the whole family has been involved in the jewelry industry.

This time, Wang Zhengguo launched Deng Dade as the main force, on the one hand, to fool the South African government, and on the other hand, to target Namibia, which has just become independent next door, after all, this is the main diamond producing area in southern Africa in the future.

Diamond industry giants such as De Beers, although they are also dressed in the skin of South Africa, but after the gradual depletion of diamond mines in South Africa, the main mining areas are also on the Namibian side, so as soon as possible to start in Namibia and get a few diamond mines, this is the most profitable industry, and the future will not lose money.