Delta G Scientific Company was originally a front company established April 1982 in Weldegraan,

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends eastward into the foot ...

by the

South African Defence Force The South African Defence Force (SADF) (Afrikaans: ''Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag'') comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. Shortly before the state reconstituted itself as a republic in 1961, the former Union Defence F ...

to research and produce

chemical weapons A chemical weapon (CW) is a specialized munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on humans. According to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), this can be any chemical compound intended as a ...

within a covert operation known as

Project Coast Project Coast was a 1980s top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the apartheid-era government of South Africa. Project Coast was the successor to a limited postwar CBW program, which mainly produced the lethal age ...

. Medchem Consolidated Investments was registered in the Cayman Islands by a David Webster on behalf of

Wouter Basson Wouter Basson (born 6 July 1950) is a South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project, Project Coast, during the apartheid era. Nicknamed "Dr. Death" by the press for his alleged acti ...

, who held 75% of Delta G shares. Delta G was acquired in 1993 by Sentrachem,http://www.nti.org/media/pdfs/south_africa_chemical.pdf?_=1316466791 which is since 1997 a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company.

Other SADF front organisations

* Badger Arms * Biocon (South Africa) * Civil Cooperation Bureau * Electronic Magnetic Logistical Component * Geo International Trading * Infladel *

Jeugkrag Jeugkrag (meaning "Youth Power" and also known as ''Youth for South Africa'') was a short-lived South African youth group, surreptitiously funded by the apartheid government's department of Military Intelligence in an operation known as Project Ess ...

* Jeugweerbaarheid - Free translation from Afrikaans = (White Afrikaner Male) Youth (Military) Resistance * Lema (company) * Military Technical Services *

Protechnik Protechnik was a front company established on 24 June 1987 by the South African Defence Force to perform quality assurance testing of chemical protective materials and equipment within a covert operation known as Project Coast. Founded by Dr. Jan ...

Roodeplaat Research Laboratories Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL) ( af, Roodeplaat Navorsings Laboratoriums) was a front company established in 1983 by the South African Defence Force to research, test and produce biological weapons within a covert operation known as Proj ...

* Staats Veiligheids Raad - Free translation from Afrikaans - (Apartheid) State Security (Eternal Upholdment) Council * Veterans for Victory

References

{{reflist Defence companies of South Africa Chemical warfare facilities South African companies established in 1982 Research institutes in South Africa