Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL) (Afrikaans: Roodeplaat Navorsings Laboratoriums) was a front company established in 1983 by the South African Defence Force

South African Defence Force

The South African Defence Force was the South African armed forces from 1957 until 1994. The former Union Defence Force was renamed to the South African Defence Force in the Defence Act of 1957...

 to research, test and produce biological weapons within a covert operation known as Project Coast

Project Coast

Project Coast was a top-secret chemical and biological weapons program instituted by the South African government during the apartheid era. Project Coast was the successor to a limited post-war CBW program which mainly produced the lethal agents CX powder and mustard gas; as well as non-lethal...

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Google map of location The Agricultural Research Council - Plant Protection Research Institute ARC - PPRI is now situated on this location.

Other SADF front organizations

• Badger Arms
• Biocon (South Africa)
• Civil Cooperation Bureau
  Civil Cooperation Bureau
  The South African Civil Cooperation Bureau was a government-sponsored hit squad during the apartheid era that operated under the authority of Defence Minister General Magnus Malan...
  
  
• Delta G Scientific Company
  Delta G Scientific Company
  Delta G Scientific Company was originally a front company established April 1982 in Weldegraan by the South African Defence Force to research and produce chemical weapons within a covert operation known as Project Coast....
  
  
• Electronic Magnetic Logistical Component
• Geo International Trading
• Infladel
• Jeugkrag
  Jeugkrag
  Jeugkrag 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 Essay...
  
  
• Lema
  Lema
  Lema was a 'blue plan' front-company of the Civil Cooperation Bureau established in Johannesburg with offices in Parktown by ex-policeman Leon André Maree. The company's name was derived from the first two letters of its founder's name and surname...
  
  
• Military Technical Services
• Protechnik
  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...
  
  
• Veterans for Victory