Jan Taljaard in Pretoria
The rightwing has allegedly acquired up to 10 nuclear=20 devices that had somehow escaped the attention of the=20 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Allegations that 16 instead of six nuclear devices were=20 made during South Africa’s nuclear weapons programme=20 were last week levelled against the Atomic Energy=20 Corporation’s chief executive Dr Waldo Stumpf. It was=20 also alleged that hundreds of nuclear shells were=20 hidden way together with the untraceable surplus bombs.=20 These are now said to be in the hands of rightwing=20
The people behind the allegations are reportedly=20 British TV journalists, Peter Hounam and Gwynne=20
Concerning the allegations of right-wing complicity,=20 WM&G knows of at least two prominent rightwingers who=20 were involved in the bomb project. To equate their past=20 involvement with the current allegations would be=20 stretching the circumstantial.
Dr Wally Grant, a former chief of the nuclear facility=20 at the time of the bomb manufacturing, is at present a=20 member of the Volkstaat Council.
Jan S Smith, former chief of the white supremacist=20 Church of the Creator in South Africa, also admitted to=20 having worked “on the fringes of the initial stages” of=20 the project.
A spokesman for the AEC said the IAEA had declared they=20 were satisfied the inventory on the AEC’s books=20 corresponded with the production capacity and operation=20 history of the bomb plant at Pelindaba.