Eddie Koch=20
The right-wing movement in South Africa has advanced =20 nuclear weapons and can drop these on any town in the =20 country by using a squadron of Impalas or at least five =20 G6 cannons which are in their possession. This is the =20 most astonishing in a string of startling claims =20 presented in a book by Peter Hounan and Steve McQuillan =20 which is due to be published next week.=20
The authors of The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy, due to be =20 published today, say they have been told by numerous =20 sources that an arsenal of state-of-the-art nuclear =20 bombs is being used by the white right wing to back =20 demands for an Afrikaner volkstaat and to keep the new =20 government from making too many radical changes to the =20 country — and President Nelson Mandela is aware of =20
The book’s claims, some of which have already been =20 published in a national newspaper, are shocking enough =20 to make governments around the world tremble and to =20 send the local stock exchange into a tailspin. That =20 they have not done so is probably because the =20 allegations come from a string of unnamed “intelligence =20 sources”, “security agents”, and “sources close to =20 British intelligence”.=20
A man given the pseudonym Jan, and described as a =20 “senior intelligence agent”, is quoted as saying: “They =20 have more than one shell — the standard tactical =20 nuclear shell — and the present government knows about =20 their capability … The G6, the system designed to =20 deliver a nuclear shell, is the weapon. They have five =20 of them, and a stockpile of shells, all being moved =20 around the country to strategic positions — the =20 majority within easy reach of Gauteng.”=20
The book adds: “A committee of right-wing retired =20 senior police, military and Military Intelligence =20 officers, some of them generals, were commanding the =20 weapons … ‘to prevent even renegade elements of the =20 right wing from getting hold of them’.” =20
Another source named as Rick, “a government agent who =20 had penetrated the right wing”, is quoted as saying =20 that he had personally seen a warhead and a long =20 missile like a Scud that was under guard by the right.”=20
Even the assassination of academic David Webster is =20 attributed to the nuclear conspiracy. “Hennie, a =20 military agent, said … he had heard that David =20 Webster, a Johannesburg anthropologist, was murdered =20 because he saw too much on field trips near the range. =20 ‘I was led to believe he was killed because he saw a =20 nuclear device that was about to be fired …'”=20