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/ 10 September 2004
Gerhard Wisser, the German-South African who is a key suspect in an international nuclear technology smuggling network, was a supplier to apartheid’s nuclear weapons programme, the Mail & Guardian has been told. Wisser was arrested in Germany on August 25 on charges of ”aiding the attempted development of atomic weapons”, but released on bail.
Bulelani Ngcuka arguably blundered by indemnifying French arms dealer, but two secretaries could come to his rescue.
The announcement of a successor to National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Bulelani Ngcuka is imminent — within days, some say. President Thabo Mbeki is most likely to look inside the NPA for a replacement. It is an open secret that Ngcuka recommended one of his four deputies, Silas Ramaite, although another deputy, Willie Hofmeyr, may also be a contender.
Ngcuka tipped for Old Mutual
Local analysts are adamant that most South African Muslims are unlikely to be receptive to a fundamentalist or extreme brand of Islam. They say that while many Muslims are opposed to the United States-led war on ”terror” and feel Islam is threatened by the West, very few are likely to engage in acts of violence, especially against South African targets.
A case against a suspected serial rapist exposes multiple system failures, including alleged police corruption.
”Feared by criminals, loved by peers,” runs the motto of the directorate of special operations of the NPA – the Scorpions.
Michael Sutcliffe’s management style has been criticised as being ‘centralised and politicised’.
In the Iraq "oil-for-friends" scandal that has engulfed the United Nations and the well-connected in 50 countries, many roads lead to South Africa. But Judge Richard Goldstone, appointed this week to an independent panel to probe the scandal, says there is no special significance in the fact that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan selected him.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has administered a R57-million smack to Transnet and, by implication, to Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe
In an effort to stem a global scandal that has reverberated in South Africa, United Nations chief Kofi Annan prepared this week to name an independent panel to investigate allegations of corruption in the Iraq Oil for Food Programme. In South Africa several companies, at least two of them with ties to the African National Congress, have been implicated.