Do this week’s bombings signal the rise of a right-wing ”Boer al-Qaeda”? No one in authority would say so outright this week, but there seems little doubt that the bombings and attempted bombings in Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit are the work of the far right.

In May the Mail & Guardian‘s sister paper, The Guardian, described Wafic Said as ”a former operator of a kebab restaurant who made millions in commissions on a 1985 British Aerospace arms deal to sell Tornado fighters to the Saudi royal family”.

The African National Congress secretly arranged millions of rands in funding for Virodene. But the party’s attempts to rescue the controversial Aids drug have backfired, as key players lapse into squabbles over shares, accounting and unfulfilled expectations.

Unisa did conclude the sale of its mansion Cloghereen last year for R6-million, it did then pay R1,7-million to get out of the sale after Dr Barney Pityana arrived as vice-chancellor, and the residence is to undergo extensive and expensive renovations.

REPUTATIONS are at risk as a dispute between business factions heats up. A high court judge and the national police chief both face the heat in a blazing row over a R99-million airports security contract.

Chris Opperman RICH VERSTER, the former Military Intelligence spy now being debriefed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was allegedly a crook who disguised gold and diamond scams as covert activities. Verster is awaiting trial in a British jail on charges of drug smuggling. Transvaal Deputy Attorney General and former prosecutor in the Eugene de […]