Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt said on Monday he did not remember how he persuaded a trained freedom fighter to cooperate with him after being arrested. Nieuwoudt is applying for amnesty for the 1989 car bomb murders of three black colleagues and an informer at Motherwell.
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Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille says that the 500 members who allegedly left her party at the weekend had not been members of the party and she intended to take legal action against at least one defector. She was responding to an announcement on Sunday by Charles Golding, who claimed to be from the Welcome Estate branch.
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The amnesty application by three former security policemen for their part in the 1989 Motherwell car bombing murders has resumed at the Port Elizabeth High Court on Monday. The hearing was aborted last Tuesday when the lawyer representing the four victims’ families withdrew at the last minute.
Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt apologised on Monday for using the word "terrorist" to describe trained guerrillas who infiltrated apartheid-era South Africa. His application for amnesty for the 1989 car bomb murders of three black colleagues and an informer at Motherwell is being heard afresh in Port Elizabeth.
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Anglo American’s sale of its 20% stake in Gold Fields was the story of the day on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) just before midday on Monday, giving impetus to the rand, which dragged the overall market lower. Volumes were impressive with more than R8-billion-worth of shares changing hands.
South Africa’s fourth-quarter 2003 current account deficit, which at R5,857-billion was the largest since the record quarterly deficit of R7,048-billion in the third quarter of 1998, may in fact be close to zero, as the deficit is less than a third of the R17,299-billion of the net inflow of foreign unrecorded foreign transactions.
Richard Clarke, the former George W Bush terrorism adviser, has called on national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to release the entire record of their e-mails in the months up to the 9/11 attacks to prove his contention that the White House did not then take the threat of al-Qaeda seriously.
Representatives from South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe met in Victoria Falls at the weekend to co-ordinate their efforts to combat malaria. According to the World Health Organisation, who organised the event, malaria kills a million people a year, of which 90% are in Africa
South Africa’s traditional leaders, once scorned as ”servants” of the apartheid regime, have since had their powers legalised, but the chiefs say the government wants to take away control of what matters most — land. The amakhosi say their real power and influence lies in the land.
”Patricia [de Lille] is a waffler, and not an organisational person. She’s a creation of the media, because she’s done a good job for white liberals. They’ve made her famous because of her attacks on the ANC. She’s done nothing for people on the ground.” Notorious settler Drew Forrest fires 10 bullets at Pan Africanist Congress deputy president Themba Godi.