Ammonia nitrate, a common white crystal fertilizer widely used by farmers, may be brought under regulation if the new Explosives Bill and comment by a senior legislator is anything to go by.

Swazi King Mswati III has appeared in public with his latest ”fiancee” in what appeared to have been an event staged to show she had not been abducted and wanted to marry the king, a press report said on Saturday.

The responses to this week’s bombings were predictable. Political parties condemned in the strongest possible terms the wanton destruction that accompanied the bombings. The police told us, with absolute bravado, that they knew who the bombers were and vowed that it was only a matter of time before they would have them behind bars. Afrikaner organisations used the opportunity to score political points by warning the government that if it did not take this ethnic group’s concerns seriously, pent up frustrations would result in more violence by extremist groups.

The furore surrounding Sport and Recreation Minister Ngconde Balfour’s ”racist” remarks about white cricket players in the national side continued on Friday.

Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned this week that the United States is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.

Evidence is mounting that those responsible for this week’s bombings are from the same far right networks that spawned an alleged treason plot earlier this year.