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Pelindaba is South Africa’s atomic research station. It now produces about 20 tons of silicon a year for international companies which is used in microchips for electronic components including the world supplier of isotopes for pharmaceuticals. This is where atomic bombs where produced in the 1970’s.
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

South African intelligence services are fluent in NoSpeak

This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it…

  • Richard Jurgens
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