Police thwart bomb plot
2010-05-06 17:30
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Cape Town - The police have broken up a plot by white supremacists to plant explosives in townships, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Thursday.However, he promised that extremists would not be allowed to disrupt the Soccer World Cup, which is due to start in June and expected to draw 300 000 foreign visitors."Police conducted a sweep in a number of areas and some of the people had caches of arms and ammunition and other paraphernalia," Mthethwa told reporters about raids last month."In Pretoria, for instance, some of the people that were arrested were planning to...go test some of those explosives in black townships," Mthethwa said.Mthethwa, who declined to provide details of how many people were arrested or their intended targets, said some were believers in a whites-only "volkstaat", or republic.In 2002, then president Thabo Mbeki blamed extremists for 10 bomb blasts that killed a woman and wounded two others. Nine of the bombs exploded in Soweto.Mthethwa said the extremists were not a threat to the state and there would be no disruptions to the World Cup."Nobody will disrupt the World Cup...they won't do that because we are monitoring everything in the country."
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Mthethwa slates race politics
Cape Town - The police have broken up a plot by white supremacists to plant explosives in townships, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Thursday.However, he promised that extremists would not be allowed to disrupt the Soccer World Cup, which is due to start in June and expected to draw 300 000 foreign visitors."Police conducted a sweep in a number of areas and some of the people had caches of arms and ammunition and other paraphernalia," Mthethwa told reporters about raids last month."In Pretoria, for instance, some of the people that were arrested were planning to...go test some of those explosives in black townships," Mthethwa said.Mthethwa, who declined to provide details of how many people were arrested or their intended targets, said some were believers in a whites-only "volkstaat", or republic.In 2002, then president Thabo Mbeki blamed extremists for 10 bomb blasts that killed a woman and wounded two others. Nine of the bombs exploded in Soweto.Mthethwa said the extremists were not a threat to the state and there would be no disruptions to the World Cup."Nobody will disrupt the World Cup...they won't do that because we are monitoring everything in the country."
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ReplyDeleteWhat is being propagated here?
ReplyDeleteIs this minister referring to the people who have been on trial since 2002 here?
What does the Constitution say about a speedy and fair trial?
We don't want propaganda for elections, we want verdicts and the full run of the law.
Are there possibly people in detention without trial in SA?
The minister wants to 'numb his bum' for the whipping he is going to get from the opposition on farm murders!