the rollback of south africa's biological warfare program

Commission findings. He believed that Chikane had to be eliminated as an
“enemy.” Joubert thought that the operation was well planned, and authority
was given from the top, probably by P.W. Botha, Pik Botha, Adrian Vlok, and
Magnus Malan. Joubert had testified before the Harms Commission that he had
full responsibility for CCB and Special Forces missions and the budgeting of
secret funds. He believed that a CBW program was essential and that in order
to have a good defensive program, a good offensive program was needed.
132
Testimony of RRL scientist, Schalk Van Rensburg, to the TRC on 9 June
1998.
133 Bumbled assassination attempts using BW devices seem to have been pretty
common. This fits with what BW terrorist experts have found in other cases.
See Carus, Working Paper on Bioterrorism, 88. Carus classifies this incident
as probable or possible use but with no authoritative confirmation. In some
cases, a biological agent was used, but there was no information to indicate
whether the perpetrator knowingly caused the infection. The probability of
intentional contamination for these cases is difficult to determine. See Carus,
90.
134 Pauw, Into the Heart of Darkness.
135 Pauw, Into the Heart of Darkness, 226.
136 According to Dr. Joynt, interviewed 14 June 2000.
137 According to De Wet Potgieter, a journalist in Pretoria who has reported for
several South African newspapers, interviewed 13 June 2000, Uwe Paschke,
who married PW Botha’s daughter, and Philip Mijburgh, Magnus Malan’s
nephew, both had connections to the CBW program and Basson. Mijburgh
especially profited from the privatization of the front companies for Project
Coast.
138 In June 2000, the State in the Basson case called a number of witnesses in
an attempt to prove that Basson lived a life of luxury, while defrauding the
apartheid government of millions of rand. The court presented evidence that
Libya had shown an interest in Basson’s luxury Pretoria home, Merton House,
to use as an embassy. Basson had allegedly built the house to suit his luxurious
lifestyle. However, the house became an embarrassment after extensive media
coverage. It was eventually sold to the Zimbabwean government at a loss.
Other witnesses testified that Basson took his business associates and
employees on luxury overseas holiday trips and entertained lavishly, while
earning a public servant’s salary. The Angolan rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi,
hired a private aircraft belonging to a group of companies owned by Basson.
According to Defense Advocate, Jaap Cilliers, the aircraft often landed at U.S.
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