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Right wing plot to kill Mandela exposed in South Africa
Police arrested 11 whites linked to a plan to assassinate Nelson Mandela and other officials, with targets including President de Klerk and Joe Slovo. The plot also allegedly included attacks on power stations and the water supply to Soweto, and was exposed by an informant within far right circles.
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Johannesburg
F. W. de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
Mandela
Jan Smuts
North America
Africa
Europe
Vryeweekblad
New York
Janie Smith
Security
National Intelligence Service
Smith
South African
Communist Party
Joe Slovo
Law and Order
Adriaan Vlok
Pik Both
Magnus Malan
South African Broadcasting Corp
de Klerk
African National Congress
Heinrich Beissner
Beissner
South Africa
Amsterdam
Reuter
Irish Republican Army
Netherlands
Paul Hughes
IRA
Roermond
Louis Steens
Hughes
Steens