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Right-Wingers Held in Three Bombings

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From Times Wire Reports

South African police arrested two white men in connection with three bomb blasts near Johannesburg, the second incident in two weeks in which white right-wingers are suspected. Two black men were injured slightly in an explosion at a mosque in Rustenburg. A post office and shop were also bombed. Police said Christiaan Harmse, 26, and Pierre Jacobs, 32, both mine workers, were arrested and held without bail. Explosives were allegedly found in the car the men were driving when they were stopped at a roadblock and at one of their homes.

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