Argues that right wing South African groups have control of a variety of nuclear weapons that they will use to force the creation of a white-dominated homeland
Peter Hounam, 51, studied physics before becoming a journalist. He was chief investigator for the
Evening Standard from 1980 to 1986. While working there he wrote
Secret Cult, published by Lion Publishing. In 1986 he became a senior member of the Insight Team on the
Sunday Times in London and was later the paper's chief investigative correspondent. In 1993/4 he edited an investigative page for the
Daily Mirror - 'Peter Hounam Investigates'. He has been twice commended in Britain's national press awards. He has recently researched a number of TV documentaries for Channel 4's
Dispatches series and one for the BBC's
Panorama programme. He is married with three children.
Steve McQuillan, 38, has been a journalist for twenty-one years, working in Britain, Canada and South Africa. He started his career on the Barnsley Chronicle and the Star in Sheffield, and in 1982 he travelled overland to South Africa. He became an investigative journalist at the Star in Johannesburg and later news editor of the Sunday Star. In 1987 he went to Canada to work on the Globe and Mail in Toronto and two years later returned to the Star, where he co-authored its expose of the South African military death squads. He subsequently became deputy editor of the Sunday Star and later the Weekend Star during the country's turbulent transition to democracy. Married with one child, he lives near Johannesburg.