The case of the poisoned underpants

Toxic clothes `killed 250 apartheid opponents’
Independent, The (London), Dec 24, 1999 by Jeremy Laurance Health Editor

AT LEAST 250 opponents of apartheid may have been murdered during the Eighties by agents of the South African regime who laced their clothing with poison, according to the most detailed account yet given of the attempt to assassinate a religious leader.

In what became known as the “case of the poisoned underpants”, two doctors have described how the Reverend Frank Chikane - who now heads the office of President Thabo Mbeki - almost died in 1989 after a special South African military unit slipped a highly toxic substance into his suitcase before he left for a trip to New York.

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