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		President Thabo Mbeki's decision to fire Zuma and the charges of corruption laid against him by the Scorpions, South Africa's FBI-style elite crime unit, have caused division within the ANC and increased tension among its alliance partners, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).
		But their independence is seen as a critical part of South Africa's commitment to democratic governance.
		Mbeki appointed Judge Sisi Khampepe to lead an inquiry into the continued existence of the Scorpions, and whether the directorate should stay within the Department of Justice, be scrapped or absorbed into the police - as requested by police commissioner Jackie Selebi.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=49481&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=SOUTH_AFRICA (690 words)

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		Annals of the South African Museum, 3 (1): 1-12.
		Annals of the South African Museum, 2: 137-225.
		Descriptions of new genera and species of South Africa.
	www.solpugid.com /solpugids/solyear.html (690 words)

	CBC Radio As It Happens National Stories
		In 1998, he was appointed South Africa's first National Director of Public Prosecutions -- a sort of "super attorney general." He set up an elite criminal investigations unit known as the Scorpions.
		He was a white, Jewish South African who was thrown in jail during the 1960s, and was almost killed by a car bomb planted by apartheid security agents in the 1980s.
		South Africans of every race will head to the polls tomorrow, to vote in a general election.
	www.cbc.ca /asithappens/international/2004/south_africa_20040408.html (679 words)

	South Africa News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
		South Africa: Scorpions Prosecutor Out On Bail Again
		South Africa court rules in favour of gay marriage
		South Africa's highest court rules in favor of gay marriage
	www.einnews.com /southafrica (418 words)

	United States Embassy Press Release: Secret Service Provides Second Financial Crime Training to SAPS/Scorpions
		In June 2004, the U.S. Secret Service conducted the first component of a 2-part workshop on financial crime for the Scorpions and the South African Police Service.
		The U.S. views South Africa as a leader in the region, and a catalyst for encouraging other regional countries to address crime, terrorism, and immigration threats.
		The US has also provided ad hoc training to a wide array of South African law enforcement entities on issues ranging from terrorism case management to cyber crime investigations, both in South Africa and at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Botswana.
	usembassy.state.gov /pretoria/wwwhpr11e.html (418 words)

	Scorpions.co.za - Welcome
		Southern African (Africa south of the Limpopo Rivier which includes Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe southern Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa) harbors an amazing diversity of scorpions.
		Take a trip with me and journey through the private lives of southern African scorpions.
		Although scorpions are well recognised, little is known about their habits, behaviour and lifestyles.
	www.scorpions.co.za (260 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		A new police organization characterized as an "FBI-style Special Operations Directorate" is being established to combat urban violence and vigilantism, especially in South Africa's Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces.
		The high level of violent crime in South Africa has sparked responses by organized and ad hoc vigilante groups.
		A major target of the "Scorpions" (as the police unit is called) will be the vigilante group, People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, or PAGAD.
	www.specialoperations.com /Foreign/South_Africa (260 words)

	Latest News: Scorpions
		The Scorpions have investigated a claim that a clandestine organisation based in Cape Town shipped 10 al-Qaeda operatives to South Africa from Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2003 and 2004.
		The Scorpions are desperately searching for evidence against former deputy president Jacob Zuma, but in one of their raids on a Durban home they apparently failed to produce a search warrant.
		In an apparent spurn of the Scorpions, the ANC has supported the tripartite alliance in condemning the raids on former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's homes, saying the Scorpions' approach was "high-handed".
	www.headlinescenter.com /latestnews/Scorpions (260 words)

	BAS Library Index - L
		(1974) Blossiola pringlei, a new solifuge from the northern Cape Province of South Africa (Daesiidae, Solifugae); Ann.Natal Mus.
		(1972) New psammophilous Solifugae, chiefly from desert regions of the Kalahari and South West Africa; Madoqua (Ser.II)1(54-62): 97-116
		(1963) New Solifugae (Arachnida) from the Kruger National Park, South Africa; Ann.Mag.nat.Hist.
	www.britishspiders.org.uk /library/l.htm (10504 words)

	Scorpion: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Scorpions are almost universally distributed south of 45°N and their geographical distribution shows in many particulars a close and interesting correspondence with that of the mammal[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link]s, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Scorpions use their venom to kill or paralyze their prey so that it can be eaten; in general it is fast acting, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(as scorpions with less potent venom use their larger pincers to subdue prey.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scorpion.htm (2853 words)

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		Solifugae, Scorpions, and Pedipalpi, with checklists and keys to the South African families, genera, and species.
		The scorpions, Pedipalpi and solifuges of German East Africa.
		Translated title: Catalog of the scorpions, Pedipalpi and solifuges of the Natural History Musem of the city of Wiesbaden.
	www.solpugid.com /solpugids/authors.html (2853 words)

	Solpugid Bibliography: Part I - Authors A through L.
		Lawrence, R. Solifugae, Scorpions, and Pedipalpi, with checklists and keys to the South African families, genera, and species.
		Lawrence, R. New psammophilous Solifugae, chiefly from desert regions of the Kalahari and South West Africa.
		Hirst, S. Scorpions and Solifugae collected by Captain S. Flower in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
	pw1.netcom.com /~wsavary/solpugid.html (1836 words)

	Pretoria News - Front Page
		A stand-off between police protecting South Africa's VIPs and the Scorpions played out in full glare of journalists yesterday, but as far as the government and law enforcement authorities were concerned it was more prudent not to comment.
		Australia and South Africa play each other for the 60th time in Perth tomorrow in a rugby test match carrying increasing significance for the coach and captain of the home side.
		The elite Scorpions police swooped yesterday on the highest executive offices in the land — the Union Buildings in Pretoria and the Tuynhuys offices in Cape Town.
	www.pretorianews.co.za (1836 words)

	Coup plotters may target Mark Thatcher : Mail & Guardian Online
		"Mark Thatcher has spoken to our investigating officer about other people who were involved in the coup plot and he is continuing to speak to us," said Sipho Ngwema, a spokesperson for South Africa's special prosecution unit, the Scorpions.
		Thatcher, the son of former British prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was convicted last week of breaking South Africa's anti-mercenary laws and avoided prison by paying a R3-million (Â£275 000) fine and agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors.
		Ngwema said South Africa's prosecutors are also investigating foreigners for involvement in the coup plot.
	www.mg.co.za /Content/pd.asp?ao=178047 (1836 words)

	Whip Scorpion
		The group as a whole is largely confined to the tropics and sub-tropics, but nevertheless widely distributed with representatives found in China, Japan, India and other parts of Southern Asia, the greater part of Africa, and in Central and South America.
		Although whip scorpions are not poisonous, some species defend themselves by squirting an acrid fluid from defence glands situated at the base of the tail.
		The whip scorpions have a life pattern similar to the true scorpions, but they do not possess a poisonous sting.
	www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk /whipscorp.htm (292 words)

	Zoom Graphic: Mangope Scorpion
		(Bophuthatswana was a tribal 'state' or 'homeland' existing under South Africa's apartheid system) Apparently, they were a special security police unit called the 'Scorpions', headed by the then president, Lucas Mangope.
		Incidentally, I visited Bophuthatswana often in those bad old days, and even though 'Bop' was a puppet state of the apartheid government, there existed perhaps a real glimpse of what South Africa would be like when racism was eradicated from the nation.
		I wonder, however, if the new South Africa's 'Scorpion' police unit (counter-corruption) had any connection with Mangope's?
	www.xlab.co.za /files/artworks/XOI.html (292 words)

	IOL: Police dog helps with massive Mandrax bust
		Operation West is a South African Police Service project aimed at rooting out West African drug dealers in Durban and, although not linked to the Scorpions, the dog was made available to assist.
		The Scorpions' Delta group is tasked with investigating Chinese criminals operating in South Africa.
		The powder was believed to be Mandrax and was identified by Operation West's police dog, Skye.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20040815115746905C971272 (728 words)

	Mark Thatcher urged to accept a plea bargain -
		South Africa's elite investigations unit, the Scorpions, recently came away empty-handed from an interrogation of Simon Mann, the former SAS captain accused of masterminding the coup, who is serving a seven-year jail sentence in Zimbabwe on weapons charges.
		Sir Mark Thatcher is under growing pressure from his friends to negotiate a plea bargain with South African authorities over his alleged involvement in a plan to topple the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
		South Africa's anti-mercenary legislation is a relatively new statute which has yet to be fully tested in the courts.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1308445/posts (693 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - MARK THATCHER COULD FACE 15 YEARS JAIL
		Officers from the unit, modelled on America's FBI, searched his house in Cape Town, South Africa, examining documents and computers.
		One, South African arms dealer Nick du Toit, said in court yesterday he did business with Sir Mark, who was interested in buying military hardware not involved in the plot.
		MARK Thatcher was arrested when anti-fraud police dubbed the Scorpions swooped on his home at 7am.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/tm_objectid%3D14572152%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D50143%26headline%3Dmark%252dthatcher%252dcould%252dface%252d15%252dyears%252djail-name_page.html (850 words)

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		Karin Dyason, Wolf Brandt, Lorenzo Prendini, Fons Verdonck, Jan Tytgat, Johan du Plessis, Gerbus Muller and Jurg van der Walt.2002.Determination of species-specific components in the venom of Parabuthus scorpions from southern Africa using matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
		Van Aardt, A.M., Larney and Grasso M.M. A comparative profile of textile recycling practices: South Africa and the U.S. in the proceedings of the annual meeting of the International Textile and Apparel Association.
		Larney M. and Van Aardt, A.M. A comparative profile of textile recycling practices: South Africa and the U.S. in the proceedings of the annual meeting of the International Textile and Apparel Association.
	www.puk.ac.za /flgwww/publikasies_e.htm (850 words)

	Scorpions Probe Jacob Zuma [Mail and Guardian, 2002-11-29]
		The affidavit was tabled in camera to judges in four countries in support of raids by the Scorpions that took place simultaneously on October 9 last year at Thomson's premises in France, Turkey, Mauritius and South Africa - and at Schabir Shaik's home and at his Nkobi Group headquarters in Durban.
		The alleged bribe was to be paid in return for Zuma's "protection of Thomson-CSF" during investigations into South Africa's scandal-plagued multi-billion rand arms deal.
		A decision to charge Zuma - who is expected to retain the deputy presidency a the African National Congress national conference in Stellenbosch next month, and who heads the government's moral regeneration programme - will send shockwaves through the party and the country.
	www.armsdeal-vpo.co.za /articles02/scorpions_probe.html (1412 words)

	Dispatch Online - Your premier Eastern Cape news site
		Stallion Security chief executive Clive Zulberg said the company had one of the most sophisticated investigations arms of any security company in South Africa "and we envisage that the former Scorpions head will be able to bring some of his considerable crime-fighting talents to bear".
		Bulelani Ngcuka turns PI JOHANNESBURG - Former Scorpions head Bulelani Ngcuka has become a private investigator.
		Ntsaluba said Ngcuka was delighted at the prospect of retaining an interest in the crime-fighting arena.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2004/11/08/SouthAfrica/epi.html (386 words)

	ARACHNOLOGY - SOLIFUGAE
		Biodiversity Explorer Spotlight, iziko, museums of Cape Town (South Africa)
		SOLPUGIDS, WIND SCORPIONS, CAMEL SPIDERS or SUN SPIDERS
		With a picture of the scorpion, solpugid, uropygid and Amblypygid mushroom body.
	www.arachnology.org /Arachnology/Pages/Solifugae.html (386 words)

	Suspected Mercenaries to be Charged in South Africa
		Nkosi told VOA that the Scorpions are really interested in the people who planned and organized the plot - much of that work done on South African soil.
		Nkosi says there are still more who the Scorpions would like to see prosecuted, whether in South Africa or elsewhere.
		Those targets include Simon Mann, who must still serve four more years in Zimbabwe's maximum security prison.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-05-16-voa24.cfm (701 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - Coup plot conviction increases the pressure on Mark Thatcher.
		Thatcher was arrested last Wednesday in Cape Town by South Africa's elite anti-fraud unit, the Scorpions, and charged with supplying at least two aircraft and £175,000 to support the coup.
		Mann’s letter to Amanda referred to a contact called "Scratcher", who the Scorpions say is Thatcher.
		Mark Thatcher is a neighbour and close friend of the Manns in Constantia, and it was the Mann letter, smuggled out of Chikurubi, that led to the arrest of the millionaire son of Britain’s former prime minister.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/corru/doc/harare6.html (1622 words)

	The World Today - Mark Thatcher arrested for funding attempted coup
		Mark Thatcher was met on his doorstep by members of South Africa's elite crime-fighting unit, the Scorpions.
		He was charged with contravening South Africa's anti-mercenary laws.
		CAROL THATCHER: And my real concern, actually, is for my mother, because she's in America and I haven't spoken to her, and I don't know her reaction, and I care about her.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1185706.htm (641 words)

	Mark Thatcher Admits Coup Role in Plea Bargain
		Prosecutor Anton Ackermann, of the Scorpions, South Africa's equivalent of the FBI, which led the investigation, told Judge Motala today that it was in the interests of the administration of justice that the case be disposed of as quickly as possible.
		Five months after the Zimbabwe arrests, Thatcher was arrested at his Cape Town home and charged in South Africa with violating its anti-mercenary law - a charge he had always denied until now.
		Thatcher is expected to pay his £265,000 fine with some of the proceeds of selling his £2.3m house in Cape Town.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/text1-13-2005-64172.asp (641 words)

	BBC NEWS Africa Thatcher 'planned to leave home'
		Sipho Ngwema, a spokesman for the South African police anti-fraud unit known as the Scorpions, said Sir Mark was "planning to leave the country for good" and had enrolled his children in American schools.
		Mark Thatcher was "planning to leave" South Africa before his arrest, authorities in the country say.
		Lord Bell said Sir Mark had no plans to leave South Africa and was merely planning to move to a different suburb of Cape Town.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3601098.stm (713 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		The relationship between Shaik and Zuma, which spans about two decades, developed while both were involved in the struggle to end racial segregation in South Africa.
		After the demise of apartheid in 1994, Zuma was appointed provincial minister for economic affairs and tourism in the south-eastern KwaZulu-Natal region.
		The "Scorpions" are the investigators who have helped build the case against Shaik, and probed Zuma’s actions.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=25865 (864 words)

	BBC NEWS England Rare bird found on seafront
		Only 220 bald ibis's are known to survive in the wild, living in protected colonies in Morocco, Syria and South Africa.
		The bald ibis, whose favourite food is scorpions, are classified as a critically endangered species.
		One of the rarest birds in the world, normally found in Africa, has been found on Blackpool Promenade.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2373565.stm (270 words)

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