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Rightwingers arrested in crackdown

    JOHANNESBURG
    The wife of a man jailed for assassinating one of South Africa's liberation heroes was granted bail on Monday after being arrested in a police operation to find those responsible for a series of recent bomb attacks. News reports said 62-year-old Gaye Derby-Lewis was granted R3,000 (about US $324) in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court. Her husband, Clive, was currently serving a life sentence for the murder in 1993 of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani. Mrs Derby-Lewis was among 11 people arrested in a countrywide police operation on Friday and was charged with illegal possession of arms and ammunition. Police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said in a statement that police were still seeking to question others believed to have information relating to an ongoing investigation into recent bomb blasts, as well as a broader investigation into a right-wing plan to overthrow the government by means of a terror campaign. One woman was killed and millions of rands of property was damaged in the recent bomb attacks, the latest being the bomb attacks on a bridge on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, a police station in Cape Town and an airport in Midrand, outside Johannesburg.

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