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Roodeplaat Research Laboratories, the Glossary

Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL) (Roodeplaat Navorsings Laboratoriums) was a front company established in 1983 by the South African Defence Force to research, test and produce biological weapons within a covert operation known as Project Coast.^[1]

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1983 establishments in South Africa
Biological warfare facilities
Defence companies of South Africa
Research institutes in South Africa

Aflatoxin

Aflatoxins are various poisonous carcinogens and mutagens that are produced by certain molds, particularly Aspergillus species mainly by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus.

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Anthrax

Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

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Biological agent

Biological weapons are pathogens used as weapons.

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Biological Weapons Convention

The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use.

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Biosafety level

A biosafety level (BSL), or pathogen/protection level, is a set of biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed laboratory facility.

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Botulinum toxin

Botulinum toxin, or botulinum neurotoxin (commonly called botox), is a highly potent neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species.

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Brodifacoum

Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Civil Cooperation Bureau

The South African Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), was a government-sponsored death squad, during the apartheid era.

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Delta G Scientific Company

Delta G Scientific Company was originally a front company established April 1982 in Weldegraan, Pretoria by the South African Defence Force to research and produce chemical weapons within a covert operation known as Project Coast. Roodeplaat Research Laboratories and Delta G Scientific Company are Defence companies of South Africa and research institutes in South Africa.

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Front organization

A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, secret societies, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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Jeugkrag

Jeugkrag (meaning "Youth Power" and also known as Youth for South Africa) was a short-lived South African youth group, surreptitiously funded by the apartheid government's department of Military Intelligence in an operation known as Project Essay.

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Lema (company)

Lema was a "blue plan" front-company of the Civil Cooperation Bureau established in Johannesburg, South Africa with offices in Parktown by ex-policeman Leon André Maree.

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Medical experimentation in Africa

African countries have been sites for clinical trials by large pharmaceutical companies, raising human rights concerns.

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MPLA

The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), from 1977–1990 called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party, is an Angolan social democratic political party.

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Nerve agent

Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs.

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P. W. Botha

Pieter Willem Botha, (12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006) was a South African politician.

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Paraoxon

Paraoxon is a parasympathomimetic which acts as an cholinesterase inhibitor.

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Poison

A poison is any chemical substance that is harmful or lethal to living organisms.

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Pretoria

Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.

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Project Coast

Project Coast was a 1980s top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the apartheid-era government of South Africa.

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Protechnik

Protechnik was a front company established on 24 June 1987 by the South African Defence Force to perform quality assurance testing of chemical protective materials and equipment within a covert operation known as Project Coast. Roodeplaat Research Laboratories and Protechnik are Defence companies of South Africa.

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Rhodesia and weapons of mass destruction

Although many other countries have possessed chemical and biological weapons programs, Rhodesia was one of many countries known to have used chemical and biological agents.

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Roodeplaat Dam

Roodeplaat Dam is a concrete arch dam situated in South Africa on the Pienaars River (also known along parts of its length as the Moretele River and Moreleta Spruit), a tributary of the Crocodile River, which flows northwards into the Limpopo River.

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Sarin

Sarin (NATO designation GB) is an extremely toxic organophosphorus compound.

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Selous Scouts

The Selous Scouts was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe in 1980.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South Africa and weapons of mass destruction

From the 1960s to the 1990s, South Africa pursued research into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government.

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South African Border War

The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.

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South African Defence Force

The South African Defence Force (SADF) (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994.

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South African Institute for Maritime Research

South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR or SAIMAR, pronounced) is the name of a paramilitary organization that is believed to have performed clandestine operations to support white supremacy in Africa.

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SWAPO

The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO; Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roodeplaat_Research_Laboratories

Roodeplaat Research Laboratories, the Glossary

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1983 establishments in South Africa

Biological warfare facilities

Defence companies of South Africa

Research institutes in South Africa

References