Price Waterhouse recently announced plans to seek protection for its audit business from legal claims by re-registering it in Jersey, but this would not help against the BCCI claim, the biggest outstanding against the auditing profession.BCCI, founded in Luxembourg by the Pakistan businessman Agha Hassan Abedi in 1972, collapsed after a string of investigations into its affairs showed widespread evidence of money-laundering, fraud and deceit.A US judge hearing evidence into one of the cases dubbed the bank “the most corrupt in history”. The liquidators are suing the Bank of England over “misfeasance in public office”. Touche Ross claims the Bank failed in its role as regulator of BCCI.The liquidators are also suing Luxembourg’s banking regulator, the Institut Monetaire Luxembourgeois. The biggest action of all is against BCCI’s auditors, Price Waterhouse, for a claim of pounds 2bn plus interest. The heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, packed off across the Atlantic to forget his first gran amor, has fallen heavily for a middle-class American student from a small town in Georgia. The best-laid plans of the Queen of Spain to steer her only son away from an unsuitable match with a commoner and into the arms of a royal lady seem to have gone awry.

“So if the parties fight a vigorous election campaign, they are unlikely to rely on posters and door-to-door canvassing alone.”. Local elections in March are likely to intensify the killings.According to Steven Friedman, the director of the Centre for Policy Studies, an examination of last year’s election results shows that polls in KwaZulu- Natal have nothing to do with voter choice: “They are about territory.””The province’s recent history shows that control of territory is usually achieved by force,” he added. “Violence in this province is of such a magnitude that it is a matter of concern to [Mr Buthelezi] and myself,” the President said on Friday. “It is our duty to ensure we work together to put an end to violence,” he added.Human rights monitors have said that violence in the province has actually been decreasing recently. The independent Human Rights Committee said that 37 people died in political violence in November, the lowest monthly figure for five years.Other observers do not place too much faith in those figures, saying that outstanding political differences between the ANC and the IFP ensure that the province will remain a tinderbox.

“The indications are the attackers were from the IFP,” Ravi Pillay said. But he conceded that the attackers could have been third-party provocateurs.An IFP member of parliament, Velaphi Ndlovu, said he believed there was a “third group” fanning violence in the south coast area, killing ANC and IFP members in the hope of sparking a wider conflict.The south coast was the scene of two gruesome attacks on two families last Friday In all gunmen killed 10 people, including a baby. This time the victims were all IFP supporters.Those killings came just hours after President Mandela and Chief Buthelezi met in Durban and announced that they would soon launch an initiative to end the violence in KwaZulu-Natal. Gunmen first attacked the home of an 80-year-old woman, shooting her dead They then moved to a nearby village and set a hut on fire One of the victims, a woman, was shot. The rest inside, four of them children, died in the blaze.”The motive appears to be political because the nine victims were ANC followers and this attack is linked to the Inkatha and ANC conflict in this area, which has been going on for a long time,” Superintendent Herman Fourie, a local police official, said.Both the ANC and Inkatha condemned the killings and said the attacks were the work of those who opposed peace.However, the ANC spokesman in the area where the attacks occurred pointed a finger at Inkatha. They arrived at Heathrow after a two-day journey across Bosnia, along with Meliha Mulezinovic, 13, who requires urgent open-heart surgery.Another lymphoma sufferer, a seven-year-old boy, was in the party, but was considered too ill to travel. While the rest of the country is obsessed with the ravages of a crime explosion, KwaZulu-Natal is caught in a bloody cycle of political violence pitting Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) against its rivals in the mainly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Tuesday night’s killings took place in the Mvutshini area on the KwaZulu- Natal south coast.

are being done in a country which has good experience of political assassinations,” he said “Frankly, I’m talking about Iran.”. Gunmen have shot and burned to death nine people in KwaZulu-Natal – the second time in less than a week that entire families have been slaughtered in political violence in South Africa’s most troubled province. A second was trying to keep back the crowds because the police had not put up enough barriers.Had all four bodyguards stayed at their posts, Amir still might have got through. He was prepared to die.An Italian television station yesterday quoted the secret police chief in Gaza, Amin al-Hindi, as saying Iran was plotting to kill the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat “The planning and preparation … According to testimony given to the Shamgar commission, which is investigating the assassination, one was engaged in moving equipment belonging to a singer who performed at the rally. Yediot Aharanot, publishing Mr Kempler’s pictures, said: “The national wound is open and bleeding It will not heal.

Not for months, not for years, not for a generation.” The ease with which Amir was able to penetrate the security men around Rabin also has redoubled criticism of the Shin Bet internal security agency.Rabin left the rally with four bodyguards, but two left him as he approached his car. At one point he turned to Rabin’s driver, Menahem Damti, and said he and Rabin had almost got into the car when Yigal Amir struck “That’s right,” Mr Damti replied “We almost managed to get in. It was a few seconds between life and death.”
Six weeks after the assassination, the eight-minute video, the only pictures of the event, has revived the sense of shock. Shimon Peres, the new Prime Minister, was reported to have watched himself pass within feet of the assassin with “eyes glued to the screen”.