21.   Also named was Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the home affairs minister and long-time leader of the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party.

22.   Also present was Pik Botha, the former foreign minister of successive apartheid governments now serving as mineral and energy affairs minister under Mandela.

23.   Amien recounted how the president asked former home affairs minister Rudini on the possibility of holding new polls.

24.   Annemarie Jorritsma, will also serve as economic affairs minister, and Els Borst, will serve a second term as health minister.

25.   Another six were detained under the Internal Security Act, administered by Mahathir as home affairs minister, which allows opponents to be silenced indefinitely.

26.   Bernard Tapie, a former sports tycoon and urban affairs minister, began serving an eight-month term for bribery.

27.   Brahmana declined to comment whether governor Abilio proposed any other candidates apart from Prabowo to the home affairs minister.

28.   But among those jailed in the alleged coup plot was Abdallah Nugdalla, who was religious affairs minister in the government of former Prime Minister Sadiq el-Mahdi.

29.   But once he was here, top aides including Nabil Amr, the parliamentary affairs minister, said he wanted to try to make a deal.

30.   Buthelezi is currently home affairs minister, and some in the former ruling National Party have denounced the prosecution of Malan.