Referring to the statement by a US official that more South Africans are to be added onto its terrorist list in addition to the two included last Friday, Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said ,"We will have to discuss the latest development fully with the United States as this will have serious implications for our citizens."

 Junaid Dockrat of Johannesburg and his cousin, Moulana Farhad Dockrat, of Pretoria were listed as 'terrorists' after the US said that the two were 'financiers and facilitators' for the al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Pahad said the South African government had already asked the UN not to put the Dockrats on the international terrorist list before investigations had been carried out.

He said the government was also discussing the matter with Washington.

A US official said in Pretoria that the Dockrats were not the only South Africans who would be put on the list.

The US has alleged that Farhard Dockrat had given the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan about USD 50,000 in 2001 for transmission to the Akhtar Trust, which is listed both by the US and the UN as a terror organisation backing al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.

The US alleged that Junaid Dockrat had contacted the al-Qaeda operations chief, Hamza Rabi'a in 2004 to coordinate the travel of South Africans to Pakistan to train with al-Qaeda.