umkhonto we sizwe bombings

The first of the lethal bombings listed in the OP has a Wikipedia article, Church Street bombing (20 May 1983), which says, In submissions to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997 and 1998, the ANC revealed that the attack was orchestrated by a special operations unit of the ANC's Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), commanded by Aboobaker . ?/06/86 Bomb explodes at Jabulani Amphitheatre, Soweto; no injuries, ? . Two MK members killed in running gunfight with SAP, 21/06/84 Economic: substation, Berea, Durban. ?/11/86 SAP Personnel: KTC Camp - Grenade injures two SAP members, 15/12/86 SADF / personnel actively assisting SADF: Barberton area, Transvaal. 25/11/77 Bomb explodes at Carlton Centre, Johannesburg; 14 injured. ?/07/85 Support for worker struggles: Umlazi, Durban - hand grenade damages bakery in Umlazi where workers were on strike, ? ?/03/88 Economic: Fort Jackson, Eastern Cape electrical sub-station. injured in grenade attack on SAP van, 23/08/87 SADF personnel: Emdeni. Limpet explodes at his home; no details, ? ?/08/85 Bomb explodes in night club at an Umlazi hotel, Durban; 30 children injured, 27/09/85 Limpet mines damage basement of OK Bazaars (17h00 and early hours of 28/09), Smith Street; Game Stores (17h30), Checkers (17h30), all in central Durban. Beginning on 16 December 1961, the campaign by Umkhonto we Sizwe with Mandela as its leader, launched bomb attacks on government targets and planned for possible guerrilla warfare. ?/08/89 SAP building/personnel: Brixton Flying Squad headquarters. Bomb blast at 19h45; structural damage, 29/09/83 Economic: pylon in Vereeniging, Transvaal - Police defuse explosives. Explosion, no details, 21/04/83 Government buildings: Supreme Court, Pietermaritzburg. Explosion at 16h07; four injured. ?/01/89 SAP building/personnel: Katlehong Municipal Police Station. No details, 26/12/81 SAP buildings: Wonderboompoort - SAP station - no details. Explosion slightly injures two SAP members, 05/07/86 SADF/Personnel actively assisting SADF: Volksrust. Three limpet mines explode at Natalia Development Board, ? Lieut. 1987 Note: According to the Institute of Strategic Studies at the University of Pretoria, there were 234 incidents of insurgency during 1987; there had been 230 in 1986. One SAP member injured by grenade 08/12/85 SAP personnel: Chesterville, Durban. Date 20 May 1987 Non-fatal injuries 15: Deaths 3 police: Location Magistrate's court, Johannesburg, Transvaal Province modern day Gauteng Province Coordinates Ntemi Piliso St, CBD, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa Perpetrators Hein Grosskopf member of the ANC's Umkhonto we Sizwe Railway line near Germiston, Johannesburg damaged by explosion. ?/12/88 Two explosions in Bisho, Eastern Cape - results in damage to garage and shop; one minor injury, ? Explosion causes extensive damage to bus transporting SAAF personnel; no details, 07/03/88 Skirmishes with SAP: Queenstown, Eastern Cape. South Africa: Jonathan Ball Publishers.|Kalley, J. ?89 SAP personnel: attack in Diepkloof. ?/10/88 Explosion at KwaThema civic centre, Eastern Transvaal, used as polling point in municipal elections; baby killed, four people injured, ? (Opinion) he would have had to stop when he was sentenced to life imprisonment in an island cut off from the rest of hi. ANC-2nd Submission to TRC - APPENDIX FOUR. Explosion at aircraft factory; no injuries; no further details, ? No details, ? Limpets discovered, 03/09/88 Skirmishes with SAP: Molweni, Durban. Umkhonto we Sizwe - 1985: Amanzimtoti bombing. He initially wanted to further his studies in exile . ?/10/88 Government buildings: Magistrates Courts at Wynberg (Johannesburg), Bishop Lavis, Cape Town and Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Railway line near Springs - explosives defused, 03 or 07/12/83 Government building: office of Department of Community Development, Bree Street., Johannesburg - explosion; no injuries, 08/12/83 Economic: railway 1km from Bloemfontein, OFS. [citation needed], The terrorist attack consisted of a car bomb set off outside the Nedbank Square Building, which was rented by the South African Air Force, on Church Street West, Pretoria, at 4:30 pm on 20 May 1983. Found inside – Page 51in 1961 formed a military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation). The main tactics of Umkhonto we Sizwe consist of attacks on police stations and the sabotage of strategic economic and military targets. 10 people including two SAP members injured in grenade attack on SAP patrol, ? Explosion; no injuries, ? ?/04/89 Government personnel: Thokoza. Police station structural damage, ? ??/? ?/12/87 SAP personnel: Nyanga. ?/09/87 Skirmishes with SAP: near Zimbabwe border. It claimed that 11 of the casualties were SAAF personnel and hence a military target. The first target of the campaign was an electricity sub-station. August 5th 1962-Mandela is arrested for treason for leading bombings of government buildings. Five special constables injured, ? Group of SAP members fired on by MK members in car; two SAP members killed, four injured, ? ?/10/89 Bomb explodes outside BP centre, Cape Town and at a Woodstock garage a few minutes later, ? The sabotage included attacks on government posts, machines and power facilities, and crop burning. Two transformers destroyed by limpet mines, May 1981 Personnel actively assisting SAP: Hoedspruit Railways policeman killed with grenade, 06/05/81 Economic/ Republic Day protests: railway in Hoedspruit area. Umkhonto we Sizwe - timeline. ? Former Umkhonto we Sizwe commander Siphiwe Nyanda went on to head South Africa's military. SAP crush alleged MK member and his sister to death in shack after they allegedly were fired on, 18/07/87 SAP personnel: Mamelodi East. Two SADF members, one civilian killed; 20 injured in car bomb court and adjacent SAP station; plan to prevent civilian injuries failed, 18/03/88 SAP personnel: Atteridgeville. ?/04/89 SAP buildings/personnel: SAP headquarters, Durban. Damaged by limpet mine, 03/06/82 Economic: railway near Dube, Johannesburg - damaged in explosion, 04/06/82 Government buildings: offices of Presidents Council, Cape Town. ?/06/89 SAP personnel: Soweto. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. ?/11/85 Hand grenade explodes at Barclays National Bank branch, Woodstock, ? ?/09/88 Bomb under a car in parking lot of East London hotel explodes after area cleared; no injuries, ? MK member killed in shootout, 13/08/87 SAP personnel: Emdeni. ?/09/88 SAP buildings and personnel: Woodstock Police Station, Cape Town. Municipal police guarding installation attacked; two injured, 12/02/88 Personnel actively assisting SAP: Johannesburg. Explosion destroys Transkei Development Corporation bulk fuel depot; disrupted water and power supplies, ? The time comes in the life of any people when there remain two choices: to submit or fight. ?/08/88 Government buildings: Westville Post Office, Durban. 03/06/88 SAP personnel / buildings: Explosion outside Standard Bank, Roodepoort during lunch hour kills 4, injures 18 civilians According to an ANC official in Lusaka, the target had not been civilians but an SAP station nearby; no details on what operational difficulties caused this incident. Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi (17 December 1923 - 24 July 2004) was an African National Congress veteran and one of the first six members of Umkonto weSizwe to be sent for military training. 1961-Mandela organizes Umkhonto we Sizwe aka MK to fight against apartheid. The bomb exploded ten minutes earlier than planned, killing two of the perpetrators, Freddie Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, along with 17 other people. ?/07/88 Collaborators in apartheid represssion: Lenasia, Transvaal. ?/06/85 Government buildings: Lamontville, Durban. Explosion damages line, 10/10/81 Economic: Durban railway station, Government buildings: Durban offices, Department Of Co-operation and Development. Grenade attack on councillors home; two injured, 21/06/87 SAP personnel: KTC camp. One MK member killed, 26/07/77 Skirmish with SAP: Dobsonville, Transvaal. Klein and wife both injured. ? Anti-tank landmine injures six SADF members in military vehicle, 20/10/86 SAP buildings: Lamontville SAP station. Above all, this is a book about people, showing the effects of apartheid on their lives, their reasons for joining the armed struggle, the challenges of surviving in the underground while raising children, and their experiences of returning ... Attack with grenades, rocket launchers, AKs causes damage, no injuries, June 1980 Personnel actively assisting SAP: Tennyson Makiwane - expelled ANC official; shot dead, 01/06/80 Economic: Sasol 1,2 and Natref. Limpet mine explodes; no injuries, ? Two grenades cause extensive damage, injure security guard and friend, 30/10/80 Government residence: Port Elizabeth - House of Transkei consul damaged with bomb; no injuries, 21/11/80 Skirmish with SAP: Chiawelo; MK member killed, SAP injure child. 4. 14/10/83 Economic: two electricity pylons destroyed, Pietermaritzburg. Unnamed SAP member killed by AK-47 fire. Bomb explodes, at least one SAP member injured, ? Yes he did, according to the photograph above from his biography,he was a smoker. Structural damage, 1983 Economic: pylon in Denneboom. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 … National servicemen attacked; at least one injured, 08/01/86 SAP personnel: AECI plant. ?/12/82 Southern Free State Administration Board, Bloemfontein; blast leaves one dead, 70 injured, 12/02/83 Free State Administration Board offices; bomb injures 76 people, 12/03/83 Bomb on railway coach on Johannesburg bound passenger train, 13/05/83 Explosive device (37kg of explosives in gas cylinder) found by SAP under bridge on Southern Freeway, Durban; defused. Umkhonto we Sizwe - 1985: Amanzimtoti bombing. The Americans Are Coming! is a rare case study that places African history and American history in a global context and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies. Structural damage; 4 SAP members injured, ? Anti-tank mine injures one person, 10/06/86 SADF/ personnel actively assisting SADF: the farm Blomhof,near Volksrust. Explosion at single quarters; no details, ? Partly in response to the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, individual members of the ANC found it necessary to consider violence to combat what passive protests had failed to quell.. ?/04/89 SAP personnel: Thokoza. Two MK members killed, 30/07/86 SADF/Personnel actively supporting SADF: near Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. ?/04/89 SAP buildings: Yeoville SAP Station, Johannesburg. Eskom substation. Development Board canteen - limpet explodes nearby; no injuries, 12/04/88 Skirmishes with SAP: Mpumalanga township; SAP cornered MK member who killed self and two SAP members with grenade; trapped second MK member who resisted: MK member killed one SAP member and three civilians wounded in crossfire, 15/04/88 Government buildings: Atteridgeville Municipal offices. The ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe had just experienced a series of mutinies in the Angolan camps and the situation was still tense. Andrew Zondo was an Umkhonto we Sizwe operative responsible for the 1985 Amanzimtoti shopping centre bombing. This was in 1985. February 11 1990-Mandela is released from prison after 27 years. Internal Affairs damaged in two explosions - R250 000 damages, 20/05/83 SADF personnel and building: Nineteen killed  ”” 2 MK members, 11 South African Air Force (SAAF) officers ”” in car bomb at entrance to SAAF headquarters, opposite building housing military intelligence personnel; 217 injured (number of military/ civilian injuries), 17/06/83 Economic: pylon at New Canada station, Johannesburg - SAP defuse bomb, 28/06/83 Government buildings: Dept. SAP raid; one MK member killed, four arrested, 06/07/87 Skirmishes with SAP: Mdantsane; SAP ambush: MK member kills two, injures three Riot Unit SAP members; MK member shot dead, 08/07/87 Skirmish with SAP: Motherwell, Port Elizabeth. ?/10/85 SAP personnel: Cape Town; Shots fired at police patrol; two incidents of attacks on police with hand grenades; no further details, ? Note: an ANC spokesperson blamed "armed political renegades" for carrying out attacks which were then blamed on the ANC, and denied knowledge of this attack. March, Mandela receives training from the Algerian National Liberation Front at bases of the latter across the border in Morocco. ? Two MK members killed, 24/01/87 Skirmishes with SAP: Mendu, Willowvale. Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997. Little damage; minor injury to one SAP member; local community involved in struggle against forced removal, 1980 Skirmish with SAP: Meadowlands, Transval. SAP raid on house: two MK members and alleged collaborator killed; two SAP members injured by MK members who resisted, 30/11/87 SAP buildings/personnel: Dube municipal training centre, Johannesburg. The Church Street bombing was a car bomb attack on 20 May 1983 in the South African capital Pretoria by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress.The bombing killed 19, including two perpetrators, and wounded 217, and was one of the largest attacks engaged in by the ANC during its armed struggle. Police statistics indicated that seven members of the SAAF were killed. ?/01/78 Personnel actively assisting SAP: Former ANC member (Steve Mtshali) who turned state witness in various trials; shot and wounded, ? ?/12/88 Government buildings: Cape Two municipal buildings, Magistrates Court in Paarl, Western Cape. ?/06/85 SAP personnel Mmabatho: policeman who fired on crowd killed by alleged insurgents, ? Anti-tank landmine injures SADF member, Government personnel: Soweto - Grenade attack on home of Soweto councillor; two SAP members injured, 27/12/86 Skirmishes with SAP: near Messina, Northern Transvaal. A full 100 . Limpet mine causes damage, no injuries, ? Although little … Thus ran the clarion call of the Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) clandestinely posted in public places in South Africa as the first bomb blasts heralding its … Grenade attack kills for SADF personnel, 19/02/87 Personnel actively assisting SAP: Grenade injures Chief Lushaba and Samuel Jamile of IFP, 03/03/87 SAP personnel: Gugulethu. USA: Greenwood Press|O’Malley, P., 2011. MK members ambush SAP patrol; two SAP members wounded, 14/04/78 Personnel actively assisting SAP: Former deputy president of the ANC in the Transvaal (Abel Mthembu) turned state witness at the Pretoria ANC trial, 25/06/78 SAP Personnel: Det-Sgt Chapi Hlubi shot dead, 21/08/78 Bureau of State Security (BOSS) personnel: B. Mayeza shot dead in Umlazi, Durban, ? Internal Affairs and Durban headquarters of the South African Railways Police. ?/11/89 Bombs at First National Bank ATM at Berlin railway station, King WIlliams Town, Eastern Cape. August 5, 1962: Mandela is arrested for treason for leading bombings of government buildings. Umkhonto we Sizwe was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) during the apartheid era in South Africa . ?/07/87 Skirmish with SAP: Mdantsane. According to the SAIRR, there were at least 26 sabotage attacks by the ANC between December 1981 and November 1982; 13 suspected ANC members were killed in shoot-outs with the SAP. In the light of the African nationalism … ? MK launched its first guerrilla attacks against government installations on 16 December 1961. ?/02/86 Economic: De Deur Limpet causes structural damage to substation 01/03/86 Skirmishes with SAP: Port Elizabeth or Grahamstown One SAP seriously injured, cadre killed, 03/03/896 Skirmishes with SAP: Gugulethu - police execute seven MK members, 04/03/86 SAP building/personnel: John Vorster Square - two SAP members, two civilians injured in explosion on 3rd floor, 07/03/86 SAP building/personnel: Hillbrow SAP Station, Johannesburg - limpet found and detonated by SAP, 15/03/86 Government buildings: Limpet mine explodes in front of Springs railway station, outside Indian Administration Offices; one civilian seriously injured, 17/03/86 SAP personnel: Mamelodi - SAP member shot; dies in hospital, 18/03/86 SAP personnel: Mamelodi - Constable Sinki Vuma shot dead at home, 19/03/86 SAP personnel: limpet mine attack on SB member (no area); car destroyed, 21/03/86 Economic: Durban - four mines explode at Eskom sub-station, 26/03/86 Skirmish with SAP: Vosloorus, Johannesburg - one cadre killed when he allegedly threw grenade at SAP members, 08/04/86 Collaborators in apartheid repression: attack on home of former Labour Party (LP) secretary in Natal, Kevin Leaf. Explosion outside home of member of Presidents Council, Dr Ismail Jajbhay; no injuries, 03/08/88 SADF building and personnel: Wits Command. Mini-limpet explodes, no injuries, ? Explosion; no details, July 1983 Economic: Sasol plant, Secunda Minor damage, 07/07/83 Government buildings: Durban Supreme Court Two bombs defused. We have already visited the "Langa Six", members of the PAC's Poqo. No injuries, ? Economic: Railways, Wilsonia, (E Cape) No details, Economic : Mount Ruth railway station, Mdantsane. ?/10/88 SAP personnel: Potchefstroom, building housing Security Branch. Gompo Town; Hand grenade attack on home of deputy mayor; no injuries, ? Victor Raju killed in grenade attack on his home, 16/08/86 Skirmish with SAP: Eastern Transvaal, near Swaziland. Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed and injured by Nelson Mandela's MK terrorists. ?/04/89 Economic: Nigel post office, Eastern Transvaal. At least 20 ambulances took the dead and wounded to hospitals. Found inside – Page 220... established its armed wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK, or Spear of the Nation). The MK undertook several bombings between 1961 and 1963 and again between 1976 and 1984. The attacks between 1976 and 1984 claimed seventy-one dead, ... Members open fire in charge office; one SAP member killed, 3 SAP members and 3 civilians injured; extensive damage caused by grenades in offices, June 1979 Economic: railway in Eastern Transvaal. According to the SAP, there were 39 acts of insurgency in 1982. Car bomb explodes in flats 100m from SAP station; two civilians injured, ? ?/12/85 Government buildings: Chatsworth Magistrates Court, Durban - limpet mine explodes at 18h00; structural damage, 14/12/85 Skirmish with SAP: Chiawelo, Johannesburg. Defused by SAP. Umkhonto we Sizwe. ?/09/88 Bomb explodes at discotheque in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, injuring 19 people, ? Grenade attack on SAP members home; child killed, 14/05/88 Skirmishes with SAP: Newcastle. ‘Chronologies: 1980’s’ from O’Malley: Heart of Hope [online] Available at www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley [Accessed 13 September 2011]|Mozambique Resource Centre, 1984. Mini-limpet damages offices, no injuries, 1989  SAP personnel: Jabulani, Soweto. ?/02/78 It is reported that an unexploded bomb "capable of destroying 22 storey building found in Johannesburg office block", ? No details, 19/08/88 SADF buildings/personnel: The Castle, Cape Town. MK members fires on SAP from house; MK member killed, four injured, 10/09/88 SAP building/personnel: Moroka SAP Station barracks, Johannesburg. It was subsequently classified . Two municipal police killed in grenade attack, ? Explosion causes structural damage, 27/04/86 Skirmishes with SAP: Edendale hospital, Pietermaritzburg. This is a useful resource for students and scholars of international relations, political ethics and comparative politics. ?/12/88 Government offices: Brakpan, Department of Home Affairs. This would go on to be regarded as the birth of Umkhonto Wesizwe - a day veterans still celebrate as the organisation's anniversary. 08/04/84 Arson attack at Hermansberg German Mission, Natal; extensive damage to vehicles and farming equipment, ? Limpet mine explodes; no details, 15/04/88 Explosion outside Pretoria Sterland cinema. Limpet mine on SAP vehicle: no details, ? SAP raid home of MK member who resisted but was killed, 24/05/88 SAP personnel: Germiston station. Slovo resumed working for the African National Congress and the South African Communist . [1][2] The Church Street Bombing was the most deadly attack by the ANC against South Africa's ruling National Party. One SAP member injured, Early Oct. 1986 SAP building: SAP station Newcastle, Natal attacked, no details, 06/10/86 SADF/ personnel actively assisting SADF: Mbuzini, near Mozambique border. ?/05/85 SAP personnel: GaRankuwa - SAP member killed by suspected insurgents, ? Beginning on 16 December 1961, the campaign by uMkhonto we Sizwe with Mandela as its leader, was launched, with bomb attacks on government targets and planned for possible guerrilla warfare. Page 1 of 11 - About 107 Essays . Home of SAP officer attacked with grenade, 05/08/87 Skirmishes with SAP: Ntsekisa Rd, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. Damage to building, 14/01/80 SAP building/ support for community resistance: Soekmekaar SAP Station. The investigating officer was Capt. No details on results of explosion, 10/09/88 Collaborators in apartheid repression: Mini-limpet placed under basin next to back door of Lenasia House of Delegates (HOD) candidate, Mrs Ebrahim; no details, 19/09/88 SAP building and personnel: Benoni, Eastern Transvaal. Grenade thrown at group of soldiers; casualties not reported, ? ?/09/88 Three limpet mines in Lenasia explode at the offices of the Lenasia bus service, at the home of the Lenasia Management Committee, and the offices of the House of Delegates; no injuries, ? 07/03/77 Pretoria restaurant destroyed by bomb - no details. Umkhonto we Sizwe was born out of a sense of the heavy responsibility that The Jews had the brains, the knowledge and the international contacts to organize strategy, tactics, weapons, explosives and training. Found inside – Page 134Umkhonto we Sizwe translated as “Spear of the Nation” was the military wing of the ANC. MK as it was generally called, fought ruthlessly against the obnoxious South African apartheid government. MK launched its first guerrilla attacks ... Massive structural damage, 1979 SAP building: Orlando police station attacked, 14/01/79 Skirmish with SAP: farm near Zeerust; Seven members clash with SAP; one member captured, others escape over Botswana border, 23/01/79 Economic: near New Canada station. Umkhonto we Sizwe. London Recruits tells of the secret work they did: how they were recruited, their activities in South Africa and neighbouring countries, their motives and how they feel about it in retrospect."--Back cover malls, banks, offices and including the Johannesburg railway stations. ?/86 SAP personnel: home attacked in Springs, Transvaal. SAP raid on shack; heavy resistance from MK members. Found inside – Page 92own handmade weapons: petrol bombs, primus stove bombs, and a crude dart-throwing pipe gun called a Skorpion. Another source of weaponry was the guns they obtained from attacks on security force members. Lastly, there were some weapons ... An explosion that was aimed at military offices killed 19 people and injured more than 200 on Church Street in … Instead of a man of peace, as his legions of fans would like to believe, and in many cases do believe, Mandela was actually the co-founder of the armed wing of the ANC known as Umkhonto we Sizwe . ?/10/88 Collaborators in apartheid repression: Bomb damages campaign headquarters of a Wentworth municipal candidate in Durban. Some examples include;-• Church street bombing of 1983 • The magoo's bar bombing, it also bombed targets in Natal and an air force and military . Grenade attack on home of security guard; no details, SAP personnel: Ravensmead, Cape Town. "When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw." -Nelson Mandela, 1964 Quote from the 3-hour speech named "I am prepared to die" given by Nelson Mandela. Board, Pietermaritzburg Three bombs explode, November 1982 SAP personnel: W/O P. Selepe, killed in Mamelodi, Transvaal; gave evidence in many trials, 08/11/82 Economic: Mobil fuel storage depot, Mkuze, Natal -  Blast causes severe damage, December 1982 - Personnel actively assisting SAP: B. Hlapane, 13-14/11/82 Skirmishes with SAP: Piet Retief - two SAP seriously wounded, 18-19/12/82 Economic: Koeberg nuclear power station, Cape Town -massive damage in four explosions; no injuries, 20-21/11/82 SADF/SAP installation and personnel: SAP rural station and temporary SADF garrison at Tonga - rocket attack seriously injures two SADF personnel, 31/12/82 Government building / SAP building: Johannesburg Magistrates court (200m from John Vorster Square Police Station) - explosion; no details, 1983 Economic: line near Phomolong station. Found inside – Page 92own handmade weapons: petrol bombs, primus stove bombs, and a crude dart-throwing pipe gun called a Skorpion. Another source of weaponry was the guns they obtained from attacks on security force members. Lastly, there were some weapons ... MK member fires on SAP vehicle; one civilian killed, one injured SAP member returns fire; MK member wounded, 17/07/88 SAP personnel: Soweto highway. He had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilizing terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Bomb explodes; no information, SAP building: Mandini SAP station bombed; no details, 11/03/84 Economic: Mobil fuel depot, Ermelo; Four explosions, extensive damage, five storage tanks destroyed; no injuries, 12/03/84 Skirmishes with SAP: area unknown. Found inside – Page 4This , countrymen , is the real aim behind these senseless and aimless attacks on innocent nationals of neighbouring states . ... The combatants of Umkhonto we Sizwe are right here ( as heard ) within the borders of their own country ... Mine detonates under vehicle; no details, ??/? Bomb shatters window of dining hall, ? Commander of KwaNdebele National Guard Unit and his son (also SAP officer) found shot dead by AK-47 fire, 01/10/87 Collaborators in apartheid repression: Bomb placed outside door of Amichand Rajbansi’s NPP office in Lenasia explodes hours after official opening; no injuries, 17/10/87 Skirmishes with SAP: Heidedal, Bloemfontein SAP raid on house comes under fire; no details, 28/10/87 Skirmishes with SAP: Swaziland border. Umkhonto we Sizwe. Sgt JM Mazibuku killed at bus stop, 01/05/88 SAP personnel: Cape Town; Special Guard Unit vehicle attacked. Explores the origins of terrorism, the goals of diverse terrorist groups throughout history, the impact of 9/11 and the changing face of terrorism, the future prospects of terrorist activities, and what can be done to restore global order. There is no question in my mind that as we look back in time Nelson Mandela will be viewed as an overwhelming force of good in the history of my country of birth. Mandela had stopped using guns as a weapon, because now he . ?/03/89 SADF buildings: Natal Command headquarters. MK member killed in skirmish: no details, 06/02/88 SAP personnel: East London. Information in this list was drawn from press reports and the Annual Surveys of the SAIRR. ?/10/88 Car bomb explosion outside a Witbank shopping centre; two killed, 42 injured, ? Both had engaged in mass dismissals of mine workers, 09/05/85 SAP personnel: two grenade attacks in Pretoria townships- No details, 15/05/85 SAP building and personnel: Brakpan SAP barracks, Transvaal - three explosions; no details, 15/05/85 Government buildings: Brakpan Commissioners court and offices of Messenger of the court - attacks on the morning of the funeral of Andries Raditsela who had died in detention, 30/05/85 SADF building: Military Medical Centre, Johannesburg. 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