Landmark events in MK's military activity inside South Africa consisted
of actions designed to intimidate the ruling power. In 1983, the
Church
Street bomb was detonated in Pretoria near the
South African Air Force
Headquarters, resulting in 19 deaths and 217 persons injuries. During the
next 10 years, a series of bombings occurred in South Africa, conducted
mainly by the military wing of the African National Congress.
In the Amanzimtoti bomb on the Natal South Coast in 1985, five civilians
were killed and 40 were injured when MK cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo
detonated an explosive in a rubbish bin at a shopping centre killing five
people, including three children, shortly before Christmas. In a submission
to the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the ANC stated that
Zondo acted on orders after a recent
SADF raid in Lesotho.
A bomb was detonated in a bar on the Durban beach-front in 1986, killing
three civilians and injuring 69.
Robert McBride received the death penalty
for this bombing which became known as the "Magoo's Bar bombing".
Although the subsequent Truth and Reconciliation Committee called the
bombing a "gross violation of human rights", McBride received amnesty
and became a senior police officer.
In 1987, an explosion outside a Johannesburg court killed three people
and injured 10; a court in Newcastle had been attacked in a similar way
the previous year, injuring 24. In 1987, a bomb exploded at a military
command centre in Johannesburg, killing one person and injuring 68
personnel.
The bombing campaign continued with attacks on a series of soft targets,
including a bank in Roodepoort in 1988, in which four civilians were killed
and 18 injured. Also in 1988, in a bomb detonation outside a magistrate's
court killed three. At the Ellis Park rugby stadium in Johannesburg, a car
bomb, killed two and injured 37 civilians. A multitude of bombs in "Wimpy
Bar" fast food outlets and supermarkets occurred during the late 1980s,
killing and wounding many people. Wimpy were specifically targeted
because of their perceived rigid enforcements of many Apartheid-era laws,
including excluding people of colour from their restaurants. Several other
bombings occurred, with smaller numbers of casualties.
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