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Silverton bank siege

Explanation
On 25 January 1980, MK operatives held people hostage in a raid on a bank in Silverton, Pretoria. In a shoot-out with the police, three operatives and two civilians were killed.

None of them was accused of being present at the Silverton siege but all nine were accused of murdering the two women (according to the "common purpose" doctrine). Benjamin Tau alone was also charged with conspiring with the three dead cadres to carry out the bank siege (although he had been in ...
... they faced were desperate to the extent that it is highly unlikely that there would be a peaceful outcome, no matter what they decided - the Silverton bank siege and the Goch Street incident are cases in point. ...
... I was growing up so that I felt if I continued staying on at home I might end up in prison so that I was pushed to skip the country. When the Silverton siege occurred our soldiers were killed at the Volkskas Bank so that I decided that I too should contribute positively towards the ...
... sons or in fact three children, Pieter, Schalk and Marche and they were respectively 14, 12 and 8 years old. The siege of the Volkskas Bank in Silverton was administered by a bunch of freedom fighters and it had absolutely nothing to do with the Government of the day. There was no ...
ADV PRINSLOO: Mr Van Eyck, are you familiar with the siege which took place at Silverton when a siege was held to a bank by members of the ANC? They were later convicted. These were James Silole, Marcus Motsaung, Telem Choradie. They were executed on the 9th of June 1983, as a result of that.
MR DU PLESSIS: When I was still in primary school, a friend of mine, Pieter, his mother, with the Silverton Bank siege, occupied by terrorists and my friend's mother was killed by a hand-grenade there.
 
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