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Umkomaas bus attack

Explanation
an attack by members of an ANC self-defence unit (SDU) on bus passengers at Umkomaas, near Durban, on 27 April 1992. The attackers, who were targeting residents of an IFP-supporting area, stopped the bus and allowed women, children and non-residents to leave before opening fire on the remaining passengers. Six people were killed and eight others injured. Three ANC SDU members were granted amnesty.

... Most amnesty applications in the KwaZulu and Natal region related to assassinations carried out chiefly by SDU members. 241. Five SDU members in Umkomaas on the Natal south coast targeted and killed a prominent IFP leader, Mr Mkhize, on 7 November 1990, believing that he had led attacks on the ...
... and Natal, members of SDUs targeted many IFP members for assassination. An example of this is the killing of a prominent IFP leader, Mr Mkhize, in Umkomaas in November 1990. Those ANC members suspected of being informers or of having defected to the IFP or the state were also targeted for ...
... red moustache” who “drove a cream car and spoke Zulu very well”. It was decided that Hadebe would be ambushed on one of the corners in the Umkomaas valley area. Mbhele claimed that a KZP member and two other men left to carry out the operation. The KZP member returned home alone in the ...
 
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