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Special Report Transcript Episode 73, Section 4, Time 31:00

The sabotage of the Sasol oil refinery in the 1980s was one of MK’s success stories. The unit that carried out this attack was also responsible for the attacks on Voortrekkerhoogte Air Force base in Pretoria and the Koeberg nuclear plant near Cape Town. A commander in this crack sabotage unit was this young man called Barney Molokoane. In 1985 he and two of his comrades were on their way back to their base in Swaziland when their luck ran out at a police roadblock.

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TRC Final Report
Resistance and revolutionary groupings Sabotage attacks 55 The national sabotage campaign launched by MK in the 1960s was felt in the Orange Free State during this period. A series of explosions, mostly in and around Bloemfontein, caused considerable damage to key installations and various ...
The Soweto Committee of Ten 218 After the collapse of the Soweto UBC, the Soweto Committee of Ten was formed to run the affairs of the area. It also called itself the Soweto Local Authority Interim Committee and was headed by Dr Nthato Motlana. 219 Formed at a meeting in The World’s offices ...
 
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