Putco bus attack

Explanation
Seven people were killed when members of the Orde Boerevolk opened fire on a bus full of black commuters travelling on Duffs Road, Durban, on 9 October 1990. The Committee heard that the attack was in retaliation for an incident which had taken place earlier in the day in which PAC and APLA supporters, wearing PAC T-shirts, had randomly attacked white people on Durban's beachfront, killing one elderly person and injuring several others. Three members of the Orde Boerevolk were convicted for the attack and were sentenced to death on 13 September 1991. This sentence was subsequently commuted to 30 years' imprisonment. The Committee granted amnesty to two of the three applicants.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims

Decision

1. Manuel Emmanuel Dlamini for all offences and delicts directly associated with or flowing from the petrol bomb attack on a Putco bus at or near Naledi in Johannesburg on 5 September 1984.

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Amnesty Hearing, Durban

The following day, that is the 10th of October, the very next day, I contacted the news office of the SABC and told them that I was a member of the Orde Boerevolk and that the Orde Boerevolk accepted responsibility for the attack the previous night on the Putco bus.

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Amnesty Hearing, Durban (13 August 1997)

It’s on the record in the criminal trial and it’s stated by the applicants themselves that their reason for attacking the Putco bus, was in revenge for an attack which had happened earlier that day in which a number of Whites had been attacked by knife-wielding men. The word weerwraak is ...

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