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Special Report Transcript Episode 18, Section 3, Time 08:59During the mid 1980s the farm roads of the northern Transvaal became South Africa’s new killing fields. The killer had no face and chose its victims at random. // ‘Ses mense is dood en vyf ernstig beseer in nog ‘n landmyn ontploffing in Noord Transvaal. Die minister van verdediging general Magnus Malan het die gebied vandag besoek. [Six people died and five were injured in another landmine explosion in the northern Transvaal. Minister of Defence, General Magnus Malan visited the area today]. // [A landmine was detonated late yesterday afternoon on the game farm, Amersham, when Mr. Koos Deneyschen and the Van Eck family from Tzaneen drove around the farm searching for game]. Notes: Max du Preez; TV News 16 Dec, 1985; TV News Wessel Pistorius (Amersham) Reporter References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims Glossary1985–1989: The war comes home 140 By the end of 1984, the government appeared to have believed that it had turned the corner. The signing of the Nkomati Accord and a similar earlier negotiated agreement with Swaziland, together with the considerable success of the Security Branch’s ... Landmine campaign 38 From late 1985 to mid-1987, some MK units were tasked with laying anti-tank mines in the rural areas of the northern and eastern Transvaal, targeting military patrols. A number of civilians – both white farmers, their families, and black farm labourers – were killed when ... The state and allied groupings The Vaal uprising 260 The Vaal uprising was sparked by the announcement of a rent increase by the newly elected Lekoa Black Local Authority in September 1984. The ensuing conflict led to a large number of deaths and to the occupation of the area by the South ... |
