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Special Report Transcript Episode 41, Section 2, Time 01:00In 1991 PAC’s military high command launched operation ‘Great Storm.’ Farmers and their families started dying on the Free State and Eastern Cape platteland [countryside]. One of those who died was the elderly Mr. JJ Fourie. He was ambushed by four APLA members late one afternoon here at the gate to his farm, ‘Stormberg’ in the Verkeerdevlei district. Notes: Photo: JJ Fourie; Scene of incident References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims GlossaryAzanian People's Liberation army, military wing of the PAC, formed in 1967 During the early 1990s, the PAC proclaimed a military strategy of a 'protracted people's war', which involved the infiltration of APLA guerrillas into the country to conduct rural guerrilla warfare. The initial targets of such attacks were members of the security forces and white farmers who were ... |