BARNES, CE

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A sergeant in the SADF who was injured when MK operatives detonated an explosive in a car outside the South African Air Force (SAAF) head-quarters in Church Street, Pretoria, on 20 May 1983. Twenty one people were killed and two hundred and seventeen injured. The overall commander of MK’s Special Operations Unit and two MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/2001/003 and AC/2001/023). See Church Street Bombing, Pretoria.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Transcript of episode 12, section 5, starting at: 28:20

Les Barnes had briefly left his chair under which the bomb had been planted. A table leg and a six inch nail were later removed from his body. // My clothes, my shoes, I had contact lenses, they were blown out. I then asked somebody to help me, a young lady came across and I gave her my number to ...

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Transcript of episode 12, section 5, starting at: 30:15

... // That’s for the Commission to decide. But I feel that as long as the thing is investigated and if they should apply for amnesty and it’s successful I wouldn’t really have a problem with that, ...

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