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BLOEM, WJ

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Was injured when MK operatives detonated an explosive in a car outside the South African Air Force (SAAF) headquarters 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.

You’ve seen in my evidence this afternoon I have said that the previous system have turned our young people into murderers, into people without any feeling. It is not their mistake. We must put the blame squarely on the previous government, the NP government. // I just regret that after, you ...
I’m going to illustrate what joy there was in the community of Maokeng the day when DiWwitty was shot dead, it was worse than when Nelson Mandela was freed. // Up until today it is quiet and peaceful in Kroonstad.
DiWitty, it was said, was the top man in the Three Millions, a gang that was seen to be working with the police. // In 1990 after the unbanning of the political parties, a group was formed and was called the Three Million. The situation, as from September 1990 until 1992, was sheer hell in Maokeng. ...
 
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