BRICKHILL, Jeremy

... CCB implicated in the assassinations of David Webster, Anton Lubowski and Tsitsi Chiliza and the attempted assassinations of Albie Sachs and Jeremy Brickhill fore grounded this week with the arrest of CCB agent Ferdi Barnard. The episode also includes segments on former police spy and ANC ...

It’s very difficult to know how many deaths are on the hands of these people and that’s because of the very nature of the secret war. The conflict in Matabeleland cost between 5 and 10 000 lives and at least one of the people who is in Chikurubi now as a convicted prisoner was very directly ...

For them to simply sit and rot in prison is really not doing either them or society necessarily that much good.

I was hit by a lot of shrapnel mainly in my back and in my legs. I was very badly burnt by the petrol, a lot of cars exploded and I lost my spleen, badly damaged my left leg; broke several ribs. I was in a terrible mess and I was very ill for at least a year after that. It took me 8 months to learn ...

Personally I forgive them.

Guy Bawden, who now lives in Johannesburg was also a member of the cell and admits his involvement in trying to blow up anti-apartheid activist Jeremy Brickhill in Harare in October 1987.

Why did you blow Jeremy Brickhill up? // Well the reason there that I was given by Kit, is Jeremy Brickhill was taking limpet mines into South Africa and his wife being a Russian was supporting him, taking the equipment through the border. So we had to stop him in Harare.

Zimbabwean activist, Jeremy Brickhill, is blown up with a car bomb. Today, these four men Barry Bawden, Michael Smith, Philip Conjwayoand Kevin Woods are still incarcerated in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi Security Prison for sentences ranging from 25 years imprisonment to life, for murder and sabotage. ...