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GROBBELAAR, AC

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A colonel in the SADF who 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 people were 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.

... soldier, Jurgens White who was to become the military leader of the ‘Nasionaal Sosialistiese Partisane.’ The fourth member was Jurgen Grobbelaar. His mother believes he had been indoctrinated. // I want to appeal to all parents: petition government to declare indoctrination a ...
... police had a file on Jurgens. And his words to me were, if we find him, we’ll shoot him, we’ll kill him. // On the 8th of November Hester Grobbelaar heard a radio news report of two people who had been shot at Nuni put. They were Jurgens White and her son. The police told her that the ...
Why don’t you take the phone and just phone? // That’s what I’ve told you told, now I’m telling you that we are coming to take the three bodies which you have allowed to be buried here …We are not yet finished, we have not even started. // OK, carry on!
I don’t know, I told you just now I don’t know nothing about it. The first I know about it is when these people, a month ago, two months … two months ago they were on the farm and they asked permission to come and have a look if there are new graves, or whatever. That’s all.
... could have been inflicted by themselves. I would like to know who was responsible for this. Who can be so sick to blast away a dead person’s face? The security police were aware of my child’s whereabouts during the time that we were looking for him. Because after his death, a couple of ...
We were informed that information was received that an attack was to be launched on a police bus which was transporting police staff between Belville and Gugulethu police stations at the intersection between NY1 and NY111 in Gugulethu between quarter past seven and twenty past seven that morning. ...
... to Christianity and started a regular church service in jail. // Not only the three people who had died at Louis Trichardt, but also White and Grobbelaar. This really upset me, and I feel responsible for their deaths, in the sense that I was the leader of the organisation. I introduced ...
At the University of Pretoria Du Plessis, Grobbelaar and Van Wyk joined the right wing ‘Afrikaner Studentefront.’ // We decided that Mr. Nelson Mandela’s meeting on campus would not go ahead. We decided to disrupt the meeting with violence.
... and now I know it was just propaganda, it was a myth. So, I’ve been relieved of that fear. // That same fear is evident in a poem by Jurgen Grobbelaar to his mother. // ...
 
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