JORDAN, Pallo

Age 45

Description
An ANC member and head of the ANC’s Research Department who was seriously injured in Maputo, Mozambique on 17 August 1982 by a letter bomb sent by members of Security Branch headquarters. Fellow academic, Ruth First, who opened the letter while he was in her office, was killed in the explosion.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Transcript of episode 51, section 3, starting at: 17:09

... camps. Many, probably most of the people suspected by the ANC were informers, but some were completely innocent. One such a person was Doctor Pallo Jordan, Minister of the Environment now, who was detained for six weeks by Mbokodo, probably because he dared criticize their brutal methods. And ...

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