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PIENAAR, TD

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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 217 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.

By early 1987 brutality of a different kind faced the Bongulethu community. // Something that stood out as quite horrific from this area, apart from many cases of police torture that were reported - in some cases, Supreme Court action was instituted; the large scale detentions without trial that ...
Strange things happened after the shooting. One of the security policemen who participated in the shooting, Warrant Officer Frederick Pienaar, was appointed as the investigative officer. He immediately burned the clothes of the dead, explaining at the inquest that he was afraid that they might have ...
At this rate the Amnesty Committee will have little hope of completing their task before the end of November. But the five amnesty applicants did get the chance to give evidence about some of their other actions. In 1983 Brigadier Jack Cronje led an attack of Vlakplaas men into Swaziland. They ...
... car, a hide-out compartment to hide the weapons which we are going to use there. And then they went in, we followed them, De Kock and other people, Pienaar from Piet Retief. We went in, they followed us and then there was a certain informer of Pienaar of Piet Retief; he showed us the place where ...
... by the gate. Over there. When they start firing I just ran around the barbed wire over that mountain there. And I just ran over the mountain up to Pienaar. // Three children died and 80 were injured. Most were shot in the back. Although Amos made it safely home that day, Elizabeth was not so ...
 
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