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SWANEPOEL, A

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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.

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... around the country, its recruits were drawn largely from those with counter-insurgency training. Thus, for example, Colonel Theunis 'Rooi Rus' Swanepoel, veteran of the sabotage squad and Ongulumbashe, was drafted into Soweto on 16 June 1976 to command a riot unit which was responsible for a ...
... SUMMERS, Freddie SUNDUZA, Sifiso SUNDUZA, Sithembiso Christopher SUNDUZA, Solomon Mandlenkosi Mazibuko SUTHU, Nothozayo SWAARTBOOI, Themba Simon SWANEPOEL, Willem SWART, Basil SWARTBOOI, Bushy Voltaire SWARTBOOI, Buyelwa Gladys SWARTBOOI, Eric Buyisile SWARTBOOI, Melvin Khayalethu SWARTBOOI, ...
... asylum status) to Zambia and handed over to the South African security police. After severe torture at the hands of Major ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel and others, he was tried and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. 1970–1979 332 A South African refugee in Lesotho, ...
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