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Special Report Transcript Episode 14, Section 3, Time 18:05During the years of the anti-apartheid struggle Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats became known for its militancy and open confrontation with police. It produced its own armed unit, known as the Bonteheuwel Military Wing as well as many well known MK cadres. But Bonteheuwel paid a high price for this. Many lives were destroyed or lost. Anneliese Burgess takes up the story. Notes: Max du Preez Bonteheuwel Military Wing (BMW)42 309 Bonteheuwel is a ‘coloured’ township that became known as a militant area in the second half of the 1980s, not least because of the activities of the Bonteheuwel Military Wing (BMW). The idea of forming “a militant body to co-ordinate and intensify the ... ■ APPENDIX THE BONTEHEUWEL MILITARY WING 1 Bonteheuwel is a coloured township situated north of Cape Town. It was created in the 1960s as a repository for coloured people who had been forced to move out of Cape Town as a result of the Group Areas Act. By the mid-1980s, it had become a site ... |