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Special Report Transcript Episode 18, Section 3, Time 08:59

During the mid 1980s the farm roads of the northern Transvaal became South Africa’s new killing fields. The killer had no face and chose its victims at random. // ‘Ses mense is dood en vyf ernstig beseer in nog ‘n landmyn ontploffing in Noord Transvaal. Die minister van verdediging general Magnus Malan het die gebied vandag besoek. [Six people died and five were injured in another landmine explosion in the northern Transvaal. Minister of Defence, General Magnus Malan visited the area today]. // [A landmine was detonated late yesterday afternoon on the game farm, Amersham, when Mr. Koos Deneyschen and the Van Eck family from Tzaneen drove around the farm searching for game].

Notes: Max du Preez; TV News 16 Dec, 1985; TV News Wessel Pistorius (Amersham) Reporter

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The ANC's landmine campaign from 1985 to 1987 targeted military patrols in the mainly northern and eastern areas of the Transvaal. A number of civilians - white farmers, their families, and black farm labourers - were killed when these explosives were detonated. The campaign was called off in the ...
 
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