Special Report Transcript Episode 21, Section 3, Time 07:41

16 December 1991. Many Afrikaner families celebrated the day of the Vaal or Dingaan’s day, the commemoration of the battle of Blood river. Umkhonto we Sizwe celebrated its thirtieth birthday on the same day. But CODESA was on the horizon, the ruling National Party and the liberation movements were on the verge of negotiating a peaceful transition to democracy. The dawn of a new South Africa was breaking. Not in Klerksdorp. On this day a bomb rocked the town’s multiracial school. This is Nantie Steyn’s report.

Notes: Max du Preez