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Special Report Transcript Episode 3, Section 3, Time 21:02Parcel bombs have often been used by the security police in their war against the ANC, especially by their foreign division at Daisy commanded in the 1980s by former Steve Biko interrogator, Col Piet Goosen and superspy major Craig Williamson. Williamson has admitted that he was responsible for two parcel bombs that killed two women and a six year old child. Williamson has applied for amnesty at the Truth Commission. // The security police wanted to kill ANC activist, Marius Schoon. They sent a parcel bomb to his home in Angola. He wasn’t at home when the parcel arrived and his wife Jeanette opened it, it killed her and their daughter, Katryn. // Williamson also admits killing leading ANC theoretician, Ruth First. Wife of Communist Party leader and later cabinet minister, Joe Slovo. First was blown up in the Mozambican capital of Maputo in August 1982. Notes: Tape player; Graig Williamson; Marius Schoon; Photo: Jeanette Schoon; Photos: Ruth First References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC VictimsAn ANC member who was killed by a letter bomb at her home in Lubango, Angola, on 28 June 1984. Her six-year-old daughter also died in the attack. Her husband, also an ANC member, had survived earlier attempts on his life. Two operatives from Security Branch Headquarters were granted amnesty for the ... Was killed by a letter bomb at her home in Lubango, Angola, on 28 June 1984. Her mother also died in the attack. Two operatives from Security Branch Headquarters were granted amnesty for the killing (AC/2000/082). An ANC member living in Botswana who was targeted for killing by members of the Security Branch during 1980. On 28 June 1984, Mr Schoon’s wife and six-year-old daughter were killed by a letter bomb. The commander of Vlakplaas and his commanding officer were granted amnesty for the 1980 attempt on ... A leading ANC/SACP intellectual and the director of research and investigation at the Centre for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique who was killed in her office by a letter bomb on 17 August 1982. Before going into exile, Ms First, from Johannesburg, had also been ... |
