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SWART, MD

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A corporal in the SADF who 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.

These are people that permanently are disabled. They will never be able to handle stress again. Their lives will never be normal again. They will always suffer from this syndrome. It’s a living hell. As one person put it to me, he said it’s like watching a horror movie over and over and over ...
... fairly late, after nine on the 19th of November 1989 I reported to Brigadier Van der Hofen, who was staying in the official police flats on the C R Swart square police premises, where I reported that the mission has been completed, that Mxenge was killed. ...
Gentlemen, Mrs Swart has agreed to meet with you and speak to you. She appreciates that you made that offer.
... the majority of South Africans this meant the beginning of freedom and democracy. To right wing whites it was their worst nightmare come true. ‘Swart gevaar’ and ‘rooi gevaar’ let loose. In June 1990 one of the many mushrooming right wing factions of the time, the Orde Boerevolk, ...
 
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