The Church Street bombing was a terrorist car bomb attack on 20 May 1983 in the South African capital Pretoria by uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the paramilitary...
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gave final approval, in between 1978 and 1979, for the 20 May 1983 Church Street bombing, which resulted in the death of 19 people and injuries to 197–217...
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publisher (link) "Pretoria's New Street Names". ShowMe™ - Pretoria. Retrieved 6 April 2022. Barnes, Clayton (22 March 2013). "Six streets in Cape Town renamed"...
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found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was imprisoned in Pretoria Central Prison. After the revolution, he will be my garden boy — Braam...
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Afrikaners are particularly prevalent in Pretoria and Centurion. At the time of the census, over 331,000 residents of Pretoria spoke Afrikaans as their first language...
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to leave the country. When Basson was arrested in a sting operation in Pretoria in 1997, he had 1000 ecstasy tablets with him. At the time, he had hundreds...
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chief of staff of MK he codetermined its activities, like the 1983 Church Street bombing. In 1982, Slovo's wife, Ruth First was assassinated in Maputo, Mozambique...
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account 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69), beginning on 12 May 1969, at Pretoria Central Prison, where she spent months in solitary confinement, and was...
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Apartheid (section Catholic Church)
Wielligh, N. & von Wielligh-Steyn, L. (2015). The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme. Pretoria: Litera. McGreal, Chris (7 February 2006). "Brothers...
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When Pieterson was shot, he fell on the corner of Moema and Vilakazi Streets. He was picked up by Mbuyisa Makhubo who, together with Pieterson's sister...
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Sophiatown (section Good Street)
Anglican Church of Christ the King in Ray Street. The architect was Frank Flemming, who designed 85 churches throughout South Africa. The church was constructed...
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Afrikaans architect best known for designing the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. Tienie Groenewald, retired Defence Force general. Barend Johannes van...
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United States Church Street, small settlement north of the village of Higham, Kent, England Church Street, Pretoria bombing, a car bomb attack on 20 May...
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Britain was the renaming of buildings and streets after Nelson Mandela, which resulted in the UK having more streets named after him than anywhere outside...
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(editor), Afrikaners in die Goudstad, Hollandsche Afrikaansche Uitgevers, Pretoria, 1978, p. 51 Stals, supra, p. 52. Cammack, supra, p. 9. Terms used then...
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completing high school, he performed his year-long national service in Pretoria at the Army Gymnasium. During this time, he and the rest of the Gymnasium's...
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did not feature in the discussions. Kissinger and Vorster met again in Pretoria in September 1976, with students in Soweto and elsewhere protesting his...
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P. W. Botha (category Members of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK))
court. The TRC found that he had ordered the 1988 bombing of the South African Council of Churches headquarters in Johannesburg. In August 1998, he was...
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UMkhonto weSizwe (section 1983: Church Street bombing)
temporary South African Army garrison at Tonga. In 1983, the Church Street bomb was detonated in Pretoria near the Air Force headquarters, resulting in 19 deaths...
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demonstrations in cities such as Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Pretoria, and Durban. Concurrently, many White South Africans observed the three-hundredth...
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Hendrik Verwoerd (category Members of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa)
Pratt, a rich English businessman and farmer from the Magaliesberg, near Pretoria, attempted to assassinate Verwoerd, firing two shots from a .22 pistol...
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corrugated iron within Dukathole Little shop on the main street of Dukathole Dukathole - Street scene The legal meaning of the term "township" in South...
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Leaders of Africa. Bankole Kamara Taylor. ISBN 978-1-4700-4175-5. "Six streets in Cape Town renamed". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 7 April 2021. https://www...
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Hercules, Innesdal, Koedoespoort, Middelburg, Nelspruit, Pretoria Central, Pretoria East, Pretoria West, Rissik, Roodeplaat, Rustenburg, Standerton, Sunnyside...
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