The ANC and its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, bombed various places in South Africa in the 1980s. The late ANC president, Oliver Tambo, better known as "OR", had formed the Special Operations Unit to take the liberation struggle to the white areas of the country. The apartheid government seized on these explosions as proof of the ANC's "terrorist" campaign to maim and murder innocent white civilians. These, it believed, were in a different league from Defence Force raids into the frontline states that often killed black women and children. In May 1998, former MK [Umkhonto we Sizwe] Commissar Aboobaker Ismail and some of his cadres sought amnesty for bombings that had killed 30 people and injured 350 others. Andries Sathekge and Darren Taylor report.

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worlds of licence - self-confessed violators of human rights from across south africa's political landscape

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