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The date of 16 December is the anniversary of the 1961 founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation" or MK), the armed wing of the ANC. [1] On that day, Umkhonto we Sizwe enacted its "first acts of sabotage" which included bomb blasts against government buildings in Johannesburg , Port Elizabeth and Durban . [ 19 ]
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A group of men armed with rifles and a pistol arrived and opened fire on patrons in the tavern. The perpetrators fled the scene and were not apprehended. 2022 Pietermaritzburg shooting: 2022-07-9 Pietermaritzburg: 4 people were killed and 8 injured. Two men entered the Sweetwaters tavern and opened fire, before fleeing in a car.
13 – Six men boarding train No. 9436 at Johannesburg's Jeppe station, between Johannesburg and Soweto, massacred, hacked and threw passengers in a macabre attack, killing 26 and injuring 100 people. [2] Two armed gangs, in the attack, displayed style of RENAMO, who were suspected to avenge insults to Mangosuthu Buthelezi. [3]
12 – A bomb injures 76 people at the Free State Administration Board offices. 20 – Umkhonto we Sizwe saboteurs try to set the Pelindaba Nuclear Research Station on fire in an arson attack. March. 12 – A bomb explodes on a railway coach on a Johannesburg-bound passenger train. 21 – A second bomb explodes at the Supreme Court in ...
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Six months later, on 16 December 1961, Mandela led uMkhonto weSizwe in launching its campaign. [12] The first target sabotaged was an electrical substation. This was followed by many more acts of sabotage over a year and a half, including attacks on government posts, machines and power facilities, and crop burning. [11]
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