This Day in History: June 20, 1977
Additional Date: June 20, 1977
Twelve people (eleven men and one woman) appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court after being accused of smuggling military recruits out of the country. It was alleged that they had set up a transport route in and out of South Africa (through Swaziland into Mozambique) for the recruits and that they used the same route to bring arms, ammunition and explosives into the country. Since the beginning of the armed struggle the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress used neighbouring countries as routes to infiltrate South Africa.