This Day in History: 2 October 1990
On 2 October 1990 Nic Cruse, an employee at PC Plus, opened a parcel containing a bomb in a computer. The subsequent explosion killed Cruse, aged 23. Cruse had worked for PC Plus, a small computer hardware and service company, for little over a month, and opened the package which he believed contained a computer in need of repair. The company’s premises were located at 37 Crart Avenue, Durban, and the organisation had previously clashed with right-wing groups who objected to their trade with ‘liberal organisations’ such as the ANC, the Black Sash, and Women for Peaceful Change. PC Plus is said to have been started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement. The killing was a political assassination.
