Nic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement is assassinated.

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

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.

How we know this

01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee Campbell, D.E., 2011. Computer Terrorism. 1st ed. London: Lulu.com.

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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