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SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo

SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo

Date
17 Oct 1983
Updated
30 Sep 2019
SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo

South African National Defence Force (SADF) commandos bombed the African National Congress (ANC) office in Maputo, Mozambique and injured 5 people. Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit was caught later and admitted his role in the raid. This was one of many cross border raids by the SADF in the 1980s. Some of the cross border raids include Matola, Botswana and the bombing of two houses in Manzini. The attacks in Manzini claimed the lives of uMkhonto weSizwe member Patrick Makau and seven-year-old Patrick Nkosi, the son of an active ANC member, Mr Mawick Nkosi.

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  1. 01South African History Online, ‘The South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland’, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 16 October 2013]
  2. 02O’Malley, P. ‘1983’, from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, [online], Available at www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 16 October 2013]
  3. 03South African History Online, ‘Cross border raids’, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 16 October 2013]
  4. 04South African History Online, ‘uMkhonto weSizwe’, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 16 October 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2013, October 8). SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096499

South African History Online (2013) 'SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo', South African History Online, 8 October. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096499 (Accessed: 30 July 2026).

South African History Online, SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096499, (accessed 30 July 2026).

"SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo." South African History Online, 8 Oct. 2013, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096499. Accessed 30 July 2026.

South African History Online. "SADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo." South African History Online. October 8, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096499.

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