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{{short description|Car bomb attack}}
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The '''Church Street bombing''' was a terrorist [[car bomb]] attack on 20 May 1983 in the
==Attack==
The
==Truth Commission hearing==
In submissions to the [[Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)|Truth and Reconciliation Commission]] (TRC) in 1997 and 1998, the ANC revealed that the attack was orchestrated by a special operations unit of the ANC's [[Umkhonto we Sizwe]] (MK), commanded by Aboobaker Ismail. At the time of the attack, they reported to [[Joe Slovo]] as chief of staff, and the Church Street attack was authorised by [[Oliver Tambo]].<ref name=trc-sapa97/><ref name=amnesty/>
The ANC's submission said the bombing was in response to a South African cross-[[Lesotho-South Africa border|border]] raid into [[Lesotho]] in December 1982, which killed 42 ANC supporters
Ten MK operatives, including Aboobaker Ismail, applied for
[[Nelson Mandela]], who was serving time in prison at the time of the terror attack, wrote about its violent nature in his autobiography: “It was precisely because we knew that such incidents would occur that our decision to take up arms had been so grave and reluctant.”<ref>Nelson Mandela, ''The Long Walk To Freedom'' (New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1994) p. 88. </ref>
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