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==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
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 and civilians, and the assassination of [[Ruth First]], an ANC activist and the wife of Joe Slovo, in [[Maputo]], [[Mozambique]]. It claimed that 11 of the casualties were SAAF personnel and hence a military target. The legal representative of some of the victims argued that as administrative staff including telephonists and typists they could not accept that they were a legitimate military target.<ref name=trc-sapa97>{{cite news|url=http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9705/s970512a.htm|date=12 May 1997|title=Tambo ordered Church Street blast: ANC|publisher=SAPA|accessdate=14 March 2015}}</ref>
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