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  • He and three accomplices allegedly hurled a handgrenade and petrolbomb into a fully loaded bus as it passed Ratanda hostel near

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Two women were arrested on Monday following a petrolbomb attack on the house of a Mamelodi East African National Congress ward councillor, police said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Spokesman Captain Morne van Wyk said the women, aged 28 and 29, allegedly threw a petrolbomb through a bedroom window.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The child's mother, Pinky Sesele, broke down and wept as she told the commission how witnesses had seen Mamasela firing wildly into the street after a group of "comrades" attempted to petrolbomb his house.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • At Duduza near Nigel, unknown attackers threw a petrolbomb at the house of Mr Elia Khumalo on Sunday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • The demand followed on a handgrenade and petrolbomb attack on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Curtains and furniture in his home were blazing from a petrolbomb attack, but he extinguished the fire.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • A policeman and a woman were injured in a petrolbomb and handgrenade attack on a house in the eastern Free State town of Ficksburg on Thursday night, police have confirmed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Another policeman's house was set alight in Zone 4 on Saturday causing R65000 damage, and a third security force member's house also in Zone 4 was extensively damaged by a petrolbomb resulting in R45000 damage.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • A policemen's house was extensively damaged in a petrolbomb attack in Zone 9, Zwelitsha, on Friday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

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