WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM:
RESPONSIBILITY for a spate of “fund-raising” robberies in the Eastern Cape in the early 1990s has been claimed by the Pan Africanist Congress in amnesty applications by PAC members to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Most of the applicants are in prison, many of them jailed for robbery. Among other attacks PAC members have listed on amnesty applications are assaults on St James Church and the Heidelberg Tavern in Cape Town, the King William’s Town Golf Club attack and the murder of American student Amy Biehl.
The PAC has also claimed responsibility for the deaths of at least 25 soldiers in machine-gun attacks on security force patrols in Alexandra, near Johannesburg, in the mid 1980s.