Word: shabangu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condemned men-David Moise, 25, Johannes Shabangu, 26, and Anthony Tsotsobe, 25-responded to the sentence with forced smiles, a clenched-fist salute and the first strains of a freedom song ("What shall we do to the Boers who shot the people of Soweto?"). Outside, police, occasionally using attack dogs, dispersed a crowd of blacks waiting in Church Square. There were scuffles, and several people were arrested. A small group of women, swathed in brightly patterned blankets, began singing Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa), the ANC's anthem...
...long ago an advocate of peaceful change, now reaches for the gun. Moise was charged with the 1980 bombing of fuel storage tanks at South Africa's SASOL coal liquefaction plant, the most spectacular guerrilla attack ever staged in the country, with damage estimated at $7.2 million. Shabangu had thrown a grenade into the home of a black policeman in the sprawling black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Tsotsobe had been involved in an armed assault on a Johannesburg police station and in several bombings. As the authorities made clear during the trial, the three men were only part...
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