280 terrorist bombs exploded in SA in past six months - Daily cash-point bombs in SA claimed by black anti-SA government terrorist group
August 12 2007 -- South Africa - The independent 'Sowetan' newspaper which has a primarily black readership reports that a terrorist-group founded by Mr Plaatjie Mashego, (who refers to himself as a disgruntled former terrorist-operative of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the 'Spear of the Nation', which is the supposedly-dismantled 'armed wing' of the country's ruling African National Congress party during their exile years) has 'claimed responsibility' for many of the clearly very-well organised recent explosions of cash-points countrywide, and which are spreading widespread terror in local communities. More than 280 bombs have exploded in South Africa over the past six months alone to destroy cash-point machines.
Mashego told
The Sowetan newspaper that his organisation, the
Malamulela Social Movement of the Unemployed had felt the need to resort to blowing up cash-point machines to 'destabilise the business sector' because its efforts last year 'to speak to the (ANC-) government and the SA business sector about their severe unemployment problems were being ignored.' He said their aim was "not really to collect money" but to 'destabilise the business sector.'
He said his members (all former ANC-bombers during SA's so-called 'freedom struggle' for black-hegemony) were trained to make explosives such as dynamite which they used to blow up cash-points 'to make their point against the high levels of unemployment,' he said. He called on copy-cat criminals who are now emulating them to join forces with them to get training - also to avoid being injured through inexperience with explosives, he said. There have indeed been news media reports that some cash-pint bombers are going to extreme lengths to protect innocent bystanders, including locking up security guards inside safe buildings before setting off their bombs.
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http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=535427Police have thus far this year already arrested some 33 SA mine-employees for selling the commercial explosives used in blowing up the cash machines. Recent court evidence about an explosion in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg on July 10, revealed that a total of 280 ATMs were blown up around the country between January 1 and July 31, 2007 causing R62,4-million's worth of damage - excluding the money stolen. The alleged bombers were on trial after KwaZulu-Natal police shot and wounded them. Two of their alleged accomplices were shot dead in a shootout with the police after the explosion.
Mzwakhe Gule, 42, of Soweto, and Thabang Mohlomehlo, 26, of Clermont, Durban, have been charged with the murder of two of their alleged accomplices, Jabulani Mkhize and Anthony Hadebe, both of Pinetown. Gule and Mohlomehlo also face charges under the Explosives Act, possession of a R5 assault rifle, two handguns, ammunition for the three guns and theft of a Hyundai car.
The investigating South African police inspector Derek Coetzee said at this bail hearing that the SA Banking Council had told him that 280 ATMs were blown up in South Africa between January 1 and July 31. Coetzee said that Mohlomehlo was out on parole for previous convictions for theft and for the illegal possession of an AK-47 military assault rifle when he took part in the bombing of the cash dispensing machine. The residing magistrate is Ms Celumusa Ndwandwe. The trial continues.
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20070813040109305C543854"Bombs only exploded in townships" ...SA authorities also add fuel to the fire of public anger especially among black South African township residents -- by trying to 'reassure' the country's 47-million crime-weary citizens that 'most of these cash-point bombs are being exploded in townships'. Mr Anton Wiid who heads Sabric's violent-crime office, claims that 'most of the attacks are taking place in township areas where banks have been putting up machines in an effort to cut travelling costs for customers who would otherwise have to head downtown."
These bombings are striking fear into all of the country's citizens, already under siege and living in heavily-fortufied homes because of the sky-high crime rates, wherever they may be living and working.With the South African murder rate now eight times the world's average, over the past three years 57,162 people have already been murdered, mostly during robberies -- and 380,173 people also became victims of violent robberies; while some 2,5-million South African residents have also fallen victim to a huge variety of other violence-driven crimes in that time period.
ABSA communications manager Errol Smith warned earlier this month that "the use of explosives and the indiscriminate bombings of (cash dispenser-) ATMs can be regarded as terrorism. These bombers have no regard for the safety of the public nor regard for communities."
LINK:
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=301509
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