Today is the 38th anniversary of the Church Street bombing. During rush hour on Friday 20 May 1983 a car bomb was set off outside the Nedbank Square Building in Church Street, Pretoria. The perpetrators were the African National Congress' paramilitary wing - Umkhonto we Sizwe - a terrorist organisation.
The bomb killed 17 and wounded 217 innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Two of the perpetrators accidentally killed themselves in the blast.
Many of the victims were so badly mutilated from the blast that the police and medical teams had trouble identifying the victims.
Nelson Mandela and his friends killed 17 South Africans and wounded hundreds more. Never forget.
