Car-bomb in Salisbury
NZPA-Reuter Salisbury A bomb has been found attached to the car of a sen ior member of South Africa’s outlawed African National Congress who lives) in Salisbury, a police; spokesman has said. Western diplomats said) the incident was bound toi cause speculation that Pre-: toria had widened its cam-! paign against the nationalist 1 movement to exiles living in Zimbabwe. South African commandos staged a raid last month on an A.N.C. target in the Mozambique capital of Maputo. The police said that thei 7kg bomb was discovered] last week-end at the home i of the A.N.C. member, Joel! Gcabi, in Salisbury’s Ash-I down Park suburb. Wires from the bomb were attached to the from wheel of his car and the explosives would have detonated if the car had beer moved, a spokesman said. Zimbabwe Army engineers defused the device.
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Press, 26 February 1981, Page 7
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