He pleaded guilty to 159 such crimes, you didn’t think he was sent to prison for political reasons did you?
That is a good question, where did that start? How hard would it be to scrub it from the internet if it happened before the news was online?
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The extent of the carnage is illustrated by these statistics for the five years September 1984 to August 1989: 1 770 schools, 7 187 homes of black owners suspected to be non-members of the ANC, 10 318 buses, 152 trains, 12 188 private vehicles,1 256 shops and factories, 60 post offices, 47 churches and 30 clinics were destroyed. During the same period, 300 blacks were murdered, mostly by the barbarous “necklace” method.