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🗓️ 3 September 2020
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Between the late 1990s and 2002 there were more than 150 bomb attacks in the South African city of Cape Town. The authorities blamed them on a group known as Pagad - People Against Gangsterism And Drugs. But no one was ever convicted of the bombings. Darin Graham has been speaking to Elana Newman whose daughter Olivia lost a leg in a blast at the pizza restaurant where she was working in 1999.
Photo: Olivia (l) and Elana Newman (r). Copyright: Elana Newman.
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0:24.9 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Darren Graham. |
0:40.0 | In the late 1990s, when South Africa was still transitioning from the racist apartheid regime to a democratic state, |
0:47.0 | the country faced widespread crime, unemployment and infrastructure problems, |
0:52.0 | and Cape Town had a particular problem with bomb attacks across the city |
0:59.6 | Vigilantian gang violence have exploded since the transition from totalitarian state to |
1:05.2 | democracy. Criminals and urban terror groups have taken advantage of |
1:09.4 | social and political confusion. |
1:11.6 | Between the mid-1990s and 2002, |
1:15.0 | over 150 bombs exploded in Cape Town. |
1:18.9 | A group called the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, or Pagadad were thought to be behind the blasts, |
1:25.0 | although they always denied responsibility. |
1:28.0 | One of the worst attacks happened on the 29th of November 1999 at a crowded beachfront in the city at around 4 in the afternoon. |
1:37.3 | I heard this blast which I knew was a bomb. It was like a massive hollow stud. This is Alana Newman. She lived just two streets away from the blast which injured 48 people in the wealthy coastal suburb, Camp's Bay. |
1:54.0 | There were a lot of restaurants and bars along the beach there, |
1:57.3 | popular with tourists and locals. |
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