Smugglers of military recruits in court

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Twelve people (eleven men and one woman) appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court after being accused of smuggling military recruits out of the country. It was alleged that they had set up a transport route in and out of South Africa (through Swaziland into Mozambique) for the recruits and that they used the same route to bring arms, ammunition and explosives into the country. Since the beginning of the armed struggle the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress used neighbouring countries as routes to infiltrate South Africa.

How we know this

01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.
02De Kock, Col, E., (1996), 'Col Eugene de Kock testifies in Court', from South African History Online, 16 September, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Smugglers of military recruits in court. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012314

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