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Salisbury Woolworths bombing

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Coordinates : 17°50′9.3″S 31°2′26.8″E  /  17.835917°S 31.040778°E  / -17.835917; 31.040778
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Salisbury Woolworths bombing
Part of the Rhodesian Bush War
Location
Coordinates 17°50′9.3″S 31°2′26.8″E  /  17.835917°S 31.040778°E  / -17.835917; 31.040778
Date 6 August 1977
Shortly before 12:00 ( Central Africa Time )
Attack type
Bombing
Deaths 11
Injured 76
Perpetrators Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) [1] [2] [3]
Defenders British South Africa Police (BSAP)

On 6 August 1977, during the Rhodesian Bush War , a Woolworths store in Salisbury , Rhodesia (today Harare, Zimbabwe) was bombed by nationalist Terrorists. [1] [2] [3] Eleven civilians were killed and 76 were injured. Of those killed, eight were black Rhodesians, including two pregnant women and a young boy, and three were whites, members of a single family, Gillian and Donald Mayor and their mother. Mr Mayor and another daughter, Wendy, were seated in a car outside when the bomb went off. [4]

The bomb, comprising about 75 pounds (34 kg) of high explosives, was planted in an area where customers checked packages in before shopping on the upper floor of the two-storey building. It detonated shortly before the crowded store was to close at noon that Saturday. [5] The perpetrators, two teachers, afterwards escaped to Mozambique. [6]

Ian Smith , the Rhodesian Prime Minister, expressed horror at the bombing. "Those who have perpetrated this barbarous outrage can hardly be described as human," he said. [5] Rhodesian black nationalist leaders Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole also condemned the attack. [4]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Abbott & Botham 1986 , p. 12.
  2. ^ a b Chung 2006 , p. 238.
  3. ^ a b Cilliers 1984 , p. 43.
  4. ^ a b The Bryan Times newspaper report on the attack, 8 August 1977 accessed 7 September 2014
  5. ^ a b Lakeland Ledger newspaper report on the attack, 7 August 1977 accessed 7 September 2014
  6. ^ Moorcraft & McLaughlin 2008 , p. 81.
Bibliography
  • Abbott, Peter; Botham, Philip (1986). Modern African Wars: Rhodesia, 1965?80 . Oxford: Osprey Publishing . ISBN   978-0-85045-728-5 .
  • Chung, Fay (2006). Re-Living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle . Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute . ISBN   978-9171065513 .
  • Cilliers, Jakkie (1984). Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia . London, Sydney & Dover, New Hampshire: Croom Helm . ISBN   978-0-7099-3412-7 .
  • Moorcraft, Paul L ; McLaughlin, Peter (2008) [1982]. The Rhodesian War: A Military History . Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books . ISBN   978-1-84415-694-8 .

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