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“The culture of violence in South Africa today in 2013 is reminiscent of the Church Street bomb which exploded exactly thirty years ago today on the 20th May 1983 in Pretoria,” Mr. Jaco Mulder, the FF Plus’ MPL and leader of the party in Gauteng says.
 
The terrorist act, which was personally approved by Mr. Nelson Mandela as member of the ANC’s Executive Committee, caused the death of 19 people as well as the bomb-handlers and left 217 people injured and mutilated and is indicative of the culture with which the ANC has been governing since 1994.
 
Events such as the so-called Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1961, the youth uprising of Soweto in 1976 and the Lonmin massacre at Marikana in 2012 are continually being over-emphasised while all acts of terror perpetrated by the ANC, such as the Church Street bomb, is placed in the background.
 
“The established high figures of violence and murder in South Africa is proof of a former ANC freedom movement which achieved its objectives through violence and since taking over the regime in 1994, has not been capable of switching from a resistance movement to being a government. The culture of violence continues,” Mulder said.
 
The ANC government has already failed to guarantee the safety of its citizens and acts such as the Church Street-bomb remind us today that the ANC were not able to progress very much.