JAMES SIMPSON
In 1983 I worked at the firm of Olivetti.  We were on the first and second floors of the Nedbank building.  I worked on the first floor and we were quite close to the window.  Most of the people working close to the windows were injured.  When the bomb exploded it was the shattering glass which caused the most damage.  It cut people, the doors were blown off their hinges and that kind of thing.
 Immediately after the explosion I didn't know what had happened because my glasses were missing, they were blown off my face, my watch had been ripped off my arm, I couldn't see properly and I didn't know what was happening.  My face was full of blood. I was led out of the building.  When I got to the street down below I saw cars burning, injured people lying around.  I spoke to one of my colleagues there, we were waiting for an ambulance there on the pavement.  The ambulances had already taken the most seriously injured people away so we had quite a long wait until one of the 
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sales reps took us to the hospital in his car.  The people landed up in different hospitals.  That's how it happened.  A lot of people were injured, a lot of damage was caused.  Now my sympathy lies with the people who were badly injured and never recovered.  That is the big thing.  That is why I came here today.