MR MALAN
Mr Simpson my name is Wynand Malan, we have met
JOHANNESBURG HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
2 J SIMPSON
before.  Thank you very much for coming today and I believe that your first language is Afrikaans so we will do your evidence in Afrikaans.  The facts which are coming cause is that the bomb exploded on the 20th of May 1983 and if you look at various sources it would seem as if 19 people were killed and 219 injured.  One of the sources indicate that 12 people were civilians and 7 were security force personnel, 8 were Black people, 11 were Whites.  An inquest was held and according to the inquest records shows that Freddie Shongwe and Ezekiel Maseko planted the bomb.  They were both killed in the blast.  It was also found, rightly or wrongly that both of them were members of the ANC.  That's common cause and against this background I'd like to hear your first hand account of what happened there.