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The purpose of bombings were in two parts,intimidation and disinformation.
 With regard to intimidation activists and their supporters knewthat if they were involved in unrest throwing of petrol bombsand other general destabilisation in a particular area they ortheir property would be attacked by means of a bomb or petrolbomb.  If activists became too well-known or militant or veryeffectively encouraged the consciousness of freedom or for freedomof a particular community they would necessarily have receiveda bomb and their supporters would have had a strong intuitionwith regard to the source of the bomb.  This would have discouragedthem from supporting freedom movements since they would not haveknown who was next on the list.  Activists and their supportersdid specifically believe that it was the security police who werebombing them and burning down their houses if they became activelyand successfully involved.  This action was successful insofaras it discouraged political activists from getting involved indestabilising activities.
 With regard to disinformation it was presented to the generalpublic that this was simply Black on Black violence which destabilisedthe country, particularly in Black living areas and that it wasa power struggle amongst Blacks.  This encouraged the fear ofWhites with regard to the possibility of actions which could haveentered their living areas.  This created the perception thatSouth Africa was in a life and death struggle.  
 Voters were encouraged in view of the Black power to vote forthe National Party and to maintain it in power.  This disinformationsystem worked.  The intention of this 
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action was to counter the ANC and other strong freedom movementsin their revolutionary onslaught against apartheid, to discouragethem.