Witness History
Witness History
The Cape Town bombings
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September 3, 2020
9 minutes
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Between the late 1990s and 2002 there were more than 150 bomb attacks in the South African city of Cape Town. The authorities blamed them on a group known as Pagad - People Against Gangsterism And Drugs. But no one was ever convicted of the bombings. Darin Graham has been speaking to Elana Newman whose daughter Olivia lost a leg in a blast at the pizza restaurant where she was working in 1999.
Photo: Olivia (l) and Elana Newman (r). Copyright: Elana Newman.