Here are two photos showing the Church Street bombing.
Nineteen people, including 10 civilians and the two bombers, died in the explosion.
"Of the 200 people injured, 114 were civilians. The fact that the majority of the victims had been civilians means that the incident cannot be regarded as a military operation, but rather as an act of terror," said AfriForum.
AfriForum chief executive officer Kallie Kriel said the incident should be remembered so as to expel the myth that those who partook in the struggle were "irreproachable heroes, while the rest are all portrayed as evil".
"The Church Street bomb was a cowardly act of terror, which definitely is not more acceptable than any other human rights violation of the past," he said.
Kriel said he was dissatisfied that efforts were still being made to abuse the international community's abhorrence of apartheid to try and justify what he claimed was the ANC's human rights violations of the 1980s.
In his so-called book,” Long Walk to Freedom”, Mandela says that he “signed off” with this act of terrorism. People should take a look at what Mandela “signed off” with while he was in prison – convicted for other acts of terrorism! President P.W. Botha told Mandela way back in 1985, that he could be a free man as long as he did one thing: Publicly renounce violence. Mandela refused. That is why Mandela remained in prison until the appeaser F.W. de Klerk freed him unconditionally. The bottom line is that Nelson Mandela never publicly renounced violence - and we should never forget that.
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