3 White S. Africans Plead Guilty to 10 Terrorism Charges
PRETORIA, South Africa — Three white members of South Africa’s outlawed African National Congress pleaded guilty Monday to 10 counts of terrorism.
The three were acquitted of 16 other charges, including 14 counts of attempted murder linked to the March, 1988, bombing of a military passenger bus.
The so-called Broederstroom Three--Damien Michael de Lange, 31, a former journalist who was born in Zambia; Ian Robertson, 37, a South African who allegedly received guerrilla training in the Soviet Union, and Susan Donelly, 24, a British subject who allegedly was the unit’s communications specialist--were arrested May 8, 1988, at a farmhouse in Broederstroom, near Pretoria. According to police, they had amassed the largest guerrilla arms cache ever found in South Africa.
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