2002 Soweto bombings

The 2002 Soweto bombings were a string of terrorist attacks that occurred in Soweto in South Africa's Gauteng province. Eight blasts took place on 30 October 2002, leaving one woman dead and her husband severely injured. One of the blasts severely damaged a mosque, while others targeted railways and petrol stations in the area. SAPS (South African Police Service) prevented one blast. Another bomb later detonated outside the Nan Hua Buddhist temple in Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria. A white supremacist group, the Warriors of the Boer Nation, claimed responsibility for these explosions in a message sent to an Afrikaans newspaper Quotes We are not eliminating anything. We are looking at any possibility. Whoever manufactured the bombs and placed them are experts. Whoever is responsible for this is going to face the full might of the law," the safety and security minister, Charles Nqakula, We think we know who did this. We think that the people who did this wanted to send a message. We calculate that there are many more bombs than those that have exploded