Remember bomb victims

Name streets after those who died in Durban bar in 1986, writes

Edward Mitchell.

The evening of June 14, 1986, 32 years ago tomorrow. A bomb rips through the Why Not? and Magoo’s bars on Durban’s Marine Parade, killing three people and seriously injuring 71.

The ANC’s Robert McBride, a jihadist of his day, was the murderer. Even the Truth & Reconciliation Commission described the act as “a gross violation of hu- man rights”. Today, McBride has a cushy job but, of course, the ANC always protects its own, whatever outrage they perpetrated. Good communists, then.

It’s important that we don’t forget the victims who were injured, or whose lives were ended.

Angelique Pattenden, Julie van der Linde and Marchelle Gerand died that fateful evening, innocently blown apart.

Maybe Durban City Council could consider naming beachfront streets after these three victims? I’m sure Nelson Mandela would have…