Brakpan (H9)

Name: Brakpan (Salty oy brackish pan - got nothing to do with dogs! - only some will understand)

Google count: 190,000 for Brakpan
Date: 16 August 2008

Historic fact:

The operations listed as numbers 10 (the explosion at John Vorster Square on 5 March 1986), 13 (the limpet mine attack at the Department of Community Development in Johannesburg on 3 December 1983), 15 (the three explosions at Brakpan on 15 May 1985), 16 (the limpet mine attack at the Medical Centre, Johannesburg on 30 May 1985), 17 (the explosion at the Southern Cross Fund offices on 31 May 1985) and 34 (the limpet mine attack at Capital Park substation during 1981) were, according to evidence received at the amnesty hearing of Abboobaker Ismail and others, carried out by members of the Special Operations Unit of MK.

http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/decisions/2000/ac200195.htm

Other interesting info:

Barclays Bank 1934 Brakpan Gauteng
Flats for I Connack 1936 Brakpan Gauteng
Masonic Hall c1913 Brakpan Gauteng
Mines Offices with PEARSE c1913 Brakpan Gauteng
NGK bldg 1917 Brakpan Gauteng
Recreation Halls at Springs and Brakpan Mines c1913 Brakpan Gauteng
Technical Institute 1927 Brakpan Gauteng
Town Hall 1923 Brakpan Gauteng
http://www.artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/bldg_list_bottom.php?orderby=%60tbltowns%60.%60name%60,%60tblbldg%60.%60name%60&initial=all

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