First Piet Retief Ghastly MK Natal Machinery Ambush
In the evening of 8 June 1988, a Toyota Corolla approached from the direction of Houtkop with its lights dimmed and the left indicator light on. The driver, Gladstone Mose, stopped the car, climbed out and ran around the front. At this time, apartheid Security Branch Colonel Eugene de Kock was primed to storm the Corolla from its left-hand side, while one of his colleagues was pointing a high-intensity hand-held searchlight at the vehicle, which revealed that its windows had been completely misted up from the inside.
Three or four seconds later, the left rear window started to unwind, which De Kock took as his cue to open fire on the left front door with his Uzi 9-mm calibre sub-machine pistol. His colleagues than began firing on the back door on the left-hand side and also on the rear window. De Kock fired about twelve shots before ordering his colleagues to cease fire.
As he walked towards the car, the right back door opened and a woman fell out, displaying some signs of life, and appeared as though she was trying to speak. “Shoot her!” De Kock shouted at Ras, who complied and fired some shots at her. In the front, left-hand side of the car lay a black woman, at the back left-hand door an Indian man, and in the middle of the back seat another black woman, all of whom were dead. The dead Indian man was Surendra Lenny Naidoo, who was involved in the attack at Amichand Rajbansi’s house in August 1985. The three
