MK G-5 Unit Attack on the Booysens Police Station
On 4 April 1980, the golden Ford Valiant that was used in the attack of the Booysens Police Station in the early hours of the morning, was found abandoned in the Zone 3, Diepkloof, in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, and the guerrillas had managed to return safely to their base.
It all began late on the evening of 3 April 1980, in Diepkloof, Soweto, when Anthony Tsotsobe and Petros Linda Jabane entered a Ford Valiant belonging to Derrick Ndlovu, who had agreed to give them a lift, which Tsotsobe seized by pulling out a pistol and demanding Ndlovu to hand over the keys. After obliging to the demand, Tsotsobe paid Ndlovu R10.00 and indicated to him that they were borrowing the car, which he was to get back the following morning. Tsotsobe then ordered the other passengers in the vehicle to disembark. With Jabane, they then took the vehicle to a spot where Johannes Rasegatla, Solly Shoke and Nicky Hlongwane were waiting.
After having succeeded to hit the Moroka and Orlando police stations the previous year, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Transvaal Urban Machinery’s G-5 Unit was reinforced by Jabane and Tsotsobe, and they wanted to hit a police station in a white area. They then headed to Booysens Police Station, with each guerrilla having an AK-47 automatic rifle, as well as one RPG-7 rocket launcher for the Unit. The Valiant stopped near a garage, with Hlongwane checking if there was any danger, as a police van pulled on the
