Cape Flats home bombed
2005-05-15 07:43
Cape Town - A house in Manenberg, on the Cape Flats, has been attacked, apparently with a pipe bomb, police said on Sunday.
"On Saturday night ... at approximately 21:20 an explosive device, allegedly a pipe bomb, went off at a house in Jupiter Street, Manenberg," Inspector Bernadine Steyn said in a statement.
"The alleged pipe bomb was thrown by a male person towards the house and caused damage to the front windows. The man then got into a white BMW-vehicle (with three occupants) and fled the scene. Nobody was injured during the incident."
Steyn said the motive for the attack, reminiscent of the vigilante violence of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), was not immediately known.
She added a case of attempted murder was being investigated by the Serious and Violent Crime unit.
"Anyone with information can contact them on 021-935-9600 or Crime Stop on call-share on 08600-10111."
Pagad was active for several years in the Cape in the late 1990s. A campaign of bombings and killings, ostensibly targeting drug lords and gangsters, but later also Pagad opponents, ended when the majority of its leadership was arrested and jailed. By 2000 they were a spent force.
At one time the US state department listed them as a terrorist group.
- SAPA