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These mines would be contained in neat, innocuous-looking wooden boxes of the type used for
despatching agricultural produce, and large enough for a layer of fruit or vegetables on top to
camouflage a five-pound explosive charge. These boxes could also be used to despatch explosives to
any part of the country.
Correspondence found at Travallyn proves that Goldberg (then posing as Charles Williams) was
actually negotiating with two firms of timber merchants and had asked for quotations for shookes for
the manufacture of 48,000 such boxes.
No less deadly in their effects are the various types of bombs which were to be manufactured on
such a large scale by the 'Production Unit'. Explosives experts who analysed and tested the weapons
used by saboteurs over the past two years in their terrorist activity, assert that they include petrol
bombs, flame bottles, and thermite, syringe, and pipe bombs.
The petrol bomb, contained in an ordinary non-descript tin, looks harmless enough until one sees
the effect of its deadly incendiary charge. The flame bottle is designed to be thrown through windows
into buildings, or among a crowd. The thermite bomb resembles the petrol bomb, over which it has this
advantage that the flames are harder to extinguish. The syringe bomb works like a hand grenade but
being bigger and heavier does even more damage.
An eleven-page document found in Goldreich's car, entitled 'The Revolutionary Way Out' speaks
of the parallel aims of the Communist Party and the ANC. This document had its origin at Rivonia,
where the wax stencils of it were found.
These parallel aims are stressed in other documents as well: 'The Road to South African Freedom',
a pamphlet issued by the S.A. Communist Party, and a paper in Goldreicli's handwriting, headed
"Talks with Nung Nying-Yi", in which there is a reference to 'our influence through ANC in
conferences elsewhere in Africa."
"All of us," states another document, under the sub-heading 'Congress's New Line of Conduct', "are
by now aware that the ANC has adopted a policy of violence."
But, the document continues, the fact remained that the bulk of the Bantu people were not aware of
this new trend. After all, the ANC had for many years followed a policy of non-violence. Meanwhile
the leaders were not so naïve as to hope that the ANC's change of policy had escaped the notice of the
Government. "From whom are we hiding it, then? Only from the people."
Certain letters found at Travallyn furnished proof that recruits from South Africa had actually been
smuggled out of the country in order to be trained abroad as guerrillas and saboteurs. The first,
couched in cautious terms, runs as follows:
Dear Friend,
Thank you for your report. As you may have been informed we were
supposed to have ready with 28 by the 10th inst. We have written
to the benefactors to say we think we shall be ready with this
consignment of 28 by the last week of June.
The fears you entertain about fellows being landed at Dar. would
not apply in this case because everything has already been tied
up as to their destination.
We shall indicate to the prospective candidates that each should
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