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2000 Pretoria bus shooting
Pretoria is located in Gauteng
Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria (Gauteng)
Pretoria is located in South Africa
Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria (South Africa)
LocationPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Coordinates25°48′53″S 28°16′40″E / 25.8146°S 28.2778°E / -25.8146; 28.2778
Date12 January 2000; 24 years ago (2000-01-12)
Attack type
Mass shooting
Weapon9mm pistol
Deaths3
Injured4
PerpetratorDe Wet Kritzinger

On 12 January 2000, De Wet Kritzinger, a white supremacist, opened fire on a bus in Pretoria, killing 3 and injuring 4, all of whom were black, in a racially motivated attack.

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Background

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Barend Strydom, the perpetrator of the 1988 Strijdom Square massacre,

Perpetrator

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Jan Gabriel De Wet Kritzinger,[34] aged 28 at the time of the shooting,[35]

Shooting

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On 12 January 2000, Kritzinger boarded a bus heading towards Mamelodi[36][37] He opened fire, killing three and injuring four.[37]

He then escaped on a motorcycle.[36][37]

Aftermath

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It was the deadliest racially motivated attack in South Africa since the Tempe military base shooting in September of the previous year, where a black soldier shot and killed 8 white soldiers.[36]

Kritzinger was not caught immediately, and was on the run for 2 years [34][38]

working as a mechanic and living under a false name[4]

strydom[39]

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Strydom gave a statement[42]

Kritzinger was charged with three counts of murder and four of attempted murder[37]

Kritzinger was sentenced to three life terms in addition to forty years in prison.

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See also

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References

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