Draft:2000 Pretoria bus shooting

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

Perpetrator
Jan Gabriel De Wet Kritzinger, aged 28 at the time of the shooting,

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

He then escaped on a motorcycle.

Aftermath
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.

Kritzinger was not caught immediately, and was on the run for 2 years

working as a mechanic and living under a false name

strydom

Legal proceedings
Strydom gave a statement

Kritzinger was charged with three counts of murder and four of attempted murder

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

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