A history of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Special Operations Unit, formed under the direct command of ANC President Oliver Tambo and senior ANC and SACP leader Joe Slovo. This unit executed some of the most high-profile attacks against the apartheid state in the 1980s, including the 1980 Sasol bombings, the attack on Koeberg nuclear power station in 1982, the car bomb explosion outside Why Not and Magoo bars on Durban's beachfront in 1986, and the 1988 attack at the Witbank security police offices.