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Political Prisoners in Zimbabwe
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| At approximately 2100 hours on 11 January 1988, a car bomb was detonated at an ANC facility in Bulawayo, killing the civilian driver and seriously injuring several ANC personnel. |
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| Kevin Woods had previously identified the facility to a South African Special Forces Intelligence Agent, Kit Bawden, and subsequently a South African Defence Force aircraft delivered explosives to a cattle ranch near Fort Rixon belonging to Kit's brother, Barry Bawden. |
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| Philip Conjwayo procured the vehicle and civilian driver, a Zambian by the name of Obed Amon Mwanza for the purpose of delivering the explosives to the ANC facility. This facility was located at 16a Jungle Road, North Trenance. The driver was told he was participating in an illegal foreign currency deal and given instructions to sound the car's horn on arrival at the facility and then to abandon the vehicle. |
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| Mike Smith and Kit Bawden fitted the explosives to the car. Mwanza then drove it to the target and upon sounding the horn, Kit Bawden, who was accompanied by Smith, detonated the explosives, killing Mwanza instantly and injuring six ANC personnel, one of them seriously. Kevin Woods was in South Africa at the time the raid took place. |
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| On 18th November 1988, Agents Woods, Smith and Conjwayo were sentenced to death for the car bomb attack in Bulawayo. Agents Woods, Smith and Bawden were also sentenced to 40 years imprisonment for the car bombing of another ANC facility in Harare. On 28th October 1993, on appeal, Agents Woods, Smith and Conjwayo had their death sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and Bawden's 40 years imprisonment to 25 years imprisonment. |
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