A man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared

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Rodney Wilkinson was a 21-year-old South African fencing champion, barred from the Olympics due to apartheid, who accidentally killed his coach during a training incident in 1971.
Eleven years later, as a contract engineer in 1982, Wilkinson bombed the Koeberg nuclear power station, sabotaging a key apartheid project without causing any casualties.
He lived in obscurity in Knysna for decades, revealed as the saboteur in 1995, and reflects on his actions with a mix of trauma and liberation from apartheid's injustices.

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