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1308, 2025

CELEBRATING: 30 years of saving lives from gun violence

13 August 2025|History, Our Work|

On 16 December 1994, a young man handed an assault rifle to a minister in a Johannesburg church. The minister was Peter Storey, and the gun was surrendered as part of a national firearms amnesty organised with President Nelson Mandela’s support to promote peace following South Africa’s first democratic elections on 27 April that year. Gun Free SA was formally […]