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ANC campsExplanation ... include ambushes on security forces, the police and the soldiers; attacks on police facilities like police stations or military facilities like camps, etcetera. And of course as a matter of fact I am going to shoulder responsibility, as the director of operations, of everything that happened ... The British however cottoned on to the Cape’s strategic importance and for many years the Cape colony was tossed between the two colonial powers. The free burghers’ disenchantment with the colonial powers caused them to trek further east, where they first encountered and later clashed with the ... ... them and we challenge…who was moving around collecting such misinformation. The reality is that definitely people were losing lives from both camps. We had lost valuable figures among ourselves and I would assume as well that the other group had also suffered the same problem. But to say ... ... and applying extraordinary measures, yes going underground, yes spying, yes having covert actions, having a state of emergency, putting people in camps without trial, all that yes. But not murdering people, not assassination; it was never part of the policy. // How would a reasonable person ... ... now working against his former Comrades. Their conflict came to a head when the state decided to upgrade Crossroads. This meant that the squatter camps had to be cleared and their people moved to Khayelitsha. But the people would not be moved. Does this explain the sudden and systematic attack ... The first wave of horror came in May 1986. Over three days the ‘fathers,’ or witdoeke systematically burned three satellite squatter camps around Crossroads to the ground. The security forces then stepped in. They encircled the area with barbed wire to prevent the 30 000 left homeless by the ... ... constantly tried to remove squatters and they as steadily resisted the pass laws and eviction attempts. And yet, it continued to grow, informal camps springing up on every available piece of open stand. By the mid eighties satellite camps had developed around the core of the old Crossroads; ... Hostel dwellers became feared and hated but the uneasy relationship between them and the township communities has existed since the first hostel was built. Since the discovery of diamonds in the 1800s black men have travelled from the rural areas to industries in the north. The diamond field owners ... But there was another evil in our past, human rights violations inside the ANC’s detention camps in Angola. We’ll take a good look at that too tonight. Let’s first go inside the cells of death. ... saw us divided. That’s when it got into the gap, whichever way they got into, whether they used who and who, but the gap was created by us: both ... |
