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ANC camps

Explanation
The ANC established bases in several African countries. The Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS), together with the military headquarters of MK, had control over residential centres and the Angolan camps, including 'Camp 32' or the Morris Seabelo Rehabilitation Centre (popularly known as 'Quatro'), Panga, Viana and the Nova Catengue camp. Following the SADF bombing of Nova Catengue camp in 1979, there was an atmosphere of paranoia about infiltration by South African agents. A number of ANC members were detained and tortured; some died as a result of assaults and some were executed. Dissatisfaction in MK training camps in Angola led to mutinies at the Viana and Pango camps during 1984. Both mutinies were put down with loss of lives on both sides. Many MK members were detained in connection with the uprisings, and some were tortured. Two groups of mutineers were tried by military tribunals and seven were executed.

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MR TEKANE: What was important at that time was the calling to go to the camps of the ANC outside, how to get there was our own business.
MR MASHELE: I was called there, he was the highest authority in that meeting. He said that, he insinuated that I was giving a chance for this guy to bolt from the camps because it was midnight and when I knocked and asked that they should attend to him because he was actually an epileptic and a ...
MR NKALA: They did ask whether in the camps - they did ask what was happening in the camps. I cannot say exactly, but they were asking questions like how was the training conducted in the camps, because we were telling them that others would be sent outside, out of the camps.
The applicant testified that the deceased had been an ANC supporter who had grown up in their area and had occasionally gone on camps with them. However, the deceased had defected to Inkatha and had moved into town. He said that it was alleged that the deceased had been involved in attacks on ...
MR GUMENGU: The cars were driven to Umtata and we alighted from the vehicles in Umtata, people went to different camps and I also left with them.
Well, I was trained as a leader at the ANC camps. I went through political education in Bulgaria where I become a head of the political section of the ANC and when I entered the country I had the responsibility of being a commander of the unit that enter the country.
MR RICHARD: What he has mentioned in the Motsonyane Report which records details of investigation into human rights violations in certain camps during the '80's, we are aware of one case at least during 1987/early '88 when an Umkhonto weSizwe cadre was recalled to Lusaka because he was suspected of ...
... that will include you as well. Creating a case that, really, business was business. My question is, what will be your explanation of the discrepancies that we are sitting with as a society today where you have one segment of society with a well developed system of property development and ...
trusted Pienaar and he trusted me. He was one of those persons that if he was ever arrested and found himself in a place like Zambia, in one of the ANC's murder camps, I believe that I would have gone to fetch him there and I still would have succeeded in it as well. That was my level of trust ...
... for many years, he's just gone out for military training, so as a detective, as a policeman surely I can use him much better. He's been out in the camps there, in Angola or wherever in Africa or overseas, he knows who went with him to the camps. And I can assure you the more unsophisticated ...
... of Justice or Law and Order told me that National Intelligence had reported to them what was going on in certain camps in Angola and how within the ANC ranks people were being murdered and killed and that some of them might be doing things like that in order to place the light of suspicion on the ...
... evidence before the Committee in cross examination by the legal representative for the third applicant, he clearly stated: "I had no problem with ANC people because I grew up in the township." (p 311 of the transcript.) The Committee is not satisfied on the evidence before it that any of the ...
MR MASANGO: Well ever since joining the ANC from Maputo, because I skipped through Maputo through to Mozambique and I stayed in Matola, ever since my arrival there at that place I was responsible for reading the news for the comrades in our houses there and in our camps in Angola. After that I ...
... List I suddenly realisedwhat it must have felt like in some small part in the death camps. I was then handed over to Walvis Bay Security Branch where interrogationand torture continued. They thought that I was part of some largercommunist plot and the South West Africa Army Intelligence ...
... All of the Applicants were to a greater or lesser extent involved in the incident.  They were at all material times members of the Security Branch of the then South African Police attached to the Intelligence Unit stationed at Soweto in the present province of Gauteng.  The Applicants ...
MR DE KOCK: Yes, the reason why the askaris were used is because they used camp language and camp language is the general language that was used in ANC camps. This was also for the sake of authenticity, so that everything would appear authentic.
... do so, but they did say these are instructions, they were instructed and they were accused by their own leadership. Some of them were in charge of camps like this Chief, he was also in charge of a camp but he was accused of all sorts of things. Staging a ...
MR OLIPHANT: We were taken to the soldier’s camps, the military camps in Ladybrand, all of us. From Ladybrand we were taken to the Ladybrand special branch and they sent us to Fountain Police Station.
"Mr Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and former MK Commander who was active in the ANC detention camps in Angola..."
were instructed to go to Congress, because Congress was close to me and Congress had to come straight to me. In 1985 there was a directive from the ANC in exile that certain units from the Umkhonto we Sizwe would not be trained outside the country, but they would be trained inside the country and ...
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