APLA

He stated that during or about the 11 January 1993 he was given an order by one Jabu Radebe, who was a Regional Commander of APLA to go and rescue a certain Makhosini Nkosi. Makhosini Nkosi had been a member of his Unit. Makhosini Nkosi and other members of the unit had been involved in an ...

Likewise, the fact that the applicants did not use their alleged code names and in fact, did not know, each other’s code names does not accord with normal APLA practice as has been explained to the Committee in other matter involving PAC cadres.

MR ROELOFSE: Against the ANC, SACP, APLA people, black people and a smaller amount of white people.

Shakespeare Thami Buthelezi a former APLA cadre testified on behalf of applicant. He could not shed light on the incident for which the applicant applied for amnesty. However, Mabina once mentioned the applicant and said he was in prison and that he wanted him "hijacked". He subsequently met ...

MR BARNARD: Yes, Chairperson, the point of departure, as it was conveyed to me by the top structure of the CCB hierarchy was that the MK as well as APLA and PAC liaised very closely with the criminal networks and criminal lines and that they actually walked hand in hand with one another and for ...

... ANC was already aware of Vlakplaas. I think that Mr de Kock gave evidence to that effect. And you see, during criminal trials where we used MK and Apla members as witnesses, this was not held in open court, because we let them give evidence in terms of Section 153 in camera and they were ...

... what it means is that it's nota bunch of ex-soldiers getting together having a braaivleis andswopping bush stories. What it is, is SWAPO, ANC, APLA, UhmkontoweSizwe, Koevoet, Rekkies, all the units every single unit everybodywho ever was trained in any way militarily getting together andjust ...

He thereafter returned to Port Elizabeth as an APLA soldier and subsequently became a unit commander.

The cell Mr Chairman, was located next to a cell which contained I don't know how many occupants, and I gathered subsequently that they were members of APLA and they proceeded to kick up a racket 24 hours a day, making sleep impossible.

... about that. They asked me to which organisation did I belong. I said no I don't belong to any. One of them slapped me and he said you are a Apla. And I decided to tell them the truth. I said to them I am a member of the ANC. They asked me where the person was, the person I was with, I ...

MR MEMANI: And besides collating evidence and passing it on to the various people who would have use for it, you made visits to houses of people who had skipped the country to join MK and APLA.

... kind of that sort. It must have been orchestrated by outside, it must have been part of a campaign by extreme other organisations and the PAC and APLA did claim responsibility for the attack, ...

expansionism as identified in the so-called liberation organisations, namely ANC/SACP alliance, PAC and then also the armed wings, Umkhonto weSizwe, APLA who wanted to subvert the Government by means of violence and take it ...

... dealing with, as you know, thousands, hundreds of applications and many of them have concerned - I'm just using this as an example of let's say the APLA policies particularly during 1993, the year of the Great Storm, where any white person was regarded as an acceptable target and people were in ...

MR BURGER: But the PAC, APLA, ANC, UDF, Umkhonto weSizwe, etc, they were the enemies of the Republic of South Africa.

2A itself as MK and to a lesser extent APLA's armed attacks increased.

In order to foster the policy of the PAC, APLA adopted a strategy of robbery so that the necessary funds and perhaps arms could be obtained to assist in attaining its eventual political objectives.

... this was one of the vehicles which I had already begun to collect for actions in the Transkei and particularly in the Sterkspruit vicinity, where APLA members regularly shot vehicles off the road, vehicles that were in transit to the Transkei. This vehicle I had obtained from a person that I ...

... why should you be granted amnesty on this incident? Why do you think this incident is politically motivated and that what you did was on behalf of APLA or you were given orders. Can you tell the ...

... for the Security Police, they were there to combat this very type of people, members of the ANC, so he fits in exactly, or the PAC or in this case, APLA in all probability, so it fits in exactly for why he is there and for that reason it is clear that Tait's, what he did, what he gets involved ...