APLA

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

APLA HIGH COMMAND AM 7832/97 REFUSED

school at Standard 10 in 1990 due to financial problems. I joined PAC in 1988 through Azanyo. I was recruited to PAC by Sediso Ralatabo. I joined APLA in 1991 in Transkei where I underwent military training. I was involved in about three operations and I have applied for amnesty for all of ...

DR ALLY: So was he also in APLA then? Are you, was he also a member of APLA in addition to being a member of the PAC, he was also in APLA, in the Liberation Army of the PAC or do you not know that? I am only asking. If you do not know, that is fine.

a member of the underground structures of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania ("PAC") and its military wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA"). Between 1980 and 1990 he recruited youths for military training and harboured trained cadres of APLA who had been infiltrated into the ...

... of the RSA fought a war and then also on instruction of the leaders of the revolutionary forces they also then had a struggle. That was MK and APLA soldiers. Both sides made use of covert and unconventional methods. And there was one aim and that was to achieve the political aims of the ...

... In early 1991 I joined the task force of the PAC which its duties was to defend the organisation when under attack, and also used as a pool for APLA operations when manpower is needed by APLA. After joining the task force in 1991 I was sent to Umtata, Transkei for basic military training and ...

GRANTED: to the above applicant in respect of the offence of harbouring APLA cadres during the period early 1980’s - early 1990’s at a time when APLA was a banned organisation.

... I'm still her in Durban because of my life. I went to the soldiers. I went to Point soldiers. I reported this matter to them. They phoned APLA. They phoned the person who is in charge of APLA, and I was told that he wasn't there. They said I must leave the telephone number where I ...

... heard this morning how much bitterness and anger there is from those who testified to us. I want to say just for the sake of the record that the APLA command has made a request to the Commission that they would like to have a meeting with the victims and that is why we have been raising the ...

... Africa. In fact it has given me, it has been quite a rewarding experience, I think, to be able to assist people from the former MK and even from APLA, people who became disabled either in action against the former Security Forces or in accidents whilst in service for MK or APLA. Disability is ...

MR DUMA: I was a member of the ANC and he was on the side of APLA and on the side of the Mgungwani, who were the Municipal police. The Mgungwani, seemed to support APLA. They are now the SAPS.

there were some other criminal activities which happened to be perpetuated by the very same system amongst our communities turning our MK cadres and APLA cadres into askaries and all those things. We happen to live in this era. The situation came to change not because of their wishful thinking ...

... above ground so that you can probe it, every issue of it, it was all done on a need to know on an underground basis, both from the side of the ANC, APLA, South African Police, the Army and everyone that participated in this. So in that situation Sir I say that it's not a normal situation where ...

The policemen were kidnapped, and a number of firearms were taken during the raid. The telephone lines were cut, and the applicants wrote the words APLA on the wall and in the charge office so as to confuse the police who would later investigate that ...

MR FOURIE: Mr Chairperson, I was part of C2 who did research on MK and APLA members, we did have photo albums of refugees and we also had names of these people that we tried to identify, and I also had an interest in that and I knew that there were names of refugees in that office.

... And it’s very important for us in this country to understand what this is about. There is a perception that people like the applicants especially APLA cadres should not be granted amnesty, they must get their just deserts. Now I’m putting that in context, there’s been a lot of killing and the ...

MR MPSHE: We listened to the evidence earlier on thatthe political organisations that were operative in the area wereANC, PAC and perhaps Apla and it was said that Inkatha was notoperative in the area.

MS MAYA: That is all sir, thank you. Doris Twabu. Ma'am, you are going to tell us about your son who joined APLA, when to Lesotho in August 1982, is that so?

Evidently from the applicant's evidence it was APLA strategy to kill the farmers to further their political objectives. In other words it appears from the evidence of the applicants that the act they committed, namely the killing of Mr Fourie, was a strategy aimed at overthrowing the government ...