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askari

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a former guerrilla 'turned' or recruited by the security forces

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An ANC member who was arrested, interrogated and assaulted by fellow ANC members near Lusaka, Zambia, during 1979 to 1982. One ANC member, who later became an askari, was granted amnesty (AC/2000/228).
Was detained by members of the Bloemfontein Security Branch and tortured on four different occasions in 1992. The police suspected that Mr Jikile had been involved in the APLA farm attacks. A former APLA member, turned askari, was granted amnesty for the torture (AC/2001/038). See APLA attacks.
An ANC supporter who was shot dead by Vlakplaas askaris in Chesterville, near Durban, on 21 January 1986, as he was preparing to go into exile. Some of the perpetrators applied for amnesty. See askari.
Was severely assaulted in Tzaneen, Transvaal, on 13 September 1982 by Vlakplaas operatives who suspected him of being an MK operative. An askari was granted amnesty (AC/2000/163).
Was one of ten youths from Mamelodi, Transvaal, who were recruited during the state of emergency by a named askari, ostensibly for ANC military training in Botswana. Near Nietverdiend, the youths were forcibly injected with a chemical substance thought to be a sedative. They burnt to death when the ...
A UDF supporter who was shot by an askari in Dennilton, KwaNdebele, during April 1987. He was accused of stoning the police.
... this time, he was repeatedly and severely tortured. His brother was detained at the same time and similarly tortured. A former APLA member, turned askari, was granted amnesty for the torture (AC/2001/038). ...
An unidentified askari who was stabbed to death by MK operatives who were attempting to escape from the covert Security Branch farm, Vlakplaas, Transvaal, over New Year in 1981. Two MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/1999/215).
Was abducted and killed by Security Police operating from Vlakplaas, Transvaal in 1981. The aim of the abduction was to turn him into an askari .
A former askari who had escaped, was arrested and tortured by Soweto Security Branch and Vlakplaas operatives at Marble Hall, near Pretoria, during 1989. On 4 October 1989, he was shot dead by Vlakplaas operatives, allegedly at the request of the Soweto Security Branch, at Penge Mine near ...
An ANC member who was abducted from Mamelodi, Pretoria, on 15 July 1987 by a Northern Transvaal Security Branch askari purporting to be an MK operative. He and two others were taken to the Portland Cement mine near Pienaarsrivier, where they were tortured during interrogation and then killed by ...
A COSAS member who was one of ten youths from Mamelodi, Pretoria, recruited in June 1986 by a named askari, ostensibly for military training in Botswana. All ten youths were killed when their vehicle was deliberately crashed and exploded near Nietverdiend by members of the Security Branch and SADF ...
... near Pietermaritzburg, by Port Natal Security Branch operatives during 1988. Mr Mkhwanazi was allegedly killed after he refused to become an askari. His body, buried in an unmarked grave, was exhumed by the Commission and reburied by his family. Four Port Natal Security Branch operatives ...
... this time, he was repeatedly and severely tortured. His brother was detained at the same time and similarly tortured. A former APLA member, turned askari, was granted amnesty for the torture ...
... Duduza, Nigel, Transvaal, on 25 June 1985. Mr Mazuza was one of seven activists in the area recruited for supposed military training by a Vlakplaas askari and then killed or injured in this incident. The perpetrators have applied for ...
... Bloemfontein who was killed with two others in an ambush near Bhunya, Swaziland, on 12 February 1989. The three were lured into the ambush by an askari purporting to be an MK operative. The Security Branch then spread a rumour that they had been killed by the ANC on suspicion of being police ...
An ANC supporter who was one of ten youths from Mamelodi, Pretoria, recruited during the state of emergency by a named askari, supposedly for ANC military training in Botswana. Near Nietverdiend the ten youths were forcibly injected with sedatives or another chemical substance and were burnt to ...
An askari who was shot dead by named members of the SAP in Thabong, Welkom, Orange Free State (OFS), on 21 August 1991, allegedly in a targeted killing.
A former MK operative who was killed by MK members in Soweto, Johannesburg, in 1987 or 1988. Mr Mthobi, a former bodyguard to ANC President, OR Tambo, was believed to have defected from the ANC and become an askari. One MK operative was granted amnesty for his role in the incident (AC/1999/0336).
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