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councillorsExplanation ... can relate the story to us. --- In 1979, the community of Lamontville asked Mzizi that he should join the election, because they were electing councillors, and he did actually enter the elections but his name was not chosen, so consequently he was not elected. And I remember at that time I ... MS MAYA: Ma'am, are there any other members of SINIP or Councillors that were treated like your husband by the government? to honour and remember all the young people who died in pursuit of liberation struggles. We thank you very much for coming and as you meet with our councillors they will be able to guide you as to how to access special health care following our recommendation. Thank you very much for ... MR MZIMELA: There is an Induna and councillors in every area. Like I said he was a chief councillor. It is not like he was above the Chief. MR PRETORIUS: And then there was the one where the handgrenades were at the Councillors' office, Mr Olifant was there. MR BOTTOMAN: Yes, other Councillors, their houses were also burnt and there was no connection between me and them. ... they will be told. Again my tribe went to Ulundi. They also gave them the same answer, that they will respond to them, they will write a letter. Councillors and indunas also went to Ulundi. Myself I went to Ulundi. I went to see Mr Nyanga Ngubane. I went there myself because I wanted to ... ... be carried out, but we've heard and you've heard the evidence that information was received that these people were wanting to attack police or councillors' houses and that they were waiting for arms and so the plot was hatched to anticipate that by infiltrating them, giving them ... conflict. We are not only concentrating on what the State has done to people, we must also listen to what people have done to other structures like councillors, like you know, police, and so on. What people have also done to those people, and we are very pleased that you have raised what was ... ... us so that he could talk to the community because at this stage the whole community was convinced that AZAPO was working hand in hand with the councillors and AZAPO was doing this. This was the impression that was the perception of the community and we went to ... Mrs Mtembu you lost your husband, your children were traumatised and they saw things that they should never have seen, and this was at a time when councillors houses were being burned down in Graaf Reinet. Your husband was politically alive? MR XABA: The reason for that, the Councillors at the time were harassing the community. They first burnt down our houses just before we attacked them. And this was part of also the campaign to ask the local councillors to resign. ADV NYOKA: Honestly, do you agree with me, Mr du Plessis, that if by City Council was discredited, it was not representative, it was racial and it was the creation of National Party. People had no interest in it. They did not vote for the councillors. Do you agree with me? ... has actually indicated to you through the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee we will certainly try and be of assistance with directing you to councillors. So thank you very much and we'll try and follow up as best we can. Thank ... that the mayor was Jeffrey Nkosi. No, it was Zondo. He has since died. At that time when I got to the meeting there was some conflict amongst the councillors themselves, because they felt that there was some favouritism that was going on with regard to the elections. And we continued in that ... gone out already? Okay. Sandra Mahamba, the chairperson of the Joubertin CPF, Father August Lekhoko, Anglican Church, Kuma. Then we have a number of councillors from Stilfontein, Klerksdorp and Orkney, Joyce Matshayana, Mr Mojobe and Tosa Molempukana. Thank you. We have Father Goleng from ... MS RAMAKOKOVHU: Well, regarding the Councillors, there were some differences regard, we even went to their homes to ask them to resign and subsequent to that, police were called and we were in Jimmy Chauke’s house and the police arrived and they came on their Casspir. They just started off ... ... crimes and for instance when Radebe who was in the witness box, the one Panel member specifically asked him whether it was not unheard of that Councillors would be murdered because of it was considered that they were aligned to apartheid structures and the witness, after first being ... ... structure fell also the Local Management System (LMC) which was attached to the various police station areas. The role players here were also city councillors, the traffic chiefs, local police inspector, the local detective branch, reservists, taxpayers associations and whichever institution had ... |
