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East Rand violenceExplanation MR VISSER: You have - with regard to the general background of violence, political violence on the East Rand, you have heard what Gen van der Merwe and Brig Delport and Mr Prins, who had given evidence before you, had said. ... by the AWB is fortified by that if the said du Bruyn, who stated that during the morning of 27th April 1994 he, on hearing of the bombings in the East Rand, informed the applicants that it (the revolution) had begun and that more bombings would take place. This belief existed prior to the ... We intend to summarise the background. According to the Applicant in 1990 the Zonkizizwe area in the East Rand was engulfed in conflict between members of the ANC and the IFP. The Police were not impartial in the conflict because they supported IFP supporters who were killing ANC activists, and ... ... upon the communities by people from the hostels, who identified themselves as Inkatha. Inkatha members had also said they want to take over the East Rand, the area I was active in and make it their base. The result was that people were killed every day. I could not stand by and allow this ... ... actions were offensive in nature as the community sought to defend and protect itself from the onslaught of political violence that had the entire East Rand in its grip. Applicant submitted, therefore, that not only was there ample political motivation for their actions, but that such actions ... ... what he called a "crash course" in military training in Katlehong. In the 1990s he received further training in different places, inter alia the Eastern Cape. The training was given to him and other youths who supported the ANC because at the time in the East Rand township residents were ... ... these persons with the IFP. It is common cause that during this period there was a deep conflict between the members of the IFP and the ANC in the East Rand and Vosloorus was no exception to this conflict. The whole of East Rand was engulfed in violence that resulted in casualties being ... ... Now why I am talking about that is that I think that the TRC has a particular duty to address the traumatised society that has occurred from the East Rand, the unleashing of the violence on the trains, Soweto and all the other places that it ... MR NDLOVU: At the time when Mr Nkuna returned home, I began to know that there was violence in the East Rand, but otherwise before I only learnt about those violence through TV and the newspapers and radio. ... how he had obtained a firearm. At first he had used a home-made firearm and later he bought a .38 revolver and ammunition at Tokoza hostel on the East Rand. He further testified that he had felt compelled to buy a firearm as a consequence of the ongoing violence in his area. He said the ... ... Committee has dealt with numerous applications for amnesty arising out of SDU activities, particularly in Thokoza and surrounding areas of the then East Rand. Ample evidence has been led at these hearings concerning the political violence that engulfed these areas during the early 1990s and the ... |
