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February 1994 attacks

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Several reports were received of attacks by ANC members on IFP supporters in Ndwedwe in February 1994. About 20 deaths, of both IFP and ANC members, were recorded that month, together with at least 28 incidents of house-burning. Hundreds of people were forced to flee the area, and schools and shops were forced to close.

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ANC strategy in the period February 1990 to May 1994 388 While the ANC leadership may have anticipated some political changes in the country in 1990, the rank and file membership was caught off guard by State President FW de Klerk’s announcement on 2 February 1990 that the government was ...
... per cent of the hearable applications and 67 per cent of the chamber matters were granted amnesty. 47. The Amnesty Committee heard that, prior to February 1990, violations committed by members of right-wing organisations took the form of isolated attacks with a strong racist character. From ...
... Wepener, on 25 July 1993 in which Mr Johnny Smith was killed and his wife Rene was injured. b The attack on Boonzaaier's farm at Virginia on 12 February 1989, in which Mr Johannes Hermanus Boonzaaier was fatally shot, his wife Mercia was assaulted and they were robbed of their bakkie.15 c ...
where its operational platform was based during the early 1990s. 7. The majority of the amnesty applications related to violations committed between February 1990 and April 1994 and were submitted by members of APLA. Amnesty applications for violations committed in the earlier period were for ...
Pan Africanist Congress 461 After the unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February 1990, the PAC adopted a different strategic position to that of the ANC. While the ANC engaged almost immediately in ‘talks about talks’ with government representatives, the PAC told the Commission that ...
... charge of attempted murder and one of the illegal possession and use of a .38 revolver. Mr Xolani Mnguni [AM3551/96] received the death sentence in February 1993 for the murder of Mr William Matsosale on 29 November 1992 at a Naledi–Cleveland train. He said that he was acting under the orders ...
... RESULTED IN THE DEATHS OF FIFTEEN PEOPLE; • ASSISTING THE CISKEI HOMELAND AUTHORITY IN THE KILLING OF MR CHARLES SEBE AND MR ONWARD GUZANA IN FEBRUARY 1991. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT THE DEATHS OF THE ABOVE PERSONS WERE GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FOR WHICH THE FORMER STATE, THE SADF, ...
... Violations in the Eastern Cape during the 1990s took place in the following contexts: a violence following the release of Mr Nelson Mandela in February 1990; b clashes between the newly unbanned ANC and PAC; c a battle between the South African government and the ANC for control over the ...
as ‘a person who is believed to be endowed with powers of causing illness or ill luck or death to the person that he wants to destroy’. 263. The February 1990 lifting of the ban on the liberation movements and the release of Mr Nelson Mandela precipitated an extensive mobilisation of youth, ...
... [KZN/NNN/026/NC] told the Commission that her husband Mr Justice Masiba, a Durnacol employee for twenty years, was killed by other miners on 12 February 1991 because he was Xhosa. 330 A Xhosa-speaking worker claimed that the trouble had spread to the Dannhauser mine from the nearby Hlobane ...
... Alliance into the elections. 1994 One person is killed and several injured in an APLA attack on the Crazy Beat disco in Newcastle, Natal on 14 February. PAC president Clarence Makwetu announces the suspension of the armed struggle. The Fourth Interim Report of the Goldstone Commission ...
... of gross violations of human rights. 3 The period opened with the public announcement of major political reforms by President FW de Klerk on 2 February 1990 – including the unbanning of the ANC, PAC, SACP and fifty-eight other organisations; the release of political prisoners and provision ...
... they returned to Umtata to report to Mphahlele. The Amnesty Committee had not made a finding at the time of reporting. 490 On the evening of 14 February 1994, APLA operatives attacked with firearms the Crazy Beat Disco at Newcastle. One person was killed and several others were injured. 491 ...
it later emerged that he was very much alive and had officially changed his name. Mr Bongani Wana, implicated first in the Sangoni et al killings of February 1988 and later along with SADF MI in the abortive Duli coup attempt of November 1990, is now known as Charles Wanase; his new identity ...
... Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria and were urged to fight to restore what the government had ‘unjustly given away’. 770 In the period after 2 February 1990, right-wing violence took on a much more organised and orchestrated form. Isolated racist attacks on individuals were quickly eclipsed ...
... why I say I am confused when they say we have shifted in constituting targets because this started long ago. ( P i e t e rmaritzburg hearing, 11 February 1998.) 304. Mr Luvuyo Kulman [AM1638/96], who applied for amnesty for various attacks in F i c k s burg, quoted Robert Sobukwe to ...
... and was killed in order to prevent his succession to the chieftainship, to clear the way for an IFP-supporting brother, Mr Booi Mzimela. 227. In February 1992, Gumede and his people struck again, killing another of the b rothers, also an ANC supporter and next in line to the chieftainship. ...
Suspension of the armed struggle 305. After the lifting of the banning orders on the liberation movements on 2 February 1990, the PAC adopted a different strategic position to that of the ANC. While the ANC engaged almost immediately in ‘talks about talks’ with government representatives, ...
... 416 The Commission also received statements in connection with some of the APLA members. These included a statement regarding the death on 9 February 1994 of APLA chief Sabelo Gqweta, better known as Sabelo Phama [EC1956/97UTA], when his car was involved in a crash with a truck in ...
... in the Western Transvaal, including the blowing up the Munsieville electrical substation, and the transport and possession of explosives. 364 In February 1994, three AWB/AVF members, Mr JB de Wet [AM6466/97], Mr de Wet Johan Strydom [AM5168/97] and Mr Pieter Breytenbach [AM5167/97] members ...
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