Guguletu Seven

Explanation
On 3 March 1986 seven men aged between 16 and 23 were shot dead in a field at Guguletu, Cape Town. Police claimed that the victims were known 'terrorists' and had been killed during a legitimate anti-terrorist operation. A magistrate at two inquests made the same finding. The Commission's investigation into the incident revealed an extensive cover-up by the security forces involved in the incident. Security Branch members from Cape Town and Vlakplaas infiltrated askaris into a group of seven activists, planned an ambush of police personnel to lure the youths into a trap, then killed them. Two Security Branch members from Vlakplaas were granted amnesty.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pollsmoor, Day 2 (27 November 1996)

GUGULETU 7 POLLSMOOR CT/00100 CHRISTOPHER PIET NOMVUYO CYNTHIA NGEWU SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pollsmoor, Day 2 (27 November 1996)

GUGULETU 7 POLLSMOOR CT/00108 ZABONKE KONILE TSHERDEN MBENYANA SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE

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Amnesty Hearing, Cape Town, Day 1 (07 September 1998)

... one? In my knowledge, each and every area, even in Lusaka, there were gangsters, in Nyanga, there were a lot of gangsters, in Khayelitsha, at Guguletu, but why they went to attack at Crossroads and said they have got information that there is a gangster, the house which is people who are ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pollsmoor (27 November 1996)

Verholwertz. I think it was at about 10, she asked me if I have that a child which is politically orientated. I said "no". Then she said that in Guguletu there were Guerrillas that had been ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Cape Town, Day 1 (09 June 1997)

... if something developed inside, inside that wound, and they couldn't band the leg and then I saw a lot on my knee and I was sent to day hospital at Guguletu. And when I asked them to - they told me they are going to treat me, but they couldn't. So I said I am losing weight because of this. So I ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Heiderveld, Day 3 (24 April 1996)

I asked them is there anything that happened they didn’t tell me anything, they just took me. Then we went to Guguletu. I didn’t go straight home, because my home is also in the same vicinity. My sister-in-law took me to his - to her house. I tried to ask them what exactly happened here, they ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Cape Town, Day 1 (09 June 1997)

... understand how it all happened. I was the chairperson of the UWO in the Western Cape. I tried to get in touch with other women in places like Guguletu and other areas. We tried to seek ways of trying to address the situation. Because I felt that it didn't need outsiders. I went to other ...

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Special Hearing, Cape Town, Day 1 (20 May 1997)

know. It was up to an editor to decide this is the news and this is what happened and therefor I am going with it. A few years after that I was in Guguletu, near the Methodist church, and the Archbishop had negotiated with police - children that had a meeting in the church, that they could leave ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pollsmoor, Day 2 (27 November 1996)

Where did you hear that your son was amongst the Guguletu 7?

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Amnesty Hearing, Port Elizabeth

trying to run away, they were fighting with the police and maybe shoot them and leave some AK47's next to them as it was the norm with the so-called Guguletu ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pollsmoor, Day 2 (27 November 1996)

Thank you very much, you may be seated. In 1986 on the 3rd of March, to be precise, you were residing in the Dairy Belle hostel on the corner of NY1 and NY111, in Guguletu. Is that correct?

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Amnesty Hearing, East London, Day 3 (01 April 1998)

... evidence in other matters where APLA were involved, for example in the Heidelberg Tavern matter where the Opel Rekord motorcar that was taken from Guguletu, the owner of the vehicle was told that it was APLA and they required the vehicle for an operation and the vehicle would be returned or put ...

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Decision (20 May 1997)

The applicant was convicted of the possession of an unlicensed firearm, a Z88 pistol and ammunition at Guguletu on 25 September 1992 and sentenced to 6 lashes plus twelve months correctional supervision, plus two and a half years' imprisonment, this being suspended for five years. He has since ...

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Decision (20 May 1997)

(a) On 13 October 1991, at or near Guguletu in the region of the Cape, he did wrongfully and unlawfully assault Mdimpiwe Ntekiso by shooting him with a firearm, with the intention to murder him;

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Heiderveld, Day 4 (25 April 1996)

I went to 147 at Guguletu because the houses at Nyanga East were all burnt. Before my husband was buried, I was very sick, so I went to the Day Hospital, they X-rayed me, then they reported to me that they could still see the bullets in my chest. They could see one bullet on - in my arm. I ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Umtata, Day 1 (24 August 1998)

In other words, it would be used only for the task for which it was needed and then returned. Internally, the usual practice was to confirm the bona fides. For example I can refer to the Guguletu 7.

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Amnesty Hearing, Pietermaritzburg (11 February 1998)

MR SHICEKA: In Cape Town, Guguletu, 72 number 11.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Cape Town, Day 2 (10 June 1997)

The only help was from the superintendent from the Guguletu day hospital who did us where he could. It also generated another problem - while severely injured patients had to be transported to tertiary hospitals such as Groote Schuur and Tygerberg, they woke up under police guard at Tygerberg and ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 7 (23 July 2000)

The other was Jimmy Mbane. He was involved in the Guguletu 7.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pollsmoor, Day 2 (27 November 1996)

Thank you chairperson. In conclusion of this part of the Guguletu 7 event hearing, I would like to read into the record a statement that was taken from Ms Pat Smith - who has been referred to in the testimony of Mr Benting - by our investigating unit.

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