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Guguletu SevenExplanation Good afternoon Director Knipe you are the last person to be a witness in this Guguletu 7 matter. I will now ask advocate Potgieter to do this oath please. And they were permanent residents of Guguletu and Nyanga? Kommissie vir die Waarheid en Versoening oor 'n voorval op 3 Maart 1986 waartydens sewe persone gedood is te Guguletu. ... gebou gelaat waarin ek aangesê was om op 28 November 1996 voor die Kommissie vir Waarheid en Versoening te verskyn met betrekking tot ‘n voorval te Guguletu op 3 Maart 1986 waarin sewe persone gedood is. Ten einde die behulpsaam te wees het ek besluit om my herinneringe aan die gebeure in ... MS QUNTA: When you went to the Guguletu Police Station and you told the policemen that you saw what you say you saw you say you gave - they sent you out, they sent you away? MR FINYE: Ja. It was on a Saturday. On the 24th in May 1986. My son and his friends went to Khayelitsha in a motor vehicle. They left Guguletu and went to Khayelitsha. In that motor vehicle. There were six people, three were men and three were women. They were all together in this vehicle. ... At the time of the incident in which Mr Beeton and Mr Jansen were killed, there were bus boycotts, school boycotts as well as ...(indistinct) boycott in Guguletu, Nyanga and the surrounding townships. betrekking tot ‘n voorval op 3 Maart 1986 te Guguletu toe Well, can I remind you according to your statement that according to your statement you said that your son was shot in Guguletu in Cape Town during the celebrations of Nelson Mandela's release. Is that true? --- Yes, that's true. On the 5th of January 1994, you signed a statement before Mr Etsebeth in which you said that you had been in Guguletu on the night of the 30th of December 1993 and seen weapons being transferred to a white Audi XA12848, is that correct - you made that statement? From there, Madasi and Jantjie showed us the way. We had arrived in Cape Town during the course of the middle of the morning, in the middle of the week and from there we went to a house of the then Regional Organiser of the PAC, Michael Siyolo, who lived in Guguletu. MR MBELO: It was in the beginning of 1986 when we came here to Cape Town for this Guguletu 7 mission. to when the Comrades were taking me into Guguletu Police Station. I would say They were speaking English but there was only one Xhosa speaking person, it was the interpreter. After that they took me to Guguletu police station. We stayed there with other detained people. One of them was Baba - not Baba only to find that they were not looking for Baba they were looking for ... ... genoem "die Kommissie") te verskyn om getuienis af te lê en vrae te antwoord met betrekking tot dood van sekere persone, na wie verwys word as die Guguletu 7, op 3 Maart 1986 te Guguletu, Kaapstad. Graag wys ek daarop dat ek enige tyd op ‘n versoek van die Kommissie of enige ondersoeker van die ... MR B WILLIAMS: You also say that at some stage during your presence on the scene, you were instructed to withdraw, because the police bus had safely reached Guguletu Police Station? Is that correct? ... you are here. Our investigator have come up with an incredible amount of evidence and details relating to the case that came became known as the Guguletu 7. And most - a lot of their evidence, suggest - of their findings, suggests an urgent need to re-investigate the case and to establish ... off street was blocked by the police I had to take another route. I took NY78, I was with a colleague, his name was Simon Skeye who use to live at Guguletu at that time, no 53. While we were at NY78 we were told to disperse by the police, and we were shot at but we didn’t care about that, we ... Let me turn now to another event which this Commission has already heard evidence about. It was an event known as the Guguletu 7 shootings where 7 young men were shot at the Crossroads near Guguletu. Unfortunately he had already left. He took a train and he used to arrive at Guguletu station. He got onto the train, coming to me. Nobody informed us where he was, but nobody answered the phone. I was worried, I didn’t know where he had gone to. We slept that night, the next morning I went to ... |
