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Kabasa gang

Explanation
a vigilante group formed in the Eastern Transvaal in 1986. The gang operated with SAP and SADF support in the Nelspruit and KaNgwane areas of KaNyamazane, Pienaars Trust, Luphisa Trust and Kabokweni, to crush political unrest associated with the 1986 school boycotts in these areas.

... supporting fellow activists at a court hearing in the former KaNgwane, and a night vigil a week later; and lastly, testimonies from victims of Kabasa gang violence ? a vigilante group formed by the police ? and evidence of continuing activity by Kabasa and former security force members. The ...
... battle in KaNyamazane continued. This time however the security forces employed a new ally, a band of collaborators from within the community. The Kabasa gang became the handmaiden of terror in the Mpumalanga region. Today apartheid is dead, but Kabasa’s shady presence ...
The vigilante gang, Kabasa, KaNyamazane, Mpumalanga
The families of ANC activists Kenneth Mabuza and Steve Tsotsetsi gathered here in the barren mountain graveyard near KaNyamazane outside Nelspruit. Both men had been brutally murdered by the notorious Kabasa gang that assisted police in fighting the UDF in this region during the 1980s.
Ja, Kabasa I think was formed by the police when they saw the youth and the people around those townships so united behind the UDF, behind LOYOMO, behind the ANC. And the system thought of a way how to destabilize. It really terrorized this township, it brought about divisions where people never ...
it was during this time that an enemy with a new face emerged, a powerful gang from within the community started a reign of terror. They were called ...
... this people should go, and they really went one by one. After the death of the third one, the second one we were no longer hearing things from ...
 
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