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Municipal Police

Explanation
The Municipal Police force was created to defend black local authorities in townships across the country and to bolster the security forces' efforts to deal with the climate of 'ungovernability' that had gripped the country in the mid-1980s. Approximately 14 000 Municipal Police officers were recruited, trained and deployed in urban and rural towns across the country where unrest was strongest. They rapidly became associated with violations both on and off duty. Between April 1988 and August 1987, Municipal Police members had been charged with crimes including murder, robbery, assault, theft and rape. Known also as 'greenflies', 'greenbeans' or ' amaTshaka ', the Municipal Police were attached to the local authorities, initially falling under the Department of Constitutional Development. In 1989 they were incorporated into the SAP.

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been made to us. One of the mechanisms that was used to try to control the countrywide resistance was the introduction of special police personnel, municipal police, people often referred to as "kits constabels". We've had a number of statements from such persons or from their families about ...
I remember that some of us - before I talk about that day, one of us was shot. I still remember, it's the late Mr Defumatimi(?). He was shot by a municipal police. Then from there he died. The other one is, we call him Double Engine, then he was shot. Then he was taken to the surgery in the ...
... connection being made with such operations and their organisations. Incidentally, the 26th of October 1988 was the date for the first nation-wide municipal elections. Now a number of trainees have confirmed that they were concealed from police detection following the taking of offensive ...
... that, and then we, the police officials, if the next of kin does not come and collect them we come and collect the corpses and bury them in this Municipal area and we have the right to do ...
... he went back to Koppies - he went back to Johannesburg. In 1988 on the 1st of December Stompie appeared in court in connection with the burning of municipal cars. We used to call them the green beans at that time. Stompie went to Johannesburg. I was searching for him. I wanted to see him on ...
... our full support. He is totally opposed to the UDF, ANC and communists. He openly supports the RSA Government and commands White influence. The Municipal police also support him fully. Without external financial support, Memese will not achieve success. He will be busy organising on a ...
... tried to disperse the students, they used birdshot as well. And then about 100 students ran to the cemetery - because the cemetery - this is the Municipal cemetery I am talking about and closest to the college was a white cemetery - where they buried white ...
... office is also a factory, SAAN fell under the Factories Act, the Printing Industry Industrial Council regulations, the Physical Resources Act and municipal health legislation and the effects that it had on the company, and I will hand in these notes. I have taken a few pointers from it. He ...
CHAIRPERSON: And the information was with regard to the conduct of Nceba, how revolutionary he was and how outspoken he was and stating openly that he was responsible for the attacks on the homes of the police as well as the attacks on municipal officers?
... to queue and if there was anything wrong, or if you had visitors at that time or relatives who come to visit your place from elsewhere there were municipal police who could be sent from the very same offices to actually arrest your own visitors because they don't have a permit to enter the ...
That act was aimed at getting rid of the police in the location so that the residents could retrieve their human rights. Once again, that act was aimed at showing the government of the time that the residents did not want the municipal officers that were being forced upon them.
MR MAKHULENI: The first murder, the murder of the Police Officer, meaning the municipal Police Officer at Gwashu Street no 7, if I'm not mistaken the number of the house. The second murder of a certain Police Officer was in a truck, a municipal truck, the garbage truck at Gelo Street in ...
... was pursued in Durban. There is absolutely no evidence that indicates that anybody tried to find out who the killers were. Radebe talks about Municipal police and a Municipal Police officer and a police officer, but there is no evidence that anybody tried to investigate any murder in ...
Chairman. In Black suburbs, no go areas were created where the police could not enter to do policing the night particularly, Mr Chairman. Rent and municipal and other boycotts were important tools in order to create an ungovernability, Mr Chairman. Black politicians were legitimate ...
Councillors and Police were called on to resign, municipal buildings and homes of collaborators, were attacked. As the administrative system broke down, people established their own democratic structures to run the community, including Street Committees and People's Courts.
... o'clock, that is where all these attacks would be done. That is to say these attacks would take place at the respective places. The first one was Municipal, the Park Road Police Station in town, those were the places which needed to be ...
MR LOWIES: Do you know whether it was the police or the municipal police?
... but the people who actually shot your son you mentioned the three policemen, this policemen called Chaka and Makubela and somebody else they were Municipal police, they were not riot police as I understand ...
MRS MBALULA: These Boers had no decorum, the children was still in the struggle, they had burnt down a Municipal police car. They also burnt down an I&J car that was delivering meat. Then the hippo came, the casper came and they were shooting everybody in sight.
Wolseley Civic Movement was established on the 27th of September to get the inhabitancy in the Municipal area and the people from the surrounding areas to protect them against oppression by the Police. During that year for example in 1989 the Municipality of Wolseley [indistinct] . During 1990 ...
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