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PEBCO ThreeExplanation The two security policemen implicated by Joe Mamasela in the disappearance of the Pebco three are Colonel Roelf Venter and this man, Colonel Gideon Niewoudt. He refused to be interviewed this week, but said in a statement from his lawyer that he was in no way involved in their disappearance or ... His commander in 1985 was Colonel Eugene de Kock. He is now on trial in the Transvaal Supreme Court on more than a hundred charges ranging from murder to fraud. ‘Qaqawuli Godolozi. Murdered May 1985’ // Sipho Hashe. Murdered May 1985 // Champion Galela. Murdered May 1985.’ We’re coming as an alternative force and then we have to prove to the people that we are indeed an alternative force, and then we had to do it by means of demanding and pressurizing the government. Vlakplaas, until recently the base of the police counter-insurgency unit. For 13 years Vlakplaas killed and assassinated anti-apartheid activists. In May 1985 an askari, a former ANC guerrilla that was turned by the security police, received an instruction from his commander. Gideon Niewoudt is now on trial in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court for murder. // The Motherwell bombing case: the state alleges that he was involved in the murder of other policemen. // At an inquest in 1993 into the murder of four other Eastern Cape activists, Niewoudt once again denied that he ... De Kock gave instructions that we should go and help Port Elizabeth Police, because there were some chaps that were making Port Elizabeth ungovernable and those people had to be eliminated. In the Truth Commission process there are victims and there are perpetrators of human right violations. Patrick Hlongwane was both. // Hlongwane left South Africa in December 1986 to meet with the leadership of the ANC in exile. He had been part of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation, but ... These white men were angry, they were really frightening and they said Mr. Godolozi should be fetched from the cell; he should be brought to the stoep. They brought him, his hands were cuffed and his legs were also cuffed. His face was covered. He was screaming when he went out, saying he was not ... ... or indirectly responsible for the unrest in the townships. // Even if he had removed some radicals there were other radical leaders and members of Pebco that were alive at the time, not so? // That is correct. // Is it also not correct that Pebco formed a constituent of UDF which was the ... Good evening. Tonight we bring you full reports on the drama at the Pebco Three amnesty hearing and the special business sector hearing. Our last item is a special documentary on South Africa’s involvement in the failed 1981 coup in the Seychelles. We begin in Port Elizabeth. In May 1985, three ... ... Dumisa Ntsebeza. We begin in Port Elizabeth. For 11 years the widows of Sipho Hashe, Qaqawuli Godolozi and Champion Galela, known as the Pebco Three, searched for some grain of truth about the disappearance of their husbands in 1985. In May last year, after the Truth Commission ... My husband was active in Pebco and active in politics. The Pebco was trying to solve the community’s problems and there were a lot of problems at that moment. And he was involved too much in politics. He used to tell me about his father; his fighting for the rights of the people and the ... ... one is it now, but it was five years. He couldn’t even go out to the near school there. After my husband get through this, the banning order, Pebco was there. Then, after they co-opted him to the Pebco my husband started to organise. They used to take a loudspeaker going up and down in each ... ... information, he has made a full confession to them, and as a result of this confession they have launched a number of murder investigations into Pebco Three, and also into the murder of Fabian and Florence Ribeiro in 1985. And I believe that, because of Mamasela’s cooperation, they may ... ... Democratic Front activists: Qaqawuli Godolozi, Sipho Hashe and Champion Galela. They led the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation the so-called Pebco Three. In March 1985 they had organised the three day stay away in the Eastern Cape. Their campaign played a major role in making the region ... ... Godolozi, Elizabeth Hashe and Lumali Galela are the widows of three leaders of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation, the men known as the Pebco Three. During the early 1980s, Qaqawuli Godolozi, Sipho Hashe and Champion Galela became targets of the security forces and their families ... The Port Elizabeth Black Civics Organisation (PEBCO) was launched in 1979. By the stormy mid eighties it had become the main force for resistance and street level organisation in the Eastern Cape. Hashe, Godolozi and Galela were prominent Pebco leaders at the time. ... and Mr. Van Zyl at that stage were completely aware of the activities of Pebco. // Is it your evidence that these three people, the so-called Pebco Three, that they were extremely dangerous? // That is ... ... to the allegation. He says: My client denies that he had any part in any action that led or could have led to the disappearance of the so-called Pebco Three or that he has any knowledge in this regard. It is significant that in three applications that were brought to the Supreme Court in this ... |
