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PEBCO ThreeExplanation ... about a mean and petty past. As I regard myself today, as a disgrace to my mother, my family and my relatives, my friends and the families of the Pebco Three and the nation as such, it is with my deepest remorse that I ask for forgiveness and hopefully wishes to be reconciled with everybody ... The Eastern Cape security branch vehemently deny Mamasela’s version of how the Pebco three were killed. Port Elizabeth was ungovernable. And I want to go even further and say that Pebco was in control here. // The activists were winning the war, or had already done so. There was feedback from the secretariat, the Security Council, which was received by the JMC to the effect that the government was ... ... of the Vlakplaas squad. Former askari Kimpani Mogoai and policeman Johannes Koole are asking for amnesty for the abduction and assault of the Pebco Three. Their commander, Roelf Venter and his right hand man, Gert Beeslaar deny that the three activists were assaulted. The security police ... ... and Generals such as Basie Smit and Johan van der Merwe. Van der Merwe will testify on their behalf. Apart from high profile murder cases like the Pebco Three and Fabian Ribeiro, they will also talk about elaborate plans to kill ANC MP Simangaliso Mkhatshwa and the death of eight COSAS members ... Tonight we will give the PEBCO family some answers. Colleague Jacques Pauw takes up the story. This week our team goes to Port Elizabeth for an amnesty hearing around the killings of the Pebco Three. We’ll meet again next Sunday at six. Good night. ... because they sold me out to the Boers on a silver platter and then they left me out. // Do you know why your version in this matter, in this Pebco Three matter, differs from all the other people who testified here? // Yes, it’s because I’m telling the truth and they’re covering ... ... what they are going to be submitting to us is going to go to the heart of the matter, namely indicate to the nation… we have been asked by the Pebco Three, what have you, Cradock Four, those families have said ‘we want the bones, we want this, we want that’ and we have a duty to those ... ... The Motherwell bomb attack, the killing of Matthew Goniwe and three others, known as the Cradock Four, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Sizwe Kondile and the Pebco Three. These men have finally told the families how they kidnapped, tortured and murdered their loved ones, before their bodies were set alight ... He was an organizer in the Pebco. He helped the people. I remember one time there is the people who have no place to stay in those shacks far away, like Dan Qeqe. So they take those people to here in Rio hall here and then he’d always cook soup for those people, every day they are going to fetch ... The story of the disappearance of the Pebco Three starts on that day in May when they received a mysterious phone call from a so-called British diplomat who had to be fetched at the H. F. Verwoerd airport in Port Elizabeth. The way in which bodies were disposed of in this country took various shapes and forms. The bodies of the Pebco Three were burnt whilst those that killed them were having a braai. The bodies of Siphiwo Mtimkulu and Topsy Madaka in the Eastern Cape were burnt whilst those who had killed them were ... ‘Abduction and Killing: Pebco 3.’ // Once again, depending who issued the orders. It would definitely be unauthorized and mala fide. Nothing was ever heard of the three men again. Police said Norman Fesi had lied and that the Pebco Three had probably left the country. ... racing course outside Port Elizabeth. Immediately we knew that something serious had happened. We had pointers because in May, as you know, the Pebco Three disappeared without a trace. Relatives in the community were informed and some members of the family had to go to Port Elizabeth to ... Gideon Niewoudt was for many years a feared security policeman in the Eastern Cape. He has now applied for amnesty for the killing of the Pebco Three, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Topsy Madaka, Steve Biko and four victims of his car bomb at Motherwell. He also asked for amnesty for assaulting Eastern Cape ... The question of whether or not the Pebco Three were assaulted before they died is crucial to whether the applicants are granted amnesty. If the activists were beaten to death, the security policemen will have difficulty convincing the Committee that such brutality was in proportion to the political ... The applicants contradict each other on the purpose of the abduction. The askaris and policemen from Vlakplaas whose applications will be heard this week will say they were abducting the Pebco Three for the purpose of interrogation. They also say they did not know of the elimination plan. ... the TRC to the people where it belongs. Yes, I would say that largely we have been able to uncover the truth. You need just to think of say the Pebco Three; the sort of things that we now know. Or the bombing of Khotso House, or the Cradock Four and perhaps most heartrendingly you might refer ... |
