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people's warExplanation 8. Malicious damage to the house of the people mentioned under 7 and the burning of Alet Schoon's car. MR LAX: Who were these three people? CHAIRPERSON: If you require a little more time I am prepared to stand down to enable you to consult the people. MR MSIMANGO: I was at Checkers Tavern, drinking. While we were drinking we heard gunshots outside and then we tried to hide ourselves. There was no place for me to hide myself because there were many people in the tavern, so I stood next to the door and then Johannes appeared. It was that very, very difficult but let me deal with the work situation. On the second or so day on Robben Island in the Agricultural Team that was under the command of a man called Piet Kleynhans, I was one of those people who had to push a wheelbarrow and in pushing it because we were dumping ... At first blush it would appear that the applicant killed the people in revenge for his mother's death. However, on the evidence as a whole, and having regard that the applicant had to flee his home and go into hiding for fear of his life since he was wanted, his home and brother's shop where he ... MRS WALTERS: My husband was a victim in the Church Street bombing as already mentioned earlier. It happened in 1983. As far as we know 19 people died and more than 200 people were injured. My husband was seriously injured that night. PRETORIA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG The Amnesty Committee is of the opinion that the families of the deceased referred to in Counts 5, 6, 7 and 8 and the people that were injured referred to in Counts 9 and 10 and Gary Atkinson, the co-owner and manager of the Heidelberg Tavern are victims in relation to the incident and they are ... MR BOTHA: Is this an all inclusive list or is it that you may be mistaken about the names of some of the people and where you incorrectly are nominating people who were present and that you have omitted persons who were indeed present? Norman does not stay at home. He comes now and again. They called him and requested his ID. They then said you are a member of the Dodo family. He said yes. They then said they want guns. He said he does not know anything about guns. They beat him up. They beat him up, threw him into the ... MS SEROKE: Do you know those people who did that because in your statement you talked about Mampati and Mabelo. These people went to attack. It was the two Applicants and one Mtangwenyawo. The first Applicant knocked at the door. The deceased opened the door, the second Applicant then fired a shot at him. After that they all left and sent back to Luthuli's house. MR MORUPISI: Our intention was not to kill these people, it was to take these people and bring them back to the community where they stayed because they were not staying in Bekkersdal, they were staying in Carltonville. MR NGWENYA: Chairperson on the 3rd of January 1987 we were from the funeral of Comrade Joel and Bhumgame Radebe. Yes, we came to agreement that there are certain important people who were important in the opposition that was ...(indistinct) our fellow comrades. We should kill them. Unfortunately ... And as we have heard your instructions then were to try to prevent the attack and to arrest people. MR MSIZA: On the 21st in 1985, the 21st of November, there was a stay-away action in Mamelodi in connection with the rent issue. All Mamelodi's people had not gone to work because we wanted to discuss the rent issue, but all the residents decided that we were going to the office. Before people ... MR VISSER: That included that he came to Pretoria on a particular day to speak to Brigadier Cronje and that he was introduced to two people, one he couldn't remember the other one was Captain Hechter and thirdly that you were present at a meeting where Roos discussed the problems relating to ... Then at seven o' clock we left with my husband. We went at the 16th, the way they directed us. We found many people on the street. They were looking at, they were surprised. When we arrived there we saw one policeman who was standing in one of the houses. That house was riddled with bullets ... You can just speak to the people at the table. Mr Diko, you have come today to tell us about yourself and your wife, Abigail, that you were prison warders during the period of 1985 when this incident happened to you on the 13th of August in 1985. You have come to tell us about the specific ... By that time I was alone, I had no-one to assist me - it was the first time I get something like this, I took my three daughters - there were five of us, we were burying my son. The police told me that we must not have 100 people in the funeral and I told them it’s only people from Knysna that can ... |