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people's warExplanation MR MNGUNI: They had set the store alight and previously there was nothing then they started. That was when things started. Turmoil. People were not fighting. MR SIZANI: Mr Chairperson, I was accused by our headman, Mr Malangeni Makapela, he accused me of burning down his home. On that day I was at home. I heard that the house was being burnt down. I saw flames in that house. My uncle said that I must stay at home, because people were gathering ... CHAIRPERSON: The defensive one would have been - you were of the opinion that they would have killed the people handling them? CHAIRPERSON: We are now going to call on Mr Sandi to call people. MR VISSER: Can you today recall any name that you specifically collected information about, that was promoted to Special Forces and that was one of the people that was killed or injured in this action? MR MMAKOU:: I wasn't at home by then, I was at work. My son and daughter came to tell that they received a message from Kanya House, telling them that Monageng has been killed by a bomb that blasted in Manzini in Swaziland and then I returned home with them and then I contacted Kanya House and I ... DR RANDERA:: Chairperson, if you will, we also have other people from different areas and I want to particularly welcome some of the people who actually appeared at other hearings, Mrs Bangeni from Soweto, the mother of Bheki Bangeni, and Duma from Sharpeville, one of the Sharpeville six people ... MR MONAKALI: I was in a boxing tournament in 1981, fifth of June. This boxing tournament was in David Mama High School, NU1. That proceeded well. On the morning of the sixth of June Mr Mlandu, that I know well from the neighbourhood, got into the school hall and reprimanded us for making noise. ... mourning or during mourning. Then I asked as to when my father was going to be buried because I knew that if a person died he was supposed to be buried and my mother told me that we were still going to look for my father's corpse. On the following Friday my mother told me that we should go to my ... MR KOOPEDI: Now, can you tell this Honourable Committee what could have been your political motive, if you had any, to attack these people, the two deceased? (ii) Whether the fact that the arsonists later discovered that there were people in residence is responsible for the lacuna in the information admitted; MR HATTINGH: You accepted that were not people in the building. MR PETENI: Yes, I participated because what was important there, or what I knew about that day, was not the fact that -I knew the main purpose of my being there in that meeting that was called by Gen Nqoya, the reason why I went to that meeting is that I knew that we had to remove Brig Gqozo from ... MR LOOTS: It was so that we were approximately 20 or 25 people who came together. MR HATTINGH: Were there no people in the houses or buildings who might have seen him? MR MASINA: We fixed an appointment with people who were based in Botswana. We sent our agent recruiter to whom we had given a letter to take to the people in Botswana. He came back with a written response giving us the go ahead in the elimination of Mr Lukhele. MR NDIOKO: The people were singing freedom songs. There were officers who were at the stage and the other members and they were singing, they were in that mood. MR MOGANEDI: I will start by what happened to me in Mutatema when I was injured. We left Jane Furse going to Mutatema to a funeral. We also wanted to go and look for a combi which was stolen. When we arrived in Tafelkop where our comrades were killed we found the combi and it was driven by those ... like that happened, people used to question many questions and get answers for themselves. MR DU PLESSIS: And it was not strange for you to receive instructions from the people from the Natal Security Branch? |