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people's warExplanation GRANTED: to the applicant for the assault on and torture of a member or members of a group of 19 people at Bloemfontein on or about 6 April 1986. And then it continues along this line. Then it refers on page 61, to the evidence that Gen van der Merwe gave in front of the, I think it was the Commission, the Truth Commission, as to the - that they expected of people of lower ranks, also to use their own discretion and not always to wait for ... MR MDLULWA: There was a lot of confusion, full of people, I cannot remember who else was there. During this shoot-out there was a pandemonium, the others were crying on the other side as we were also returning fire, we also had to save them, try to remove them and try to calm them down. 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 ... ADV VISSER: And the identification of the three people which could eventually be done, how was that done? 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 ... 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 ... However, we are not satisfied that the killings and attempted killings occurred within the political context. None of the victims were positively identified as being among the group that earlier passed by Lingani's house. The victims were severely tortured. They were asked about their ... MR NYAWUZA: You've stated in your evidence-in-chief that you felt the prison authorities at the time, people that you worked with, were part of the system. Can you briefly tell us why you say so? knew that there was a need to attack a farmer in order to pursue our struggle, the operation. Mr Fourie, as I have said, the people that were with knew him and we went into his house. MR MAKANANISE: He was asked as to who the co-witchcraft practising people were. 3. All the applicants were members of a political party and acted against people they believed to be their political opponents. Although they aver that they received an order to kill the deceased, the Committee cannot find that such an order was explicitly given,but on evidence, it is clear that ... CHAIRPERSON: My concern Mr van den Berg, is that we would like to finish this matter. We've lost a lot of time today, we started late. I don't want to adjourn until tomorrow and then find we can't finish, because unfortunately tomorrow we will have to adjourn early because certain people have to ... MR KHOTLE: I will start with Great Storm. Firstly, Operation Great Storm, or in the 1990's was declared the decade of intensification of the armed struggle and the people's offensive. That is where the Operation Great Storm was originated from. testified or attested to affidavits before us and accordingly we have no details of such people. Nevertheless, it is clear that should they come forward and satisfy the Reparation Committee that they were injured during the course of the incidents they would be entitled to be treated as victims ... MR VISSER: You mentioned to him, or mention was made that the persons wanted to go to Swaziland in order to establish contact with the ANC MK in Swaziland in order to further the people's war strategy and to entrench and promote this amongst the students in South Africa? ... we understood at some stage, never should start off and say that, you will recall that by that time, we had already become accustomed, or rather aware that the enemy at the time had already embarked on a program which was to turn some of our people into what we now refer to as Askaris and at ... me that the robbery was an operation planned by PAC or its military wing APLA. As indicated earlier, it appeared that the Police had acquired prior warning of the robbery operation. In fact various other PAC members including Horatius Motswadi and others were also arrested. During the ... place called Makaleni. It was very bad, from 1985 and 1986 we couldn't sleep at night because there was war between Azapo and UDF. We would get into bed dressed, even as parents. Our children could not be at home for a long time, and I could see that Azapo and UDF were fighting because there ... According to the applicant he was instructed by Jerome Mncwabe to do something that would scare the UDF people living in Zone One to such an extent that they would leave the area. The objective was to cause the UDF people staying in Zone One to flee the area so that it could become IFP territory. ... |
