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people's warExplanation After that, people used to come and pray for us at home, and the police would come and they would ask the people to go away - not to pray for us. They gave us a date for the funeral and we didn’t want to bury my son on that day, but we were forced by the police to do that. After that there was ... DR BORAINE: Can you tell me, was there anyone else in the street where you were walking along 12th Avenue near 41, were you alone or were there other young people or anybody there? CHAIRPERSON: The next witness, could those people who are leaving please keep as quiet as possible. ... five White people came armed looking for this old woman. They said "open up, open up", I said not in this manner, you broke my door, you broke my wardrobes nothing is functioning well in my house. They asked for Tami, I said you will forgive me you asked for Sarah now you are looking for Timu. ... PROF MEIRING: Mrs Radebe thank you for coming, for relating your story and what happened to the young people you are going to tell us about. It all started on the night of the 24th of January 1992. Will you please tell us in your words what happened on that day and in the days that followed upon ... MR MOCHAWE: It was on the 19th October 1990. That day I woke up just fine. I left my place for work. On my way I saw people coming from the other direction - the opposite direction I was heading for. I was surprised, the group of people coming from the opposite, I was wondering what was ... I asked for his clothes which they wouldn't give to me. I then went home. Then I told people there that they had told me when to have his funeral. 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. ... they were continuing with normal classes. So when we arrived at Imakilata some of the people within the group were shouting obscene things towards the nuns and so on and Julian and I decided to leave. On our way back, it was in Bats Road, they were erecting barricades and someone who ... 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? MR HATTINGH: Were there no people in the houses or buildings who might have seen him? 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 LOOTS: It was so that we were approximately 20 or 25 people who came together. like that happened, people used to question many questions and get answers for themselves. (ii) Whether the fact that the arsonists later discovered that there were people in residence is responsible for the lacuna in the information admitted; 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. ... MR DU PLESSIS: And it was not strange for you to receive instructions from the people from the Natal Security Branch? 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. On the second week of my stay I just had a gut feeling that I should not run my usual road work because I was also doing road work. Then during the week my uncle came. He had come to tell us bad news, that my brother had died and I wanted to find out as to what had happened. He told me that ... |