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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 301 to 320 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 •18 •19 •20 Next Page•Last PageThe attacks by and counter attacks against these organisations continued unabated to the extent that mediatory meetings aimed at diffusing the conflict were convened by the national leadership of both the ANC and the SACP which were presided over by inter alia the late Harry Gwala and Blade ... ... the firearms taken from hostel dwellers, back to the hostel. The other role that he had, or which he told me and which I believed, is that the attacks, he contributed in carrying out attacks against the community together with the hostel ... "... they arrived on the evening of the 24th and we discovered that or there was a rumour that they had come to launch some revenge attacks for Martin's death on the 25th of December." CHAIRPERSON: We have to try not to attack each other, launch scathing attacks on each other. Tell us about what happened to you, how and things related to your statement, what was written in your statement so that whatever other allegations are made about other people that they would be able to ... MS KHAMPEPE: Mr Mpshe, may I interpose. Does it mean that when you were at Ndaleni the alleged members of the PAC, sorry, of the IFP from Gengeshe came and continued to launch attacks against you whilst you were at Ndaleni? These frequent and ongoing attacks understandably led to the leadership of COSATU being sensitive to and worried about further attacks. ... whether it was written or typed, which allegedly had been written by Ferndale or signed by Ferndale in which he admits his partipance in bomb attacks, or planned attacks, something to that affect. But it dealt with acts of ... MR VISSER: Would you accept that he was planning to execute attacks on, well attacks in South Africa, would you accept that? VAN RENSBURG: Okay now let's turn to the incidents that took place on the 25th to the 28th of February of that year, and I specifically refer to the attacks that were launched at the house of the deceased's brother, Mr Petrus Mahvunga and I want to ask you, were you part and parcel of those ... ... were to be members, just in case they train people who were not members, who would receive the training and would thereafter go and carry out attacks ... would say, at the time when we identified the old age home as a target, it happened that around South Africa, especially in Johannesburg, there were attacks in trains, there were attacks in Boipatong, Sebokeng, around Sebokeng. Black people were killed like flies. Then the understanding of Apla ... In our opinion, the owners of the properties in question are victims in relation to the attacks for which amnesty is hereby granted and they are accordingly referred for consideration in terms of the provisions of Section 22 of the Act. ... screaming open, open for us, please help us. They didn't open their doors because they were scared also. Because on the other side there were attacks launched on these ... "Kondile has not yet been interrogated in detail regarding attacks in the Cape Province as tentative arrangements were made with the security branch, Port Elizabeth, to do this with their co-operation" MR NGUBENI: I regard my action as politically motivated, because on my arrival from exile, I assisted the community in combatting attacks from the Third Force, and we discovered that there were vehicles that were used to shoot and kill people when they held funerals and such things. In that ... and 3rd applicants had no independent recollection of the specific incident. Their evidence was that they had been involved in hundreds of such attacks over the years. The evidence of the 1st applicant was however that it was in accordance with their modus operandi and they accepted it ... MS COLLETT: Now as a headman under this political umbrella, did you suffer any losses or attacks at the hands of anybody? MR MPANZA: Sifiso left for Empangeni, he spent two days there. He returned and informed me that the situation was quite bad. The houses were being burnt, (indistinct) that these attacks were carried out by the IFP. MR DLAMINI: It was my aim to secure firearms, I thought that I could use the money to buy a firearm so that I would use it when I go on attacks. MS MTANGA: Can you give us some information on the hostel dwellers that you'd been referring to who had been attacking your community, as to which hostel dwellers were these? Where were these hostels found in Diepkloof, and how were these attacks carried out? |
