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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 741 to 760 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 34 •35 •36 •37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 Next Page•Last PageThis activity of violent confrontation tool many forms including attacks by members of the oppressed people's against apartheid and so forth. ... for the record that we did try so that people do not perceive the process as being an opportunity only for those people who were victims of Witdoek ... envisaged in the long term there would have been - someone would have been killed because we planned eventually in the long term to launch terrorist attacks against targets in the country. That was part of the planning from the base in Namibia, that was the whole basic plan as well to get the ... stage of these events, there was a war as it was observed by this situation, the conventional methods were not applicable, there were explosions and attacks the order of the day. If we look at the methods that were used to take a person to a farm and interrogate that person, with respect it is ... ... They were waiting for weapons to come in. What happened there was that the police decided that there was no way in which they could prevent the attacks from occurring. A plan was then made and then that plan entailed that a hand grenade, Russian hand grenades, were taken and the fuse delay ... MR DEHAL: You say that about this time when you dealt with Belgium, Sishle etc, you were an ordinary MK member. To the best of your knowledge Sishle gave instructions to carry out these attacks in Durban? We were always in Mr Gumede's company and we looked after him, because he had no-one to protect him. In that way we always wondered how he survived attacks on him, that is why we were always in his company, to accompany him wherever he ... JUDGE MOTATA: And you as an MK member, wore two hats in this instance to assist COSAS and at the same time, drive the SDUs against the attacks of the IFP? MR KOOPEDI: And these attacks, do you regard them as being part of that war? MR MGANDELA: I cannot remember because we were still new at the time and secondly, during our training we went there to acquire training in order to be able to launch attacks. We did not pay much attention to those things. That is why I cannot remember today. I was in Slovo Section. I had been called upon to base at Slovo Section. As I had already pointed out that I specially enjoyed launching counter-attacks against Inkatha members, it happened that I broke the commander's rules, that is Sipho or Moosa's commands. I was staying at a certain ... ADM, residing at Upper Gqumashe Location, Alice by a group of youths who were members of supporters of the ANC. In the course of the first of these attacks, which occurred during the night of 27th to 28th September 1992, the house of Mr Maseti was set alight and completely destroyed. On the ... MR RICHARD: What I’m trying to understand is, is your answer that special operations had special types of targets against which acts of, attacks should be committed, such as strategic plants, engineering, mining, police, military? ... in Swaziland, we know, we have heard from Pretorius that afterwards Sergeant Langa was indeed sent to Swaziland and where he received weaponry for attacks in South Africa, that he had brought the weapons from ... MR RAMASITSI: We were afraid that he was going to burn our kraals as he was renown for his aggressive attacks. So from there we waited for him until we realised that he's not coming, then in the morning we conveyed to our different places. So when we were at our place, they found that the youth, ... ... the people of King William's Town and the Border regions and the neighbouring parts to try and protect themselves and defend themselves against the attacks from the government of Brigadier Gozo. And the only enemy was the African National Congress. The only enemy of the government. At the time ... The ANC established a system of Self Defence Units to protect themselves and the community at large against attacks. The applicant said that it is in this context that on the 27th August 1992 he approached a motor vehicle (panel van) on the 27th August 1992 in order to get hold of firearms. He ... ... testified that during the evening they were at Checkers Tavern as part of their duties to patrol and monitor the township to guard against possible attacks by the IFP. They heard gunshots fired from outside the Tavern. Immediately Selai appeared and stood next to the door and ordered all the ... ... movement or whatever it may have been, which was generally known. Indeed at that stage it was so well known that they had already launched various attacks and that much publicity was linked to the organisation, much publicity was also given on television for the video which has been submitted. ... MR VISSER: You deal with attacks with regard to Botswana, on page 196 and 198, is that correct? |