Sharpeville Six

... and just war. Further, Umkhonto we Sizwe was a means to channel the revolutionary violence the oppressed were calling for, especially after the Sharpeville massacre: Some (spontaneous actions of the people) result from Government provocation, the peoples patience becomes exhausted, and the ...

MR HLONGWANE: I greet the Commission. My story is quite long and so much that in the 1960 affairs I wouldn't be able to give you the dates, it's quite long. As you see this is my last born. It's quite long. But then the reason that got me into jail it was the Sharpeville affairs.

Sharpeville commemorations. So it was just one of them. I do not think it was the day, it was one of those

MR BERGER: You spoke yesterday in your evidence about an incident in Sharpeville where you were surrounded and accused of being a police informer. It was at a time when you were with Mr Mbatha. Do you remember that?

report was very black. We had seen Sharpeville, what had happened in Sharpeville. We were aware of the mood of the students in Soweto. We were aware of the dangers that were involved in a possible confrontation between the students, high school students in Soweto and the police. We were aware ...

... one of them losing his life and apparently others were injured. The unit comprised of myself, Solly, the commander and Boysi. We were staying in Sharpeville at the time. We were deployed in the area by the director of special operations Sipho Bulalani Kloma who was also deputy director of ...

... like to speak to a focus but there would seem to me to have been three distinct periods of exile in our recent history. We talk often about the Sharpeville generation and this is the spate of exiles who were thrown out in the aftermath of the political repression that followed Sharpeville. ...

And he talks about two people who told him - I'll summarise this for you, about the residents of Boipatong being protected by people from Sharpeville but he says that in return for this protection these people from Sharpeville demanded money from the people of Boipatong. And then I'll read to you ...

MR BERGER: Why did you say in your application that it was a Sharpeville rally?

MR LEVINE: Did you know at the stage of the London bomb, of the planned Sharpeville ceremony later that day?

COMMISSIONER: We welcome Jabulani today. You have come to tell us about the killing of one of your other sons, Sifiso Mabaso, who was killed on Sharpeville day in 1992. After you've taken the oath Mrs Gcabashe will help you with your evidence. Can you stand up and take the oath.

Just before that, on the Monday before that march on Thursday, March 21st, which was Sharpeville day of course, quite ironic that they chose that day to deport her, I went down to Mmabatho to meet the Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief Victor Suping, who is now the chairperson of the house of ...

... the, that for us was an encouragement, but I must say, coming from a situation where one had read a bit of history and one knew about events like Sharpeville at that time and it is something that weighed very heavily on my mind, especially the possibility that that could happen. I had a very ...

... and severe ill-treatment and all these gross human rights violations should have been committed within a period starting from 1960 with the Sharpeville massacre extending right up to the 10th of May 1994. So, since the last time we were here for the hearings in Pretoria and in this ...

CHAIRPERSON: I don't know, I can't - the Sharpeville Six case, what was the name of that case?

... disclosure of all relevant facts and accordingly amnesty is GRANTED to the applicant in respect of all offences related to the attack on the Sharpeville Police Station on 1 October ...

... and sometimes chastisement and sometimes direction from our parents. I remember very, very vaguely at the time of the 1960's when, you know, the Sharpeville Massacre happened. There were books in the house that for instance my mother would warn, especially Ben, who seemed to have quite a ...

MR VISSER: May I interrupt you General. It was just pointed out to me that in the second sentence of paragraph 5.8 the date 21st of March is probably Sharpeville Day?

I would like to have your comment on that and also your comment on the relationship that ANGLO had with you after Sharpeville, 1960?

MR NOSENGA: Yes, that is correct, we started in Zone 12 to Zone 13, we shot people and we proceeded towards Sharpeville where we also shot at a taxi. We proceeded to Jomo's Place in Everton.