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train violenceExplanation were shot from the window of a bus. This sort of violence has been responsible for the death of thousands of people in this country. Whether it is train violence in the Johannesburg and the East Rand, where people were thrown of trains; whether it was a massacre in a shebeen, such as happened ... ... especially in the context of the national uprising. To my surprise I found senior ANC cadres in long conversations with new recruits to urge restraint. Growing knowledge of and respect for the ANC as an organisation and as a group of people, immense respect for the restraint and reluctance ... MR SITHOLE: Yes, the arms would have been used to train cadres, and that would assist in freeing the people, because at the time there was ongoing political violence. The arms would have been obtained to train cadres to protect the community, because at the time they were not safe. They would send an MK cadre to the area who would train them, who would sort out about getting guns, but they did say that when the violence got out of hand and got more extensive, these SDUs were just springing up without them even knowing about it. And I don't know if this was one of those or ... MR MOTHIBE: With the IFP there were a lot of shootings, cross-shootings between the two organisations and there was train violence and people were shot at in the trains and some members of ANC were attacked. ... to send me home and they said no, I can only take you down for the funeral and I said no madam, I cannot wait till then, I had to go then. The train to Upington had already left and I had to take the train passing through Bloemfontein. When I arrived home I saw people sitting there, sitting ... ... police regarded as the internal arm of the banned African National Congress. Part of the strategy of the Joint Management Committee System was to train Special Constables who would be trained and sent back into their community to act as a physical force or wedge against the activities of the ... ... Defence Force. We've also heard allegations of third force activities, of Vlakplaas, Battalion 32 has also come up and particularly around the train violence. There were certain periods in this part of the country where the death toll was even higher than that in Natal, so it really took ... MR HATTINGH: During the questioning it came out that it was about train violence and that you were the investigative officer at that stage. ... killed in a senseless act of violence which in many ways is similar to this one. People were going to work and they were forced not to board the train which they usually used for their transport, forced to go into buses. We heard a story of a mother who was sitting at home doing her washing ... In respect of the applications for amnesty for five murders of people who were pushed from a moving train, the Committee is satisfied that the formalities of the Act have been complied with. It is further satisfied that these murders were committed for political reasons to fuel ... of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Among others, his duties were to establish SDU's and militarily train people for self defence in communities engulfed by violence. For the rationale in forming SDU's, the committee was referred to a document ... ... had believed Dirk Coetzee with regard to Vlakplaas and Third Force activities, then in early 1990 it would have prevented the dreadful dreadful train massacres that were instigated out of that same Vlakplaas a couple of years later, and it probably would have prevented the escalation of ... MR BELLINGAN: No, it continued Chairperson, there were still train murders and a lot of faction and ethnic fighting. It was almost as if there was more violence than during the apartheid era. |
