Umkhonto we Sizwe

... any responsibility for his death? In his autobiography, Joe Slovo said of Hlapane's death: "In 1983 he was executed for his treachery by a unit of Umkhonto we Sizwe." (Joe Slovo, "The Unfinished Autobiography", p. 158) ...

... many priests have belonged to it - many religious people of many faiths have belonged to the ANC. The ANC was also identified almost entirely with Umkhonto we Sizwe - in other words the only picture which was given to the South African public was of an organisation with only one goal - violence, ...

MR ZEELIE: The suspects were primarily members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe of the ANC, and to a lesser extent members of the PAC.

A whole spectrum of community organizations, political organizations, trade unions were organized and immobilized into an effective force. More young people were recruited in this period for the liberation forces and Umkhonto we Sizwe.

I say this with the conviction of my experience in the SANDF over the period since 1993, when the top echelons of the SADF and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) came face to face in the search for a new dispensation which could bring hope, peace and prosperity to our beloved country. Their combined vision of ...

MR KLOPPERS: Today if I look back to the entire situation I am absolutely certain that they were members of the ANC SACP Alliance because I saw the funerals of one of them on television, I saw the casket being carried by Umkhonto we Sizwe members.

... conduct was so clearly non-violent. Should we have taken the risk at all? Although I have a military background as a member, a commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, our approach on the march was motivated by a Ghanaian spirit of civil disobedience. Not that that was something new and ...

... no reason. It's just thathe feels that he is going to stay wherever he stays right now, because sometimeshe is working. He is working for the Umkhonto we Sizwe, so he decided to staywhere he stays right ...

... against their former comrades.  Before his defection, he had a close relationship with the two elder brothers of Musi who served with him in Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK"), the military wing of the ANC, in exile.  After Mfalapitsa joined the SAP, he and Musi established contact.  Musi was a ...

MS MTSWENI: He wanted to fight for the nation or for the freedom of the people, because he was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe as well as a member of the ANC.

... Can I explain? The time you are referring to is a time when I was just being released from Robben Island. I wished to get contact with the MK - Umkhonto we Sizwe - outside the country. I couldn't. I tried and tried and I finally got successful. I found them and I told them that I have ...

MR BLACK: You say he introduced you as a member of the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe, and did he instruct you and others to form a self defence unit, a SDU?

... clear, and it was not challenged, that the first two applicants as well as being members of the UDF were also members of the organisation known as Umkhonto we Sizwe and had received certain training of a military nature. ...

... individual applications as well as the viva voce evidence given by the first applicant. The latter told the Committee that he was working for the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) underground operations since 1987 until it was disbanded. On a certain day he was approached by a person he only knows as ...

... you and to them is only to accept the bona fides of the members of the South African Defence Force involved. I hold no brief to speak on behalf of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK"), but am prepared to accept that, as an organization, it also acted bona fide in the furtherance of its ideals, irrespective ...

MR MAKHUBALO: We wanted to skip the country, we wanted to affiliate to Umkhonto We Sizwe.

Was he also a member of the Military Wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe?

The first and second applicants were members of the ANC and its military wing Umkhonto We Sizwe at the time of the bombing. Their avowed aim was to cause as many fatalities as possible amongst members of the South African Police congregated in and around the Johannesburg Magistrate Court premises.

MR ENGELBRECHT: As far as I was concerned, it was the ANC, Umkhonto se Sizwe, and the parties who wanted to undermine the government.

The applicant a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, left the Republic of South Africa on the 14th of April 1995 with a view to undergoing military training.