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unbanningExplanation "The prospects of talks certainly did not please Hani when, in an interview shortly after the unbanning of the ANC and SACP he cautioned that 'I think we must struggle very hard for our comrades not to feel that sitting down with the enemy is betrayal'. (reference no.56)". MR SIBEKO: So then in 1990, beginning of 1990 coincidentally it came with the unbanning of the ANC, is that correct, where then you started organising some of these meetings, secret meetings as you have put it? ... is now under oath, from paragraphs 43 and 44 and continuing through the document of Mr Joe Nkuna. The effect was that South Africa, even after the unbanning of the African National Congress and its various allies, suffered a time of trauma where there was a lot of internecine fighting, a ... PROFESSOR AITCHISON: (Incomplete) ... free election wars. On 2nd of February 1990 President F W de Klerk announced the unbanning of a whole range of political organisations, the imminent release of Nelson Mandela, and clearly an indication of a negotiated settlement towards a full democracy. ... ... the transitional period. He believed that it was important to maintain the status quo as during the transitional period and immediately after the unbanning of the liberation movements Transkei was the only place where members of such movements, who had not been granted immunity, could move ... joined the ANC/MK command structures in exile whence he conducted various operations until his eventual official return to the country after the unbanning of the liberation movements during ... ... African people from that political dispensation. African people would continue to be denied their democratic rights to vote. Shortly after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, I became an executive member of the Wentworth branch of the ANC, an executive member of the Provincial Natal ANC Youth ... MR McADAM: Would you agree that in the propaganda that was spread by the ANC from 1985 until the unbanning of the organisation there were various accusations that the South African goverment was busy using the South American elimination tactics. ... we don't have any evidence to support that there was a conflict. But, Mr Chairman, I want the Committee to take into account that after the unbanning of the organisation when they came inside in the country, there was a conflict between the organisations for a political space. That ... "I was further told that the violence prevailing in the country at the time was mainly Black on Black violence but that with the unbanning of the ANC, PAC, SACP, it was going to become Black on White violence. The slogan of the PAC at that time was 'one settler, on bullet.' I was told of an ... to be community structures. The role of MK generally was where they were found and many of the MK cadres, when they came into the country after the unbanning of the ANC, went to their communities and often communities would say to them: "What kind of soldiers are you, you know, if you can't ... ... Walter Sisulu and others. We were caught completely unawares. And when this happened, the ANC had been effectively unbanned, because although the unbanning only took place in 1990, upon those releases the ANC had effectively been unbanned and the pressure became tremendous for us to obtain ... MR BOOYENS: You say you can’t remember the date, but relative to Mr de Klerk’s unbanning of the ANC and other organisations? During 1990, at a general meeting of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a decision was taken to hold a picket calling for the unbanning of the ANC. As the Education Officer of NUSAS, the applicant participated in the picket. ... shootings, military style executions, attacks from hostel dwellers, victimisation of prominent political activists and unionists. Owing to the unbanning of political parties in 1990, the ANC internal formation began forming Self Defence Units. Our Units was composed of cadres Moses ... ... from the mother. By then already the families had been to Shell House to inquire with the ANC, that was even before I arrived in 1991, on the unbanning of the ANC. They started making inquiries and out of those inquiries, they inquired with us who were in exile. Nomasonto's elder brother ... According to the applicant he was the chief Marshall of the area at that stage. Previously he was a member of the UDF but joined the ANC after its unbanning. They formed a self-protection unit and he acted as leader. According to his evidence they had to discipline criminals in the area because ... ... institutions, universities, technikons etc. Sasco is a latter day organisation in the sense that it was formed either in 1990 or 1991 after the unbanning of the ANC and it's constituent components that formed and amalgamated into Sasco was Nusas and Azaso. Now this then brings us back into ... ... stayed until during 1990. Fortunately then the country was - the government of the day then, the de Klerk government, they announced that they are unbanning the ANC, then immediately I was instructed to come back quickly into the country, so that we help in preparing the coalition so that when ... MS MAYA: Since you knew that your brother was in the ANC did you attempt at all, after the unbanning of the organisation, to try and establish where your brother was and what happened to him? |
