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unbanningExplanation Support Committee that use to play a valuable role in giving support to parents and, you know, relatives of people in detention, but with the unbanning of organisations after 1990 many of those support structures went because funds for non-Governmental organisations who could do those things were ... MR HATTINGH: After the unbanning of the ANC, Mr Holtzhausen, did your task change in the sense that you received an order to focus on the prevention of crime or regular crime as such? I felt that it was urgent because it felt to me as if the whole political situation was moving towards a new phase, wherein the National Party was taking a stand quite openly regarding the unbanning of the ANC, et cetera, and we saw that period as a large-scale threat. differ, we do regard each other as being part of the liberation family. We of course endorsed the Harare Declaration at that conference. After the unbanning and with the beginning of the negotiations we then attempted to form and we did form what was referred to as the Patriotic Front. There ... ADV MOTATA: No, no, but had been banned, and we look at now Bophuthatswana, was Mangope truly because the unbanning was in the Republic of South Africa and probably a few Homelands as well, like for instance the Transkei. Would you say the ANC was unbanned in Bophuthatswana and with the ... On the 2nd of February, while F W de Klerk was unbanning the ANC, the PAC, and all other organisations, the war broke out in Maqonqo. Frontal assaults by large impis from KwaNyavu and local impis loyal to Maphumulo. The police moved in to disperse them and contained the situation temporarily. A ... ... between the applicant's group on the one hand, and that of the deceased on the other hand. They differed on strategies, particularly after the unbanning of political organisations in 1990. The deceased's group did not want SAYCO to simply convert into ANCYL. When the applicant's group ... ... were 17. They had spent a lot of time behind those bars. They are not here today, Chairperson. They're not ready, because since 1990, since the unbanning of the organisations, Chairperson, nobody has gone back to those children, to allow them to open up and today, we hope that they can come ... MR MANYAMALA: If I were to take you back to the time during the negotiations, shortly after the unbanning of the ANC people were being killed, government on the other side was negotiating with liberation movements so that people complained and they appealed that a structure be put in place so that ... MR MANTHATA: Did you after the unbanning of the organisation, ever go to the ANC movement and say this is what you are reported to have said or instructed with regard to my son? During the time of their unbanning it was easier for them to gain entry to the country, it was far ... 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 ... MR VISSER: Are you talking about the unbanning of the previously banned organisations? ... 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 ... MR MALAN: But it was after the unbanning of the ANC, I would assume, it wasn't 1990, somewhere? 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... MR BOOYENS: You say you can’t remember the date, but relative to Mr de Klerk’s unbanning of the ANC and other organisations? |
