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Vaal uprising

Explanation
a popular revolt in townships around the Vaal Triangle, Tvl, sparked by a rent increase in September 1984. Homes of policemen and councillors were burnt down and residents protested against the increase in public demonstrations and boycotts. Clashes between residents and police led to the deaths of 14 people and the injury of at least eight policemen. In response, the government launched a joint army and police operation, 'Operation Palmiet' to suppress internal unrest in the area. Over the next four months, approximately 142 people died in street battles.

MR MOKHELE: I was one of the organisers of the 1984 mass uprising in the Vaal and added to that, I subsequently got involved in activities of the ANC, so by the time I was charged, part of that was the internal activities of the UDF and part of it was the ANC related activities.
MR MOKHELE: I was one of the organisers of the 1984 mass uprising in the Vaal and added to that, I subsequently got involved in activities of the ANC, so by the time I was charged, part of that was the internal activities of the UDF and part of it was the ANC related activities.
MS MOLOISANE: Madam Chair, it is also an established fact that there was political violence in the Vaal townships during that period 1992, 93, when this incident took place. I therefore submit that the offences that the, the murder of Maletsatsi falls within the ambit of Section 20, Subsection 2, ...
... also trying to institute those principles of counter revolutionary warfare within, particularly after 1984, particularly after Sebokeng and the Vaal uprising in 1984 within the affected black areas itself and you find the classic principles of counter revolutionary warfare being applied ...
 
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