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WitdoekeExplanation COL ODENDAL: I would think this refers to the Witdoeke. ... a meeting held in the Athlone Police Station, as early as the 24th of April, which brought together some of the people who had become known as the Witdoeke leader and members of the police, were you part of that meeting? Did you have any part in calling that meeting ... ... Cement and Nyanga Extension. Very briefly to recap. Residents in those three satellite camps felt that they were chased out of the area by "witdoeke", who came from Old Crossroads and that those "witdoeke" had been allowed to do so at times encouraged and assisted by the South African ... DR RAMASHALA: As leader of the Crossroads factions, let me just say the Witdoeke, Mr Ngxobongwana had a way of disappearing just before an attack, the first time he went to Rustenburg ...(intervention) Other staff had the same. The conflict with the Executive Committee at Crossroads, later known as the "witdoeke" and headed by Johnson Ngxobongwana was represented on our clinic committee and we had a collaborative relationship but reactionary political agenda started to become visible in early ... into the Sacla Clinic and to my amazement they handed over rifles to members of the Executive Committee of Crossroads who later became known as the "witdoeke". This was as early I think as the 2nd of ... In Worcester similar incidents occurred. In Cape Town there is significant evidence, also heard by this Commission, about direct support for the so-called Witdoeke in KTC in Cape Town in 1986, support which was in fact submitted to you and discussed at the level of the State Security Council. MR NTSEBEZA: Was there any instruction that was indicated as to how you should deal or how the situation in Crossroads and KTC should be dealt with, in particular what action ought to be taken against either the Witdoeke or the Comrades? ... at work, I had gone to the X-ray check at Groote Schuur. Then from the hospital I went to the terminus. When I got to the terminus I heard that the Witdoeke were there. I had heard the previous day that the Witdoeke would come (indistinct). So I went from the terminus I went straight home. When ... "We had evidence that the gang was fostered by some membersof the SAP, as a surrogate akin to the "witdoeke" andBlack Cats which has caused a reign of terror in black townships". MR NTSEBEZA: Yes, in fact the evidence of the Doctor, the last Doctor who was here, seemed to suggest that the police actively participated both at protecting the "witdoeke" and at actually attacking those who were the objects of the attack of the "witdoeke", you heard that part of the evidence? ... to destroy our unit, but I had never heard any story where police and soldiers could feed people who are going to attack other people because "witdoeke" were fed and then they would come led by the police. I am talking about something that I saw with my own ... MR NTSEBEZA: Let's come back to the issue of the "witdoeke". Let's come to the issue of the "witdoeke". ... obviously they were formed by different leaders who had different objectives, e.g. in Cape Town they called themselves or they were known as Witdoeke. In KwaZulu Natal they were known as Inkatha and Port Elizabeth they were known as the Azapo. I may not know what their objectives were, ... PROF MEIRING: Thank you so much. You are going to take us back to that same period when there were clashes between the Witdoeke and the other people in Old Crossroads against the KTC people. In the submission I have in front of me, the date is 1976. I was wondering whether that was a printing ... she knocked on the door. I started feeling anxious and she told me that KTC was burning. I asked has KTC burnt already, because I had heard that the Witdoeke were in the area. She informed me that I shouldn't stay, I should leave and that I should leave the keys with her and that she would inform ... In another key example from mid- 1986, the Witdoeke of the Western Cape destroyed KTC in co-operation with local JMC structures, with the Riot Squad playing a particularly important role in backing up the attackers. During the court case brought by residents in March 1988, Roelf Meyer issued a ... MR GOOSEN: So in respect of say the support for the Witdoeke in KTC June Now, for me, the question that arises in terms of your question, is the relationship, because if you look at the Witdoeke, you know in the Cape and if you look at Ama Africa and all the others, at some point it became part of the government strategy to actually create those kinds of forces because ... MR FORTUIN: Do you know of - was that the period as was commonly known in the Western Cape where the Witdoeke and the comrades were in conflict with one another, 1991? |
