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Special Report Transcript Episode 71, Section 4, Time 29:44Elizabeth Hashe also testified at the first hearing. // ‘I’m really frustrated about my situation. I don’t want to cry. Really I don’t want to cry, but I want the Commission to help me.’ // Her husband, Sipho was one of the Pebco Three who were abducted and murdered by the notorious Eastern Cape security police in May 1985. Their bodies were then thrown into the Fish River. Mrs. Hashe says if it had not been for the Truth and Reconciliation process she may never have discovered the one thing she’d wanted most, finally knowing what had happened to her husband’s remains. Notes: Elizabeth Hashe to the TRC The PEBCO Three 240 Sipho Hashe [EC0003/96PLZ], Mr Champion Galela [EC0005/96PLZ] and Mr Qaqawuli Godolozi [EC0004/96PLZ], members of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO), an affiliate of the UDF, were abducted on 11 May 1985 by members of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch, taken ... The ‘Cradock Four’ 294 The cases of the ‘Cradock Four’ and the related ‘Motherwell bombing’ illustrate the use of sophisticated covert operations by the security forces in the assassination of both political opponents and dissidents within their own ranks. 295 The UDF activists ... Killings during an arrest or while in custody 105. Amnesty applications were received for approximately twenty-three killings committed while people were either being arrested or in custody. Eleven people died while they themselves were being arrested, and five others were also killed during ... Abductions 50. The Commission received fifty-seven amnesty applications for eighty incidents of abduction. The fifty-seven applications included the abduction of thirty-five Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives, eighteen of whom were abducted inside the country and seventeen outside South Africa. 51. ... |
