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BAS, Samuel

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Was arrested with ten other friends in Carnarvon, Cape, on 16 June 1986, for wearing black ties commemorating those who died in the Soweto uprising. He was repeatedly beaten by named members of the SAP at the police station and detained for 72 days under emergency regulations at Carnarvon and then at Victor Verster prison, Paarl, Cape. See police brutality.

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... the SADF and IFP Caprivi trainees. A segment on the Amnesty Committee hearings held in Durban (12 to 14 August) focus on the killing of ANC members Samuel Msweli and Michael Mthethwa by former policeman Hendrik Steyn. The final segment explains the structure of the TRC and covers the first ...
Samuel Jamile was a well known IFP politician in the eighties. Mrs. Khuswayo believes he’s responsible for her husband’s death. // The true story is that Jamile, myself Samuel Bhikizizwe Jamile, I have never killed anybody, I’ve never instructed anybody. I was an Inkatha man and these people ...
In 1987 Samuel Thwane joined Rocky Malebane Metsing’s People’s Progressive Party that opposed the government of Lucas Mangope in Bophuthatswana. // We had the support of the people. The whole of Bophuthatswana supported us. We were confidant until after the elections. After the results were ...
Former security guards apply for amnesty for the murder of a fellow employee, Samuel Kganakga.
The killing of Samuel Msweli and Michael Mthethwa, 14 August 1992
I want to know, you’ve been flaunting the idea that you will now go … // Antjie Samuel of the SABC Radio. // Sorry, I’m Antjie Samuel of the SABC Radio. You are flaunting the idea that you are now going also to investigate ANC atrocities. What exactly are you doing at this stage? Do you have ...
Hennie Gerber, an ex-policeman and investigator for Fidelity Guards is currently doing time for the 1991 murder of fellow employee, Samuel Kganakga. Johann van Eyck was convicted in the same trial and along with Gerber has applied for amnesty on the grounds that this was a political killing. // ...
In 1991 two Fidelity Guard employees Hennie Gerber and Johan van Eyck, both ex-security policemen, tortured and killed a fellow Fidelity guard, Samuel Kganakga. During their murder trial there was no mention of a political motive. Gerber and Van Eyck were sentenced to 20 and 15 years in jail ...
... detective Warrant Officer in the Empangeni murder and robbery squad was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for the murder of Michael Mthethwa and Samuel Msweli in 1992. The two ANC members were injured in a shootout with security forces at this house in the Sekulu reserve near Empangeni. On his ...
Thwane was detained and questioned about his involvement in the coup. // I pretended as, I should be honest, not to know anything about what happened to why was there a coup. They said to me, ‘you’re going to tell us, you better strip, trek uit jong daar’s nie tyd nie’ [undress, we don’t ...
Some crucial moments have passed. In the beginning of last year when you got to know the legislation you realized that it was unfairly weighed towards the perpetrators. No one did anything. You didn’t request to ask that the legislation be changed. After the first six weeks of hearings people ...
At the last amnesty hearing in Durban a policeman who was also an IFP supporter applied for amnesty. Hendrik Steyn is serving an 18 year sentence for his involvement in the murders of two ANC members who were also members of a gang. The incident happened on the 14th of August 1992 at KwaMbunambi ...
Mashikane said the townships are sitting full of informers that want to be integrated into the communities and we don’t provide them with the opportunity. // In this proper context, can I just indicate the process that we possibly will follow? One, we will subpoena these people, because there’s ...
... things were totally unnecessary if he would just cooperate with us. He made no comment. The next moment Oosthuizen took out his fire arm and shot Samuel in the shoulder without any reason, without saying anything. // He was bleeding profusely and I shoved him away from me. He wanted to get into ...
said, here are the bloody dogs that killed the policemen. In the back of the bakkie there were two black people. I immediately recognized the one as Samuel Msweli, the leader of the gang who committed acts of terror in that area. The other person was unknown to me but was identified by Mr. Law as ...
wanted to shoot them with his own rifle because it could not be traced to the scene of the earlier shooting. // I then at the same distance fired at Samuel Msweli. After the first shot I fired two more shots just to make sure that he was dead. I thereafter fired two shots at Michael Mtetwa, the ...
... Raymond Fihla // Willie Zweni // Mpazamo Yonana // Andile Ntabeni // David Phillips // Mandla Mlangeni // Samuel Motau // Letlapa Mphahlele // Matlabase Matlala // Vuma Ntikinca // Rocky Dlova // J Chintsela Bongwana // Boy Boy Mbethe // David Kongwane // Bongina Dlamini // William Ngwenya // ...
Brigadier Jack Cronje, former commander of the Northern Transvaal security branch calmly told the Amnesty Committee of yet another calculated and chilling execution in 1986. The victims, ten young men from Mamelodi who were poisoned and then blown up in a minibus. They were killed because they ...
June 26, 1986. Shortly after midnight a group of 13 ANC activists launches a hand grenade attack on the house of a policeman on the East Rand. The grenades and the limpet mine explode in their faces. Six activists and two innocent bystanders die. The story has been told by its executioner. // De ...
In October last year we told you the story of six East Rand COSAS activists who blew themselves up with booby trapped hand grenades supplied by Joe Mamasela. That led to the harrowing necklacing of Maki Skosana after their funeral. The Truth Commission hearing in Duduza paid tribute to Skosana last ...
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