FOUR YOUTHS

... of Oudtshoorn, in the Klein Karoo. // In the same month and year that the first state of emergency gripped the nation, June 1985, three Bongulethu youths were shot dead by police. They were shot at without warning after one of the youngsters went to a local security policeman’s house believing ...

For youths like Wanda Mchacho Mabaso, whose family was wiped out during the East Rand violence, joining up together as boys and facing the conflict head on was the only solution.

... Eugene Marais had executed the attack. They wanted to kill black people in revenge for an attack on white pedestrians on the Durban beach front by youths wearing APLA t-shirts earlier that ...

One of the youths, Nicholas Dlamini has just issued a statement from prison confirming that Katiza Cebekhulu showed him Dr Asvat’s surgery and that Winnie Mandela hired him and an accomplice to assassinate the doctor. Our witnesses, Katiza Cebekhulu and Reggie Jana, say the opposite was true, ...

... why Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was given special treatment? But most critically, why did the police never follow up on the cases of the two killed youths Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala? Why do the families of these two boys still have nothing to go on except their own ...

Two Zulu youths were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.

... scene the commander and another man shot and killed Julia Buthelezi. The aftermath of the massacre left a tally of ten butchered bodies. One of the youths, Vuyani Tshabalala, survived the bullets and the hacking. He is yet to tell his story to the Committee. Ntjebo Ndondolo is said to have fled ...

... dead here in NY1 Gugulethu. The police say they received information of a planned attack and laid a counter ambush. According to the police, seven youths in a white minibus opened fire with small handguns and an AK47. They also threw a hand grenade. The police retaliated by killing all seven. At ...

... Is it possible that Walus might get amnesty but Derby-Lewis not? Another question is whether the racial motive for the killing of Amy Biehl by PAC youths may now be accepted as a political motive by the Amnesty Committee? It will be fascinating to see how the Amnesty Committee handles cases like ...

was Paul Verryn. He was compassionate and widely loved. Verryn’s church, also in Soweto, provided a similar refuge to Winnie’s football club for youths fleeing the security police. // ‘… God bless Africa, guard her children, guide her leaders and give her ...

The pre-emptive strike has been argued as a political motive before. Last year we heard the story of the Nietverdiend Ten. Again youths from Mamelodi allegedly asked for guerrilla training and again they died a gruesome death. Whether the Committee grants these men amnesty or not there will, ...

... Soweto in 1985 it was as a heroine. Sir Kennedy said she was a source of inspiration. She built the Mandela United Football Club. With thousands of youths fleeing the security police there was no shortage of recruits. Winnie’s commander and chief of the football club was Jerry Richardson. He ...

... commuters in Durban in 1990 killing seven passengers. The applicants said this was a revenge attack for an earlier attack on white pedestrians by youths wearing APLA T-shirts. They chose the bus as a target because it was transporting black people. The Committee granted amnesty to the two ...

... Marais claimed that he and the other two accused had been motivated by an unprovoked knife attack on several white pedestrians by a group of black youths in Durban earlier the same day. The judge said that court could not… // The ‘Orde Boerevolk’ and the AWB have been found guilty on seven ...