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JAMES, (other details not given)Age Description ... for the murder of John Smith and the attempted murder of his wife, Rene Smith. The killing of Smith on his remote Free State farm Wesselsdal did not make the national news. What did capture the headlines was the brutal massacre of eleven people at the St James Church in Cape Town. These two ... The APLA attack on the St James congregation in 1993 was one of the most vicious. Letlapa Mphahlele ordered the attack. Charl van Wyk was one of the survivors. On Friday they met in the PAC offices in Cape Town. The day after the hearing we returned to St. James with some of the victims, it was a way of closing the circle which had culminated in two days of emotion before the Amnesty Committee. The victims had met with the perpetrators behind closed doors the previous evening. Two previous APLA operations, the St James Church and the Heidelberg Tavern attacks, had raised several questions. Those questions came up yet again this week. When exactly did APLA suspend the armed struggle and what role did race play in the attacks? ... the former Transkei for the attack, Tobela Mlambisa drove the car that took the unit to the church and Gcinikhaya Makoma entered the church with another APLA member and executed the attack. ... ... my father who passed away on the fourth of February 1969, Nicodimas Kgoathe. Solomon Modipane who also passed away on the 28th of February 1969, James Lengwe who passed away on the tenth of March 1969, Taylor Mayikiso who passed in June 1969, Jacob Munagudla who also died in 1969, Amem Harrow ... ... to see at this week’s amnesty hearing for the St. James massacre. He has applied for amnesty for the massacre, but no one knew why he did not arrive for the hearing. Even the PAC could not explain where he was. His testimony was crucial as he has taken public responsibility for the ... Both men seemed eager to help each other with what they wanted. They were planning to attend a service in St James Church together and to visit Khaya Makoma in prison. Charl van Wyk also pledged to help the PAC commander in his crusade to meet with other survivors of PAC attacks. The APLA submission started on a very reconciliatory note with an address by the recently elected PAC leader, Dr Stanley Mogoba. // I have supported the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at all times, even when personal hurt and humiliation was experienced, because I am convinced that this ... We are proud of what we did. We have no regret, it is unfortunate that people had to die, but it is not something that we are ashamed of that we did go to war. War by its very nature is evil and if there was another method of avoiding it we would have avoided it. So, we are not going to have ... ... process. This past week we struggled a bit with both legs of the process. Extracting the truth was slow and rather painful and the role players did not exactly bubble with the spirit of reconciliation, but it was an important and interesting week because the spotlight fell on all the men who ... ... President Sir James Mancham was ousted in a coup led by Albert René. Mancham had been a friend of apartheid South Africa. René, a socialist, was not. He was soon to discover how unfriendly his South African neighbours could be. Not only were the islands strategically important to the navies ... ... decision to relax the boycott. Daniel Lolwane was chairperson of the Mlungisi Residence ad hoc committee, and one of the few leaders who had not been detained in the previous weeks. He addressed the people that ... |
