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JAMES, (other details not given)Age Description On Sunday July 25 1993 at 7: 30 pm four men stormed into the St James Church in Kenilworth. They fired machine guns and threw hand grenades at the congregation of nearly 1000 people. This was one of a series of similar attacks by APLA in the early nineties. The attack lasted for about 30 seconds ... St. James today looks like any other church in the suburbs. Inside its quiet, sun slanting down onto pews, hymn books neatly arranged for the next service. On Sundays more than a thousand people file into its vast interior, but on a stormy Sunday’s night in July four years ago, shortly after the ... ... focuses on the murder of American exchange student, Amy Biehl by PASO (Pan Africanist Student Organisation) members and the APLA attack on the St James Church in Cape Town. Perpetrators appeared before the Amnesty Committee in Cape Town this week (7 to 11 July). The segment includes interviews ... ... 1976 uprising, the 1985 Pollsmoor march and the attempted forced removals in 1986, Khayelitsha; and the tactic of framing activists as informers. Other segments include the killing of political suspects. Family members of SWAPO leader Anton Lubowski, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) soldier Anton Fransch ... In this episode we are introduced to Jeffrey Benzien, the Western Cape policeman notorious for his wet-bag torture method. Benzien appeared before the Amnesty Committee this week for the torture of activists and killing of MK cadre Ashley Kriel and were confronted by some of his torture victims ... ... Conservative Party MP Koos Botha, for bombings during 1990 and 1991; right wingers Jean du Plessis and Cornelius van Wyk and the Van Straaten brothers were denied amnesty for racially motivated killings. Also included in this episode is a report on the Amnesty Committee hearings (held in ... Liezl Ackerman and Gillian Schermbrucher (St. James Church survivors) meets Gcinikhaya Makoma APLA commander meets with St James Church attack survivor APLA members apply for amnesty for the St. James Church attack The St James massacre, APLA ... that the findings already made that the two people who had planted the bomb have already been killed, they’re already dead. // Yes, but those are not the people who actually gave the order to plant the bomb. // Marina Geldenhuys was in her first job after leaving school with a life ahead of ... But Makwethu was not prepared to discuss the controversial APLA attacks such as those on the St. James Church, the King Williamstown golf club, or the Queenstown Spur. ... Church Massacre. But we will also investigate the assassination of SWAPO leader Anton Lubowski, whose family gave evidence this week. // We will not only tell you who killed him and why, we will also give you some answers to the question: Was Anton Lubowski a ... ... men who carried out the brutal attack and now want amnesty. And you met the victims and survivors inside the church; you met Liezl Ackerman whose mother was killed in the church who said on last week’s programme that she wondered how the attackers themselves felt. This past week we took Liezl ... they work with, where were their arms? He had a repertoire of torture mechanisms to crack his opponents, but the favourite and the one that made him notorious amongst activists in the Western Cape was the wet-bag method, a form of torture that repeatedly took detainees to the edge of death and ... It is in this context therefore that the Azanian People’s Liberation Army did not have the burden or problem of the so-called ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ target. In all honesty the terms ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ target did not exist in our vocabulary and it was a foreign concept. All that mattered ... ... to explain to the Amnesty Committee that their understanding of white people had a political dimension. Firstly they say, white people were not indigenous to Africa, they were settlers. Secondly white people were representatives of a system which had appropriated the lands of the ... ... Mkomo the young man serving a life sentence for the attack. But for now it was the ex PAC commander and the young Christian survivor who faced each other and the memories of that terrible ... May I ask the applicant to turn around and face me? This is the first opportunity that we’ve had to look at each other in the eye and talk. I want to ask Mr. Makoma, who actually entered the church. My wife was sitting right at the door where you came in, she was wearing a long blue coat. Can you ... ... training, taking most of them from the school benches to the border trenches in just a few months. But for many of these boys the real enemy was not the one they searched for in the bush or shot at from the air. That enemy they left behind dead or alive as is the nature of war. There was ... |
