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SMITH, JMAge Description Has he ever said to you that he’s sorry? // Yes, he said he’s sorry, that had he thought that he was going to suffer and the rest of the people were going to suffer the consequences that they are, he would have thought a lot more deeply before he had become involved. // Why do you think he did ... Zimbabwean activist, Jeremy Brickhill, is blown up with a car bomb. Today, these four men Barry Bawden, Michael Smith, Philip Conjwayoand Kevin Woods are still incarcerated in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi Security Prison for sentences ranging from 25 years imprisonment to life, for murder and sabotage. ... Barry Bawden Sabotage 40 Years // Michael Smith Sabotage and Murder 70 Years // Phillip Conjwayo Murder 70 Years // Kevin Woods Murder and Sabotage 70 Years Immediately after stabbing Mr. Smith, from the garage I went out and here in this spot I met Mrs. Smith with a gun in her hand. I was holding a knife in my hand at the time. I met Mrs. Smith here and I then I tried to grab that gun. I was busy struggling for this gun with her, Mr. Mtjikelo came ... ... there was an Inkatha bus. On the veranda, before the veranda they met with the Inkatha people and they shot them both and killed them. // Rev Tim Smith was stationed at a mission a few hundred meters from the house of David Ntombela an InDuna and now member of the provincial parliament. ... On the evening of the 27th, that’s the Tuesday, that’s when the big meeting was held at Ntombela’s house. I drove past there at about half past six that evening and saw a large number of vehicles there. Wednesday morning the 28th they summoned everybody from this area to his home. In the ... Mike, about a year ago, wrote to me and said ‘last night I saw the moon and the stars for the first time in six years.’ That’s incredible, something that we take for granted the whole time. They’re learning a very hard lesson and they just want it to be over. I would like to invite you to come to the upper part of the valley to see what the place looks like. You should go past Eden and to the upper valley KwaMnyandu, KwaShange. Even today you can see the aftermath of the violence that took place in 1990. Now what happened here is that in 1987 around about the times of the floods which were in September a lot of youngsters from down below, form Edendale began to come up the valley and to encourage youngsters from around here to join the UDF, particularly on the right hand side of the road in that ... During the 1980s three security force units attacked and assassinated anti-apartheid activists in neighbouring states. The security police, the Defence Force Civil Cooperation Bureau, CCB, and Military Intelligence. The CCB’s Zimbabwean cell was one of the most active and carried out operations ... What I can comment on is our own industry, whether we as a predominantly Afrikaans speaking organisation had advantages relative to our English speaking competitors and I believe no. I believe that we as white organisations had an advantage relative to disadvantaged organisations within the ... They are called the Zimbabwe Five. They are the last members of the South African security forces detained outside the country. The Amnesty Committee may hear their case soon at a special hearing in Zimbabwe. Jacques Pauw takes up the story. ... at Wesselsdal farm. // When we arrived there I knocked at the door together with my comrades and a white lady came, that is the wife of Mr. Smith. We asked her where was her husband. We are there to request petrol. We didn’t wait for a long time, Mr. Smith appeared and when he arrived I ... Petrus Mohapi is one of six members of the PAC’s armed wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, who asked for amnesty 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. ... ‘Wesselsdal Farm this week’ // This house as you can see used to belong to Mr. Johnny Barnard Smith. One day we came here in 1993 on the 25th of July. We were very young. We were members of the task force; that is a component part of APLA that helps APLA to attack the farmers and to chase them ... ... for about half a day. I was biting my nails, because my fate was in their hands when they come back. And they said from now on you are comrade Paul Smith. It was my MK name. So I was relieved and glad. When the peace talks started I come back to Lusaka where I was second in charge of all ... ... the same day as the St. James massacre there was an attack on a white farmer and his wife by members of the PAC’s military wing. The farmer, John Smith was stabbed to death and his wife Rene shot and wounded. The six young men responsible for this attack are now asking for amnesty from the ... The wounded Mrs. Smith was locked in a wardrobe while they ransacked the house for guns, ammunition, clothing and alcohol. They then made their getaway in the farmer’s Mercedes Benz. 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 ... APLA as a unit, that is APLA high command, is shouldering responsibility of all the activities that took place since its inception in 1961 till the cut-off date that is May 1994. |
