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VAN RENSBURG, (first name not given)Age Description Du Plessis and Van Rensburg presented a plan to General Erasmus to have the two activists eliminated. // And what is the ultimate conclusion which the three of you reached? // Our final conclusion was that there was no other way, detention or any other thing than to eliminate this people. // And ... ... treated severely. He even said, the Boers have finished me, I am totally finished. There is nothing that you can do about me. Because Niewoudt and Van Rensburg, Du Preez and his team; Danster who always played karate on my child, were the people who are responsible for Siphiwo’s condition. You ... not yet. I wish I could, because it’s too long. We are also going to die. I admit dying, everybody is going to die. Even Niewoudt is going to die; Van Rensburg is going to die. Whoever, is going to ... All the while Joyce and Sipho Mtimkulu remained calm and dignified, but obviously with anger in their hearts. // Do you hate Van Rensburg? // Terribly. I am hating him terribly. // And Niewoudt? // All of them. This week, almost a year later, the four policemen Nicolas Janse van Rensburg, Hermanus Barend De Plessis, Johannes Gottfried Raath and Gerhard Nicolas Erasmus came to ask for amnesty for the murder. They never spoke at the hearing. Their lawyers argued that Dirk Coetzee’s amnesty application ... ... of our husbands and children got thrown here in plastic bags, our God, by the Boers. Forces that had immense power, like Niewoudt, our God, like Van Rensburg, our God. Forces that imposed tyranny ... ... Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee said in 1989 that Kondile tried to escape and injured his head when he jumped through a window. // General Nick van Rensburg who obtained a court interdict against another Truth Commission witness this week ordered that Kondile be killed because the police ... In Cape Town a court is sitting. The lawyers representing Jan du Preez and Nick van Rensburg have filed application that Mrs. Mtimkulu must not climb that podium. We are waiting for the judgement to come anytime this morning and we have been ordered that we wait until the judgement comes. That ... ... You feel that you are in this position today because they sold you out. // Yes, I was also disillusioned. // Your relationship with the generals, Van Rensburg specifically, he is one of the generals, isn’t he? // Yes, at last we have a general here. // Who does what? // Who admits he was ... ... station where they were given drinks spiked with sedatives and then shot. Their bodies were burnt and the remains thrown in the Fish River. Nick van Rensburg and Gideon Niewoudt are both applying for amnesty for their deaths. They are now admitting that they lied. At the Truth Commission ... ... frank confession. But what remains clear is that the manner in which a hero died disturbed the Eastern Cape community this week. Moments after Nic van Rensburg admitted his complicity in the killing there was chaos in the hall. An unknown man armed with a ballpoint pen stormed onto the ... ‘I call the applicant Mr Hermanus Barend du Plessis as the first witness in these proceedings.’ // Captain Hermanus du Plessis, Gen Nic van Rensburg, Gen Gerrit Erasmus and Sgt Johannes Raath, who have all since retried are seeking amnesty for their part in Sizwe Kondile’s death. Former ... |
