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ANC camps

Explanation
The ANC established bases in several African countries. The Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS), together with the military headquarters of MK, had control over residential centres and the Angolan camps, including 'Camp 32' or the Morris Seabelo Rehabilitation Centre (popularly known as 'Quatro'), Panga, Viana and the Nova Catengue camp. Following the SADF bombing of Nova Catengue camp in 1979, there was an atmosphere of paranoia about infiltration by South African agents. A number of ANC members were detained and tortured; some died as a result of assaults and some were executed. Dissatisfaction in MK training camps in Angola led to mutinies at the Viana and Pango camps during 1984. Both mutinies were put down with loss of lives on both sides. Many MK members were detained in connection with the uprisings, and some were tortured. Two groups of mutineers were tried by military tribunals and seven were executed.

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MR POTSANE: From then until 1985 I worked in the camps doing the rest duties including driving, leadership around Angola and in 1985 I was redeployed to Lusaka where I joined the political headquarters.
MR DIETA: One of the recommendations comes from the very same - on of those recommendations would be found in that Stewart Commission so that that was a foothold wherein regular checks would be then done in the camps and etc.
Also I want to correct something here because the statement. It is written here "Lesotho". We did not have camps in Lesotho, I was in Angola.
"We were not requested, we were told. As I said the only reasons we were given was refugee camps and Savimbi's female soldiers but I say logistically they're rather silly reasons for such a major project. One assumed they wanted to use it on a larger scale. I can't say they wanted to use it ...
happenings of Quatro Camp on TV because we have seen about the other ANC camps on TV.
MR MANTHATA: But finally, have they owned that she was in their camps, that is after all these press disclosures?
... for field testing? Who oversaw this testing? Who authorised the testing? Was authorisation ever granted to any structure to poison food or water in ANC or PAC camps, or the water supply of any other country or ...
MR PRINSLOO: Did you have any training in AWB camps?
... to the past political conflicts. We believe there is a lot of reconciliation needed to reunite the community in the Vaal Triangle. The squatter camps, most of the people who live in these areas are those who flew and many were evicted from their townships and have no good shelter and still ...
member of the UDF at the time, and for this he died. He was hacked to death in a most brutal fashion. This is a terrible story of political intolerance which you have told us, and we are still not free from that political intolerance in many parts of KwaZulu-Natal even ...
MR MOGOAI: It is because of the conditions at the ANC camps in exile.
... and subsequently come back on a special mission. Now, my position was quite different from the other normal ones who went through the transit camps and as the usual procedure went ... (tape ends) ... came back immediately. As it will be the case within the country, receive a crash course ...
... which we possessed was in the form of the askaris, who you certainly couldn't trick when you began to speak about camps in Angola, or circumstances regarding terrorists. I know this is a bit long-winded, but I'm trying to explain the situation to ...
MR BELLINGAN: As I have said earlier, they have changed houses from time to time and the time when Mbelo or the other askaris came here and they went in, we went into the squatter camps often, you kicked out the doors and found nothing. We tried to arrest them.
MR PHOSA: We watch on TV how the Israeli Army or the Police, whoever they are, get stoned day in and day out by youths from the other camps. Have you not seen that?
... killed in the same shooting in Swaziland. You have also come to tell us about your son who joined the ANC and as a result of mistreatment in the ANC camps is not well. So you have a double burden. Before we ask you to tell your story and ask Professor Piet Meiring to assist you, would you ...
... but became actively involved in its activities from 1991. Before then he had served in the South African army where he says he was taught that the ANC/SACP alliance and other black organizations were the enemy of the land and the Government at that time and that they had to be eliminated. After ...
making submissions and one of the things that we observed was the questions that were put to them by parents, more so to the ANC organisation about children that hadn't returned from exile. The ANC has assured us that they will cooperate with us in every way so much so that they will give us a ...
DR ALLY: Thanks. In 1978, that is when you think he left the country and you actually say that you were phoned by somebody in Botswana who actually told you that your son was in one of the camps. Is that correct?
... correspondence was actually to seek the permission of the Koffiefontein mine to exhume bodies of Ossewa Brandwag members who had died in detention camps during the second world ...
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