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ANC campsExplanation Showing 241 to 260 of 337 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last PageThe applicant testified that the deceased had been an ANC supporter who had grown up in their area and had occasionally gone on camps with them. However, the deceased had defected to Inkatha and had moved into town. He said that it was alleged that the deceased had been involved in attacks on ... MR NKALA: They did ask whether in the camps - they did ask what was happening in the camps. I cannot say exactly, but they were asking questions like how was the training conducted in the camps, because we were telling them that others would be sent outside, out of the camps. Well, I was trained as a leader at the ANC camps. I went through political education in Bulgaria where I become a head of the political section of the ANC and when I entered the country I had the responsibility of being a commander of the unit that enter the country. MR RICHARD: What he has mentioned in the Motsonyane Report which records details of investigation into human rights violations in certain camps during the '80's, we are aware of one case at least during 1987/early '88 when an Umkhonto weSizwe cadre was recalled to Lusaka because he was suspected of ... MR MASHELE: I was called there, he was the highest authority in that meeting. He said that, he insinuated that I was giving a chance for this guy to bolt from the camps because it was midnight and when I knocked and asked that they should attend to him because he was actually an epileptic and a ... MR TEKANE: What was important at that time was the calling to go to the camps of the ANC outside, how to get there was our own business. ... that will include you as well. Creating a case that, really, business was business. My question is, what will be your explanation of the discrepancies that we are sitting with as a society today where you have one segment of society with a well developed system of property development and ... MR GUMENGU: The cars were driven to Umtata and we alighted from the vehicles in Umtata, people went to different camps and I also left with them. trusted Pienaar and he trusted me. He was one of those persons that if he was ever arrested and found himself in a place like Zambia, in one of the ANC's murder camps, I believe that I would have gone to fetch him there and I still would have succeeded in it as well. That was my level of trust ... ... evidence before the Committee in cross examination by the legal representative for the third applicant, he clearly stated: "I had no problem with ANC people because I grew up in the township." (p 311 of the transcript.) The Committee is not satisfied on the evidence before it that any of the ... MR DE KOCK: Yes, the reason why the askaris were used is because they used camp language and camp language is the general language that was used in ANC camps. This was also for the sake of authenticity, so that everything would appear authentic. MR OLIPHANT: We were taken to the soldier’s camps, the military camps in Ladybrand, all of us. From Ladybrand we were taken to the Ladybrand special branch and they sent us to Fountain Police Station. MR MASANGO: Well ever since joining the ANC from Maputo, because I skipped through Maputo through to Mozambique and I stayed in Matola, ever since my arrival there at that place I was responsible for reading the news for the comrades in our houses there and in our camps in Angola. After that I ... ... do so, but they did say these are instructions, they were instructed and they were accused by their own leadership. Some of them were in charge of camps like this Chief, he was also in charge of a camp but he was accused of all sorts of things. Staging a ... ... All of the Applicants were to a greater or lesser extent involved in the incident. They were at all material times members of the Security Branch of the then South African Police attached to the Intelligence Unit stationed at Soweto in the present province of Gauteng. The Applicants ... ... List I suddenly realisedwhat it must have felt like in some small part in the death camps. I was then handed over to Walvis Bay Security Branch where interrogationand torture continued. They thought that I was part of some largercommunist plot and the South West Africa Army Intelligence ... ... of Justice or Law and Order told me that National Intelligence had reported to them what was going on in certain camps in Angola and how within the ANC ranks people were being murdered and killed and that some of them might be doing things like that in order to place the light of suspicion on the ... ... for many years, he's just gone out for military training, so as a detective, as a policeman surely I can use him much better. He's been out in the camps there, in Angola or wherever in Africa or overseas, he knows who went with him to the camps. And I can assure you the more unsophisticated ... "Mr Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and former MK Commander who was active in the ANC detention camps in Angola..." We were taken to different camps, sometimes we would be tortured on the farms. Sometimes they would open the windows and instruct us to jump and run away - jump from the window. But we refused to do that. We were divided. I was left up at Mdantsane and others were at Tamaga Police Station. |
