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ANC campsExplanation He testified that there was mutiny in several ANC camps during 1984. He was one of the ANC soldiers who were sent to disarm the mutineers. While they were in the process of disarming and arresting them Twala started to run towards the tent of the leadership where arms were kept. He ignored ... ... camps, they didn't come to the camps. When we wanted to speak to ...(indistinct) and explains some of these things to him, we were not given the chance, we felt that he is the only man who can help us and again when Chris Hani was promoted to become an army Commissar from where he went into the ... MR JILI: He only had one and then he promised that he was going to bring the rest in the camps where we were hiding. MS MAKHUBELE: The second incident is the attack of IFP squatter camps in Daveyton around April and May 1993, MR NGCOBO: As a commander I used to patrol the area to look for their camps and bases where they would launch attacks from. "The ANC during its submissions on abuses in the camps objected to what it called the Commission's focus on the bad aspects of the camps. Perhaps this symbolises the tension between truth and the need to forget, between secrecy and disclosure, but perhaps it is also testimony of just how difficult ... I just want to take you back to this question what you call re-education camps - Dr Coleman this morning referred to them as rehabilitation camps. Can you just from your own experience tell us a little bit more about this? MR NTSEBEZA: Now you know that there were two forms of attack. The first attack was on the satellite camps. Now what role, if any, did you play in those attacks? Or let me put the question differently. Were the police aware from reports that an attack was imminent on those camps? ... crises included the assassination of David Sebeko in 1979 and the assassinations of a number of militarily trained cadres at the organisation's camps in Tunya and Ambeya in Southern Tanzania. ... what is happening in this part of our lovely country. When March 1990 dawned we knew about some rallies taking place in Durban. We also took cognisance of some large groups of people leaving the Natal Midlands to attend those rallies, and the focus military-wise and security-wise was essentially ... MR MSIZI: In the camps that were in Sterkspruit. MR BIZOS: In military camps or other sort of ... (intervention)... CHAIRPERSON: And is the position that the ANC members who were at the hostels were also driven out into the squatter camps? MR NDLELA: It's an area that is surrounded by shacks, the Mandela squatter camp and the Emapupene squatter camps, it's just on the side of the road. ... to make allegation about how dear do I respect that honesty, but all in all, AZAPO officials who were working closely with us by then, all their camps, major and minor camps, we had people there who had been training with them, we ate with them, we used their houses, we trained people ... In the case of the ANC and PAC their cadres were not operating from bush based in isolated rural areas but mainly from houses, camps and similar facilities in or on the outskirts of towns such as Maputo, Gaberone, Maseru and later Harare. These base were mostly small, clandestine facilities which ... 17 in our lives. We were at such a camp when Mr Mthambo arrived. As I mentioned before, he was the Chairperson in the area. He was patrolling the camps as usual. After that Mr Mkhize, Ndimande and Mbambo, who was also known as Ernest Mahlane, arrived. They informed us that they were on their ... MR PRINSLOO: You have heard the evidence of, for example, Mr Vermeulen and others, with regard to the court appearance, on the first appearance of the accused, that there were the two camps, the IFP and the ANC and there was much support for the accused at that stage and much ANC support for the ... would like to qualify the question by telling you we as Boers lost 27 000 children and women in the war against the English, they were killed in the camps and I do not want to be part of an organisation that kills children and women, Sir and today I have to sit here and look you in the eyes and ... MR MPUNGOSE: I never saw him again until at the camps when he came to see us. |
