APLA

... this is the first day of a four-day hearing entitled the Armed Forces Hearing. Today we will be hearing from the Pan African Congress and then the APLA leadership; tomorrow the former South African Defence Force; on Thursday the former South African Police and on Friday, the final day of the ...

... relatingto the St James incident, that at the time, he is the time who gave the orders,the instructions, he was the Director of Operations of APLA, so he is not herebefore you today ...

it's in the order of about 5 million rand. Now we're talking about vast amounts of money that was taken by your unit and yet the evidence was, from APLA's side, that they had no knowledge of this. Mr Maseko said he didn't know about it. Nobody seemed to know about this, that they ultimately ...

"First and foremost, these people, they were not APLA members, most of them and they were people who were working inside the country although they were not APLA members and then somebody by the name of Vincent Mama, he introduced me to Peter who was the commander of that unit. And then after he ...

MS COLLETT: Did you at some stage in the '90's join APLA?

The trial court also found correctly that the applicants were members, in the case of Mr Malevu, the members of the Pan African Congress and in the case of Messrs Shiceka and Tanda, members of APLA.

MR MBANDAZAYO: Now Mr Leshomo, let's now come to this incident. Am I correct that around April in 1991, you were approached by Monde Radebe who was an APLA cadre?

Mr Chairman, I have provided the Committee with a bundle of documents, may I first refer to the PAC Submissions, with respect, or the APLA submissions made at the HRV Hearings in October last year. I don't intend to refer at all to the hearings or the submissions made in August Mr Chairman, but ...

... preconditions that would have to be met before he gave his evidence, and those preconditions have not been met. They relate to certain lists of APLA cadres in the possession of the police and the police aren't willing to release those. So by and all it's a situation where Mr Mpahlele is not ...

MR PRIOR: Just to summarise, there were allegations made during the hearing and in papers presented at the hearing, that the Heidelberg Tavern was regarded - particularly by APLA, as a military target. Could you comment on that?

MR PRIOR: Would you agree that the evidence we have heard thus far, the PAC and APLA, very intricately involved with each other, in December 1993, had made an announcement regarding the suspension of the armed struggle and again at the caucus or at the National Congress at Unitra, over the 16th and ...

I was born in Uitenhage in kwaNobuhle township and grew up in the Eastern Cape. I was born twenty nine years ago and unmarried. I left school in 1989, doing standard nine and left the country to Botswana the same year. I joined PAC through AZANYO in 1984 and joined APLA in exile in 1989.

MR CISHE: Yes I became one of them in 1986 just before I joined APLA.

... of the ANC, I was employed at the time, as I was hitch-hiking, I was attacked by the members and when I looked at them, to me they looked more like APLA members because they were in the company of Mr Mposelwa. They attacked me there at Bantu, but I managed to run away, or escape. I escaped ...

I passed standard 9 at school, but I never managed to complete matric. I joined the PAC through AZANYO in 1983 and I joined APLA while I was in exile in Botswana in and during 1986.

I joined PAC through Azanla in 1987. I joined the task force of Apla in 1989 under the command of Apla Commander Bongani Moyo. In waging the armed struggle Apla had set up task forces which consisted of internally trained cadres. I was also one of those cadres belonging to a task force.

... on the steps and then Jacobs fell on the floor. After he fell he asked us as to whether "Who sent you here?" Comrade told him that "This is an APLA mission, if you survive you must tell the police that APLA was here." That's what I wanted to correct or add to his evidence. That the first ...

CHAIRPERSON: Just before I ask Mr van der Heever, if I could just ask a few questions. Did you ever join APLA?

also arrested for armed repossession and I was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and released in 1993. I was arrested on the 19th January 1994 for APLA operations and I was sentenced to life imprisonment on the 24th April ...

MR SHICEKA: APLA.