APLA

... he was in detention he received quite a number of reading materials on the PAC and its military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army ("APLA").  He says that the literate made him more convinced than before that he had taken the correct decision to join the PAC.  When he was ...

... I also played a role in searching the property. We were all searching the property and we took whatever would have been of assistance to us as APLA and our members. And we also took the car. When we took the car it was after having searched the scene and we had tied up the White lady, we ...

MR MALUSI: I am Tembekile Malusi, representing the victims with regard to the death of the APLA 5 in Port St Johns.

... the application for amnesty should not be refused on the ground that the applicant and his victim, in count 1, were both members of the PAC and APLA, that is the victims was not a political enemy. Evidence submitted before the TRC by Liberation Movements, including the PAC, show that people ...

MR POTGIETER: In the investigative unit if an MK member or an Apla member was arrested there were photos taken of the person or his number is identified in the terrorist album and then we would visit Vlakplaas, normally at the end of the month when their teams came back from their activities in ...

CHAIRPERSON: And do you confirm, also just for the record here, that at the time of the incident you were a member of the Pan Africanist Congress and a trained member of APLA?

Paragraph 59 - this is not a verbatim transcript, it reads something like the following: Clive said: "Maybe it was APLA, the Government" etc.

... in or about 1992 was Moeketsi Johannes Jikile. The Applicant was the main role player in the tubing of Jikile who was being questioned about APLA farm attacks in the Orange Free State region. Having been arrested at his home he was held at Botshabelo Police Station near Bloemfontein and ...

MR PRINSLOO: It was the recruitment and handling of informers, as well as investigations and actions against ANC, APLA and PAC terrorists.

wings, Umkhonto weSizwe, APLA and

MR PRINSLOO: Chairperson, at that stage according to my knowledge, all the members of Vlakplaas who were classified as askaris, were members of MK or Apla who had received external military training and who knew precisely how they functioned and operated and my information at that stage was not ...

... of this incident we are not satisfied that the Applicant's actions were sufficiently aimed at furthering the political struggle and objectives of APLA and the PAC, but appear rather to have been aimed at improving the conditions of his incarceration whilst awaiting trial. Accordingly amnesty ...

which I think is a very good example, from the other side of the political spectrum, if you take the Azanian People's Organisation, which had a wing APLA, and you had the ANC with Umkonto weSizwe, it doesn't mean that the rest of the members were not involved and were not committed to resistance ...

The same pattern followed - he was taken to an adjacent farm and shot on the pretext that he tried to escape in a Gumtree bush. The applicant further testified that he believed the deceased was a member of APLA.

It is clear that the Applicants were members of the PAC and/or APLA and that they acted in terms of these organisations' policies and objectives.  A the relevant time APLA was still engaged in the armed struggle and regarded all whites as supporters of the Apartheid Government.  Attacks of ...

We also do not accept the applicants evidence that he was an APLA cadre and that the robbery was an APLA operation. The applicant had scant knowledge of the then leadership of APLA and the PAC. He did not even know who the APLA Director of operations was.

understood the so-called Task Force to relate to the PAC and its armed struggle. At some stage later he started referring to Makara as a member of APLA. In his application form he says he received orders from Sabelo Pama but in his evidence-in-chief he had made no reference whatsoever to the ...

... process. However, as we have heard in a number of other matters the PAC had not yet abandoned the armed struggle. The applicant was a member of APLA and received order to attack the bus. The arms and ammunition used in the attack were supplied by APLA to the applicant and the orders emanated ...

The PAC has confirmed in a letter dated 9 September 1998 that Applicant is a member of the organisation and that the incident relates to PAC /Apla operations.

There can be no doubt that the applicants were cadres of APLA. Their actions as set out above fell within the ambit of the policy of APLA and the PAC. We may mention that the Commission has had extensive evidence and received submissions detailing such policy and strategies.