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APLAExplanation ... safekeeping and was discovered by the police, which led to the Applicant's conviction and imprisonment. All the parties were either members of the APLA or Task Force. Applicant was a member of Task ... MR VAN NIEKERK: It was mainly the ANC activists within the ANC, trained terrorists, members of Umkhonto weSizwe movement and then also to a lesser degree members of the APLA movement. ... political group. The applicant says although he heard a woman's voice screaming whilst they were shooting, he did not stop shooting because as an APLA soldier he was carrying out ... MR MALGAS: In answering this question, I would put it this way. In South Africa we had liberation armies like MK and Apla. As I've already mentioned here before that 2 members of the MK, they were responsible for us in certain things, so the instruction or the decision was that we should take ... were a threat to society, to normalise society, but what I just want to find out from you is that we all know now that people like Umkhonto weSizwe, APLA, came into the country and targeted for instance the Security people, like the police, whom they had a notion that those are the pillars of the ... MR NKUMANDA: I met Kleintjie as I'd already explained, two weeks before the operation and he highlighted a problem that was existing within the APLA structures at that moment which was the shortage of weapons. He told me that our soft targets our police stations and the policemen who were residing ... ... testified to before the Human Rights Violations Committee and I believe Mr Lax was a Commissioner at the time, or a member of that Committee, by APLA, by the ANC, by everybody to say that we acted in that time on the spur of the moment, we didn't have time to reconsider. We, thinking back ... ... Judgment delivered at his trial where evidence was apparently led by the applicant that, or in a statement made, that it was not the policy of the APLA at that stage to use violence and injure people during the course of such ... ... to the illegal possession of a firearm and 14 rounds of ammunition. At the trial evidence was given that the first applicant was a member of APLA and it was accepted by the court that the accused was acting with a political ... MR FOURIE: These were person who had obtained military training abroad who had either joined MK or APLA. "The fact that both MK and eventually the Azanian People's Liberation Army, APLA, members started using neighbouring frontline states as a springboard for launching their armed attacks against the Republic led directly to the establishment of a cross-border capability aimed at eliminating or ... MR PRETORIUS: The SACP, the ANC, MK, PAC, DIA, Apla. DR KNOBEL: Understanding we - we understood under that heading that the potential threat would be coming with engagements between South African forces and Cuban forces and Apla forces - no I beg your pardon, MPLA forces in Angola ...(intervention) states that he had a particular interest in the success of the operation because at the time hew was a member of C2 and was doing research on MK and APLA members' activities. They had photo albums of refugees as well as names of suspects they were trying to identify. Having thoroughly searched ... ... He testified that he was a member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and also a member of its military wing the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA). He said that he was in a unit commanded by one Patrick Mohale from whom he received instructions and who he has been informed is now ... MR LOOTS: Chairperson, may I say that any person who was involved in the housing of MK members, or APLA members, were regarded as targets. |