APLA

... above, this decision was recorded in the September minutes of KIK. Willem Schoon told the Commission that: The fact that MK and eventually APLA members started using neighbouring frontline states as a springboard for launching their armed attacks against the Republic led directly to the ...

THE SECRETARIAT AND ITS ARMED WING UMKHONTO WESIZWE (MK), AND THE PAC AND ITS ARMED FORMATIONS POQO AND THE AZANIAN PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY (APLA), COMMITTED GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE COURSE OF THEIR POLITICAL ACTIVITIES AND ARMED STRUGGLES, ACTS FOR WHICH THEY ARE MORALLY ...

in May 1980 without charges (surprising considering that he had fled the country together with the Azanian People’s Liberation Army’s (APLA) Sabelo Phama and had undergone ANC training in Angola). Depending on the date of disappearance, Twalo may have been the guerrilla arrested on 7 ...

... after two days his decapitated body was found. 199 Mr Morgan Nogaga Gxekwa [AM5686/97] applied for amnesty as a founder member of both Poqo and APLA. WHILE THE COMMISSION TAKES NOTE OF THE EXPLANATION TENDERED BY THE PAC THAT ITS ACTIVITIES IN THE EARLY 1960S NEED TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN THE ...

... escalated dramatically from mid-1985 to 1989. The over 100 attacks resulted in at least four deaths and approximately sixty injuries. No PAC or APLA armed actions appear to have taken place in this period. 300 There was a strong shift in 1985 towards attacking personnel of institutions ...

... assistants, was later convicted of the murder and has applied to the Commission for amnesty, claiming to have been acting on behalf of APLA/PAC. 399 Women and youth were frequently the victims of random attacks which destroyed hundreds of homes and caused many injuries. ...

... in combat (during, for example, the Namibian and Angolan ‘border wars’) and Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) or Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) soldiers killed or seriously injured in combat were not viewed as victims of gross violations of human rights as defined by the Act. This is ...

... Report: Regulation of gatherings (Jan 1993) Fourth Interim Report: Taxi violence in Groblersdal and surrounding areas (Feb 1993) Interim Report: APLA (Mar 1993) Final Report: Regulation of gatherings (Apr 1993) Final Report: Train violence (May 1993) Report: Allegations published in the ...

... the elections by violent means and, on the other, black groups such as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA), which had continued the ‘armed struggle’ during the negotiation process. It became clear to the Commission in the course of its ...

... of the then Orange Free State in order to enable them to protect themselves from attacks by members of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) who were operating from Lesotho. They testified that this was necessary as the government of the day was unable to maintain law and order in ...

... have a high political profile both inside and outside the country; c assassinations of individual MK and Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) personnel both inside and outside the country, and d cross - border raids. 84. Again, if one examines the picture that emerges from the amnesty ...

... 191. Botha told the Committee that the attack was in retaliation for an incident which had taken place earlier in the day, in which PAC and APLA supporters wearing PAC T-shirts had randomly attacked white people on Durban’s beachfront , killing one elderly person and injuring ...

... on killings that occurred during the 1983 bus boycott. Wreaths were laid at Egerton and Highgate, where Ciskei and Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) armed forces had attacked people. Human rights violations relating to women were also given a full day at this hearing. p Youth hearing, East ...

... was underlined for the Church of England in South Africa when its Kenilworth congregation was attacked by Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) cadres in July 1993. These cadres later told the Commission’s amnesty committee that they were motivated by the fact that the churches ...

... of the struggle, for somewhat different reasons, there were also specialised organisations. Not least of these were the armed wings, such as MK and APLA, as well as SDUs, which also operated in clandestine ways. Special organisations within Inkatha, such as the Caprivi-trained group, as well as ...

... National Working Committee, the Revolutionary Council, the Secretariat and its armed wing, MK, as well as the PAC and its armed formations Poqo and APLA, committed gross violations of human rights in the course of their political activities and armed struggles, for which they are morally and ...

... Savage’s wish was fulfilled in April 1998 at the amnesty hearing of Mr Thembelani Xundu, the former Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) commander responsible for her injuries. In a newspaper interview, she said that, after meeting with Xundu, currently a major in the South ...

it into gear ... It’s not a bunch of ex-soldiers getting together, having a braaivleis and swapping bush stories. What it is, is SWAPO, ANC, APLA, Umkhonto weSizwe, Koevoet, ‘Reccies’, all the units, every single unit, everybody who ever was trained in any way militarily ...

... of anger but I think, most overwhelmingly, of sorrow that young men like you and not only those that were in the SADF but those who were in MK and APLA and other forces - that young men like you had to deal with that insanity [of the war] ... We’re going to need to deal with the issues ...

... PAC’s armed grouping of the 1960s, Poqo; a finding against the PAC for violations committed in exile, and a finding against its armed wing APLA in the later period. FINDING ON POQO 5. The Commission stated in its Final Report that: While the Commission takes note of the explanation ...