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Bisho massacreExplanation We welcome all of you very warmly to this the second day of this special event hearing around the Bisho massacre. As you all saw yesterday, we are going to have quite a few people who are going to come and give evidence and we want to welcome especially the former General Secretary of the South ... BISHO MASSACRE - DAY 3 - 11 SEPTEMBER 1996 ... Park and then, at the next moment we would be thrown into the nadir of despair and it seemed like we would be entering a horrid night and this Bisho massacre was something of that kind, when our hopes for a settlement seemed to be being dashed. ... ... AM4458/96 and M T Gonya, amnesty reference AM7882/97. These two applications relate to what has commonly become known as the Bisho shooting or the Bisho Massacre. That is the matter we have before us. Yes, Mr Mapoma, I assume that the applicants are both ... incident which happened in Bisho on the 7th of September 1992 which is commonly referred to as the Bisho Massacre. You were then the Head of State in the then Ciskei and for that purpose the Commission was of the mind that you are able to make material submissions and bring relevant evidence to ... MR MAPOMA: Now this incident took place on the month when there was the Bisho massacre, do you agree with me? ... Mbulelo Mangoma. And Delila Matshamba will speak on behalf of the late Mxoleli Matshamba. These people either were injured or passed away on the Bisho Massacre in September 1992. Thank you Mr ... MS COLLETT: Now the incident that you're referring to on the 7th of September 1992, is that the incident that is commonly known as the Bisho Massacre? The incident of the Bisho massacre is one of the serious reasons that has caused a profound hatred and a need to retaliate against the regime. Above all Nkuleko has never been involved in any criminal activity in his life, but because of the burning desire to remove the shackles of the Gqozo ... particularly requested you to do so because of the difficulty I feel whenever I have to deal with the Bisho Massacre event and how closely I was associated with the developments which were trying to avoid it. I wish to thank you Chairperson for the very dignified and able manner in which you have ... ... that we can get a understanding of who he was, what was he doing at the time of the incidents that you have written to us about, which we call the Bisho ... ... Committee by giving me this opportunity to make this submission today. I want to give a clear picture as to what happened in October 1992 after the Bisho massacre of which I think everyone knows about it, as it was an international and national issue. People from King William's Town and the ... MR POTGIETER: You have been approached to assist the Commission in looking into the incident which has become known as the Bisho massacre. MR MFENE: Yes there was conflict because it was after the Bisho massacre in 1990. The political organisations, they were in conflict with Brig Gqozo. The procession was to commence from the King William’s Town Victoria Sports Grounds which fell under the jurisdiction of the R.S.A. Bisho was the administrative capital of the Ciskei, an "independent homeland" under apartheid. Ciskei was under the rule of Brigadier Gqozo whose administration was ... ... April 1996. Addressed to all officials commanding of the Eastern Cape Command which are still named by the old SANDF members. This relates to the Bisho massacre and is signed by Colonel B D van Groenjen, the second in command of the Personnel Section. The letter reads as ... ... of kin of those who lost their lives in the incident that we are looking at. Today is the second and the last day of the resumed hearing on the Bisho massacre that happened on the 7th of September 1992. I would also say a warm word of welcome to the dignitaries and other leadership figures ... DR RAMASHALA: Okay, in the case of the Bisho Massacre it would be tactical planning? ... Finca. Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. A warm word of welcome to you at this the resumed hearing into the event that has become known as the Bisho Massacre. We have previously listened to a part of the testimony and submissions in regard to this incident in Bisho between the 9th and the ... SUPT SIMMS: Mr Chairman if I say it's a suspicion, what's the word we use, let's say via the grapevine it did come to my knowledge after the Bisho massacre that meetings were |
