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Caprivi trainees

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A state-sponsored paramilitary unit set up to provide the IFP with a covert military capacity. The trainees were given paramilitary training by the SADF in the Caprivi Strip during 1986 and were later deployed in areas around KwaZulu-Natal against the political enemies of the state and Inkatha, namely the UDF and ANC and their allies.

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Similarly individuals in the IFP may have done so. Those put in leading positions, whether they were Caprivi trainees etc, if they understood it the way they have been giving evidence before the Commission in certain court cases, that the ANC, the UDF, Cosatu were legitimate targets, then what ...
MR WILLS: Now you indicate that at that stage you met a couple of the Caprivi trainees and you list them in paragraph 25 at page 142, but I want to concentrate on the actual training you received. You indicate that you were eventually taken from Pietermartizburg and you did some training at the ...
MR STEWART: And did you know yourself at that time that Maglanduna has been designated the Political Commissar of the Caprivi trainees?
The applicant a member of the IFP and one of the so-called Caprivi trainees, applies for amnesty in respect of two incidents.
... the political turmoil, the murders and attacks carried out by the Black Cats, IFP members, the para-military trainees who received training in the Caprivi Strip and activities of those parties and organisations which were intent on murdering people sympathetic towards the African National ...
MR LAX: Well it won't surprise you then that Military Intelligence paid the Caprivi trainees and elements of those people right until the 1990's.
... of more. Certain related aspects which appear from the documents which were put at my disposal and I'll deal with that very briefly as far as the Caprivi trainees are concerned, I had nothing to do with ...
ADV PRIOR: At page 14 of Exhibit A a document was put up, an extract from I believe the amnesty applications of the Caprivi trainees, one Romeo Mbambo and it seems that in that application the attack on yourself was well documented from paragraph 125 of that document, where it seems that those ...
... Anton Niewoudt. I believe maybe a lot of people know Niewoudt's background. He was one of the people who was responsible for the training of the Caprivi trainees. Brigadier Gqozo was reported to be really scared of Anton Niewoudt and was hero-worshipping him. That was according to the ...
... further military training to deal with problems that they were experiencing of the nature of which you have heard in that last application with the Caprivi trainees, so I think that, you know without being too specific Madam Chair, it would be my submission that there may have been a reduction in ...
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