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CasspirExplanation ... the only possible escape route would according to this map, be in a northerly direction into the river bed, because in front of them would be the casspir, to the right was a game fence which they couldn't penetrate, that is to the south, so if they tried to escape in that direction, we would ... MR MAKWETHU: When we arrived there, a casspir and a van were parked there. Captain Skepe was the driver, he was a Warrant Officer or a Sergeant at the time, but now he is a Captain today, Captain Skepe was the driver of the van. MR LOWIES: In your mind is a Hippo and a Casspir one and the same thing? dat daar was geen manier hoe iemand van daai toneel af kon verdwyn het nie, want dit was so beplan dat daar van u kollegas in die bosse staan met ‘n Casspir, daar was ‘n helikopter - daardie toneel was omsingel nie waar ... So what the police said and this has been the police stance since the 17th June 1992, is that each and every casspir country wide had been accounted for and it has been shown that not a single casspir was in Boipatong at the time of the attack. We know since the affidavit of the journalist, Mr ... SGT-MAJ MKHONTO: Yes and the casspir detonated a mine. 3.5 An explosion involving a Casspir vehicle BDL 706 B on 27 November 1985 on the farm Overvlakte in the district of Messina injuring Constable Philemon Motaung. "Discussing potential targets, Robert had suggested the Casspir, a squat armed patrol vehicle which passed down Oval Road at 10.30 every night. Instead Matthew and Antonio decided to attack the home of Mr Klein, a local headmaster, whom they regarded as an apartheid stooge." - I then went back to the back of the house, opened that same window and I think it could have been around three o’clock or just before when I saw a Casspir vehicle coming done Denton Road which is that road at the ... left other than the casspir and you cleared the scene of all the corpses and the whole Newcastle. Before the 3rd I arrived here at home from Newcastle. In the 3rd of July I was going to town. On my way to town, near the hall, I saw a Casspir and a van following each other. There were other people behind me. They were chanting freedom songs and toi-toiing. They were behind me. ... CHAIRPERSON: Yes. And perhaps the legal representative who is appearing for the Police, if they could endeavour to get us a photograph of the casspir and perhaps just to complete the process, the "nyala", microwave, the suitcase and a hippo, yes. I don't think we would need the over-all's of the ... ... with SWAPO except a rocketattack. We were - I'll come to that incident now but we alsohad a landmine incident. I was sitting on the roof of a Casspir,illegally, by that I mean it's laughable now, but we weren't allowedto sit on the roof we had to sit inside strapped in, it was ... To our surprise and joy the Casspir retreats 100 metres and the soldiers pull back. The sense of apprehension returns. We hear there is deadlock at Stophile hence round Vaseline for the teargas. A number of people proffer advice on how to breathe and so on. We also discuss what to do if live ... MS TANZER: You've been sitting in these proceedings and you've heard Mr Nosenga's versions of the events that led up to the attack on Boipatong and the attack itself. According to Mr Nosenga, your brother was one of those in fact in a Casspir on the night of the attack? MR STRYDOM: In Mr Nosenga's affidavit it's also stated that on the night of the attack Casspir vehicles picked up various residents of the hostel including a person by the name of Lucky and he stated that he was limping. Now if one accepts that reference to that Lucky, his reference to you, what ... MR BLACK: Now from your observation post where you were posted, did you see what had happened there, that a Casspir stopped? Did you see the shooting? ... grip on the bus rails so that I couldn't go out. I tried kicking and screaming, but that did not help, because all the other ones who were in the Casspirs came out to assist the three. And the bus driver asked as to what was happening because he recognised me as a bus driver. They told him ... the soldiers came, we did not want to be found in possession of firearms. Then at night on this particular day, it rained. We heard some cars or casspirs outside, the casspirs that were used by the Internal Stability Unit. These casspirs came to a halt just opposite the house that we were in ... ... a technical problem and the people who didn't move. We moved from the direction of the bar and we saw there standing someone and even the Police Casspir was there. I instructed Charlie to throw the first bomb and we had to get inside the houses next to Tembisa Stores. Charlie threw the first ... |