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CasspirExplanation MR PRINSLOO: Chairperson, there were several acts of terror in the area Northern Transvaal. By means of illustration, a police casspir vehicle during February, was blown up in Mamelodi by means of a landmine, while the police members were busy with patrol work. And there was also a police ... MR MNYANDU: On of those policemen called Vusi and said he should tell his friends to disperse in five minutes. At that time Vusi stood on top of the Casspir and said "Comrades, these boers say you must disperse now". I and other comrades were shocked as to how our comrade can afford to do ... their matters, their organisation's matters. They had beenarrested. Now we don't know who called the Casspir from Harrismith. They justcame and shot, but there wasn't any altercation. There was absolutely nothingthat - the policeman said they were stoning his house, but that's unbelievablebecause ... MS MADONDO: Yes. Protea police used to come, some they will come by Casspir and they would just playing with our minds because they knew where he was. MR SINGH: No. I was a driver for them, yes. The casspir and the squad sits inside. For the vehicle and the squads and the firearms and things like that. "When we got out of the hostel onto the road, we were picked up by a police Casspir driven by a white man whose name I don't know. In the hippo there was Shaga of the security branch; a white policeman known to me as Rooikop who had red hair; Peens and our driver. There were 14 or 15 IFP ... sharp war on the border or being prepared and willing and available to act against fellow South Africans in the townships, for instance sitting on a casspir and throwing missiles or whatever else at their fellow South Africans, then one must at least try and understand it in terms of the ... ... to ask them to resign and subsequent to that, police were called and we were in Jimmy Chauke’s house and the police arrived and they came on their Casspir. They just started off shooting and as they were shooting we also retaliated. We threw some stones to them. We were throwing stones and ... ... the crowds like in Uitenhage and they start protesting and we are frightened, what do I have to do, I don't want to shoot, I don't want to use my Casspir, I don't want to go in there and kill the people, what can I do? I can try to use water canons like they did in Cape Town, it works ... ... me, another night this white man came again. They came to fetch me and I was staying that time with my girl friend. When I got to where the Casspir was going, it was Nyanga East at the police station. That’s where they really beat me up so much that they said I was the organiser of all ... ... I was in the hall, I was in the building of the Learning Centre when that bomb exploded and when I ran out of the building I immediately noticed a Casspir on the scene or close to the scene and within minutes of the bomb exploding there were also policemen and explosives experts on the scene. ... MR MBAMBO: No, nobody told him that because the ANC leaders spoke to Brigadier Umzumela and other officers who were in a police casspir. They laid this complaint with Brigadier Umzumela and he appeared as a person who was going to try and fix the situation but he did not do anything about it. ... things were happening some of the police were just standing outside the hostel. At the time of the explosion some of those police ran into their Casspir, some ran together with me to hide behind the office which I just explained ... ... riots outside. We were sitting in the lounge and I went out to go and see what was happening in the street. I had just got off the stoop when the Casspir came around Misbus Street and went up Vraagom Street. I was standing there watching and I just felt something struck my face and my face had ... come in. At that time there were some Hippos coming in because there was the Sybil's house had been burnt down and the creche, maybe that's why the Casspir in. They saw in, then they ran away. But I didn't trust that they had all gone. ... ... opportunity in Ovamboland, where there were UN troops, peace flags were blowing and the troops were shooting everything that was remotely a Koevoet Casspir, it might have been a sense of paranoia which accompanies this kind of situation, we had the same situation in Russia, where the Russian ... ... house. They asked for my mother, my sister told them that my mother was in the neighbour’s house. They went and took her to that house in their casspir. They took her together with Zolisha Siyo, my cousin to the Headman. When they arrived in the Headman’s place, they assaulted her She was ... where a bakkie detonated a landmine. four occupants were killed and two others, Bhangu James and William Motha, survived. The third one is where a Casspir detonated a landmine and the occupants thereof sustained minor ... ... whose identity is unknown, attempted murder of an unknown number of policemen whose identities are unknown, the theft of a motor vehicle known as a Casspir, the murders of an unknown number of people at the Katuza Hostel, the attempted murders of an unknown number of occupants of Katuza Hostel, ... Comrade McBride had discussed with me a number of targets, including attacks on an armed personnel carrier, police casspir and the attach on policemen, the attack on Labour Party collaborators and the attack on police reservists. |