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collaboratorExplanation MR RICHARDS: And it leads me to the last on this particular track. If someone was labelled collaborator, impimpi, informer at that time what was the probable result for that individual in the community? MR VAN DYK: At that stage it was that he was a collaborator and he was assisting in the transport of persons, as I've already said, from Mozambique and helped with infiltrations into the RSA. MR RORICH: We knew that Mr McFadden was involved as a collaborator and that at many times he was in the presence of Mr Zweli Nyanda and Mr Lawrence, but we could not have foreseen that other people would have been in the house. That was not possible to have foreseen something like that, anything ... MR ANDREWS: I would have also considered that person to be a collaborator. GEN VAN DER MERWE: Well the information that we have now is that Jackie Quin was a collaborator, but she was not involved herself in acts of violence. purpose. Whether it was the intent or not, they committed an act which removed from society a person who was perceived as a collaborator. That is a fact. That is what actually happened. Now having done that, having done that, the question is: that act and other similar acts, was there general ... ... from their houses and acting as a policeman by wrongfully arresting people in some cases for petty crimes. He was therefore seen as an apartheid ... and if you look at the video then you will see that it was a declared enemy, the PAC in itself, although not mentioned by name, but qualified as a collaborator of the ANC, was a target in itself and this is what I would submit to you because I would be omitting my duties if I do not, they said I should turn my back against the people I was leading, and when they said that they wanted the people I was leading to perceive me as the collaborator with the police. And I was also going to be arrested, but without any reason, but the people I lead were the ones that were going to be ... Mr Mahayiya, the deceased was also in a dilemma wasn't she? If she would allow you to enter the house, her children or people, the youth, seeing her allowing you into the house would regard her as a collaborator with you and her life would have been in danger, isn't that so? ... to clinical teaching material and gross human rights violations that were going on all the time. Yet the Medical Faculty was not a monolithic collaborator. Aside from individuals in the Faculty frequently including the leadership of the Faculty, the Faculty created committees such as the ... ... confess were usually sent to detention camps. Now what happened to a poor fellow who is innocent and he says: "I'm not an informer, I was never a collaborator with the enemy", he tells the ANC in Lusaka that, is he also one that is sent to a detention camp because he refuses to ... MR BOOYENS:: Now, you had been a member of the, if I say a member of the South African Police, I use it in the broad sense of the word, I am talking about as an Askari or a collaborator of the police for how many years? specific reason, because he was linked to the ANC, I would also have done that with Nkosi, because he could also have been a member of the ANC, or a ... MR RICHARD: Did they describe the category of collaborator that they might be planning to attack? ... still alive then. They got information such a person worked with the police, now he shows a photo and says that because that person possibly was a collaborator of the police, that he must be ... ... expressed whether Japie Maponya had been a member or a supporter of the ANC, I submit with respect that he could at least have been regarded as a collaborator through his conduct of protecting his brother Ordereli against arrest by the police and Ordereli was involved in political violence ... MR PRINSLOO: If I could arrest the group of terrorists, it would mean more to me and then yes, he would be charged as a collaborator, so then the evidence would be there. ... but I am narrowing to politics. As to the related question, why afterwards did they not tell the ANC of their fatal mistake in killing an ANC collaborator, the answers are that they were shocked as they said, by this. Maybe they felt so ashamed of having done so, that they resorted to ... ... acted on the order of General Ras and under the instruction of Captain Loots against a person that they believed to be an enemy of the State and collaborator with the ANC. They conceded that they had no instructions to kill Irene Motasi and they testified that they didn't foresee or ordered ... |