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councillorsExplanation ... Now, when you defined your targets, as you have already explained in your statement, you said that your targets was that you were against apartheid councillors as well as vigilante groups. What was troubling you about those groups, why did you specifically choose them to be your targets? What ... The apartheid States at the time insisted on putting in place in many townships in the country Councillors, people that they percieved could govern the townships separately to the way that the rest of the cities were governed. To do that they enforced elections in very many communities and of ... We got there at a time where there was tension and at the time where I say, in 1987 my house was burnt. Whereas on the other side, the Government was establishing Councillors and also Council police in the form of municipal police. MR SANDI: What was the cause of the disharmony? Who was leading the township all in all? Were there councillors within the organisation. Yes, in the Esikhaweni area, where you were employed. --- I had contact with the councillors, which were councillors for the KwaZulu Government, and there were also other leaders of the Inkatha with whom I had contact. Those which I used to contact them so often amongst the Inkatha leaders it ... ... period, with what was actually happening in Siyathemba, it is said that one of the incidents that actually sparked off this attack on the houses of Councillors and in particular your house, was after the body, after the coffin of Abram had been taken by the police and the police refused to give ... The students, apparently, did write the letters because the Press published the resignations of a number of Councillors, but that was actually and ultimately the students marched to the UBC one day, but the Councillors still refused to resign, those who had not resigned. Some Councillors resigned ... We fought in 1983 in the year Brian died against the then councillors as undemocratic councillors and we were able to rally the youth around and he was an enemy to the security police. He was an enemy to the then councillors. We were moving in each and every meeting trying to educate people ... time I had a 7.65, Mrs Mbuyazi's 7.65. As you know that Mrs Mbuyazi had certain positions within the IFP she would be given such firearms by people. Councillors and mayors would also receive these things from councillors and mayors. And these cars drove in parallel, Nthena tried to shoot. On ... ... first, education later. They were preaching that other people are banned if they don't want them to follow what they follow. Preaching that councillors working for the KwaZulu Government should be killed. We saw all those things happen before our eyes. We saw tribal authorities being ... ... thing an entrepreneur should do is to identify the site. He would apply to the Soweto Local Council and if you are not being favoured, one of the councillors would know, would have inside information, he would approach the oil company that has got this site, the site that somebody has ... against the continuing existence of, of Black Local Authorities at the time and of course the youth and residents were asking for the resignation of Councillors in Messina. This was a trend that we have seen in other parts of the country as well. The death of Wilson of course led to the launch ... MR RICHARD: What was the relationship after Christmas 1985, through 1986 into 1987 between the UDF and the Councillors and those who supported the Councillors? ... to spy on Inkatha areas therefore it was left to my discretion to decide what to do to them. We returned. Before that, I found Zekele with other councillors holding a meeting, councillors from all the units. He asked one old man to take us where we were supposed to go and return us to him ... ... Intelligence. This short list illustrates just how polarised the media itself was during the Apartheid years. Hundreds of black policemen and councillors were assassinated by MK hit squads in the townships over this period. But the full story was never told by ANC aligned journalists ... By 1985 all but two of the community councillors in Bhongolethu Oudtshoorn had resigned. The two that remained were Patrick Marenene that’s Benedict’s father and Alfred Grootboom. It is alleged that the community councillors were very antagonistic towards community organisations and they ... ... who had lost their loved ones. I used to receive these groceries. One woman said, who is a white person, said that I should take a letter to the councillors. I took the letter to the councillors that the government should assist me in raising the children. After seven months, R600,00 arrived. ... to normalise the situation and many activists were harassed. The applicant states inter alia that he was instructed to guard the homes of Community Councillors who were quite unpopular in the area. In addition, he had to take part in the petrol bombing of homes of UDF leaders and their ... ... be able to divide it and say this are or this section is UDF and this is IFP because the whole of Umlazi initially there were just residents and councillors, I wouldn't be able to say or divide it into two because I never associated myself with politics, therefore I don't know how it ... ... government to make sure that these people qualified. You know the people that were given opportunities I suppose were given opportunities to be councillors because they were being paid for by the government for maybe to try and, or to be bribed, to be on the side of the government. There ... |
