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councillorsExplanation to honour and remember all the young people who died in pursuit of liberation struggles. We thank you very much for coming and as you meet with our councillors they will be able to guide you as to how to access special health care following our recommendation. Thank you very much for ... MR PRETORIUS: And then there was the one where the handgrenades were at the Councillors' office, Mr Olifant was there. conflict. We are not only concentrating on what the State has done to people, we must also listen to what people have done to other structures like councillors, like you know, police, and so on. What people have also done to those people, and we are very pleased that you have raised what was ... then it happened that Winnie Mandela encouraged us again thatwe should join with these Advisory Boards, the so-called town councillors. Andthen we started to join up with the Town Council. My wife went in there as acouncillor. I couldn't get in there because I was on the banned list, I ... ... a soldier in front of your house with a gun. The whole township was surrounded by the soldiers. This made people to be angry. They boycotted the councillors. Everything that belonged to the Government was a threat or ... ... were soldiers who use to stay in his house. There were bags that were used there to protect this house, the kind of bags that they use to use in councillors' houses around and this and this things. But we did not know why those bullet proof kind of bags were put all around his house. ... These municipalities or these town councils which were then handed over as such comprised a committee called Wesbou which included city councillors, city secretaries, financial persons, people from the traffic departments, people who were in command of the civil protection services and so forth, ... ... they will be told. Again my tribe went to Ulundi. They also gave them the same answer, that they will respond to them, they will write a letter. Councillors and indunas also went to Ulundi. Myself I went to Ulundi. I went to see Mr Nyanga Ngubane. I went there myself because I wanted to ... MR NGCOBO: I wouldn't know that. The Chief was present and the Councillors were there and the community and also another Chief from the Numbela area. They all wanted this thing to be solved, but then the problem was with Cele and Mbukazi. ... to go on and fight apartheid. Perhaps that opportunity is for you to check and see your mistakes. Maybe your people are not supposed to be councillors so that you can be free. Secondly, the African Americans worked very hard in their churches to develop the spirit of Ubuntu, self ... ... before you, clealry indicated that they were fighting against the high rents, they were fighting the oppressive education, they were fighting the councillors and they didn't want to buy in their shops, they were boycotting the shops. That is what they were doing. That is why I am asking you ... ... structure fell also the Local Management System (LMC) which was attached to the various police station areas. The role players here were also city councillors, the traffic chiefs, local police inspector, the local detective branch, reservists, taxpayers associations and whichever institution had ... MS MKHIZE: Thank you very much. We have heard your story and the councillors from Alexandra are here. I should think the issue of the displaced people will be their priority in working closely with us, we could come up with some ideas and proposals as to how this problem should be resolved. We ... And this was part of also the campaign to ask the local councillors to resign. They collaborated an action with the riot police, the then SADF and the councillors, to extinguish the flames of war and to abort the cause of liberation struggle. The Municipal Police, due to their geographic deployment in townships, were always the first of the enemy security machinery to be ... MS RAMAKOKOVHU: Well, regarding the Councillors, there were some differences regard, we even went to their homes 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 ... ... crimes and for instance when Radebe who was in the witness box, the one Panel member specifically asked him whether it was not unheard of that Councillors would be murdered because of it was considered that they were aligned to apartheid structures and the witness, after first being ... ... that at that time during 1987 you and your comrades saw the Eastern MG Football Club, it's members and supporters, as supporters of the apartheid councillors, the apartheid Government and opposed to the ... Unrest in Kanyamazane was at its peak. ANC comrades were regularly burning the homes of councillors and policemen and of people they suspected to be police informers. Informers gave the names of those involved in these attacks to the Nelspruit Security Branch. Members of Vlakplaas were then ... MRS NONDABULA: I received help Boarder Councillors, Border Council of Churches to complete my studies. |
