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councillorsExplanation gone out already? Okay. Sandra Mahamba, the chairperson of the Joubertin CPF, Father August Lekhoko, Anglican Church, Kuma. Then we have a number of councillors from Stilfontein, Klerksdorp and Orkney, Joyce Matshayana, Mr Mojobe and Tosa Molempukana. Thank you. We have Father Goleng from ... that the mayor was Jeffrey Nkosi. No, it was Zondo. He has since died. At that time when I got to the meeting there was some conflict amongst the councillors themselves, because they felt that there was some favouritism that was going on with regard to the elections. And we continued in that ... 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 ... ... 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 ... We would also like to thank all the people, the community workers and councillors who have supported our briefers, the media personnel, the caterers and also the police who have allowed us to have these hearings in safety. Under the previous regime we would not have been able to call upon the ... And this was part of also the campaign to ask the local councillors to resign. ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 26% of registered voters participated in the elections, despite intimidation and strong opposition from the ANC and its allies. Many of the councillors who were elected were subsequently tragically murdered or forced from office through threats to their lives, families and homes. ... ... to make an effort to assist the child. This girl ran and we followed her, but we realised that she was being chased by the vigilantes and the councillors of that ... MR BOOYENS: Were campaigns launched against black councillors? The police, soldiers, councillors and council police were all regarded as the enemy of - their main duty in the township was to suppress all political activities and to also arrest and disillusion political activists. assaulted and harassed in prison and even outside prison the same thing took place. Some of the councillors here, not all of them though, some individuals, SANCO and ANC branch of Duduza were against the TRC. Even Kulumani support group will second me here. Mum Tobela will be my witness in as ... ... Mofokeng, a community councillor who was the deceased's brother-in-law. She conceded that the community was opposed at the time to community councillors and that the deceased's relationship with Sidwell Mofokeng fuelled the belief (which in her view was mistaken) that he was an ... ... in a peaceful resolution which the ANC slammed shut and didn't want to walk through. We argued that instead of murdering in terms of a policy, councillors who said we would make ourselves available for municipalities, if the ANC and the UDF and those said let's put up our candidates and ... MR SCHELHASE: Oh I'll tell you why, it was after the election of Mr Ngxobongwana and the councillors in Crossroads, that was ...(tape ends) MR GWAMANDA: He was one of the councillors Mfageni Gumede who were looking after the community and a school. ... here. What I know is that there was no fight or conflict at all. The people only had buckets to spill the feces into the offices and the Councillors’ houses. They went to Ngakane’s house. That’s where my son was shot. From what I’ve heard, my son was not fighting. Ngakane was ... "...such as policemen, township councillors and those opposed to the revolution. An aspect, as the London Times pointed out on the 8th of June 1988 that, 'leaders of the organisation's political wing tend to play it down ascribing such killings to 'spontaneous anger' of the people". |