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councillorsExplanation Showing 221 to 240 of 264 First Page•Previous Page 6 •7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 Next Page•Last Page... ... YWCA, women's church groups, amadodana, sports groups, ministers, fraternals, SACTU unions, all political parties, the Government itself, eg, councillors and MPs, tertiary institutions, NGOs, ratepayers' associations and individuals, we felt all these groups can play a part in ... MR RICHARD: And you confirm everything they said about all of you being members of the United Democratic Front and the members and supporters and office bearers of the Eastern MG Pirates Soccer Club being your opponents and supporters of the apartheid Councillors and Government? MRS KUHLANE: He was shot because they objected to the presence of councillors and police at that stage and it was known that he was going to come to the location and that is why the youth got together and went there. MR MANTHATA: When you say they were used in Alexandra were they used in the police station or the councillors? Where? ... so he was instrumental in financing IFP members as well as providing them with food. IFP members were always in groups and they would be around councillors and other people from whom they received their instructions. As people who assisted the IFP, they were on the list to be killed because ... ADV NYOKA: Honestly, do you agree with me, Mr du Plessis, that if by City Council was discredited, it was not representative, it was racial and it was the creation of National Party. People had no interest in it. They did not vote for the councillors. Do you agree with me? 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... MR XABA: The reason for that, the Councillors at the time were harassing the community. They first burnt down our houses just before we attacked them. And this was part of also the campaign to ask the local councillors to resign. MR TAYLOR: Mr Chairman, those statements were made but it was never referred to openly, publicly that black councillors should be taken away, there was never recognition given that there should was intimidation, that black policemen had to leave the townships, that was all part of the G Plan. 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. 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) 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 ... ... their presence here today with Mrs Mhlaba as well as the speaker of the Provincial Legislature, Mr Kugile and Mrs Kugile. We thank the mayor, the councillors and the people of East London for their welcome, and especially for making available these facilities ... ... 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 ... ... Commission in Messina. The Commissioners from the TRC, other staff members from the TRC, media, members from the SAPS and SANDF, fellow Councillors and members from the public. It is my greatest honour and pleasure, as Mayor, to welcome you all. The role of the TRC, in terms of ... |
