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Cradock FourExplanation CRADOCK
NOZITHANDISO OLGA SIZILA
CRADOCK
ZEZEYI LIZZIE SEPTEMBER
CRADOCK
HENRY TEMBEKILE QATANA
CRADOCK
VELILE WILLIE RAMNCWANA
People from this area can go to Port Elizabeth and say I don't care if my matter is irrelevant to this hearing, but those people who died in the Cradock 4 incident, in that hearing I want to tell you what happened in Ermelo. Can it really be that way? Just look at what has in fact been uncovered through the TRC; all about Steve Biko, the Cradock 4, the Pebco 3, Siphiwe Mthimkulu, the Ribeiros, truth that had remained concealed despite all the elaborate trials and inquests that had been held. MR E G MENZI: No, I was just a member of this Cradock organisation. But it is not, but that is the closest thing I can refer you to. So, right, two weeks before that, we were all at the Bahai Centre, all of us from you know, Bahai's from King William's Town, East London, I think even Cradock, there were a whole lot of people who were there. MR MJIKWA: I got it from Cradock, I was with some comrades, comrade Harare if I'm not mistaken, was present. Yes, he was there, but I don't remember the others, I think there were four of us when we went to fetch the firearm. Even then I was expecting to get more firearms, but unfortunately I ... MR VISSER: The security branch offices from where the security activities were done, one was in Grahamstown, one in Uitenhage, one in Cradock, one in Fort Beaufort and then there was branch office at Port Elizabeth, but the provincial office was also in Port Elizabeth. ... "death signal" dated 07/06/85 sent to the SSC from the head of the Eastern Cape JMC, "Joffel" van der Westhuizen, recommending the murders of the "Cradock Four" - Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkhonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo ... The incident that has become known as the abduction and murder of the Pebco Three near Cradock in 1985. MR NYOKA: You found out that the deceased unfortunately was helping the ANC about the Cradock 4, what did you feel about that at the time, after discovering that the victim was actually your ally? ... who did this in a spirit of forgiveness that she should forgive him and that he should forgive her. Extraordinary. And then the people from Cradock saying now something like a heavy burden has been removed from them. ... ... the Monday morning. I went to Cape Town where I stayed while deciding how best toproceed. I left for Johannesburg going via Knysna, Port Elizabeth,Cradock before joining up with a young hitchhiker who had justbeen released from jail for car theft when I reached Colesburg. In Johannesburg it ... to go home. When I arrived at home on that day, there were many policemen in the township. When I got there - there were my sisters children from Cradock who were staying with ... Some of them were accused of the murder of the CRADOCK 4, then it spread until it reached Transvaal. In my area in particular it was not rife. So what has happened, in the area like Dlamini in Soweto and Zola and Mundene, Naledi, those were the areas which were affected mainly. As members of ... ... East London however, even though that hearing was in East London, it covered the entire Eastern Cape Province. In that hearing we had people from Cradock, people from Port Elizabeth, the Messeshase’s and the others, people from Transkei like Mr Kati. Even though it was in East London, it ... Then he had gone away to enjoy his New Year's day somewhere, he went with his sister in Cradock. After New Year's day, on a Wednesday they came back. Then on Friday, that very same week he was shot at. We have been having hearings in the cities, even the Cradock which we called a rural hearing was in a city, it is the first time that we have come into close contact with the living conditions of the majority of our people. |
