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Cradock FourExplanation CRADOCK
FREDERICK EMMANUEL HUFKIE
CRADOCK
NOTUTU LIZZIE JAMES
CRADOCK
NOMPUMELELO JANUARY
CRADOCK
NOSISI DORAH BILL
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. 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. In Cradock, we see the massacres in Uitenhage and so on. The state of emergency which worsened things, this was the situation where the Police had taken a back seat and the Army was now running our lives in the township. ... murder by one bullet, with respect, or murder by a prolonged or sustained assault is another thing. We've heard evidence in other hearings, in the Cradock matter, where people were over a period of time tortured. I'm not saying Mr Smit was tortured to that extent, but there are degrees of ... c) the unlawful possession of explosives during the period July 1993 to 13 September 1993, which explosives are described in the Regional Court, Cradock, charge sheet under case number 4/1971/93. ... of whites by AZAPO and UDF on the other hand felt that the white people might be of help in the struggle but this then spread because of the Cradock 4 who disappeared. There were now accusations that the, the conflict started just there until the conflict spread to Gauteng in early ... ... was traditionally the cradle of black radicalism. Certain areas in the Eastern Cape, namely East London, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Queenstown and Cradock, were known since the '50's for a radical and even violent political actions. Certain families who traditionally had an important influence ... ... by those comrades who were mandated, unfortunately I was not part of them because at that time the police were looking for me for a trial in Cradock so I had to be very careful. I used to come in during the night in Alexandra and speak to the comrades and leave and they would do the rest ... We were coming from the funeral we burying Galata Goniwe and the others, it was in the morning when we came back from Cradock. The - there were uprisings and there was instability in our location. We would see the cars, police cars going up and down the streets, but we were not much bothered ... Good day Nomfaneleko. You were from Queenstown when you came to the march, is that correct? --- No my home is in Cradock. I am in Queenstown now. I was in Queenstown then. ... 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 ... What made things very serious here in Duncan Village was the Cradock massacre where there was also the killing of the Mtenge family which also made the people to be more disturbed. Other 1985 events are the PEBCO 3 and the CRADOCK 4 abductions and murders, the two excruciating states of emergencies and the last of which lasted until the dawn of the new democratic era in 1989. Even the white business community inside South Africa secretly defied the apartheid bulldog regime ... 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. ADV BOOYENS: Cradock is also in the Eastern Cape, although 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. |
