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Cradock FourExplanation ... 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 ... 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? 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 ... 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. 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... ADV BOOYENS: Cradock is also in the Eastern Cape, although 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... |
