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Cradock FourExplanation Hare to do a degree in social work. In pursuit of my studies, I decided to leave my eight month old baby, which is Nabuswe with Matthew's mother in Cradock. My biggest challenge at the time was to be available to my baby as often as possible, to attend to my studies and also give support to my ... CRADOCK HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE ADV BOOYENS: And do you also confirm that you are applying for amnesty for the abduction and death of the Pebco 3 on the 8th of May, in Port Elizabeth and Cradock? MS CRICHTON: And you are the sister of Mzwandile Wellington Ngubo, who is the deceased? And you are going to tell us about two incidents where your house was burnt here in Cradock, is that correct? MS CRICHTON: Mr Chairperson, I would like to introduce to you and to the panel and the witnesses and to the Cradock community, Mrs Celeste Barker. She is a lecturer at the Russel Rhodes Technical College in Port Elizabeth and for some years, a member of the Black Sash organisation and she is here ... CRADOCK HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE MR LOTZ: I said that I started with the barbecue at ten o'clock that morning, making the fire etc. I went to Cradock prior to this. MR LOTZ: The next morning we stood up, we had no food at that stage. At a specific time I was in Cradock when I went to fetch - to buy food, bread, meat etc. I returned, we made a fire, we had a barbecue and the deceased ate with us as well as the Askaris. I’m speaking under correction but after ... CRADOCK HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE MR TAYLOR: It was me. I’ve asked Cradock to inform us on a daily basis. I tasked my own informers and I also had informers in the Cradock area. And in this way we started or tried to study their movements. ... is a lot of people in this hall. We also realise that a lot of people are uncomfortable because there is not enough space, we expected that in Cradock the hall would be this full, but we do trust that people will be disciplined because people from Cradock have been disciplined by the ... The act of disarming farmers might have been approved of by the Cradock Advice Office but they clearly disapproved of the fact that the applicants exceeded the bounds of the call to make the township a no go area. CRADOCK HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE MRS NOTWALA: In 1977 he was a student in Cradock. He burnt down a school, he was sentenced to three years imprisonment. ... the airport? The security police in those days had enormous powers, they could have picked them up and they could have had their convention with Cradock and Cape Town and the National Intelligence Service and I don't know who else were there, and asked them their questions, Mr Chairman. It ... ... K, from the Commission of the Police and "uiters geheim", dealing with "proposed actions against Matthew Goniwe, a black man and he is a teacher at Cradock". The other document that was handed in is Exhibit S, also headed confidential and it is a minute of the meeting of the STB, 385, held at ... Police which was situated in Cradock. In the Cradock District there was an old police funeral service for the Cradock Four. You were travelling from Cradock back to ... serious doubt. This is even more so given the difficulty to understand the reasoning that the four deceased (who were in fact locals connected to Cradock in one way or another) were leading figures in causing or manipulating the unrest in the Eastern Cape for which organisationally, the UDF in ... ... to the document written in Afrikaans is also a task in this document, was to establish a positive community organisation in order to isolate Cradock, thereby breaking the enemy power base in the rural areas, resulting in effective third level of government. Its main objectives were as ... |
