drive-by shootings

Explanation
Between January and October 1993, 139 people were killed in drive-by shootings and attacks on taxis in communities across the East Rand. Gunmen opened fire from fast moving cars, often shooting indiscriminately at people. This strategy was adopted by the IFP and other political groupings, and was designed to sow terror in the hearts of communities. Many such attacks were directed at mourners gathered at night vigils. All the shootings were marked by repeated allegations that the police failed to respond to calls for assistance, sometimes allegedly allowing the killers to drive through townships for several hours.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims

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Amnesty Hearing, Vanderbijlpark, Day 1 (03 May 1999)

MS TANZER: When you completed the Form 1 application you described offences that you committed on the 15th June 1992 relating to drive by shootings in Zone 12, Sebokeng and Everton. No mention is made of the Boipatong Massacre in your application. Can you explain to this Commission how it ...

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Decision

... one stage there was an exchange of shots between Khumalo's son, Mzwakhe, and Ngubane and his comrades. Khumalo and his gang would conduct drive-by shootings. Innocent residents were often the casualties. The police assisted Khumalo and his gang. In fact the perception of the community and in ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pietermaritzburg

... well as children and elderly people. But what we discovered later on was that they were accompanied by the police, and they would conduct drive-by shootings. And the police were accompanying them and doing nothing to restrain them. Then on a Monday, when the fight started, we saw a group of ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Johannesburg, Day 5

... trigger that. It was one of the ways in which it was broadly said that it was a possibility. We were looking at the possibility of drive by shootings, just to shoot at - because people would stand outside Shell House, it was normal and those people, cars we thought would pass and they ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Johannesburg, Day 2 (12 May 1992)

MR KRUSER: I think, I'm not sure here or in the inquest, I think we discussed all possibilities that might exist. We discussed the issue of drive by shootings, we discussed the issue of the march being used as a decoy for the - we discussed of individuals going into the buildings with arms or ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Johannesburg (30 September 2000)

MR MAKANJEE: Okay, Mr Mokhali, you made mention of the fact that it was an unmarked vehicle. I just want to clear up something. With regard to hit squads in the township and people sitting in cars, drive by shootings, were you familiar with that?

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Sebokeng (08 August 1996)

... from the time that Frans came back he was being harassed and then like so many others in this area and the historians have called this "drive-by shootings" you know, many people seemed to have lost their lives that way. Can you in your own words tell us what do you think the motive was for ...

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