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Guguletu Seven

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On 3 March 1986 seven men aged between 16 and 23 were shot dead in a field at Guguletu, Cape Town. Police claimed that the victims were known 'terrorists' and had been killed during a legitimate anti-terrorist operation. A magistrate at two inquests made the same finding. The Commission's investigation into the incident revealed an extensive cover-up by the security forces involved in the incident. Security Branch members from Cape Town and Vlakplaas infiltrated askaris into a group of seven activists, planned an ambush of police personnel to lure the youths into a trap, then killed them. Two Security Branch members from Vlakplaas were granted amnesty.

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This particular instance was when they had decided that large communities of people should be removed from Crossroads, Guguletu to Khayelitsha a waste land about 50 kilometres from Cape Town.
We will then tomorrow and Thursday have an event hearing looking at the incident which has become known as the Guguletu 7 incident. Just one or two issues to be placed on record.
... that evening. They were all armed with firearms, ammunition and two hand grenades. Their information was that the askaris were in Graceland in Guguletu, but on their arrival there they found the house closed. From there they proceeded along Landsdowne Road and across Ems Drive. They ...
Around March, 1985, I saw in the Cape Times on a certain Tuesday - I read an article about the Guguletu 7, they were referred to as the heroes. They were referred to as terrorists, sorry. They were not identified, their names or surnames were not in the newspaper.
The Mercedes Benz was followed onto the N2 highway in the direction of Somerset West. After they had passed the Guguletu turn off, on the N2, David drove alongside the Mercedes Benz. As they came next to the vehicle, David shouted at the applicant and told him to shoot the driver whom he ...
... evidence in other matters where APLA were involved, for example in the Heidelberg Tavern matter where the Opel Rekord motorcar that was taken from Guguletu, the owner of the vehicle was told that it was APLA and they required the vehicle for an operation and the vehicle would be returned or put ...
The applicant was convicted of the possession of an unlicensed firearm, a Z88 pistol and ammunition at Guguletu on 25 September 1992 and sentenced to 6 lashes plus twelve months correctional supervision, plus two and a half years' imprisonment, this being suspended for five years. He has since ...
trying to run away, they were fighting with the police and maybe shoot them and leave some AK47's next to them as it was the norm with the so-called Guguletu ...
Thank you very much, you may be seated. In 1986 on the 3rd of March, to be precise, you were residing in the Dairy Belle hostel on the corner of NY1 and NY111, in Guguletu. Is that correct?
... yet. I was returning from St Joseph School where I dropped three pupils which attended St Joseph School at std 7. And I was on my way, going over Guguletu bridge to Manenberg area where I have to pick up children to take them to Astra School which was at that time in Wittebome. ...
DR ORR: I would like to welcome the choir from Fezeke School in Guguletu. We are going to ask you to sing for us immediately after tea. There is going to be a slight change in the programme in that we are going to take the first witness now, then break for tea and take the submission from Molo ...
was trying to get a drivers licence I was told by the security people there that I was not supposed to get a drivers licence. I went to Siphwele in Guguletu, one of the teachers there encouraged me and said that he can try to help me in compiling my CV and sent my CV in town. They wanted to, me ...
Maudline Lutya's brother, Wiseman, disappeared during rioting in Guguletu in 1976. She inquired at police stations and hospitals and asked around the local community, to no avail. Nobody told her anything. Three weeks later...she went to the Salt River mortuary...She found her brother "shot ...
... to take him to the mortuary themselves, because they felt that the police were not going to take him straight to the mortuary. They left him at Guguletu. ...
... The involvement of MK internally established in the townships was confirmed. In March 1986, seven MK members were killed in anti-riot actions in Guguletu near Cape Town. They were all also registered members of the Cape Youth Congress, which was among the organisations responsible for ...
... is being wanted now. Now he sent me money so that I can come here to Cape Town, so I came to Cape Town. When I got here in Cape Town, I went to Guguletu, in [indistinct] - when I got there to my uncle, the police came, they took me to the police station. The police asked me what did ...
He further avers that after a public meeting which was held in a church hall in Guguletu it was decided that a black Christmas be observed to make a political statement and protest against the killings.  It was further decided that some kind of "revenge action" be taken against the white ...
... and youth using the terror of the armed forces and vigilante groups. In the past week, particularly in the reports we have seen images of ... in Guguletu in particular attacking townships, sections of the townships assisted by the security forces. They broke into family homes in the middle ...
... understand how it all happened. I was the chairperson of the UWO in the Western Cape. I tried to get in touch with other women in places like Guguletu and other areas. We tried to seek ways of trying to address the situation. Because I felt that it didn't need outsiders. I went to other ...
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