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Guguletu SevenExplanation 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 ... ... 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 ... ... one? In my knowledge, each and every area, even in Lusaka, there were gangsters, in Nyanga, there were a lot of gangsters, in Khayelitsha, at Guguletu, but why they went to attack at Crossroads and said they have got information that there is a gangster, the house which is people who are ... Verholwertz. I think it was at about 10, she asked me if I have that a child which is politically orientated. I said "no". Then she said that in Guguletu there were Guerrillas that had been ... MR SHICEKA: In Cape Town, Guguletu, 72 number 11. ... if something developed inside, inside that wound, and they couldn't band the leg and then I saw a lot on my knee and I was sent to day hospital at Guguletu. And when I asked them to - they told me they are going to treat me, but they couldn't. So I said I am losing weight because of this. So I ... I asked them is there anything that happened they didn’t tell me anything, they just took me. Then we went to Guguletu. I didn’t go straight home, because my home is also in the same vicinity. My sister-in-law took me to his - to her house. I tried to ask them what exactly happened here, they ... The prime witnesses to the killing, those three boys, who were with him in that room, were Mr Elsen Monyakeni, now in Soweto and Exodus Guguletu Nyakane, living in Wattville and Mr Excellent Mtembu, living in Soweto. All three witnessed that the police that entered that room asked who Caiphus was ... After that, a week later, we buried my daughter. There were 11 people who had been shot by the police at the time. They were all buried at 49 Guguletu Stadium. In other words, it would be used only for the task for which it was needed and then returned. Internally, the usual practice was to confirm the bona fides. For example I can refer to the Guguletu 7. The only help was from the superintendent from the Guguletu day hospital who did us where he could. It also generated another problem - while severely injured patients had to be transported to tertiary hospitals such as Groote Schuur and Tygerberg, they woke up under police guard at Tygerberg and ... (a) On 13 October 1991, at or near Guguletu in the region of the Cape, he did wrongfully and unlawfully assault Mdimpiwe Ntekiso by shooting him with a firearm, with the intention to murder him; Where did you hear that your son was amongst the Guguletu 7? know. It was up to an editor to decide this is the news and this is what happened and therefor I am going with it. A few years after that I was in Guguletu, near the Methodist church, and the Archbishop had negotiated with police - children that had a meeting in the church, that they could leave ... I went to 147 at Guguletu because the houses at Nyanga East were all burnt. Before my husband was buried, I was very sick, so I went to the Day Hospital, they X-rayed me, then they reported to me that they could still see the bullets in my chest. They could see one bullet on - in my arm. I ... Thank you chairperson. In conclusion of this part of the Guguletu 7 event hearing, I would like to read into the record a statement that was taken from Ms Pat Smith - who has been referred to in the testimony of Mr Benting - by our investigating unit. The other was Jimmy Mbane. He was involved in the Guguletu 7. No I didn't immediately realise that Thornton or Belgravia Road - earlier that day I was working in another area, I think it was in Guguletu where I had been working and the closest contact which I could have had with the areas where the incidents took place was by means of radio contact and if you ... ... there were people that I saw there. When they were running, the police came. They said what do we want. I said this is my father. They took me to Guguletu and asked me for a statement. I said I couldn't give a statement, I wasn't there. So I went back home, I told my mother. And they said ... |