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hostelsExplanation The Applicant is therefore GRANTED amnesty for the attacks on the 23rd and 24th April 1994 on the Msboyazofe and Bhuyafuti hostels respectively, which attacks were carried out by the launching of rockets into the hostels, as well as for the illegal possession of two Bazooka rocket launchers ... MR BOOI: He’s got friends residing in the hostels and also at that time no-one who was not a member of IFP would be able to enter the hostels. ... that he was involved when the memorial service was attended on Thursday people were about to go past the hostel. You had to go through three hostels to reach Sam Ntuli’s house, and people had to go back to their house to toyi toyi to pay their last respects before the funeral. 12 people ... CHAIRPERSON: You say it was at the commencement of the violence. Was that the violence involving the residents of Thokoza and the occupants of the hostels in the area? MS THABETE: When you say outside the firm, what do you mean? Were they attacking you at the hostels? CHAIRPERSON: The Induna's Mr Msomi and Shwala and Ngema, what were their functions at the hostels? ... weapons. I would not estimate a number of people we were fighting but we managed to defeat them, these were the people we were attacking from the hostels. When we arrived we discovered that people deserted their houses, some of them were burnt. People had just gone away. Because we were ... MR SIBEKO: No, it is one incident and it is possible that it is Mazibuko hostel, because I am not sure of the names of the hostels at Katlehong, it could be Mazibuko. "This was after all Zulus were chased out of other hostels and townships." MR BENSWANA: It was on a Friday when ANC members who were residing at the hostels were attacked and on the Saturday we tried to invite the township committee to try and establish peace because some people were already in hospital, but nobody died in that incident. ... had information that the rally was going to be big and the intention of the rally was to drive out all ANC members from eSikhawini. There are four hostels that were targeted for attack. On the eve of the rally in the evening the ANC also mobilised it's own people and they put barricades at the ... words in an endeavour to prevent them, that that would have driven them berserk in which case they could have attacked innocent people in the nearby hostels or passing ... Mr Bellingan, you are saying that you considered an armed attack and a response, a reaction, an armed reaction by yourself, in a residential area, where there are two hostels, to be preferable to every conceivable effort that you could make to arrest these people beforehand? MR SIBEKO: Will I be correct to say that the incident that you are referring to or the hostel that you are referring to is one of the hostels which are situated at Khumalo Street, Thokoza? ... dispute structures which have acquired a new impotence in Northern and Southern Natal and the Midlands and I’m also thinking of the very important hostels initiative here in the ... During that time violence continued because there are still hostels near Polla Park. It was again exacerbated by the media that the ANC was fighting, I mean Xhosa speaking people were fighting Zulu speaking people. We know by the time that it was not true. MR PADI: Thank you. Mr Hlophe is applying for amnesty for the incident that occurred on the 23rd of April 1994, in which he attacked the hostels by using two rocket launchers. ... materials or finished goods. In other words, we did not build this company abroad, off the "blacks sweat of black workers", unionized workers and hostels. This money went abroad, people went abroad and worked very hard. The value of this investment, held by South African residents is today in ... ... Later on, after some time, the people from Everest, some were running, coming into the location along Schoeman Road that divides Katlehong and the hostels, there is this ground that is facing Everest, there were a lot of men, whether they were ready to attack or not, I was not sure, but there ... ... camps and possibly for industrial zones. There is the need for defence structures on mine compounds. NUM have established these at some mine hostels and important lessons have been learnt. There is also the need to elaborate some form of protection on the trains, at taxi ranks and in city ... |
