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hostelsExplanation "This was after all Zulus were chased out of other hostels and townships." ... 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 ... 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. 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? 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 LAX: There were separate hostels for people that were ANC, they couldn't stay together? There were ANC hostels and there were IFP hostels and the IFP hostels were very different places to the ANC hostels. In some places like Sebokeng, the hostels were ANC and the IFP people were chased out and ... PRETORIA
MANUEL ANTONIO OLIFANT
AM4032/96
LIMPET MINE EXPLOSIONS AT UMZIMHLOPE AND DUBE HOSTELS
He averred that this time the township was engulfed in violence with persons staying in hostels fighting the residents in the township and that it was their primary duty as SDU members to defend the community from such attacks. Significantly, all ANC members that had prior to the height of ... ... at the Mzimhlope hostel and the Dube Hostel. In evidence, when referred to the application of Lengene mentioning the Mzimhlope and Jabulani hostels, Olifant said that he may be mistaken. He confirmed that they had certainly caused explosions at two hostels but called at others where ... ... that place. Is that right? --- People who were sent to hostel No 2 were those who were attacked. They were not allowed to go to these other hostels because people were scared. Management gave them money to leave the place. One other thing you haven't told us is that you lost all your ... "At the time I was staying at Kwatabega and the comrades viewed Kwatabega as a predominantly IFP area because they had hostels in there. The view of the comrades was that areas whereby you find hostels, it is more likely that the people are predominantly IFP. And the hostel dwellers were viewed ... MR SIBEKO: I'm trying to have a picture in mind of what was happening there, would I be correct to think that you were between the hostels and the houses, the position where you were at the time you were returning fire to the hostels? The repeated pattern of the nature of what was happening at the hostels is repeated here, it has been found in other Commissions. Where the modus operandi of the IFP was to take over hostels and use those as power-bases, that is I think been found in the TRC Report already, that that is part of ... ADV SANDI: Did you say as the result of your attack at Mshayazafe Hostel, the occupants of those hostels left, did you say they abandoned those hostels? 19. As the hostels were perceived as IFP strongholds and thus sources of violent attacks against ANC supporters, the ANC called for the closure of the hostels. This call led to further escalations of violence. MR KHUMALO: There was conflict in Johannesburg at that time between IFP and the ANC. IFP people had been chased away from the townships and were residing in hostels and at that time we would supply the hostels with ammunition if they did not have sufficient supplies. ... by widespread political conflict and violence. There were regular attacks launched against members of the community by inhabitants of various hostels. These attacks were linked to the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). The principal function of the SDU was to defend the community against such ... ... group. Due to the violence that took place I realised that the people in the located were supposedly belonging to the ANC, and the people at the hostels were members of the IFP. That is why they kept on attacking us. They started attacking the location as a whole without even knowing as to ... MR TSHABANGU: Before the 17th of June 1992 the ANC, that is the ANC at Boipatong, marched to kwaMadala threatening that we should be evicted and the hostel should be demolished. And these were the utterances of the ANC itself that the hostels should be demolished at the time. MR MADONDO: In 1993 we were instructed by Makasonke to patrol during the day because it looked like the commander heard that there were people from KwaZulu Natal who were promised jobs here by their brothers who were staying in the hostels. |
