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hostelsExplanation MR CEBEKHULU: We were buying them in the hostels. MR DLAMINI: As I've said, I would be involved in so many things that some of them I don't recall but I may agree or admit that I was part of this. I see here as it reads there was never time when we will get opportunity to get inside the hostels so I really bear no knowledge of this particular one. ... with ANC, therefore members of IFP resigned from NUMSA. Those who were hostel dwellers, who were still members of the Union, were harassed at the hostels. As I've already stated that the train sector structure, in the morning we used to toyi-toyi in the trains and then even after work we used ... 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. ... 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. CHAIRPERSON: Well I'm not too sure whether this witness said that there was no television in the hostel at all. Were there televisions in the hostels? MR MNGUNI: I was staying in the township. They only knew - they knew that the IFP members were only in the hostels, they did not know that there were some members in the townships. school-going child and so the message gave instance compliance to all from this and these mobilising actions. However, the men living in single sex hostels were without families or children and did not receive the messages and were seen to be breaking rank from community actions. As they flocked ... the Committee. There was violence in Thokoza. I was staying in the hostel. I arrived there in 1986. I was working in the mines. I stayed in the hostels and in 1990 violence started. I was running a business and one morning in 1990 in the hostel some of the people were killed there because of ... MR THULO: They would ask questions about people who were not seen regularly near the hostels and they would use Zulu. Then if you are not able to respond in Zulu, therefore you would be attacked, especially when you can tell them that you come from Beirut or Cathrada or Sesulu or other sections, ... ... en kyk en toe gaan ek na die - na die bos se kant toe. Maar voor dit het ek gesien daar staan ‘n persoon wie onbekend aan my is in - een van die hostels vanaf Dairy Belle hostel, hy het daar gestaan daar heel bo en deur ‘n venster gekyk reg op ons. Tot vandag toe weet ek nie wie die persoon ... ... of the Casspir and using it for political purposes, in doing so they attacked IFP members occupying Katuza Hostel and another hostel, firing at the hostels and the people living therein. The attack took the form of a ruse to lull the occupants of those two buildings into a false sense of ... ADV GCABASHE: Now I, we have been told of Kalanyoni as one of the residents of one of the hostels in the area. Has that got anything to do with Inyoni Park? Just help me with those two names. I started suspecting that something was going on, but at the time, the harassment of the community was not common practice. I mean concerning the involvement of girls, because what was common was that the IFP members used to come to the township, kidnap girls and take them to the hostels. People like Sam Ntuli, Dan Pumselo Mbatha and Tshabalala have already died at that time. That is where we formulated the SDU structures. Those people who were near the hostels, came to our sections and at times, they were threatened to join the IFP. Did you, on that morning, did you receive any specific information in respect as to what was happening at the hostels? n. Reaction forces were flown in for surprise raids on hostels. ADV MOTATA: Now we have been whilst we were in Vosloorus shown a map of the area in respect of Schoeman Street and Khumalo Street, if we speak of this Danger Zone, where would you place it with regard to the hostels lining around there? "Activists in the ...(indistinct) report that the local warlord-type figure who operates out of one of the hostels in the name of MK, runs a private army that has aroused considerable resentment by collecting levies for arms and imposing protection fees on residents." |
