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hostelsExplanation 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 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. 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 KHANYILE: No, Mr Strydom, I no longer feel the same. All I can say is that after the incident I was committed to peace because I would say that there are so many things that I have done from that time up to today which we efforts to reconcile the ANC and the IFP, especially in the hostels. in the police station and then the person who is actually watching or guarding them would actually keep in touch with those people who were in their hostels. That’s how I actually got hold of one and then I bought it from one guy by the surname of Ngobo, that is Bhekumuzi Ngobo who was a resident ... MR HATTINGH: This is an incident where limpet mines were placed at certain hostels? MR SIQAZA: When they burnt our houses, went to the single hostels and from there went to Khayelitsha. Even the funeral, it was difficult to bury him. We buried him very early in the morning. He stayed less than a month ... to negotiate with the police to try and protect or defend the people, though I can't remember the date, when the people were being attacked in the hostels, there was a rumour that there was an attempt for police who were actually taking the people from Mshayazafe hostel to Polla Park. That day ... of the IFP published an order that members of the IFP should resign from unions such as NUMSA and COSATU; members of the unions were harassed in the hostels and attacked on trains by members of the IFP. As a result of this his group met in Germiston and took a decision that they as commuters ... MS NGWANDI: As they were going on they decided to go and join Inkatha, that's why they went to the hostels. ... just forgotten the name. That is the hostel that is further down, nearer to our section. I am not quite sure, I cannot differentiate between the hostels in terms of ... Children were not spared the horror. Schooling in the area, came to a complete standstill. Children barely reaching their teens, left schools to defend life and property. Areas situated near hostels, were particularly affected. MR BERGER: You knew that the police and the army patrolled outside the hostels, am I right? used its surrogates to massacre township residents. At that stage, I had witnessed the terror being visited upon the communities by people from the hostels, who identified themselves as Inkatha. Inkatha members had also said they want to take over the East Rand, the area I was active in and make ... ... gunfire from inside. A policeman came out of the hall and fired at him. He sustained an injury on the right leg and he ran towards the university hostels for help. There he met a woman whom he told that had he been innocently walking past the hall when the shooting started. She dressed his ... MR NGUBENI: Mostly, the people that we were fighting against were people from the hostels. These are the people who used to come to attack us. They were IFP aligned. ... got limited knowledge concerning that, except that at a certain stage Vlakplaas members told me that they handed over weapons to the Zulus at the hostels, to commit those crimes. At a certain stage I was at the Three Sister Restaurant in Hillbrow with Chappies Kloppers, who then testified at a ... MR SITHOLE: I’m saying I know the activities took place around Soweto. One place that I can make mention of it is Umzimhlope, Dube and other nearby hostels. ... 4, from approximately 06h00 Inkatha supporters came into the centre of Johannesburg and began roaming around. Most of them came by foot from the hostels. ... ... been paroled. We need to find out why these things were allowed to happen. Then, in another incident in February 1992, there was an attack on the hostels at Esikhawini in which at least 12 people died and the police did not intervene until it was apparent that the hostel dwellers were defending ... |
