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Operation Zero ZeroExplanation Showing 801 to 820 of 1009 First Page•Previous Page 37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 Next Page•Last Page... which focuses on the role of health workers and through many of the testimonies that we've heard over the past year that the Commission has been in operation, we've heard of not only the brutality of the security police and other security personnel, but we've also heard of the callousness of some ... the deceased on 8 May 1985 and their subsequent killing by other members of the Security Police on the 9th or 10th of May was in fact one continuous operation or not would depend largely on the evidence of what transpired over the relevant period. It should also be kept in mind that it is ... the persons inside the shop. They escaped from the scene in their vehicle which waited for them outside the shop. They reported the success of the operation to Mtambo and also returned the weapons which he supplied. The Applicants and Mbambo were subsequently arrested and tried. Mbambo was ... ... returned to Beaufort West. After approximately two weeks, he was informed that one "Mandla" (an alias) would be sent from Umtata to assist in the operation. He showed Mandla the layout of the area and briefed him about the plan for the attack. There is some doubt as to who Mandla is/was as ... ... to them so that they should be ... (inaudible) ... in the process, in the ongoing process. Those people should continue when your term of an operation comes to an end as at the end of this year, so that those people, the church and others, especially those which are influential, should ... him at some point to confirm that. I then want to just briefly turn to the other incident, which happened four days later, where, in a very similar operation to the one in which your brother was killed, the five other people whose names were mentioned by the previous witness, that was Sifiso ... REV XUNDU: I wanted to get an idea. Was there support for this entire operation? After leaving hospital I went daily for physiotherapy for a year and during that period I went for another operation, a bone graft. I walked on crutches for two and a half years and had to depend on other people for assistance. My life was changed overnight. I lost my job and my medical aid. I ... DR ALLY: But you had an operation when you were in hospital. Yes? They operated on you? had been violated and they were working in co-operation with attorneys here in I was duly taken to a private doctor who examined my hand and said that I should go to the Natalspruit Hospital. That is when I underwent a second operation. That is when they removed a gauze that was inside my hand. I got discharged from the hospital. After about a week the security branch ... to why ...[indistinct] statement was submitted to court and made into evidence whereas mine wasn’t. Was he pressing me down? He didn’t show any co-operation with me, he did things unilaterally and it did not show that he wanted to absolve me from the ... MR NIEUWOUDT: That is to obtain information from him and then possibly to get his co-operation and then also possibly to give testimony, evidence in a case when he should be charged according to the law and then to get the necessary information. We then realised that the aims of the SDU were being defeated because of the co-operation between these people and the ISU. SANCO then took a decision that plans had to be made so that Bongi and the others could be won over to the side of the residents once again. MR MBANDAZAYO: Yes Mr Chairperson, if I may clarify, all the others were, the operation in Cape Town, Heidelberg Tavern and Khayelitsha Police Station ...(intervention) MR POTSANE: In terms of carrying out the operation. As I've already stated I was staying with the commander, that is Jabu Masina in Mamelodi and during the process of which, I think when the reconnaissance was started two weeks before, as Mr Masango has already said ...[intervention] MR LABUSCHAGNE: Yes, Chairperson, I did. And because I was aware of that fact ,before we executed any operation we always had a prayer and we asked that no-one should be killed or injured. MR VISSER: And furthermore you had nothing to do with the operation? MR RICHARD: And the command structures above you approved of the operation of attacking Mr Skosana? They were also making it difficult for the Applicant and other ANC supporters to mobilise for support in the area. The Applicant says he joined the operation because he, as chairperson of the meeting, wanted to ensure that the order would be carried out. The deceased was going to be lured and ... |
