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PEBCO ThreeExplanation ... men were about to go the Dirk Coetzee route, exposing their involvement in security branch fraud as well as the murders of Matthew Goniwe and the Pebco Three. Niewoudt believed he had to stop them at all ... Khotso house, JG Strijdom Hospital, a Cape Town Community Centre and three power stations, the murder of three fellow policemen and the death of the PEBCO three of Port Elizabeth. Many of these acts of terror were blamed on the ... I think it was ’83 if I’m not mistaken; take ’83, ’84, ’85, Pebco was up. The Dan Qeqe Stadium, you wouldn’t even have space to walk there - if you know Dan Qeqe Stadium - if they called a meeting. ... of the Vlakplaas squad. Former askari Kimpani Mogoai and policeman Johannes Koole are asking for amnesty for the abduction and assault of the Pebco Three. Their commander, Roelf Venter and his right hand man, Gert Beeslaar deny that the three activists were assaulted. The security police ... ... and Generals such as Basie Smit and Johan van der Merwe. Van der Merwe will testify on their behalf. Apart from high profile murder cases like the Pebco Three and Fabian Ribeiro, they will also talk about elaborate plans to kill ANC MP Simangaliso Mkhatshwa and the death of eight COSAS members ... The Pebco Three were driven to a farm house that was turned into a police station long time ago but it was no more used. And they were driven there, they were put into a, what we call an animal shelter, it’s like a big long garage. They were put there for the evening, but they were interrogated ... Pebco in the Eastern Cape was the father of Civic Movement and its links and growth thereafter in terms of the Civic Movement is nationally recognized to the founder of the Civic Movement at national level. Mamasela is a self confessed killer. He’s one of the Vlakplaas operatives who took part in the Pebco Three operation. He has not applied for amnesty but will testify before the Truth Commission once all the amnesty applicants have been heard. He has a very different account of the killings. The amnesty hearing around the murders of the Pebco Three continue this coming week and next week we will also have a debate among opinion makers about the life and role of the Truth Commission. Please don’t miss it, Sunday at six and Monday at one pm, goodbye. Ernest Singqokwana Malgas, a former executive member of Pebco, the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation appeared at the TRC’s first hearing in East London to relate his painful story of torture at the hands of the police. The Malgas couple have clearly had high expectations of the Truth ... According to Mamasela the Pebco Three were driven to this old police station outside Cradock. It was known as Post Chalmers. ... branch officers will testify next week about bombings, petrol bombings, murder and weapon smuggling. They will be asked about the deaths of the Pebco three, Dr Fabian Ribeiro, KwaNdebele cabinet minister Piet Ntuli and 40 other killings including 18 murders in Mamelodi on two separate ... ... my situation. I don’t want to cry. Really I don’t want to cry, but I want the Commission to help me.’ // Her husband, Sipho was one of the Pebco Three who were abducted and murdered by the notorious Eastern Cape security police in May 1985. Their bodies were then thrown into the Fish ... The Amnesty Committee of the Truth Commission resumes its hearings this week. The murders of activists Stanza Bopape, the Pebco Three and the Cradock Four will be the topics of the hearings this week and may we remind you again that the Special Report can be viewed on Sunday evenings at six and on ... He was an organizer in the Pebco. He helped the people. I remember one time there is the people who have no place to stay in those shacks far away, like Dan Qeqe. So they take those people to here in Rio hall here and then he’d always cook soup for those people, every day they are going to fetch ... ... about a mean and petty past. As I regard myself today, as a disgrace to my mother, my family and my relatives, my friends and the families of the Pebco Three and the nation as such, it is with my deepest remorse that I ask for forgiveness and hopefully wishes to be reconciled with everybody ... ... Report has in previous programmes connected all these men to the killings of activists like Steve Biko, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Sizwe Kondile, the Pebco Three or the Cradock Four. Gideon Niewoudt, Nick van Rensburg, Harold Snyman, Gerhardus Lotz, Daantjie Siebert, Ruben Marx and Eric Taylor. ... ... The Motherwell bomb attack, the killing of Matthew Goniwe and three others, known as the Cradock Four, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Sizwe Kondile and the Pebco Three. These men have finally told the families how they kidnapped, tortured and murdered their loved ones, before their bodies were set alight ... ... racing course outside Port Elizabeth. Immediately we knew that something serious had happened. We had pointers because in May, as you know, the Pebco Three disappeared without a trace. Relatives in the community were informed and some members of the family had to go to Port Elizabeth to ... The applicants contradict each other on the purpose of the abduction. The askaris and policemen from Vlakplaas whose applications will be heard this week will say they were abducting the Pebco Three for the purpose of interrogation. They also say they did not know of the elimination plan. |