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PEBCO ThreeExplanation Tonight we will give the PEBCO family some answers. Colleague Jacques Pauw takes up the story. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 Eastern Cape security branch vehemently deny Mamasela’s version of how the Pebco three were killed. Port Elizabeth was ungovernable. And I want to go even further and say that Pebco was in control here. // The activists were winning the war, or had already done so. There was feedback from the secretariat, the Security Council, which was received by the JMC to the effect that the government was ... Post Chalmers is not only the place where the Pebco three were killed. Today we know that this deserted farm and its house of horrors is also the place where the security police killed two other Eastern Cape activists: Siphiwo Mtimkulu and his friend Topsy Madaka. Vlakplaas it seems is not the only ... At the first hearing of the Truth Commission in April this year three widows testified about the disappearance of their husbands, known as the Pebco three. The men, Qaqawuli Godolozi, Sipho Hashe and Champion Galela were UDF activists who led the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation. They were ... This week our team goes to Port Elizabeth for an amnesty hearing around the killings of the Pebco Three. We’ll meet again next Sunday at six. Good night. ... because they sold me out to the Boers on a silver platter and then they left me out. // Do you know why your version in this matter, in this Pebco Three matter, differs from all the other people who testified here? // Yes, it’s because I’m telling the truth and they’re covering ... ... 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 ... Kimpani Mogoai and Johannes Koole did not present themselves as blames. Of the nine applicants they were the only two who acknowledged that the Pebco Three were assaulted and they are the only two who have applied for amnesty for their role in the assaults. According to Mamasela the Pebco Three were driven to this old police station outside Cradock. It was known as Post Chalmers. forces in the 1970s and then brought to South Africa by the security police. Policemen burnt Siphiwo Mtimkulu, and Topsy Mdaka to ashes in 1982, the PEBCO three in 1985 and Sizwe Kondile in 1989. May God forbid anything like this ever happening again in our land. In 1988 Mary-Anne Serrano died a ... And do you believe that the murder of the Pebco Three was warranted. // At that stage yes. Gideon Niewoudt was for many years a feared security policeman in the Eastern Cape. He has now applied for amnesty for the killing of the Pebco Three, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Topsy Madaka, Steve Biko and four victims of his car bomb at Motherwell. He also asked for amnesty for assaulting Eastern Cape ... The story of the disappearance of the Pebco Three starts on that day in May when they received a mysterious phone call from a so-called British diplomat who had to be fetched at the H. F. Verwoerd airport in Port Elizabeth. The way in which bodies were disposed of in this country took various shapes and forms. The bodies of the Pebco Three were burnt whilst those that killed them were having a braai. The bodies of Siphiwo Mtimkulu and Topsy Madaka in the Eastern Cape were burnt whilst those who had killed them were ... 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 ... Not all the stories told in East London were as well known as those of the Pebco Three and the Cradock Four, but their accounts were no less disturbing. Nohle Mohapi was Steve Biko’s secretary, her husband Mapetla was killed in police cells. // After the death of Mapetla I was full of hate. I was ... |
