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PEBCO ThreeExplanation 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. 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 ... ... 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 ... 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. 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. 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 ... The Eastern Cape security branch vehemently deny Mamasela’s version of how the Pebco three were killed. of the most notorious security policemen applied for amnesty for the killing of leaders like Steve Biko, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, the Cradock Four, and the Pebco Three. On next week’s Special Report we’ll show you a special documentary on the man Steve Biko and the confessions of those responsible ... ... infamy. Port Elizabeth, 1985 was a nightmare. It was the year of the Langa massacre, of the death of the Cradock Four, of the disappearance of the Pebco three, of the declaration of the State of Emergency. I used to go through an army roadblock every day to get to work in New Brighton. So it ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. 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. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... According to Mamasela the Pebco Three were driven to this old police station outside Cradock. It was known as Post Chalmers. Tonight we will give the PEBCO family some answers. Colleague Jacques Pauw takes up the story. ... 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 ... |