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PEBCO Three

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Sipho Hashe, Champion Galela and Qaqawuli Godolozi, members of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO), an affiliate of the UDF, were abducted on 8 May 1985 by members of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch, taken to Post Chalmers and killed. Their bodies were subsequently thrown into the Fish River. Askaris from the Vlakplaas unit assisted in the operation.

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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 ...
The Pebco Three amnesty hearings will continue this coming week and from Tuesday the Truth Commission will hold a special hearing on the role of the business sector in our dark past. We’ll see you next Sunday at six. Good night.
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 ...
‘Abduction and Killing: Pebco 3.’ // Once again, depending who issued the orders. It would definitely be unauthorized and mala fide.
Nothing was ever heard of the three men again. Police said Norman Fesi had lied and that the Pebco Three had probably left the country.
... what they are going to be submitting to us is going to go to the heart of the matter, namely indicate to the nation… we have been asked by the Pebco Three, what have you, Cradock Four, those families have said ‘we want the bones, we want this, we want that’ and we have a duty to those ...
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.
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.
... 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 ...
Tonight we will give the PEBCO family some answers. Colleague Jacques Pauw takes up the story.
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 question of whether or not the Pebco Three were assaulted before they died is crucial to whether the applicants are granted amnesty. If the activists were beaten to death, the security policemen will have difficulty convincing the Committee that such brutality was in proportion to the political ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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