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people's warExplanation The false explanation in this regard, reinforces the above finding that the list was compiled as a hit list with the intended victims prioritised as indicated on the list. Walus also reconnoitred the home of President Mandela who was identified as the first target on the hit list. This conduct ... MR VISSER: Well the situation here, Mr Botha, is that you weren't really a lot of people who could address the problem of the struggle of the past here in Natal, is that correct? MR BIZOS: Mr Chairman, Mr Chairman, I'm sorry to interrupt my learned friend. The witness is reading the narrative part of the actions which he took. I would submit with respect, that reading out from a prepared document on issues upon which the credibility of the witness has to be weighed is not ... My submission is that the victim might have scars, but that does not necessarily mean that those scars were occasioned by the applicant. On his own admission, that is the victim, he has been assaulted by a number of people, but all the people that assaulted him over the years, caused only minimal ... I was aware that the attempted abduction of persons from Swaziland was illegal, I accept that the killing of these persons was illegal and throughout I was aware that, where arrests be executed, that the chances were great that these persons would be armed and that they would resist. I then ... The ANC then provided finances for me to go to Tanzania to my son’s grave. When we got there I was asked why I did not go to Tanzania whilst my child was ill, did Mr Stofili not go to my house because my child had been calling for me while he was in hospital and Mr Stofili had promised that he ... will certainly not be seen as an exercise in discrediting the organisation or anyone else. No, I have no questions. Your statement, as a matter of fact, you have more information than most of the others who have this morning given us their evidence also on disappearances, which you also have been ... MR MANTHATA: Just tell us briefly about this day when your house was attacked by White people. CHAIRPERSON: Has clearly been someone who’s believed strongly in your principles and you carried those principles out in the community that you lived in. I just want to make one point in relationship to your story and so many other stories that we’ve heard to-day. Many people say that the Truth ... You probably know from seeing television about previous hearings, that in other places where we’ve been, the members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have gone to one town and asked people from all the surrounding areas to come them. This time when we realised what long distances people ... MRS NHLAYISI: On your arrival at this house, who were the people who were present there, busy questioning the victim, can you remember the names? MS MAYA: In your statement you give detail that he was killed by people who were members of two organizations. Could you give us the details ? The sisters told me that they are going to do this and that. My body is scrap, it is not the same as before, the whole body. Those people who were shooting me, I don't know them. I am not able to identify them. They said they have arrived at the hospital. I did not know what they were going to ... We very - we very happy that - at least you are still able to have come and to come and repeat the story that you have told many times, but it was very important to get you here today, because behind you - seated in the first two or three rows are the next of kin, the family of people that was ... ... from school singing, singing up and down the street. When they came to the municipality office and then they, the mayor fired at them. He didn't warn him, he shot at one specific person. He shot one person in the leg and afterwards we became violent. We took the law into our own hands and we ... MR DU PREEZ SMIT: Yes, there may have been other people there who I cannot recall. On the 1st of May in 1990 I was coming from hospital after an operation - I was discharged in the morning. When I got home I laid down and I sent Vuyo to the shop to buy bread. Whilst lying there I heard some sounds from a certain direction - their were bullet sounds. They kept on, then I stood ... People believed Mngoma’s house was empty. Another boy with a red jersey went to the front door. The next minute I heard a shot going off. Shots were fired continuously. I saw a little boy lying near the gate. I say a girl crawling across the road. The next moment, policemen came out of the ... MR BOTHA: After the small charge of explosives had been put together I made some phone calls to the cinemas where I warned the people there that bombs had been placed as a result of the screening of Cry Freedom. When my wife went out to look she just collapsed. Nonkonyane said that he will sent his people. Our house were burnt down and our furniture. |
