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people's war

Explanation
a popular national rebellion of both trained soldiers and ordinary civilians during the mid- to late 80s. The strategy, promoted by the ANC, involved integrating armed MK combatants with mass organisations inside South African townships, and rendering the townships ungovernable through attacks on the security forces and other representatives of the state.

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[Indistinct] Mr Mosotho to just try and speak a bit louder and try and speak right into this microphone so that your voice can be louder, can be amplified otherwise the people can’t hear you. So I am going to ask you to just speak a little bit louder, okay? Now when you woke up in the hospital in ...
MR MOCHAWE: It was on the 19th October 1990. That day I woke up just fine. I left my place for work. On my way I saw people coming from the other direction - the opposite direction I was heading for. I was surprised, the group of people coming from the opposite, I was wondering what was ...
MR SWART: Chairperson, I am not certain of what he knew. As far as I understood from Warrant Officer Nortje, he was a threat to the people and we had to eliminate him.
MR LEWIN: Mrs Masilela I'd like to thank you for coming and would like to welcome you to this hearing. While you were travelling this morning we did hear that there were some visitors from Germany but I don't think they travelled from Germany today so I think you must be the only person at this ...
CHAIRPERSON: Before we commence this morning, gentlemen, there are one or two matters that I would like to deal with and I would like to make it clear, we haven't pre-judged the issues in any way, but have you applied your minds to the question of the real relevance, as to whether somebody who is ...
MRS MTHINKHULU: On the 1st June 1986 I saw my younger boy coming. He is 12 years old. That boy was actually sent somewhere in one of the areas at Mangweni and then he said to his father there are people who are calling him. They are calling him in the passage and they want to know whether is he ...
You are going to tell us about what happened in Prieska in Ethembeni is it, in June 1986 and the injuries you suffered after that. Please go ahead and tell us your story. --- In 1986 in Ethembeni my mother sent me to buy paraffin. Three trees from the stoep they shot teargas at us. We, all of ...
PEOPLE ARE HYSTERICAL - CRYING AND SCREAMING
MRS TEMA: On the death of Simon Mashigoane un 1992, he died in Manganeng on the 8th of the eighth of the eighth. An Anc man came to me to inform me about Simon's death and told me that he died in Manganeng. I told them that we did not know for a long time where the guy was and we saw him for the ...
We were there in the bedroom, we couldn’t see what was happening because we’re in the bedroom. And we were there for a time until it was late, it was after sunset when we went out. And we couldn’t see my sister - we were the only people in the house. In the passage we saw some fire, then the ...
Just behind my house I heard people making a noise, saying that there were policemen. I went out to look, then I saw my own child, I went there.
MR MOGANEDI: I will start by what happened to me in Mutatema when I was injured. We left Jane Furse going to Mutatema to a funeral. We also wanted to go and look for a combi which was stolen. When we arrived in Tafelkop where our comrades were killed we found the combi and it was driven by those ...
like that happened, people used to question many questions and get answers for themselves.
MRS GQINEBE: On the 19th of March 1990 the Comrades were giving people some stands, vacant stands and as they were soldiering that, I do not know what happened later on, but the police came and the police started shooting and people
took a hosepipe and they poured water. Then in that foam they put us in that foam and they came with shamboks. We were beaten. Yes, they really assaulted us. Yes, they assaulted us. Skosane tried to speak. They said this old man what does he want here? Then Makawe, they said this little ...
MR CORNELIUS: And the instruction was, it's also common cause, to go and kill these people, is that correct?
MR MUDAU: It was by the time when the deceased was starting to fight with the people.
I would like all the people who gave evidence this morning to stand up so that we can thank all of them.
MR RORICH: We had information by means of our sources and we knew these people from physical observations which we did in Swaziland from time to time.
MR ANDREWS: Okay. I was held alone at Brighton Beach Police Station, in single cells and not being able to communicate with other people and this constantly playing on my mind. That's exactly the circumstances under which I agreed to lead evidence for the State.
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