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people's warExplanation Showing 161 to 180 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 5 •6 •7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 Next Page•Last PageLunchtime January 25, 1980. Three Umkhonto we Sizwe storm into the Silverton branch of Volkskas bank, but it wasn’t a robbery. It is one of MK’s strangest operations. They kept 25 people hostage for six hours. These are people that permanently are disabled. They will never be able to handle stress again. Their lives will never be normal again. They will always suffer from this syndrome. It’s a living hell. As one person put it to me, he said it’s like watching a horror movie over and over and over ... In dealing with the unconventional strategies from the side of the government, I want to make it clear from the outset that within my knowledge and experience they never included the authorisation of assassination, murder, torture, rape, assault or the like. // Where does political accountability ... Konyimane Ranyaka was a MK cadre who disappeared mysteriously. His brother, Molekoane has received conflicting statements from the ANC and is still seeking answers. // I’m bitter, very bitter. I know, our people, how they think you know, they mystify the ANC, they must separate the quest for ... But when the interrogation started, Benzien and Nortje were present. They were the only other people in the room with me and when they started interrogating me the intimidation had already taken effect. This intimidation of me had already started when I was in this room and the security policeman ... ‘My deepest regret is that I failed Stompie that I was unable to protect him from the anarchy of those times and he was taken from my house and killed…’ // Who killed him? You are the one who killed Stompie. // ‘I am astounded that political loyalties could not stand a single test, that it ... The tent was that side of the house, here; it goes along the fence there. It was so big that it can accommodate plus minus 300 people and most of these people were there and they were sitting inside. As the TRC left Port Shepstone this week the question of a third force remained. Selvan Chetty of the Network of Independent Monitors has spent years investigating claims that a hidden hand has intervened to pit one side against the other. // I think if you really want to look at the hidden hand ... Today the cinema is a bricked up cavern. Bits of glass on the ground recall that there were once windows and doors reflecting the throng of people arriving for an evening’s entertainment or discussion. Now it stands empty as a monument to horror. 15 people died and the police made no attempt to ... I don’t know, I told you just now I don’t know nothing about it. The first I know about it is when these people, a month ago, two months … two months ago they were on the farm and they asked permission to come and have a look if there are new graves, or whatever. That’s all. It was a fluent kind of living, vibrant community and I think longing for the kind of freedom that hopefully we’re getting into now, that’s what made it such a magical place and I think it will always hold a place in the imaginations of the people that lived through it and maybe those who ... The whole operation went wrong, where the wrong people became victims. // The community of Trust Feed has also requested me to advise the Amnesty Committee that they would try to forgive mister Brian Mitchell if he becomes actively involved in the reconstruction of the community that he was ... Thembinkosi Nqcele, another young Kimberley activist turned state witness during the trial. He said that he was forced to give false evidence out of fear for his life. // They asked me do I know who is responsible for what happened. I said I don’t know anything about that. The adjutant was the ... Comrade Chris Hani, as he was explaining the complaints from the people, he tell us that we must discipline people so that we can train them, we can show them how to shoot, how to patrol, how to stand in a post in the night, how to change, all those things. So that they can be a self defence unit. On that fateful day eleven people were fatally shot and 36 were injured. // My leg was very painful, the bullet struck me in my thigh. // To their dismay the victims of the shooting that took place at Egerton station were ironically charged with contempt of court. They were forced to pay large ... Will there be a breakdown at the end of this year when the Truth Commission ends its activities? Will the R & R, the reparation and rehabilitation process, be able to go one beyond that? Or if you haven’t helped somebody by Christmas 1997, there’s no help? // No, we have said that our ... According to Hechter the youths had already gone to KwaNdebele to escape harassment by the security police in Mamelodi. Mamasela knew where to find them. Mamasela took us to the address. Mamasela, Gouws and Oosthuizen then entered the house and the next moment I heard gunfire. It was organized, it ... How many agents did you manage? // I suppose serious ones, about ten, and the casual ones maybe a lot more, up to 25 in total. You know I had a Spanish professor working for me who was a professor at Wits. I’m not prepared to tell you his name because it’s not the way I operate, but he worked ... Forgiveness does not come cheaply. It is something that comes deeply from the heart. And I can just ask the people that were involved directly or indirectly and who have been affected by this case to consider forgiving me. To qualify for protection witnesses have to fulfil certain requirements. // The requirements are that the evidence which the person wishes to place before the Commission must be truthful. Secondly, the person must be in danger as a result of that evidence. // When a person’s life is in danger the ... |
