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people's warExplanation Showing 201 to 220 of 1003 First Page•Previous Page 7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 Next Page•Last PageThe committee finds it difficult not to accept that the applicant's act, endorsed by the group of people, was for political reasons. MS MOLAPO: I was a student at St Peter in Pimville. I was only 11 years old. When we got to school they told us that we are not going to do anything, no lessons today. We therefore left the school premises. We got home. There was some noise in Potchefstroom Road. We therefore left with my ... 1. The murder of three people, to wit, Peter Schroeder, Shirley Ethnè Brummer and James Tsemane; 1. That the offence to rob weapons from the deceased was associated with a political objective. That the robbery of the other items were for personal gain. The act, however, doesn’t provide for amnesty on a portion of a charge where all the items were grouped together under one charge and the ... There were many during these dark years who in their different situations did what they could to bring about peace and justice. Apart from those in civil society, you will find such people even in institutions like the SA Police, the KwaZulu Police and the military. They played such roles at great ... Please proceed. --- I am not going to start with the Seven Days War, I am going to start with the events that took place just prior to the attack. The violence started in 1986 when Inkatha was forcing the residents to join it. They were attacking people, burning down houses, looting ... youth played an important part in political activity in the township at this time. Cosas was formed in 1980 and also provided an organisational home for the young people of Alex. It also played an important role in the establishment of the Alexander Youth Congress. Members of ACO and Cosas ... MR RAMMUSI: I only know that it's Mikakumbani Street. When I arrived at this policeman's house I threw the handgrenade through the window. The front door was open and there were elderly people in the house so I had to avoid them and throw the grenade into an empty room and for political ... CHAIRPERSON: Yes. And people were shooting at you too, so if you got up, if you didn't hide, if you got up, what would have happened to you if you exposed yourself? M SIKO: I use to hear the people saying it is the Gadaffi groups and the Comrades. MR MDLULWA: It was the people that were appointed by the High Command. MR SIBANYONI: Then Vlakplaas continued with its normal work, tracing people who infiltrated the country. They gained this impression after having heard the report of the bombings on the East Rand and after their discussion with the said du Bruyn. They only learnt after the event that their actions, save for the bombings on the Est Rand, turned out to be an isolated incident. They say that they ... Strydom comes now and he makes a statement and in some instances, this is contradictory to other statements and there are issues where the issues differ and my learned colleague has said that this had taken place 12 years ago and in that sense, one can expect that memories might fail these people. ... Section 20(3)(c) refers to the legal and factual nature of the act. Murder can never be regarded as negligible. Unfortunately the Committee had to deal with this in almost every amnesty application in which a hearing was required and where amnesty was granted for killing opponents and even ... In the result all the applicants are GRANTED amnesty in respect of any offences and/or delicts flowing from and directly connected with the explosion of a car bomb in a Hi-Ace motor vehicle in Gaberone, Botswana during April 1987 in which explosion people were killed and injured and property was ... Mr Mbali talks of six people. Now the two applicants before you now can shed no light on that and clearly if it happened, we certainly can't deny it. We would say that, with respect, it's very unlikely because if the Lesotho policeman who was the informer knew that what he was doing was ... We received statements from people who confirmed under oath that Mr Piet Ntuli was involved with certain murders and other intimidations as well as assaults and as Colonel Kendall had said, he was involved with illegal arms as well as stolen vehicles. MR RAS: No. He would have known that it would be used in order to kill people, but he wasn't informed specifically about the operation. DR ALLY: Now we've heard that this period was a particularly tense period in the area, that people were fearing that the situation was going to perhaps get out of control, your son before this event of the 22nd of July 1990, was he in any way involved in any of the events which were taking place in ... |
