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people's war

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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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MR LEWIN: Also in your statement Ma Motloung, you mentioned some specific names who people who Lindiwe said she saw actually shooting him. Was there ever a case made against them ? Any charge brought against them ?
... was the first to be found, and he was severely assaulted. Thereafter the group went to the deceased's house where he was found hiding in a wardrobe. He was dragged out and killed by the mob next to a taxi ...
Everybody who was to participate in the operation was then briefed and given instructions.  Those from Vlakplaas who participated were the 1st, 2nd, 7th, 10th and 14th applicants.  From Piet Retief were participating the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th applicants.  They took up positions for the ...
MR NAUDE: C2 was not personally involved with the handling of informants, but to a greater degree, we did recruitments. We infiltrated members of the freedom movements and we interrogated people in detention concerning the training and the facilities of the organisations outside of South Africa.
Extensive damage was caused to the premises of the Why Not Club and thirteen people were injured. The 3rd Applicant stated that he placed the mines under a chair against the outer wall because he wanted to keep casualties to a minimum.
MR VISSER: The point is that if you observe people, you don't actually want them to know that you're doing it.
At that time in Barkley West - Barkley West was quiet and people were not yet aware of what was happening. And sometimes I would get advice from my friends at Kimberley. They were only giving me advice on political matters and when I was at Barkley I realised that many parents at that time ...
I was told that this very notorious policeman of Special Branch in Soweto has been terrorising our people, the school children and so on. Jabu and the other group went into a rigorous training in - after the assessment was made of people who come from that area, who knew the area very well and ...
MR MUHADI: I can start by on the 6th, when I was at home, I heard my sister saying that there were people who were calling me and on getting out, I realised that it was Abel who said I was expected to attend the meeting because ...
MR SANDI: Did you hear that most of the people in the statements here when describing this incident, they are saying that these children were just passing by but Buzani just decided to shoot?
MR VENTER: My instructions given to me by Colonel Erwee was that if in our attempts to arrest these people, if some of them should escape and run in a northerly direction, then they would have come straight in our direction and we would then have to arrest them.
The applicant says that as a result of this incident, he resolved to avenge himself. Although he did not know the identity of the perpetrators, he decided to kill members or supporters of the UDF. He purchased a firearm on the 22nd of April 1990, he and his friend Beki Patrick Zwane went to a ...
MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, when one compiles such a parcel usually, as it was in the struggle of the past, our objective was to kill someone, we didn't go out to injure people, at least not we who worked at Vlakplaas and certainly not the Commandant. What I do know is that the person who was supposed ...
MR GOOSEN: Chairperson, as indicated, I remained in the vehicle. I simply heard the sound of the explosion, so I'm unaware which target was targeted during the explosion and whether or not people were injured.
In respect of the attack on the Wimpy Restaurant, Johannes Abraham Scheepers, Bietie Malope, Amanda Jan Elizabeth Clemson and Victor Serrano opposed the application. All of them declared their objection in one way or another, questioning the justification for injuring or the taking lives of ...
It is common cause that in Durban black people were members or supporters of several political organisations or liberation movements, namely the ANC, SACP, PAC and the IFP.
MR HUGO: Mr Chairman, we submit that our argument would be the same. What was actually more enlightening was when Mr de Kock said that if the problems with the protection of sensitive information, that they actually went so far as to kill people to protect those sensitive information and details ...
From there he couldn't sleep, he had nightmares and blood was flowing all over. Some of them couldn't even walk. Then they said, "Your boy are stubborn, you write in the newspapers that we policemen are killing people". On that newspaper it was written that police were killing people and they ...
MR NEL: Did you know at all when you went to Khanya House that there were people in the building?
MR DLAMINI: There were people who assisted.
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