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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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MR MAUBA: On the day on which we killed the deceased, on my arrival at the home of the deceased, I was one of the people who knocked the door so that the deceased could get out of the house. On knocking ...
2. The deceased was a chairperson of the ANC in the area. The applicant was an IFP supporter. His family had been killed by ANC people. Applicant had only heard that the deceased was responsible for the killing of his family. However, the deceased was at the forefront of the peace negotiations ...
These people were innocent people whom he had approached. He had no reason at the time to think they were a threat to his life or political status. It was he who approached them. There was no prospect of achieving any political objective by his actions. We are therefore not satisfied that the ...
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 ...
Crause testified that he accompanied Loots, Smit, Wehrmann and Modise.  He helped Modise to cross the flooded Ramotswe river and thereafter accompanied him to a house which he pointed out as the target to the Special Forces members.  He and Modise then stayed behind while the three members ...
In incident 16 five people were killed and nine injured in the explosion at the Sanlam Shopping Centre in Amanzimtoti.  Once again, none of the Applicants has applied for amnesty in respect of this incident.
... the community believed that one Nomboniso Cakwe was informing on the organisations. A group of members including the Applicant approached her to warn her to desist from doing so. It was also decided shortly thereafter that if she did not adhere thereto, she would be dealt with "once and for ...
This is very difficult for other mothers and other parents who are here today. The question is - what is most difficult is that we have to bring you here and to talk about your pain and then watch you [indistinct] in pain - you had to deal with the tragedy of your loss. It is very painful, but ...
MRS TLWAELO: In 1991, William Mateketa was working at Afrikanerweg No 22, very close to Klerksdorp. It was a place belonging to a certain Strydom. At the end of the month my husband didn't get his salary as people were getting theirs. He enquired from this person why he doesn't get his salary. ...
All the Applicants testified that they then noticed a group of people at the Tavern with Selai who had been captured and was being interrogated and assaulted for having assisted the IFP in terrorising the community. The fourth Applicant stabbed Selai on his hand with a knife. The second Applicant ...
MR BOSCH: It may be mistaken that he was involved in the incident that would be heard tomorrow or the day after, but I know there were other people.
MR BOOI: It was a big mistake if you were seen in the company of the stability unit because they used to harass the community and kill people. Therefore, everybody who was closely associated with the police was not trusted by the community at that time.
Applicant had no personal knowledge that the deceased was an IFP supporter but this was conveyed to him by his commander Sam Makhobo who had instructed him to attack the entire household of the deceased because it was clear that there were some moles in the area and the deceased was taken to be one ...
CHAIRPERSON: We certainly have the power to call him because we wish to make sure, to allow him to be subjected to cross-examination before we accept his version. You must agree, I think, that it would be unfair that other people have been cross-examined, to have one witness whose evidence is ...
On the 5th of December 1993, applicant accompanied by three others, set fire to and destroyed Levens Service Station in Uitenhage. Their intended target was a house in close proximity to the garage and in which some members of the South African Defence Force lived. Their operation did not go ...
MRS JANUARY: On this day I was in one house and people came to call me, telling me that my sister was shot.
ADV MPSHE: Because other people don't believe in communism?
MRS MISHOMBO: We were residing in Meletsani township in Johannesburg in Johannesburg and on this day, the 29th, he left to go and look for his mother and her grandchildren, because soldiers, Government soldiers, would detain children. Gadja's soldiers were detaining people and late that night an ...
Also, it is required to be established whether any particular people can be identified because they have been implicated by the applicant.
MR MBEKWA: The people who worked together with the Government they destroyed his livestock. They poisoned his cattle.
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