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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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The applicant was not brought in time by the prison authorities, for various reasons. Whatever the reason was, valuable time has been lost and inconvenience has been caused to a number of people apart from just the Members of the Committee. If anything can be done to avoid loss of time such as ...
MR KENDALL: I personally went to fetch this mini limpet mine from Mr Hammond in the building where they were. We got back to the office and Brigadier McIntyre called Mr Mogoai, a sergeant, a female constable, I can't remember her name, if you asked me what she looked like, I also would not be ...
CHAIRPERSON: If you take a look at paragraph 10 of Mr Khotle's affidavit. You see Mr Khotle, the previous witness says that the unit which shot at the Vanderbijl ambush, which shot at the people inside a motor car was himself, Solly, that's Zola Mabala which is yourself, the commander and Boysi. ...
organisation, whilst he was in exile. In January 1993 he was given orders by the APLA Commander, Sabelo Phama, to infiltrate the country and to prosecute the armed struggle. The main aims of the PAC and APLA were to topple the apartheid government and to eventually return the land to the African ...
MR MNGOMEZULU: Yes. What I can say is the same thing that I said earlier on as to what happened or what was happening at Wembezi Township. I had taken the firearm from our commander at the time, our ANC commander, that was before the conflict between the ANC and SACP started. Our commander at ...
A highlight of the violence was an attack launched on 12 May 1991 by hostel dwellers from Kagiso on the residents of Swanieville. The assistance of Applicant and other residents of Kagiso was enlisted to help the residents of Swanieville to repel the attack. Applicant witnessed the loss of life ...
MR MOMBERG: Chairperson, through the nature of my work and with reference to a previous application of mine to this Committee, the McKenzie application, I used this road every second weekend for three years, between two and three years, and from a reconnaissance view I knew this place quite well ...
... aims, he then instructed members of the Technical Division, Bosch, Kok and Du Toit, to manufacture the device. This they did and the parcel was forwarded to the address. He did not communicate with Kok and Du Toit directly but spoke to Bosch who co-ordinated the task. De Kock says for some ...
The two Applicants say that they operated under the command of one Ntantiso who told them that 1993 was the year of the "Great Storm" during which the PAC and the Azanian People's Liberation Army ("APLA") cadres had to intensify the struggle against the white minority regime. Farmers and white ...
However, in his viva voce evidence before us, he stated that he wanted to kill the deceased inter alia so as to intimidate ANC people into joining the IFP, because the deceased was brave and led assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, and also because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to ...
MS PATEL: Alright. Given that there were nine people there and that the premises were an average size, it's strange that one person was allowed to escape, not so?
4. The recruiting of people for military training by the African National Congress ("ANC"), both in and outside of South Africa during the period 1986 to 1990.
Lester, the Deputy Director of Operations of APLA gave commands as to the general policy of the activities related to APLA units.  The general policy was to drive white people from land because it did not belong to them.  The occupants of land were legitimate targets.  These attacks would ...
The applicant applies for amnesty in respect of the torture of several people and also in respect of an incident which took place near Willowvale on 21st January 1987.
In 1980, as a member of both the Black Students Society and the South African Student Organisation, he participated at a gathering in a protest rally near Bosmont, Gauteng. The rally related to unequal and racially based education. This was in transgression of the Riotous Assemblies Act in that ...
... paces away from the scene screaming at them. He is however unable to say whether Sonwabo shot in their direction or not. In any event he was not aware that a civilian had been shot and killed pursuant to their shooting and only became aware thereof during his criminal trial. He contended that ...
At the relevant time he was a member of the Azanian People’s Organisation ("AZAPO"). He also served on the executive committee of the Azanian Youth Organisation ("AZANYO") and Azanian Student Movement ("AZASM"), the youth and student wings of AZAPO, respectively. He received military training ...
The applicant further applies for amnesty in respect of assault on a number of people, during interrogations. He took an active part in some of the assaults by pinning the victim to the ground while he was being hit and in other cases he was a bystander who associated him with the assaults. He ...
I am just wondering if you could just, to me and to everybody else, give us a picture of what was actualy happening on that campus, on that day. Was it that the police just came on and started attacking people without any provocation, or was there something else going that made the police came on ...
Applicant testified about his incident as a witness at the amnesty application into what has become known as the Cradock 4 incident.  His testimony basically coincided with the contents of his written amnesty application dealing with this incident.  The relevant circumstances were that ...
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