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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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Ras informed them that Brigadier Stemmet had told him that he had information that a policeman in Hammanskraal was an ANC agent and that he was to be eliminated as he visited and was relaying information to the ANC in Zimbabwe that had in the past already led to the killing of some people there. ...
Thank you chairperson - perhaps just before I ask the witness to take the oath, the translation devices that we’ve got, enables people to listen in to the testimony in the language to which you can follow. Now on the black box section of the translation device there are two wheels, the one wheel ...
CHAIRPERSON: The other people who gave evidence, referred to the Jubilee Hotel, saying that they were called there, were you also called?
NELSPRUIT JOHAN EDUARD MOERDYK AM7218/97 ABDUCTION AND DETENTION OF VARIOUS PEOPLE AT WITNEK MILITARY BASE
CHAIRPERSON: Yes, I wanted to make everybody aware who is here, our life-span is really limited and it is our view and the considered view that we cannot allow postponements. Like we are here, we've got to finish everything here in Bloemfontein. We won't come back and should there be a matter ...
The applicant testified that he was a member of the Soweto Youth Congress affiliated to the UDF as well as a member of M.K. He was trained by Dube to whom we have referred to earlier and we will refer to him by name further on in this decision. During 1987 supporters of the liberation movements ...
MR GREYLING: During the arrest of Siphiwe Nyanda I was present. There were not enough people in the office and they were looking for persons to assist with the arrest.
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 lead assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to kill him ...
MR VISSER: Yes. Yes, while we're on that point, Mr Chairman, Ms Thabethe has an impossible task, it seems, to bring matters forward. Perhaps the problem here is in the whole attempt to place matters for certain dates. It would seem and the present hearings do seem to be the best example of that, ...
Dumisani shot the deceased on the back of his head and the applicant shot him in the leg. They searched him and found no weapon on his body. They took his briefcase; fired shots to scare people who were approaching the scene and they ran away.
MR VISSER: And did you according to information which you had, it was in the interest and the maintenance of the State dispensation and people's lives and government property and did you associate yourself with this conduct and you say that in paragraph 6?
"As a chosen leader of the community of Mmamahabane Township, Ventersburg, I went to the municipal police offices to take the keys of the Administrator's office from the municipal police and hand it to the people to prohibit the racist Administrator to govern the people of the township. I planned ...
At sometime in 1991 he befriended two Mozambicans who were employed at a farm. (They, incidentally, were co-accused of the applicant at the time). They complained to him about being ill-treated by the farmer and having lost the work. He reported this to Mohale who, he said, told him to proceed ...
When the applicant came to the meeting it had not even commenced business and people were still in the process of arriving and gathering. he saw Mbokazi in the company of a man he had not seen before and it later transpired that the man was Shandu. Cele was not there. He assumed that the man ...
It is evidence from the documentation before us that during the evening of 7th October 1991 Mr and Mrs Liquorish were entertaining two guests, namely Mr Dunkley and Miss Saint-Clair, at her house at Illovo, Johannesburg. They were sitting at the dinning table when five armed robbers, including the ...
The applicant testified that as far as possible, the limpet mines were timed to go off at times when there were unlikely to be people around so as to try and avoid or minimise casualties and loss of life.  He said that unfortunately a person was injured in the explosion at the Pinetown Post ...
During the course of the day they were not successful to trace the whereabouts of the target and his vehicle but later that evening they saw his car parked outside a pub. The target (Mdo) was busy talking to a person on the pavement. Flores who was travelling in his kombi with tinted windows ...
CHAIRPERSON: I don't think I'm going to allow that. We are concerned with the amnesty application by people who have applied before us. We are not going to pass judgment on Mr Taylor, we're not going to make an assessment on Mr Taylor's achievements or demerits. Do you understand?
Thereafter, on a date the applicant cannot remember, but between 30 November 1993 and 2 December 1993, a number of people gathered at Mr Mfayela's house. Mr Mfayela and an induna from Wosiyana planned an attack on the Sonkombo area. The attackers left in a number of vehicles and proceeded to ...
The facts in this application are very similar to those in that of Mdu John Msibi (Case No. 0624/96). The applicant herein was approached by the same people who had approached Mdu John Msibi, namely one Msibi and a constable Mkhwanasi. He also adds a certain Pienaar, who, like Mkhwanasi, was ...
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