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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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1. Nobody of APLA or the PAC testified on behalf of the applicants and there was no independent evidence to show that the applicants were indeed supporters or members of APLA or that Monde Radebe was a commander of an APLA unit. Although they made reference to having been members of a so-called ...
THE AZANIAN PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY
During or about May 1984, the applicant met Sipho Xulu. Sipho Xulu had left the country in 1982 to go into exile. When Sipho Xulu came back, he was in the company of Lucky Payi and Dennis Mzamo Hadebe. Xulu advised the applicant that he was back in the country in order to recruit more people for ...
NELSPRUIT JOHAN EDUARD MOERDYK AM7218/97 ABDUCTION AND DETENTION OF VARIOUS PEOPLE AT WITNEK MILITARY BASE
In the evening of the day in question, both the applicant and Jack proceeded to the intended target where they threw a number of petrol-bombs. The operation was a blunder, in that a wrong target was hit, and that was the house belonging to Elizabeth Makwana. Although there were people inside, no ...
The Third Applicant also testified that great care was taken before planting landmines in trying to avoid civilian casualties. He reconnoitred the area for three days, sleeping in the forest before proceeding to plant explosives on the road where the incidents occurred. He observed that the road ...
MR VERSTER: Chairperson, if I might put it as follows, we were Special Forces Headquarters with various operational bases in the Namibia environment and in South Africa. Some of the operatives lived in Phalaborwa, others in Zululand, others in Langebaan, some of them in Durban, and it was normal ...
MS BLAAUW: I don't know those people.
MR MBANDAZAYO: Chairperson, on the basis that the applicant at the time of the incident, he was not aware that there were people injured and that property was damaged as a result of what happened on the day in question.
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 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 meeting was called at the house of Applicant Ngobese (application 3480/96). The above allegations were discussed and the meeting of about 30 people decided to kill Mr Mthembu. An unknown number (but at least the six Applicants) proceeded to the deceased's house. The door of the house was ...
It is clear that all the applicants acted in pursuance of a political objective which was within the bounds of the policies and strategies of the PAC, APLA and PASO. It was not their intention to cause injury to the people on the bus and the limpet mine appears to have exploded accidentally. The ...
CHAIRPERSON: Did you have any in depth knowledge about Josini, apart from the rest of the people?
... 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 ...
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.
They had so many photographs of dead people with what seemed to be bullet wounds on the foreheads, they used to bring that to me very often at night. Maybe they thought I would be scared by that.
Shortly after a bomb explosion in Krugersdorp in which an activist, Hein Grosskopf, was a suspect the Applicant assisted in unlawfully entering into and searching the parental home of the suspect and their holiday home with a view to obtaining more information.  The people involved was his ...
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 ...
... with Mr Botha. They were not anxious to, when I say they, I must withdraw that, one of the two persons had been following proceedings, was fully aware of what was going on and he was a possibly implicated person, but he indicated that he did not want to participate in any way or to have his ...
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