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people's warExplanation Showing 821 to 840 of 1003 First Page•Previous Page 38 •39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 •46 Next Page•Last PageThe Applicants testified that they were members of the security department of the ANC at the time and were asked to investigate complaints by the community in Dambuza. This involved complaints about intimidation by a gang led by the deceased. There were allegations that this gang acted in support ... The salient features of the undisputed versions of Applicants are as follows. They were resident in Cradock and were members of the Cradock Youth Association ("Cradoya") at the time of the incident. Their political affiliation is confirmed in letters addressed to the Committee by the Cradock ... On the night of the incident he and his comrades one "Wizz" Rantla and Mosa Nkuta were on a reconnaissance mission in a stolen vehicle. The police suspected the car to be a stolen vehicle and tried to stop them. They drove off and managed to get away and got out of the car at White City. The ... The applicant testified that as Chief of Staff his duty was to give orders to the operatives to infiltrate the Republic of South Africa and recruit sympathetic members of the community to join MK. These people were then trained by Mapnya and Toka and participated in military activities in ... The first attack on UDF supporters was on the 25 December 1985 and this was followed by a series of attacks which led to the death of some of the UDF supporters inter alia Joel Mputhi, Bhungane Radebe and Richard Twala. The Applicants state that in the circumstances they had no choice but to ... Although he might have used the vehicles for a political purpose, the persistent denial os a problem. We are not a Court of Appeal. Obviously the Magistrate disbelieved him, hence the conviction. We have turned down many such applications in the past, otherwise we would have opened the door for ... This was the first action by the Applicant as a member of the PAC. The Applicant stated that during the time that he was still a supporter of the ANC and SANCO they were told by one of their leaders, Tebogo, that the youth should join the SADF and acquire military skills. They were being ... ... we are all liberated presently, you will feel proud about your child who was also part of the struggle, because we know everybody was going to forward and looking forward to this liberation. Your son paid the price and I am sure everybody is part of the people who are being thanked for what has ... Having carefully considered all of the evidence and material placed before us, we are satisfied that Applicant has made a full disclosure of all relevant facts and that the murder was an act associated with a political objective in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Even though the then ... HEARING : The attempted murder of 10 people The Applicant was at all material times a member and cadre of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), having received military training abroad under its auspices. He testified before the Amnesty Committee that at all material times he was residing at Danganya, KwaZulu Natal. He was elected chairperson of the Danganya Youth League at Umgababa which subsequently became the branch of the ANC Youth League when political organisations were unbanned in 1990. He ... CHAIRPERSON: Were you involved in an incident where people flew into Jan Smuts and were then taken to Swaziland? One cannot believe that things like this could have happened in our country, that people's lives were so cheap. One just could take a gun and shoot another person like an animal or in this case, one doesn't know whether it was poison or what had happened. But we just want to say, because we also ... ... your torture that you’ve described so aptly is reminiscent of so many other stories that we’ve heard. I want to say that this idea you put forward of Black Power in 1976, clearly from the documents we have in front of us, the Black People’s Convention, SASO and other Black conscientious ... MR TAKA: That bomb in Viljoenskroon cost bodily injury to at least three people, Margaret Malinga who has lost her hearing, Steven Semelo and Andries Semelo. Is it not possible that if you had placed the bomb further from the shacks it would have cause less injuries because it was then closer to ... Norman Peterson left home in 1982 and we never heard from him since 1982. And I heard from his friends that Norman left the country but they didn’t know where. And we went about asking people and he never serviced and in 1987 the late Ronnie said that he had been shot and thereafter - after that ... Eugene Alexander de Kock ("De Kock") testified that the SB at Germiston had requested Vlakplaas to assist them and the Witbank SB with the detection of suspected MK members. De Kock called in the Task Force. A briefing session was held at the SB offices in Germiston. The information at ... MR SIBANYONI: The problem we are saddled with, Mr Kruger, is that the Act envisages that people will be acting in authority of publicly known organisations or parties etcetera, now having a letter from the CP, which to an extent indicates that they never advocated a policy of, I would say, carrying ... The Amnesty Committee finds that the following people are victims and are hereby referred to the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee for its attention. |
