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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 KOOPEDI: The only sad part Chair is that Judge Motata's comments were not recorded as his mike was off and I believe it is important for us to note that it is indeed the Vanderbijl Square and not Vanderbijlpark which is a town in the Vaal. I would then say, Chairperson, that is the application ...
The 3rd Applicant has been a member of the ANC since 1982. During September 1984 he was a teacher at Amangwe High School near Empangeni, his employer being the KwaZulu Government. He was also at that time actively involved in ANC matters particularly in regard to setting up structures within the ...
Although he might have used the vehicle for a political purpose, the persistent denial is 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 ...
CHAIRPERSON: I think we must bear in mind that we're talking of something nine years ago and for people to remember precisely who was in what car at what stage of the journey, is ... Right, questions?
At the time in question political violence was rife in the Mpumalanga area. The violence, which involved supporters of the IFP on the one side and supporters of the ANC on the other, was on-going and resulted in many people being killed and injured and much property being destroyed.
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 ...
MR KLOPPER: From that point onwards, Snor and I went back to the Verdrag training area, to the administrative base and we had a few drinks with the people there and thanked them for the use of the farm and handed the keys back, and from that point onwards we went back to Pretoria. I think it was ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?
HEARING : The attempted murder of 10 people
... 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 ...
Gqomfa testified that at the relevant time he was a member of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army ("APLA"), the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania ("PAC"). He received military training in exile and then returned to the country where he carried out various operations on behalf ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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