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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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In compliance with Prinsloo's orders they on a particular day, left in a Peugeot 404 Station Wagon. On arrival Moses Morudi was not present and the elderly people they found in the house informed them that he had gone out and would be back shortly.
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, ...
The next problem was what were they going to do with the body. They dowsed it with petrol and set the corpse alight. They did not want it to be known that they had committed a crime. They went back to the place where Mamasela was being held by other comrades. They decided that they were not ...
For present purposes, the only relevant category of person is that referred to in paragraph (a) of section 20(2), namely "any member or supporter of a publicly known political organisation". The Applicant would fall into this category only for the purposes of section 20(2)(f). The section ...
CHAIRPERSON: The other people who gave evidence, referred to the Jubilee Hotel, saying that they were called there, were you also called?
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 ...
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.
"We were youths who were calling themselves comrades although we were not affiliated to any political party. Our main aim was to discipline people who were committing crimes".
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?
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 ...
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 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 ...
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