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people's warExplanation Showing 841 to 860 of 1003 First Page•Previous Page 39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 Next Page•Last PageThe Amnesty Committee finds that the following people are victims and are hereby referred to the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee for its attention. They didn't tell us to continue looking for other people. 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. MS BLAAUW: I don't know those people. Khosa and Nkoana were used on the day in question as interpreters between the other three and the deceased and as messengers when cooldrinks or other refreshments or food was required. The five of them took the deceased from the office to a place in the vicinity of Cleveland. When they arrived ... MR VAN RENSBURG: Now, then on behalf of the victims, I just have to put it to you and that is my instructions that the deceased was killed not because of any political reason, because some people in the community were jealous of his ... Whilst we were sleeping, we had a few people singing and as these sounds was approaching, it stop right in front of my yard. It took some time. My brother’s child went into my house, Fundiswa, and she told Funeka that we must go. And Funeka was already up at that stage. They left together. The applicant was a member of uMkhonto weSizwe. He illegally entered into the country during June 1988 and thereafter, until December 1988, recruited people as members of the African national Congress (which was then a banned organisation), established a number of underground cells and conspired ... Evidence was led that the applicants had always considered police stations and their personnel to be soft targets. The fact that the applicants knew the Kokstad area very well (Mlungisi Nyembezi lived in the area) led to the applicants deciding to attack this particular police station in ... CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR VISSER: Mr Snyders, page 232, you state, or let me put it to you like this, Colonel De Kock said that he asked Brigadier Erasmus what would happen if policemen were to arrive. He said, "Shoot them dead". What would happen if members of the public arrived there? He said, ... MR SIBEKO: The picture that I have now is that the rest of the people who were around, did nothing but Makasonke is the one who meted out the punishment, is that a correct picture? ... however we are of the view that all those who took part in the preparation and posting of the device knowing it was a bomb must have been aware of the danger of such a device exploding and accidentally killing or injuring people in the vicinity. It had happened to a previous parcel ... CHAIRPERSON: Good afternoon everybody. We were to start today with the application of Mr Richardson which was postponed at the end of last year to continue with the same. I must apologise that we have experienced hiccups in the process that the latest is before I go to what happened first is that ... So Chairperson, I will submit that these people were not disowned by the ANC, they were doing exactly what the ANC wanted to see happening. Therefore they fall within the ambit. The applicant was a member of Special Operations of Umkhonto weSizwe, the Military wing of the African National Congress (the ANC). He received extensive military training abroad. In 1991 he was instructed by the army commander, Mr Joe Modise to establish Self Defence Units in order to protect ... MR FLORES: One of the applicants who already testified was Mr Tait. There were one or two people from the Task Force, I can't recall names. |