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people's warExplanation Showing 841 to 860 of 1000 First Page•Previous Page 39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 Next Page•Last PageThe skull is his daughter’s, Phila Portia Ndwandwe, 24 when she died. An Umkhonto we Sizwe commander in Natal; mother of baby Thabang, born in Swaziland in 1987. In October 1988 Ndwandwe was abducted from Manzini to Pietermaritzburg. The people who sold her out were comrades. Her abductors: four ... It is very important for this event to be placed in history because it is one of the past activities that led to the existence of our new dispensation. It all started because Pondo people striked the way that we did. … a commission was set up led by Mr. Abraham coming from Pretoria, concerned as ... The CCB was a good organisation. It did fantastic work. It penetrated the inner circles of the ANC. We prevented a black Christmas in South Africa. We prevented ANC people from coming in and planting bombs and maiming people. Remember they always acted against the civilian sector. And now we have ... ... change our mind about that. The catharsis that has taken place for white and black alike, men and women, old, young, seems to have done something towards the reconciling work that we are committed to. But I think you’re absolutely right, I think we’re being very slow on the whole question of ... ... in central Pretoria. It was a devastating blast. 19 People died and 40 were injured. The ANC claimed responsibility. Shortly before, they had warned the South African government to remove military installations from civilian areas. Many of the victims were civilians although the ANC stress ... It was very difficult to get into Trust Feed after 1988, when from detention I came to live in Pietermaritzburg as a displacee. Other people could go, I couldn’t go. I couldn’t go because Gabela and Nxumalo did not want me there. They believed that if I came back then the UDF will thrive once ... It was at Khlamthini when I was hit by a bullet and I heard some shooting sounds and I felt something on my right ankle. People were turning round and running and I don’t know what happened. Then I lay there on the ground. I was the first person to be taken. And I could see some people were being ... ... UNTAG regional office at Outjo. People in the region have been asked to give any possible assistance in identifying the attackers. A substantial award has been offered for information which could lead to the arrest of three suspects who attacked the office earlier this week. There have been no ... Mr. Chairman and members of the Commission. You have heard many stories of astonishing things. You have heard stories of people who hurt others without batting an eyelid. You have crept into the hearts of wounded and sometimes damaged people. My story and that of my children is small in comparison ... Mike Hoare came out already, he come to the car he say hello, smiling nicely. So there were still other people coming through the door. All of a sudden there was lots of shouting and a shot or two were fired. If you look at the prognosis of Eugene de Kock. Anybody who thinks I took Eugene from Sunday school to prison…it’s just a fallacy. He has a bad profile, an evil profile. If you think of people he killed and at this point in time, how do you evaluate him and think that he may not continue that ... The Bonteheuwel Military Wing started precisely because we needed to respond to the manner in which the state operated. We needed to one, defend ourselves, defend our community, because it appeared as if our community were under siege. We had a situation where there were, police put patrols – and ... ... 1990 until 1992, was sheer hell in Maokeng. I can describe it as hell. Nobody felt safe, even just to walk to his toilet at night. // I am aware of a number of charges that were laid against the Three Million Gang. Those that I know of would be attempted murder, in some cases murder, in ... Were the infiltrators armed? // Definitely. Both groups, as you know it was two incidents, two separate incidents. Both groups were armed. // No there were no firearms on them. There was absolutely no firearms found on these people and nothing were handed to me. It was terror, Stalin was paranoid and he supposed that almost all foreigners are spies and many people in his own country also, he cannot trust them. My heart was closed, not only my eyes, also my heart was closed because of the system. It was all the information we received and rather to take the easy way out and that is to keep quiet and this is why this was an opportunity for me, Mr. Chairman, in which I could say that this thing which ... That day of the murder I was busy with other things. I was fighting the police, for what they were doing was shooting people with teargas. // On that day of the happenings I was here at home… // I was not there where the policeman was killed. I don’t know who killed him up to this day. Land of fun, sun, and Sol Kerzner, but something was wrong in the state of Bophuthatswana. // Bophuthatswana was the National Party’s shining example to people of the world that Verwoerd’s dream of separate development could work. Established in 1972 this patchwork of seven bits of land was ... In Bongulethu kitskonstabel action ranged from revenge killings to indiscriminate shooting sprees. Between September 1987 and January 1988 six people were wounded. On January 10, 1988 another mini-massacre took place. Three people: Selvyn Botha, Johnny Carelse and Soyisile Douse were shot and ... I just destroyed the people around me, my friends my family. And I think it’s enough now. |
