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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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MS CRICHTON: It seems that there were many people who came out of prison, out of detention who were coughing blood. Why do you think that was?
Well if you look around at what we've had here, half a dozen people. That purpose is not being achieved by having large halls in Durban, a long way away from where these people live and I would ask you, Mr Prior, please to talk to whoever arranges the meetings with a view to, these matters that ...
He does recall though that he with the 3rd Applicant received instructions to attack homes of people in Tembisa. He can remember that they used an explosive device at one house and AK47s to shoot at a second house. He cannot remember why they used different methods of attack, but it was probably ...
The further issue in dispute relates to the number of persons who had to be killed. De Kock testified that Nieuwoudt only referred to three persons who had to be killed, namely two members of the Port Elizabeth Security Police and an askari. The specific people were unknown to de Kock. ...
CHAIRPERSON: Good morning everybody. I apologise for the slightly late start, but I am informed that the traffic on certain roads is very heavy and that caused a delay, getting certain people to the hearing. Any inconvenience is regretted. Yesterday I introduced the panel, we are starting some ...
It is common cause that there was an ongoing political battle between the IFP hostel dwellers and the ANC people living in the nearby township. The ANC thus formed Self Defence Units (SDU ) to protect their supporters as well as the residents. This they did because the South African ...
The applicant testified that the incidents he is applying for occurred between the 23rd June 1991 to 26th June 1991. The people he attacked were people whom he believed were enemies who were going to attack them. This belief was fortified becauese they were in a "no-go" area as declared by the ...
It was put to applicant that evidence had been led that by 1993 levels of violence at Ermelo had significantly dwindled and that there was no more fighting there. He explained that although violence had generally subsided, in his area which he referred to as the extension where Black Cats were ...
It is more convenient to deal with the position of the Second Applicant who is directly involved in the incident before considering the case of First Applicant. According to the evidence the Mankwanyaneni Reserve was experiencing a violent political conflict involving members and supporters of the ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 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 ...
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 ...
"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".
CHAIRPERSON: Mr Hattingh, I am now told that Mr Greyling has had an opportunity to speak to you, amongst the people that he refers to by other legal representatives, what is your attitude with regard to having the matter postponed again to another date?
PINETOWN TOM JABULANI MADLALA AM7198/97 MURDER OF 16 IFP PEOPLE
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 ...
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