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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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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.
The Applicant confirmed the evidence given by the above-mentioned Applicants and testified that he, at the time a constable, operated under the orders of Captain Hechter.  The facts, briefly stated are that the deceased allegedly was a member of a cell of ANC activists, lead by Sefola, which ...
MR GILBERT: Those boers must be arrested. You can't just acquit guilty people like that who shot at our children.
MR NKABINDE: Yes, my name is Abel Nkabinde known as M A Nkabinde. I was born in 1958 in the area of Leandra. I am the first Chairperson of the then organisation in this town which was called Leandra Action Committee which was established in 1980. Then briefly, Leandra was established in 1904 by ...
The applicant testified that he was a member of the Soweto Youth Congress affiliated to the UDF as well as a member of M.K. He was trained by Dube to whom we have referred to earlier and we will refer to him by name further on in this decision. During 1987 supporters of the liberation movements ...
On the night of the 7th July 1991, the residents on the farm noticed a group of persons coming towards the farm. These people entered the farm and this resulted in them being chased. One of the trespasses was caught, beaten and killed. Shortly thereafter two figures were noticed going into one of ...
These factors resulted in the Applicant, amongst others, deciding to burn down House No. 256 in his street. The house was owned by one Mr Zwane, whom Applicant had never seen at the house and who let the house to tenants. These tenants were known to be IFP members, who were often seen attending ...
I chased them away, that's where Moolman said to me, while we were watching television, that day, I could hear that these people were killed in Pietersburg and I realised that it was my son. He was with his friend Jacob Rapulo. After having shot him the case was handled by Sad Kachalia the ...
MR HATTINGH: Yes, yes, that's all I'm trying to put on record, that the string and the wax might have been applied in the post office and not by the people who prepared the package.
MR SHANE: Was your name also mentioned amongst the people who went to rob firearms at the Kliprivier police station?
The Leader of Evidence informed us that most of the people injured in the incidents forming the subject matter of the hearing had been traced and had been notified of the hearing. These people have indicated that they did not wish to attend these proceedings and none did so.
The applicant testified that as a result of the instructions received he then threw a handgrenade at the house of Mr Mahaule during the night of 27th April 1980. An explosion followed and the property was damaged. It was not his intention to kill anybody and that was the reason why he used a low ...
The applicant, in his evidence, said that the government had decided to make use of members of the Internal Stability Unit (ISU) to protect the municipalities and the councillors and that these Units patrolled the townships day and night. The purpose of these patrols was to destroy the attempts ...
... for this session. Before we adjourn we express our usual thanks to everybody who has assisted us in having this hearing in this venue. We are aware of the efforts that go into arranging a session of this nature and we extend our thanks and appreciation for all of those people who have ...
The offences were committed during an incident which occurred on 5th March 1993. On that day the two applicants and one other person, who's name was given as Siphiwe Zondi, ambushed a minibus and raked its occupants with automatic weapons. As a result of this attack the deceased and the other ...
Section 20(2) of the Act not only requires that the act in respect of which amnesty is sought, be associated with a political objective, but also that such act should also have been "advised, planned, directed, commanded, ordered or committed ... by" an applicant who should in turn fall under one ...
PINETOWN TOM JABULANI MADLALA AM7198/97 MURDER OF 16 IFP PEOPLE
It was proposed to him that he become a "double agent" whereby he would inform the police of plans, identities of people and where they could be found and so forth. Despite initial resistance, he eventually agreed to do so. As a result, according to Du Plessis, certain confidential and important ...
After some time the Deceased returned to his vehicle. A group of people gathered in the vicinity of the vehicle. The keys to the vehicle were locked inside and the right back quarter window was broken in order to gain access into the vehicle. The Deceased started the vehicle, but then alighted ...
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