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people's war

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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MR RICHARD: By way of information, how many people entered into this particular police station?
In conclusion it has to be pointed out that this incident is a stark reminder of the price that many innocent people paid for the eventual solution of the political problem and conflict in our country.
The applicant applies for amnesty in respect of the torture of several people and also in respect of an incident which took place near Willowvale on 21st January 1987.
... paces away from the scene screaming at them. He is however unable to say whether Sonwabo shot in their direction or not. In any event he was not aware that a civilian had been shot and killed pursuant to their shooting and only became aware thereof during his criminal trial. He contended that ...
A meeting was called at the house of Applicant Ngobese (application 3480/96). The above allegations were discussed and the meeting of about 30 people decided to kill Mr Mthembu. An unknown number (but at least the six Applicants) proceeded to the deceased's house. The door of the house was ...
At the relevant time he was a member of the Azanian People’s Organisation ("AZAPO"). He also served on the executive committee of the Azanian Youth Organisation ("AZANYO") and Azanian Student Movement ("AZASM"), the youth and student wings of AZAPO, respectively. He received military training ...
The applicant further applies for amnesty in respect of assault on a number of people, during interrogations. He took an active part in some of the assaults by pinning the victim to the ground while he was being hit and in other cases he was a bystander who associated him with the assaults. He ...
Because when he just came and collected him, collected her and he didn't tell where he was taking her to. And even after the death, he didn't come to report to us. We just heard that from other people.
I am just wondering if you could just, to me and to everybody else, give us a picture of what was actualy happening on that campus, on that day. Was it that the police just came on and started attacking people without any provocation, or was there something else going that made the police came on ...
... vehemently denied that he ever gave any instructions to Applicant to assassinate Mr Songo.  He indicated that he had no personal animosity towards Mr Songo who was one of his classmates at school.  Approximately two weeks after he met Applicant, the latter approached him at the office ...
It is clear that all the applicants acted in pursuance of a political objective which was within the bounds of the policies and strategies of the PAC, APLA and PASO. It was not their intention to cause injury to the people on the bus and the limpet mine appears to have exploded accidentally. The ...
CHAIRPERSON: Did you have any in depth knowledge about Josini, apart from the rest of the people?
Lester, the Deputy Director of Operations of APLA gave commands as to the general policy of the activities related to APLA units.  The general policy was to drive white people from land because it did not belong to them.  The occupants of land were legitimate targets.  These attacks would ...
4. The recruiting of people for military training by the African National Congress ("ANC"), both in and outside of South Africa during the period 1986 to 1990.
A highlight of the violence was an attack launched on 12 May 1991 by hostel dwellers from Kagiso on the residents of Swanieville. The assistance of Applicant and other residents of Kagiso was enlisted to help the residents of Swanieville to repel the attack. Applicant witnessed the loss of life ...
Shortly after a bomb explosion in Krugersdorp in which an activist, Hein Grosskopf, was a suspect the Applicant assisted in unlawfully entering into and searching the parental home of the suspect and their holiday home with a view to obtaining more information.  The people involved was his ...
They had so many photographs of dead people with what seemed to be bullet wounds on the foreheads, they used to bring that to me very often at night. Maybe they thought I would be scared by that.
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