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people's warExplanation Showing 921 to 940 of 1003 First Page•Previous Page 43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 •51 Next Page•Last PageThey both got involved in political activities during 1990. They testified that a group of comrades fled the violence and harassment in the nearby township of Khutsong and sought refuge with them. These people motivated them to form an African National Congress ("ANC") branch and they did so ... The operation was carried out by the 1st Applicant, the 3rd Applicant, Mike and Johnny. The 3rd Applicant acted as driver. He drove the others to the T-junction and was instructed to wait for them at a specific place some distance away. The 1st Applicant, Mike and Johnny waited at the ... On the day in question an ANC mass rally was organized at Majola administrative area in the vicinity of Port St. Johns. The rally was to be addressed by General Bantu Holomisa. At about the scheduled time for the rally to commence, information was received by the ANC cadres that there were a ... And that’s signed by dr Van Heerden. I would also like it placed on record that a number of people from the community have come to us and said that dr Van Heerden is known in this community as a very caring and compassionate doctor. MR NYAKAMA: I was a secretary in our section, that is Lusaka-A. That is, I was a SANCO secretary. Our duties included listening to people's complaints and we also sat at the SANCO central level where we represented people's complaints. The applicant then returned to the vehicle and saw one of the people with him, one Khumbulani Sithole driving the minibus away. Later he was informed that the minibus was driven away and burned near Mpumalanga township. He said he gave no instruction in this regard and did not approve of it. ... During 1992 the conflict in the area intensified and more supporters from the ANC were killed by people who the applicant believed were members of the IFP. According to the applicant, the police did nothing to investigate these deaths because they sided with the IFP. On the 22nd of February ... MR KHUMALO: I apologise to the people who lost their lives because of the political situation because what happened and what we did was because of the system of apartheid, not because we were there for personal gain. This happened to them because they were members of the IFP, an organisation that ... MR MOMBERG: Chairperson, through the nature of my work and with reference to a previous application of mine to this Committee, the McKenzie application, I used this road every second weekend for three years, between two and three years, and from a reconnaissance view I knew this place quite well ... 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 ... 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. CHAIRPERSON: If you take a look at paragraph 10 of Mr Khotle's affidavit. You see Mr Khotle, the previous witness says that the unit which shot at the Vanderbijl ambush, which shot at the people inside a motor car was himself, Solly, that's Zola Mabala which is yourself, the commander and Boysi. ... However, in his viva voce evidence before us, he stated that he wanted to kill the deceased inter alia so as to intimidate ANC people into joining the IFP, because the deceased was brave and led assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, and also because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to ... 1. Nobody of APLA or the PAC testified on behalf of the applicants and there was no independent evidence to show that the applicants were indeed supporters or members of APLA or that Monde Radebe was a commander of an APLA unit. Although they made reference to having been members of a so-called ... MS MAYA: After that, when people were called to Jubilee Hotel, were you not one of them? The objective of the boycott was purely political, it being instigated to undermine the local authority which was not democratically elected by all the people. Thr Second Applicant was the commander during this attack and the Third Applicant fell under this command. The Second Applicant testified that their main target was the old age home in Ficksburg and that they intended launching a random attack on houses in the vicinity should there have been any ... MR MNGOMEZULU: Yes. What I can say is the same thing that I said earlier on as to what happened or what was happening at Wembezi Township. I had taken the firearm from our commander at the time, our ANC commander, that was before the conflict between the ANC and SACP started. Our commander at ... |
