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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 PageMR MOPEDI: And the people that you were fighting, that you were shooting at, who were they, were those people IFP people? MR COETZEE: Well I don't know, that was the way we used to talk in those days. Security people used to talk in those terms. MR MANTHATA: It is cruel to experience that in a family. It is very hurtful. And it is also very hurting when that comes the way it approached to you. You didn't know how your child died or who killed him. We might say it was the police who killed him because by that time people were from the ... Mokoena's response was he was referring to the leaders as people who knew of the activities of the gang, and knew that the ANC Youth League members were victims of these attacks. The applicant was a member of a group of people in the district in which he resided which group was established to defend the residents thereof. ... aims, he then instructed members of the Technical Division, Bosch, Kok and Du Toit, to manufacture the device. This they did and the parcel was forwarded to the address. He did not communicate with Kok and Du Toit directly but spoke to Bosch who co-ordinated the task. De Kock says for some ... 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 ... 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 ... The two Applicants say that they operated under the command of one Ntantiso who told them that 1993 was the year of the "Great Storm" during which the PAC and the Azanian People's Liberation Army ("APLA") cadres had to intensify the struggle against the white minority regime. Farmers and white ... MS PATEL: Alright. Given that there were nine people there and that the premises were an average size, it's strange that one person was allowed to escape, not so? MR J F KOK: Well it's very difficult to answer, but I think if you use your logic, as I understood it this post box that was used is like a dead letter box, people are tasked through these post boxes, they receive orders, so it's not one specific person who uses that post box. They do not want to ... They didn't tell us to continue looking for other people. 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. 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 ... 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. ... 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? MR VERSTER: Chairperson, if I might put it as follows, we were Special Forces Headquarters with various operational bases in the Namibia environment and in South Africa. Some of the operatives lived in Phalaborwa, others in Zululand, others in Langebaan, some of them in Durban, and it was normal ... 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 ... 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 ... |