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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 objective of the boycott was purely political, it being instigated to undermine the local authority which was not democratically elected by all the people.
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 ...
Perhaps some people who are listening to you probably think it is a fairy tale that you are telling. But those who know the gravity of the struggle for liberation in this country, are aware that women suffered a lot in this country in the fight for liberation.
CHAIRPERSON: I think we indicated 9 o'clock didn't we, to the other people. We'll adjourn till 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
During the course of the day they were not successful to trace the whereabouts of the target and his vehicle but later that evening they saw his car parked outside a pub. The target (Mdo) was busy talking to a person on the pavement. Flores who was travelling in his kombi with tinted windows ...
CHAIRPERSON: I don't think I'm going to allow that. We are concerned with the amnesty application by people who have applied before us. We are not going to pass judgment on Mr Taylor, we're not going to make an assessment on Mr Taylor's achievements or demerits. Do you understand?
It is evidence from the documentation before us that during the evening of 7th October 1991 Mr and Mrs Liquorish were entertaining two guests, namely Mr Dunkley and Miss Saint-Clair, at her house at Illovo, Johannesburg. They were sitting at the dinning table when five armed robbers, including the ...
The applicant testified that as far as possible, the limpet mines were timed to go off at times when there were unlikely to be people around so as to try and avoid or minimise casualties and loss of life.  He said that unfortunately a person was injured in the explosion at the Pinetown Post ...
CHAIRPERSON: Isn't the question simply, does the ANC accept responsibility? The purpose of that section as I understand it, is where there is a possibility of a finding being made and the people concerned do not want such a finding, they can make representations. If the purpose of the letter is ...
MR MATHIBA: We do not know, because he doesn't speak to people. But we hope that he will give us a piece of information. He transported him with his van to Sebong Hospital. He should just tell us what happened to our child.
MS MAYA: You were one of the people who were detained after the Ngquza incident. Is that so?
MR ROSSOUW: At any point did you find yourself in a situation where you had to confront people or possibly use your weapon?
When the applicant came to the meeting it had not even commenced business and people were still in the process of arriving and gathering. he saw Mbokazi in the company of a man he had not seen before and it later transpired that the man was Shandu. Cele was not there. He assumed that the man ...
MR VISSER: And did you according to information which you had, it was in the interest and the maintenance of the State dispensation and people's lives and government property and did you associate yourself with this conduct and you say that in paragraph 6?
ADV SANDI: And you mentioned that you want a tombstone on behalf of the people who were killed.
MR NDLOVU: Okay. Due to the reason that I was young and the codes of conduct stated very well that a person should be 18 in order to join the SDU, I was given my task to make sure that every time when the people who were over 18 which were regarded as the battalion, every time they launch an ...
Khumalo testified that he is currently serving a long term of imprisonment for two counts of murder, two of attempted murder and one of armed robbery for his participation in the Reservoir Hills armed robbery.  He was also involved in other incidents where people were killed.
JUDGE DE JAGER: We could declare him a victim if the offence or delict was associated with a political objective. Can you people assure us of that supposition?
The facts in this application are very similar to those in that of Mdu John Msibi (Case No. 0624/96). The applicant herein was approached by the same people who had approached Mdu John Msibi, namely one Msibi and a constable Mkhwanasi. He also adds a certain Pienaar, who, like Mkhwanasi, was ...
"As a chosen leader of the community of Mmamahabane Township, Ventersburg, I went to the municipal police offices to take the keys of the Administrator's office from the municipal police and hand it to the people to prohibit the racist Administrator to govern the people of the township. I planned ...
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