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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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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 ...
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 ...
Evidence was led that the applicants had always considered police stations and their personnel to be soft targets. The fact that the applicants knew the Kokstad area very well (Mlungisi Nyembezi lived in the area) led to the applicants deciding to attack this particular police station in ...
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 ...
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.
FURTHER EXAMINATION BY MR BOOYENS: Mr Kok, you have already given evidence in this application and in your evidence you mentioned that you were present with the people from Vlakplaas when the cassette player was bought along with the earphones, is that correct?
MRS MTSWENI: I do not believe that it was a natural death. He was always undergoing treatment and I think there’s some substance that was coming out of his mouth. I think this was a direct result of the attack by the Inkatha people six previous years.
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.
Mr Moele further testified that he received information about the time, and the procedure followed, when salary payments were made by the Transvaal Galvanising Company. He commanded Simphiwe Mkhuno, Thobile Nzolo, Magaule Toloki and Roundy Moboa to accompany him. The applicant and Thobile Nzolo ...
This accorded to a large extent with the evidence he gave before us when he said the purpose of the attack was to promote their organisation and to take revenge against their enemies. he talked of the attack on his group which was relaxing at Gumede's house and the cars subsequent return to ...
All the applications comply with the requirements of the Act; the Applicants have made full disclosure of all the material facts relevant to their actions and the acts for which amnesty is sought are acts associated with a political objective. What the Applicants aimed at by preventing screening ...
... their shotguns. The group fled and applicant and Geldenhuys were unable to effect any arrests. At a later stage during the evening they became aware of a motor vehicle which transported what appeared to be an injured person from the township. Because they were in fear of their lives, ...
The lawyer of the accused just talked and thereafter and the Magistrate although said but the interpreter told me that these people were found not guilty. The one thing that hurt me my witnesses were not there, my lawyer was not there. The doctor didn’t give his statement. I just heard that the ...
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.
This is an application for amnesty in terms of the provisions of Section 19 of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act No. 34 of 1995 ("the Act"). The application relates to the death of Mziwonke "Pro" Jack, a high-profiled African National Congress ("ANC") member in the Western ...
"to protect my people and to make sure that there was no mismanagement of funds belonging to the SDU members."
Coetzee states that other members ("co-handlers") reported to him that they were unhappy about the poor discipline of the deceased and his laxity with security.  He says the deceased would also abuse state vehicles and on numerous occasions absented himself from work without permit.  Coetzee ...
CHAIRPERSON: Well being entirely selfish, I will first of all make a confession that the members of the Committee have been asked to have lunch with the IDASA people and a distinguished American guest, so it seems that whatever happens, we would probably have to stay here till two o'clock. Would ...
On their own evidence they believed that Memela and his companions were trained "terrorists" armed with weapons and explosives, who had been responsible for the attack on Winnington Sabelo's family and who were en route to attack a black Counsellor. It is thus clear to us that the applicants ...
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