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people's warExplanation Showing 961 to 980 of 1003 First Page•Previous Page 43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 •51 Next Page•Last PageCHAIRPERSON: We welcome you and I will ask you to give your testimony freely. So that all the people inside this hall can hear you very well. I will ask one of the Commissioners to help you with the oath. MR BAKER: I had my service pistol with me, I also had my identity card with me, my police identity card, that was my part of the operation, was to move on the perimeter and try and keep people out of the target area. I had my identity card with me to use in case I should see people and just ... MR MABOTE: I made it clear in my application that I left them in the township, I left them with Comrade Sam and Comrade Lucky. Thereafter they took them to the stadium where all members of self defence unit handed over all their firearms. I was present at the stadium when they were handed over, ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... MR FLORES: One of the applicants who already testified was Mr Tait. There were one or two people from the Task Force, I can't recall names. The applicant was a member of uMkhonto weSizwe. He illegally entered into the country during June 1988 and thereafter, until December 1988, recruited people as members of the African national Congress (which was then a banned organisation), established a number of underground cells and conspired ... At the time of the commission of the offences the applicant was a serving prisoner and member of the Azanian People's Organisation, AZAPO. He had been convicted of a number of MR MBANDAZAYO: Chairperson, on the basis that the applicant at the time of the incident, he was not aware that there were people injured and that property was damaged as a result of what happened on the day in question. 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 ... As stated above, two people were killed during the robbery, both of whom were bank employees and two people were shot and injured. Four people were robbed of personal items and three other bank employees who had money belonging to the bank in their custody were robbed of cash in the amount of R28 ... The Applicant confirmed the evidence given by the above-mentioned Applicants and testified that he, at the time a constable, operated under the orders of Captain Hechter. The facts, briefly stated are that the deceased allegedly was a member of a cell of ANC activists, lead by Sefola, which ... So Chairperson, I will submit that these people were not disowned by the ANC, they were doing exactly what the ANC wanted to see happening. Therefore they fall within the ambit. MR BOOYENS: Just to clarify certain aspects, Mr du Toit. There may be the perception in the minds of some people that the Technical Division of the Security Branch was only involved in offensive actions, such as for example this modification of weaponry, in this case and in other cases and so ... The applicant, when testifying at the hearing of this matter, stated that he joined the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) during 1985. He stated that he was approached by his commander, one Mziwabantu Stokwe, who told him that they were going on a mission to get money and firearms. The ... Van Zyl said that it was the view of his unit that the United Democratic Front (UDF) was responsible for politicising the people and consequently for the unrest experienced in the various Eastern Cape areas including Cradock where the Cradock Residents Association ("CRADORA") was established and ... The Applicant, Mr Mafete, was the first person to testify. According to his version the inhabitants of their village were upset by the deaths of six young male residents of the village over a period of some months prior to April 1994. All of the deceased were related and like the two Applicants, ... ... however we are of the view that all those who took part in the preparation and posting of the device knowing it was a bomb must have been aware of the danger of such a device exploding and accidentally killing or injuring people in the vicinity. It had happened to a previous parcel ... |
