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people's war

Explanation
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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Applicants have testified that they knew that it was not ANC policy to carry out acts of robbery. They say that because they found themselves in a life and death situation they had not choice but to devise plans to protect their people. They also say that they were not acting out of malice or ...
The applicant stated that he murdered the deceased because he received an instruction from the leader of the Orde van die Dood to kill a person. This would prove that he had the ability to kill and that he would therefore be an effective member of the Orde. The killing of the deceased was done as ...
MR KENDALL: I personally went to fetch this mini limpet mine from Mr Hammond in the building where they were. We got back to the office and Brigadier McIntyre called Mr Mogoai, a sergeant, a female constable, I can't remember her name, if you asked me what she looked like, I also would not be ...
The applicant was not brought in time by the prison authorities, for various reasons. Whatever the reason was, valuable time has been lost and inconvenience has been caused to a number of people apart from just the Members of the Committee. If anything can be done to avoid loss of time such as ...
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.
In all the cases of the robbery the targets were private individuals. They were not political targets. It is highly unlikely that a trained MK operative would attack innocent people and rob them to pursue a political objective. Also in Section 20(3)(f), one must look at the directness and ...
ADV SANDI: And you mentioned that you want a tombstone on behalf of the people who 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?
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 lead assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to kill him ...
Applicants treated the petrol attendants very shabbily during the operation. Not once did they mention that they were Apla operatives, there to repossess money for the benefit of the organization. Instead, their statement to the attendants was that they wanted money. When asked, under cross ...
The applicant's evidence is that he, Derrick Skosana and one Solly Moroape attacked Shabangu's house on the instructions of his brother Joseph Nkuna. They were ordinary foot soldiers acting on his brother's orders. The brother was undoubtedly a senior person in the African National Congress. ...
At one stage during the early evening a delegation was sent to secure the attendance of Brigadier Gqozo at the meeting. According to the Applicants their intention was effectively to also hold Brigadier Gqozo once he arrived at the meeting and to compel him to step down as ruler. ...
The incident which gave rise to all the above applicants, was the killing of one Brigadier Andrew Molope (herein after referred to as "the deceased") in 1986 in Winterveld in the erstwhile Republic of Bophuthatswana. All four of the applicants were involved, in varying degrees, in the killing of ...
It emerged from the evidence  that the Applicant not only discussed the planning of attacks on military targets, he provided or arranged for the provision of the explosives and detonators used in the construction of car bombs.  Unfortunately, no evidence was led before us as to what the ...
The Northern Transvaal Security Branch under the command of the 4th Applicant obtained the assistance of Vlakplaas in their search for MK Operatives who were active in the killing of a number of people, including policemen, and other acts of terror.
The version of the applicant was to the effect that the two deceased, Mnyakeni and Khumalo, were from Sundra area, but regularly visited and stayed in Mandela Squatter Camp. They were accompanied by other unknown youths. They lived a lawless life, carrying firearms and shooting at random in the ...
CHAIRPERSON: Have you had an occasion of studying the application form as it stands before us, Mr Molohlanye? You know we don't want people to be shoddily represented. I must say I am a little upset that it doesn't look like this matter again has been properly prepared for presentation.
The applicant, Phila Martin Dolo, was at all material times a cadre of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, APLA, the military wing of the Pan African Congress, PAC, having received training as such under its auspices outside of the Republic. He was tried and convicted on 5 December 1994 in the ...
MR KWEYAMA: Yes, I do. Mr Msani and Mfanafigele Mkhize were the people who acquired the vehicle.
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