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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 PageEvidence 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. MR NKABINDE: Yes, my name is Abel Nkabinde known as M A Nkabinde. I was born in 1958 in the area of Leandra. I am the first Chairperson of the then organisation in this town which was called Leandra Action Committee which was established in 1980. Then briefly, Leandra was established in 1904 by ... ADV SANDI: You are going to tell us about these two people here. The applicant testified that as a result of the instructions received he then threw a handgrenade at the house of Mr Mahaule during the night of 27th April 1980. An explosion followed and the property was damaged. It was not his intention to kill anybody and that was the reason why he used a low ... MR HATTINGH: Yes, yes, that's all I'm trying to put on record, that the string and the wax might have been applied in the post office and not by the people who prepared the package. I chased them away, that's where Moolman said to me, while we were watching television, that day, I could hear that these people were killed in Pietersburg and I realised that it was my son. He was with his friend Jacob Rapulo. After having shot him the case was handled by Sad Kachalia the ... The Leader of Evidence informed us that most of the people injured in the incidents forming the subject matter of the hearing had been traced and had been notified of the hearing. These people have indicated that they did not wish to attend these proceedings and none did so. MR SHANE: Was your name also mentioned amongst the people who went to rob firearms at the Kliprivier police station? All right. You were shot coming from a rally and there were many people there. Were you ever charged for anything that happened on that day? Shall I repeat the question. You were shot by the police when you were coming from Steve Tshwete's rally. Did the police ever come to you and charge you ... MR KOPEDI: If I may, Honourable Chairperson, I'm going to ask for a postponement of this matter sine die. The reasons are that all the applicants are not here as we speak and also the victim, there is one victim in this matter, the victim is not here and basically we did not have any application ... CHAIRPERSON: Ms Patel, can we again implore your Department to ensure that when matters are set down, they have been fully investigated and very ripe for a hearing in order to avoid matters being postponed only when we are here in a venue and at great costs I think to the people who are attending ... The applicant testified that he was a member of the Soweto Youth Congress affiliated to the UDF as well as a member of M.K. He was trained by Dube to whom we have referred to earlier and we will refer to him by name further on in this decision. During 1987 supporters of the liberation movements ... On the night of the 7th July 1991, the residents on the farm noticed a group of persons coming towards the farm. These people entered the farm and this resulted in them being chased. One of the trespasses was caught, beaten and killed. Shortly thereafter two figures were noticed going into one of ... He does recall though that he with the 3rd Applicant received instructions to attack homes of people in Tembisa. He can remember that they used an explosive device at one house and AK47s to shoot at a second house. He cannot remember why they used different methods of attack, but it was probably ... After some time the Deceased returned to his vehicle. A group of people gathered in the vicinity of the vehicle. The keys to the vehicle were locked inside and the right back quarter window was broken in order to gain access into the vehicle. The Deceased started the vehicle, but then alighted ... It was proposed to him that he become a "double agent" whereby he would inform the police of plans, identities of people and where they could be found and so forth. Despite initial resistance, he eventually agreed to do so. As a result, according to Du Plessis, certain confidential and important ... Well if you look around at what we've had here, half a dozen people. That purpose is not being achieved by having large halls in Durban, a long way away from where these people live and I would ask you, Mr Prior, please to talk to whoever arranges the meetings with a view to, these matters that ... MS CRICHTON: It seems that there were many people who came out of prison, out of detention who were coughing blood. Why do you think that was? |
