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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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... and different schools are coming here, talking together, sleeping over; playing music together. That’s fantastic. That’s how we’re going forward and shows also the value of heritage in redefining a South African identity as ...
It was a very emotional moment, personally. Because I felt the pain that the victims felt and of which I do regret the loss of lives. And moreover in the position in which I saw them. Hoping that this message will be related to the victims and to other people who suffered the struggle. Especially ...
My life since then has been very, very difficult. It’s had a big element of self destruction. I’ve been through two marriages. I have a daughter. But really I’ve just destroyed the people around me, my friends, my family and I think it’s enough now.
St. James today looks like any other church in the suburbs. Inside its quiet, sun slanting down onto pews, hymn books neatly arranged for the next service. On Sundays more than a thousand people file into its vast interior, but on a stormy Sunday’s night in July four years ago, shortly after the ...
know that there were hundreds of children that were killed and when we make a finding, are we only saying that it’s only those 15 that can come forward, and get whether it’s urgent interim relief, or can all those people and I think the pendulum if you like is swinging to the position that we ...
... dwelling house, I was just securing the area around the house. Quite a while after the operation, I will say approximately three or four weeks afterwards, Willie Nortje came to me and handed me an envelope. All the other people involved also received such an envelope. If I can remember correctly ...
The 1953 Bantu Education Act, separated schools and curricula for white and black, inferior education for black communities. It began with the National Party’s rise to power and the policies this man, Dr Hendrik F Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. He was determined to deny black people, ...
Not all self defence unit action was this benign. In the townships around Johannesburg self defence units were involved in day to day combat with amongst others Inkatha members and the internal stability unit. Many people lost their lives in the ever spiralling violence and for many the self ...
The Ciskei puppets skilfully undermined all those litigations by arresting and detaining the lawyers who were defending those people or some who actually had civil claims against the Ciskei government. Of course when they were told, it was interpreted in a political way that you are taking the ...
Winnie said she visited Dr Asvat with Katiza on the 29th of December 1988, before driving to Brandfort. But this medical card from the visit was stamped the 30th of December. People who could have confirmed the card’s accuracy and importance were not subpoenaed. One was Dr Asvat’s brother ...
I just destroyed the people around me, my friends my family. And I think it’s enough now.
The former Defence Force was also the topic of the controversy this week stirred up by a report of the investigation task board. The board was appointed in September 1994 to investigate organized hit squad activity in KwaZulu-Natal. A few significant facts emerged very clearly from this report. The ...
These are the Ngquza mountains in Flagstaff where the Pondoland massacre occurred in 1960. The Pondo people were fighting against the then Black Authorities Act of 1951and the introduction of taxes by the government. Mister Clement Gxabu and Simon Silangwe were present during the day of the ...
There was never any reference after that meeting at any time of the third force in any discussion that I can recall except for this continued discussion on do we establish another overt force or not. There was never any reference that I can recall in any way whatsoever of our policy using terrorist ...
Their friend, Ruth Gibizela survived, but it is here in the ruins of what was once a witdoek prison that she and others lived a night of terror. // These men asked if we could see the red sea, this here is the red sea. We looked at it, and when we looked we saw the heads of people, the necks were ...
But you see where things really went wrong was in the workplace. The one time the Kleynhans brothers were coming to the … and he says to the people, those that have got licenses could they come one side. All the chaps were very happy, they were going to drive trucks and things and then they found ...
By lunchtime as the hearings draw to a close the Committee looks back at the Human Rights Violations hearings which started in April last year. // Over these past months we have been taken by victims like yourselves today, we have been taken into what I can only describe as the very heart of ...
I saw three people running out of my home towards this orange Cadet, which I certainly earlier seen, that was now parked alongside my home. So I ran to the Cadet, opened the driver’s door, I was grappling with him, trying to pull him out when someone seated in the rear left hand seat fired three ...
In the months before Sam Ntuli’s assassination the violence in Tokoza had died down. On the day of his funeral all hell broke loose again. // Because those people from … immediately when we passed the hostel they said when you come back we are going to kill all of you. We are going to kill all ...
Reverend Simon Farisani had some explanation for the support the Venda community gave to the liberation armies. // Many of them did operate in this area. It was hospitable, people accommodated them. There were few instances where they were reported to the security forces. But generally people ...
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