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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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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
During or about May 1984, the applicant met Sipho Xulu. Sipho Xulu had left the country in 1982 to go into exile. When Sipho Xulu came back, he was in the company of Lucky Payi and Dennis Mzamo Hadebe. Xulu advised the applicant that he was back in the country in order to recruit more people for ...
The Third Applicant also testified that great care was taken before planting landmines in trying to avoid civilian casualties. He reconnoitred the area for three days, sleeping in the forest before proceeding to plant explosives on the road where the incidents occurred. He observed that the road ...
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 ...
The applicant then returned to the vehicle and saw one of the people with him, one Khumbulani Sithole driving the minibus away. Later he was informed that the minibus was driven away and burned near Mpumalanga township. He said he gave no instruction in this regard and did not approve of it. ...
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 ...
... aims, he then instructed members of the Technical Division, Bosch, Kok and Du Toit, to manufacture the device. This they did and the parcel was forwarded to the address. He did not communicate with Kok and Du Toit directly but spoke to Bosch who co-ordinated the task. De Kock says for some ...
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 led assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, and also because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to ...
MS PATEL: Alright. Given that there were nine people there and that the premises were an average size, it's strange that one person was allowed to escape, not so?
The two Applicants say that they operated under the command of one Ntantiso who told them that 1993 was the year of the "Great Storm" during which the PAC and the Azanian People's Liberation Army ("APLA") cadres had to intensify the struggle against the white minority regime. Farmers and white ...
MS MAYA: After that, when people were called to Jubilee Hotel, were you not one of them?
Thr Second Applicant was the commander during this attack and the Third Applicant fell under this command. The Second Applicant testified that their main target was the old age home in Ficksburg and that they intended launching a random attack on houses in the vicinity should there have been any ...
MS BLAAUW: I don't know those people.
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 ...
Whilst we were sleeping, we had a few people singing and as these sounds was approaching, it stop right in front of my yard. It took some time. My brother’s child went into my house, Fundiswa, and she told Funeka that we must go. And Funeka was already up at that stage. They left together.
MR VAN RENSBURG: Now, then on behalf of the victims, I just have to put it to you and that is my instructions that the deceased was killed not because of any political reason, because some people in the community were jealous of his ...
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