Poqo

... cross border raid by the security forces. From Beaufort West we hear testimonies from Victoria West residents who were falsely accused of being Poqo members ? allegedly plotting against the town?s white residents ? who were subsequently detained and tortured and an interview with Daniel ...

... see it you could feel something was going on. I went into the office of Nortje and Vosloo. Nortje said ‘yes you are just the man to tell us about Poqo activities in Victoria West’ Poqo? What is Poqo? He said we know you have been holding meetings for three years already. Three years? In ...

... indicated that the high sense of sadistic humour, they would then call each other, ‘Piet, Piet hoor wat se hy! Hy se vir my, ‘kill me’ nee my Poqo ons gaan jou nie kill nie, ons gaan jou nie shoot nie, die kruiwa gaan jou kill’ [Piet, listen to him! He says ‘kill me,’ no my Poqo, we ...

... talking peace and non-violence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people’ // The PAC formed Poqo and the ANC created Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Spear of the Nation. Leadership went underground. But the National Party had these fledgling ...

... state witnesses. // First they said we were terrorists who were going to be trained in Tanzania. They dropped that then we were accused of being Poqo members of planning to poison the town’s water and cut off the electricity and telephone lines. They also said the 26 of us were planning to ...

... the island, Andrew Masondo, Hanry Makgothi and Johnson Mlambo; all arrived on South Africa’s Alcatraz in 1963 as convicted Umkhonto we Sizwe and Poqo ...