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right-wing attacksExplanation We have as a record, handed in, but also in our submission at the TRC hearing on the role of business, documented close to 50 attacks on Cosatu and its affiliates in that period leading up to that hearing. It is quite clear that the State and its unofficial organs saw us as a very significant ... ... evidence that Kathi Township was an ANC stronghold in which event there would have been some understandable basis for indiscriminate and random attacks on residents, and in particular, the youth of the ... ... to be legitimate targets in terms of ANC policy. Mr Chairman on page 3, paragraph 2.8, at the bottom of the page, we make the point that the attacks in the White areas were not to be random and indiscriminate. The policy was clear that the targets were the racist army, police, death ... MR NTULI: Yes, I do confirm that. It was not only confined to Numsa members, these attacks that is, people such Taliwe who was a shop steward of Pow(?) at the time, people who were activists within the ANC, people such as Naftel Nmani, they were being killed left right and centre. The applicant became part of the SDU structures in Thokoza during September 1990. He was encouraged to do so by the frequency of violent attacks on members of the ANC by, who he says, were IFP structures. He was appointed organiser of the SDU in the area. He was handed an AK47 firearm and ... The first witness to testify was Machiel Andries Pretorius who testified that the attacks on the house of Leonard Brown and of Sello Ramakobye were carried out in the same evening, viz round about May 1986. He states that the attack on the house of David Modimeng occurred a few days later, ... Machona, Mr Mangese, and their fellow IFP members. --- No, there were no attacks. MR G VISSER: That is correct, we interrogated about that at length and also specifically regarding information pertaining to bomb incidents and terrorist attacks in the Transvaal region. ... give as much help as we can to your sone, can you just give us a more detailed information about his condition. I will ask the question. How many attacks does he have per week. Say, per week, are the daily, are they weekly, are they monthly? --- I think he is attacked three times per month ... ADV SANDI: Sorry, Mr Kincaid, perhaps before he tells us about his role, what role he played in each particular attack, he can just point out which attacks he was involved in. He has pointed out that he was involved in the Cobus attack. ... The reason we chose these two people were that Stiff Namane was a councillor, an apartheid councillor. David was implicated in these hit squad attacks and his brother too. So, basically, at the time the community saw them as people or as obstacles towards our achievement of our goal. ... ... of B Section as it's physical location lay vulnerable adjacent to the hostel. The IFP hostel dwellers would intermittently shout out threats of attacks. As a result of the aforegoing, we as members of the ANC Youth League in the B Section took a decision to strategise a mechanism of ... ADV SANDI: Sorry, Mr Mohlaba, just whilst you're dealing with the list of offences in respect of which the applicant is applying, was he not in possession of certain weapons whilst involved in these attacks? There were problems with the fact that the normal, the ordinary policeman could not do his duties effectively. Policemen were a constant target for ... ... combatants, paragraph 59, the establishment and operation of safe houses and D.L.B.’s, arms smuggling, mobilisation of the masses, armed action and attacks, all formed part of the armed struggle of the ANC Alliance as expressed in the four pillars strategy. ... to the evidence there was no intention to injure people. The buildings were attacked with explosives to intimidate the liberation movements and the attacks were associated with the political objectives more full referred to in the abovementioned application no. AM2773/96 of ... MR ROSSOUW: How did you go about executing these attacks, what was the modus operandi? Four of the occupants of the taxi, including the driver, were killed and a number of them were injured. Subsequent to the incident, the attacks on people at the water tap stopped. ... 15.6.1993 at about 4.45 pm gunmen attacked a home at Oribi, Paddock, killing six people. On the 20.6.1993 13 people were killed in three separate attacks on homes. It appears the attackers moved from home to home. The attackers were wearing balaclavas. ... MR HATTINGH: Attacks on targets like buildings or vehicles, attacks which were not directed at people, were you involved in those? |
