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right-wing attacksExplanation ... organisation and we wanted to weaken, soften the Government and to show them that the Orde Boerevolk and the Boer people would not tolerate such ... CHAIRPERSON: Just very briefly. Mr Phikwane, these attacks upon the members of the South African Defence Force, the people that you attacked, were they in motorised patrols or vehicles or were they on foot patrols? MR RILEY: Did you not launch any further attacks after that? ... for commanding operatives that had to get weapons into the country and this continued all the way through. Post-1990, with the whole question of attacks that were carried out against our people, I became part of the collective which dealt with the Self-Defence Units and for my role of giving ... MR JANTJIE: The information that we got from our informers was that there was a member of the ANC who was called Betty Boom and Betty Boom was one of the MK people who was supposed to come and launch attacks before Xmas in 1987, in South Africa. 8. Cooperating with members of Combat Security in securing the nearby reservoir against attacks. This also involved the harassment and assault on a number of people on the road and the eventual shooting and wounding of one Guduza Makhoba and Mduduzi. MR PANDAY: Now you heard rumours of them wanting to kill you. Were there any previous attacks on your life? ... It is the applicants' response to the charge that at the time it was their duty to protect their leaders from both actual and possible future attacks. In their view, at the time these included acts of retaliation and pre-emptive attacks. They accept that it was not the policy of the ANC ... ... the matter, we are satisfied that Applicant's participation in the support furnished to MK units by the Special Operations Command contributed to attacks eventually carried out by these operatives. As such, Applicant would in our view have incurred legal liability for any of these attacks. We ... Amnesty is further GRANTED to Francis Pitsi and George Mathe for unlawful possession of unlicensed firearms, namely an AK47 and a Makarov Pistol, respectively during the period relevant to the aforementioned attacks. Kulman testified that he was involved in two (2) farm attacks in the Zastron farming area. In the 1st attack it was himself, Roger and Induna. Kleintjie had already done the reconnaissance and informed them that there were no people who occupied the house. White farmers in the area were believed ... which took place in Natal over a period of time in terms of the intensity of the violence, in other words bomb explosions, this diminished but armed attacks, hand grenade attacks, such things increased and reached a high point in terms of statistics during 1992 and 1993 and against whom were these ... longer in the police. But the point remains that I was trying to make a distinction in this Committee between covert and clandestine activities and attacks and overt, open military attacks and why, why did the State make sometimes make open military attacks and sometimes order covert and ... ... circumstances. He testified that there was enormous pressure on the security police at that stage to curb and prevent land mine and limpet mine attacks. Politicians and members of the public blamed the police for not protecting civilians and for their failure to prevent these attacks. He ... MR BERGER: Thank you Chairperson. Chairperson, this amnesty hearing concerns attacks which were carried out by the Transvaal Urban Machinery of Umkhonto weSizwe. The first applicant, General Nyanda, is presently the Chief of the South African National Defence Force. He will be giving evidence in ... ... incident, in my amnesty application I referred to the fact that during 1986, between February and May, I was involved in an extensive number of attacks on the residences of activists. This included approximately 30 petrol bomb attacks and approximately 10 bomb attacks with manufactured bomb ... ... that the attack on Ngcobo's house which resulted in Mr Cele being killed and Mr Ngcobo sustaining injuries, was as a result of a chain of attacks and counter -attacks by and between the ANC and the IFP for a political control over Shobashobane. ... This causes serious problems. The Committee is aware of the fact that the IFP constantly denied and still denies, that they ordered or approved any attacks on the ANC. They deny that it was at any stage part of their policy to engage in warfare or attacks on a political enemy. If amnesty should ... ... and these were Inkatha members' cars. They dumped the body at the roadside and people alerted others that there was a body by the roadside. These attacks and abductions took place, and they continued up until one day there was going to be a final exam at a certain school, and the students who ... Cele said that it was decided to kill the deceased because he had been involved in the attacks on their area by Inkatha supporters who wanted to turn it into an Inkatha stronghold and in the death of Sandile Biyase; and he had admitted knowledge of further planned attacks. Furthermore, as someone ... |
