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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 241 to 260 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last Page... in the neighbouring countries, i.e. Mozambique, Madola and Maseru and the South African Forces killed our cadres and at times civilians in those attacks so by us staging this attack, was to send a message to them and to send a message to the people of South Africa that Umkhonto was there and ... ... Natal were killed and we realised that at some or other point the focus would be on the Afrikaners and we had to plan to protect ourselves against attacks such as these. ... MR VAN DER MERWE: I will leave that. You mention on the same page of your statement: "We also enlisted the services of the Black Jacks in these attacks." What are Black Jacks? You home, where was it at the time and then where were you staying to try and avoid these attacks from your opposition organisation? MR MSIMANGO: I'll first talk about Penduka. We were defending the community, our community at Penduka. We would launch the counter-attacks. Each time the IFP has attacked us it would push our community to a certain distance and when we get there we'll launch a counter-attack and push them ... At night when there would be attacks they would attack indiscriminately and they would kill at random just like that and in the morning we will discover dead bodies because of that. MR DU PREEZ: I believed to obtain information that the government or the former government could place in a position that they could still govern or they could still protect the interest of the people who were usually their targets of attacks, to help them and protect them. We were attacking members of Inkatha and the reason why we attacked them is because they were also attacking us, and we were protecting ourselves, at times launching counter-attacks, and the people I was with were Siphiwe Ndlovu, I don't recall the other ones' names. ... policemen in general, and there is a distinction among three categories, the political objectives with regard to elimination, with regard to bomb attacks and with regard to interrogations. You also submitted other amnesty applications apart from the one that we are dealing with today, is that ... MR TIPP: Did you actually witness this, these attacks with your own eyes? MR METHULA: We had to live under great fear, adults as well as children, because there were attacks that were launched on residents. are concerned, he was the person who came in there, he carried out these activities and he was in the forefront, he was actually the leader of these ... ... Mr Chairman. Mosa Dalton Msimango, his application Mr Chairman, covers his activities as the Commander, issuing instructions which resulted in the attacks and deaths or injuries or acts of malicious injury to property or arson that emanated from his instructions. He also indicated his actual ... ... a good prospect of getting talks off the ground. But Mr Chairperson, in the early morning of 19 May 1986 the South African security forces launched attacks on Harare, Lusaka and Gaberone. Each was a Commonwealth capital which the EPG had recently visited in the course of their search for a South ... or abroad, they necessarily had to be eliminated to prevent the destabilisation of the country and as people by way of deeds of terror, such as bomb attacks on Security Forces as well as soft ... MR SIBISI: What I knew is that Lombo, he was a warlord on the Inkatha side and most of the attacks where families were killed and properties burnt, Lombo was also in front of such attack. ... however, at various times, used either his pistol, AK47 or the R4 rifle, amongst other weapons, wither offensively in an effort to prevent further attacks on the members of his community, or defensively when under attack. His opponents were always either members and/or supporters of the IFP ... MR MATJELE: I understand Mr Chairman. So sir, you moved away from Margate because you were afraid and running away from the IFP's attacks and act which according to you, was wrong? MR SIBEKO: Were you involved in any incident of violence where attacks were launched between the members of the Self Defence Unit and/or the IFP members? ... to have the successes of the Security Branch placed in the media. A third objective was to counter-act enemy propaganda and to give prominence to attacks against the community in the newspapers. How did we go about this? We firstly recruited journalists who supported our cause and thus created ... |
