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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 421 to 440 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 18 •19 •20 •21 •22 •23 •24 •25 •26 Next Page•Last PageMR SMIT: We discussed that we would build these bombs in Koesterfontein. These bombs had to be used in these bomb attacks and we had to use the equipment we had. MR MOTATA: Yes, you're correct and the other attacks would be acts of criminality against the community? ... that there would be killings at or behind us where we were not observant. So that we wanted to have a situation where we could easily prevent such attacks from happening, and I used to order that each one of our people have their firearms within their group. I had seven groups. All of these ... MR BERGER: Those bombs that you would give them to use, those would be for the purposes of carrying out attacks inside South Africa, is that right? ... why it was because the enemy inside the country was still working very strongly and apparently we were often, the community was often subject to attacks. It was then felt that the situation needs to be curbed. This was the resolution taken by the movement, because apparently the National ... MR KNOETZE: Then I'd like to ask you, were you ever personally a target of terror attacks or were you never personally exposed to that? MR MAYISELA: Insofar as attacks were concerned I was not involved but we experienced a lot of problems at the cemetery because these comrades, the SDUs that is, used to shout slogans and a funeral would proceed and after that the Stability Unit would start shooting, starting with the teargas and ... MR MAPOMA: And in all these attacks that you waged, you have never attacked any National Party Government oriented property, is that not the case? ... student bodies in the trade unions, in township civics whose protest campaigns were redefined anti-apartheid politics. The armed propaganda of MK attacks would serve as a secondary means to deepen mass ... Here again, the two attacks were directed at the South African Defence Force. The acts were immediately directed at State authority and were in line with the political objective pursued by the applicant. However, the application for amnesty in respect of these two acts is Now you tell us in one breath that you were the person responsible for all these attacks and you could only give the decision, but yet you as a member or the person in charge, can't identify all these people properly, how is it that you place the eldest son of the Mbongwa family, whose name you do ... into tears because of the things that I have seen in the past. These things haven't hardened me, but they have made me very sensitive. I get panic attacks and I am always scared. I don't know whether I could attribute this to old age, but I have a lot of empathy ever since these things started ... ATTACKS ON JOE SENTI AND JOHANNES DIDRIK PRETORIUS ... was unemployed and his grandmother was killed by invading ANC supporters in a night raid. He was hiding in the bushes when he witnessed one of the attacks and this was on his home. His house was burnt that night whilst, as I said, he was watching from his hiding place. Fortunately his ... ... with a political objective, we take into account that they acted on the orders of one of their superiors within "Toekomsgesprek" and that the attacks fell within the policy of that organisation at the time. Although membership and the activities of "Toekomsgesprek" were secret, we are ... Mr Flores, during this incident, is it correct that there was a high intensity of insurgency and attacks, specifically in the Eastern Transvaal? MR BOOYENS: And speaking more broadly, during that time period in 1990, police officers were still targets of attacks although there had been political negotiations, there had not been peace in the country, is that correct? There were continuous attacks on police stations and on members and their houses. Structures collapsed and I believed that by doing this, this revolutionary violent onslaught against the State could be stopped. MR STRYDOM: Now during the time that you stayed in kwaMadala Hostel, did you have any personal experiences of attacks on your own life or people with you? MR KRIEL: Yes, within the context of that time, we saw the ANC as an enemy because there were bomb attacks on our people in the first place for example the Church Street bombing and we also regarded the ANC as such as a result of our education, we grew up differently, we grew up during a time of ... |