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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 Pagerecall, I, Col de Jager, Col Pretorius, Brig Schoon, Brig Visser and Colonels de Kock and Deetlefs were present during the meeting. The escalating attacks of terrorism in the RSA particularly in the Transvaal by MK from Swaziland and Mozambique was discussed. Much information was tabled by the ... MR MORGAN: Would it be correct to say that quite a bit of planning went into these bomb attacks? ... one. There've also been stories of hostel residents attacking people who lived in the residential areas. It almost as if there were organised attacks. People actually went out in an organised group and started attacking people who were living in the houses. Do you want to comment on ... MR RICHARD: Now the fifth and sixth incidents, that's the killing of Mabisi Mazizi and the injury by shooting by Spundla Mpila, were you involved in the execution of either of those attacks? "The explosions served to divert any suspicion from them because they were supposed to be involved with the attacks." I asked for a discharge because Rhodesian soldiers used to enter Zambia on foot, to come and finish off survivors. Zambian forces never retaliated to these attacks, for reasons known to themselves only. MR BELLINGAN: I don't know, Chairperson, I cannot comment on that. I differed with some of the people there and I would not want to launch personal attacks on those people, but it was not my prerogative to decide who was to be there and who was not to be there. attend the hearing. Both the 3rd and 4th Applicants had no independent recollection of the specific incident, having been involved in numerous such attacks, and relied on the evidence of the other ... DR ALLY: But, Ephraim, to come back to the point. Is it the case that the youth were also involved in attacks and that there were a number of businesses that were actually destroyed. So much so that many people who were thought to be Imbokhoto supporters also had to flee and, in fact, were ... MR KOTZE: And the idea was that should attacks take place on houses where women and children would be, the relevant safe houses had to be defended meaningfully? The Committee is also of the opinion that the next of kin of the persons mentioned above and the persons wounded in the attacks should be declared victims in terms of Act 34 of 1995 as amended. The names of the victims are as follows:- MR LEWIN: Because there were similar attacks which followed after 1981. For instance, there was the bomb attack in Bulawayo, there was also the bomb attack in Harare where Jeremy Brickl was nearly killed. He particularly has done quite a lot of work in trying to follow-up and trace the links. Did ... MR HATTINGH: And you were busy with the regular tasks of Vlakplaas, in the collection of information regarding the movements of persons who wanted to infiltrate the country to launch attacks here. What are the symptoms? How does she behave? How does she react? --- She is having panic attacks. At times she just cries for no apparent reason. At times, even when you talk to her she keeps quiet and stares at you. MR VAN DEN BERG: Thank you Mr Chairman, I don't imagine that this will take terribly long. Mr Chairperson, one of the matter which this Committee had indicated that it wants to hear evidence on is the attacks on Sasol 1 and 2. ... taking the goods, he was stabbing and he was slashing out with the hammer, while you, the two experienced people, the one did nothing as far as the attacks are concerned, and you only put them - help Lollie when Mr Palvie overpowered him. Did Mr Palvie have any weapon on ... CHAIRPERSON: Near Eshowe. I'm asking you this because we are going to see if we can obtain figures as to attacks in that area over that period. ... because he said, uttered statements like "that white man, Joe Slovo, would be killed if he were to come here in Port St Johns". There were some attacks that were launched by the PAC members. This started on Pumulela Hermans and this attack happened in January 1994. He managed to get away ... ... to reply to the question, where there were a lot of bombings and towards the end of 1998/beginning of '89, the tendency had changed somewhat to attacks on people with firearms and with handgrenades. There were less bombings. In fact, we heard that evidence already at the last hearing where ... were two applications pertaining to bombings of a general nature. The one concerned petrol bombings and the other one concerned other kinds of bomb attacks. That was contained in Schedule 17, you will recall we dealt with that right at the beginning. In respect of Schedule 17, you will see that ... |