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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 541 to 560 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 24 •25 •26 •27 •28 •29 •30 •31 •32 Next Page•Last PageThe cross-border operations and reprisal attacks were seldom questioned, yet in spite of all lots of young men could not cope with the pressure during the training and operational duty and took to all sorts of ways to get out of the army. Most common was to develop problems at home. A young man ... some people were attacked with pangas and assegais, as well as traditional weapons. And the community tried to get together in order to prevent the attacks, but it was very difficult because we were not armed and we were fighting against people who were armed with traditional weapons as well as ... ... affecting taxis in the area in which a number of ANC members were targeted and killed. These incidents were regarded as politically motivated attacks on the ANC and its members by anti-ANC elements within the taxi industry. The ANC and SDU leadership decided that this calls for retaliation ... The Committee considered this argument but is of the view that it cannot take an armchair view of the incidents. The shooting occurred before the attacks reached Mr. Khuzwayo's kraal. The applicant fired a random shot, panicked and ran away. He had nevertheless made himself part of a group ... solve the one problem but it has just occurred to us that your remarks raise other issues as well because there are many, many cases of bombings and attacks on property, where no doubt there will be allegations made that those people at least believed that their actions were accepted by ... ... that according to the evidence of the applicants targets for attack were not chosen at random and indiscriminately. They included systematic attacks against the army and the police, care being taken to cause as little injury to civilians as ... ... of July. But on that day that your husband was killed, thirteen other people were killed and sixteen were injured, two seriously. Again in random attacks, involved Sebokeng and Everton. Kitiwe Kheswa of course is dead and therefore cannot tell us anything about the circumstances in which so ... MR JOUBERT: Okay. Would each and every attack that happened, would that have been reported to you personally or would you have only got to know of certain of the attacks or certain of the issues and would others have gone to other superior people? MR RICHARD: Thank you. Now, in the documentation alluded to in the various papers and there's the statement, revenge attacks, I presume your answer to the question whether this was a revenge attack or not, is the same as the one as to whether it was retaliatory? ... during the time of conflict and political violence at the time. We were not engaged in a conventional war where the sides could be identified and attacks were limited against visible enemies. It was an unconventional war situation as was explained by Gen Steyn in his evidence. During this ... MR PRINSLOO: Very well. But were you aware that there were many differences between ANC and IFP in Piet Retief and that there were attacks? Unfortunately I do not have the documents before me, but I think the incident of Mr Msibi was in 1991, and thereafter several incidents took place, during ... ... I also had to flee my home, then go into hiding. Therefore the reason we went to rob the shop was because we needed firearms. Were it not for the attacks we suffered we would have had no reason to do ... Here you have information that there is going to be the bleakest Christmas we have known, there are going to be attacks, your Commissioner of Police knows about this, Coetzee said yes, he knew about the threat, he goes on holiday to Port Edward, he is a phone call away and van der Merwe, who is ... MR DU PLESSIS: Well Mr Chairman my exhibit is marked wrongly. So I was enquiring exactly which is the right exhibit. I would request Mr Bizos to leave personal attacks out of this. ... And furthermore, you said when violence started you were not affected and when these people were from wherever they were, be it for purposes of attacks or whatever, you started getting affected, which people are you talking about here, is it part of the community that you referred to or from ... REV CHIKANE: You are starting from the premise here that there was conflict in the country and there were attacks on the Mandela house prior to that. Hand grenades and other issues and exception. And then you have a group of young people who then come and congregate around Mrs Mandela and they ... MR NIEUWOUDT: In September, 1984, the unrest started in Port Elizabeth, and it had started with attacks and anarchy in the townships. There were no petrol bombs, according to my knowledge, in January 1984. ... was not assisted by a member of MK and also that it had no structure or hierarchy. The SDU, they state, was formed to protect their community from attacks from supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (the IFP). Their SDU had a shortage of firearms and they, the Applicants, decided to take it ... During November 1991 Shoba instructed the applicants to carry out attacks on farmers in the vicinity of Botshabelo, Tweespruit and Verkeerdevlei. He supplied them with a .38 special revolver for this purpose. members did not want to forego their plan and that they were quite serious and they still had a sketched plan whereby certain houses were marked for attacks and they wanted to do something for the struggle. It seemed that there was nothing to do about the situation and that Nkosi’s life was in ... |
