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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 681 to 700 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 31 •32 •33 •34 •35 •36 •37 •38 •39 Next Page•Last PageMR COETZEE: Ma'am, is it possible that at this moment in time, he might be under the misapprehension that there are applicants in this particular application, asking for amnesty for being directly and physically involved in the attacks on the houses concerned? CHAIRPERSON: And that he conducted a watch over the Chicken Farm to avoid attacks. MR MQIBI: He said even the IFP used to go to her house and after the attacks IFP used to go and celebrate in her house. We didn't attack people's houses because we suspected them but we attacked people's houses because we knew we had the knowledge that we've been there for a long time and we knew ... The second applicant, Mandla Michael Yende testified that he joined the PAC in 1986 through AZANYU and in the same year was recruited by the first applicant, who trained him, to APLA. He confirmed the First applicant's testimony of how the attacks were executed. ... Party, at the time of the murder. They were involved in political activities, including the protection of their area, Zamani Reserve, against attacks from their political foe, the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). While they were present at a camp organised for the purpose of defending their ... According to Derby-Lewis the armed struggle commenced at the beginning of 1992 when various bomb attacks were launched in the country. This resulted from the climate of violence created by the CP leadership and in particular the speeches during the second half of 1992 when it was stated that the ... "The Pan Africanist Congress has suspended it's armed struggle which has seen a recent escalation of attacks on whites by alleged operatives of the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army. PAC President, Clarence Makwetu, told a Johannesburg press conference yesterday that the APLA leadership had begun ... Were you involved in attacks or defensive actions where you carried an AK47 or any form of weapon which you used against the opposition? ... for the record that we did try so that people do not perceive the process as being an opportunity only for those people who were victims of Witdoek ... envisaged in the long term there would have been - someone would have been killed because we planned eventually in the long term to launch terrorist attacks against targets in the country. That was part of the planning from the base in Namibia, that was the whole basic plan as well to get the ... MR KOOPEDI: And these attacks, do you regard them as being part of that war? MR MGANDELA: I cannot remember because we were still new at the time and secondly, during our training we went there to acquire training in order to be able to launch attacks. We did not pay much attention to those things. That is why I cannot remember today. MR CORNELIUS: The only reason why I'm really cross-examining here is because attacks the credibility of my client. Now, we were told that these conflicts between the gangsters and the students took the form of open attacks of the gangsters attacking the students. ADV RHOODE: Didn't any of your friends or their families suffer any harm in the so-called terrorist attacks which were launched at that time? MR ALBERTS: And after the attacks on these houses, did you all go back, where did you go to then? ... could have been identified. Also with regard to situations such as, for example Swaziland, where photographs were taken of persons and in other attacks the photographs of the deceased came to us at Vlakplaas for the askaris to identify. And where there was any doubt whether or not the ... stage of these events, there was a war as it was observed by this situation, the conventional methods were not applicable, there were explosions and attacks the order of the day. If we look at the methods that were used to take a person to a farm and interrogate that person, with respect it is ... MR SIBEKO: The people who vacated those houses, did they leave those houses as a result of specific attacks or they left their houses because there was that general violence taking place? MR MSANI: I will use Zulu. Revenge attacks were against the policy of the ANC and the UDF. |