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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 741 to 760 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 34 •35 •36 •37 •38 •39 •40 •41 •42 Next Page•Last PageMR VISSER: How did you refresh your memory so that you were able to know that it included the attacks on the homes of Gregory Thulare and Godfrey Qwabe? MR ROSSOUW: You also heard that he was supposedly involved in a cell, involved with attacks on black Policemen, etc. Did that become clear to you from the interrogation during the drive to Mamelodi and whilst you were driving around in Mamelodi? MR PRINSLOO: In that period, is it so that the struggle was very fierce, that there were many attacks by the ANC and its alliance SACP? ... training in Zimbabwe in 1990. The first operation I was involved in was in 1992, I was involved in three to four other operations and mostly farm attacks. I was involved in the Ficksburg townhouses attack and the affidavit of Oupa Lerato Kgotlhe has been read to me. I understand the contents ... The people who were in the bus, the males who were in the bus, were they the specific or actual people who displaced you, who attacked you so that you ran away from your homes? Would you identify them as the people who participated in such attacks? ... It seems that the weapons were used in the murders and attempted murders. On the meagre information before the Committee it seems as if the attacks were directed against ordinary civilians. There is however no full disclosure in this regard and the essential particulars required were not ... ... that he was a dangerous man. It was not possible to keep him under constant surveillance and to prevent him from getting a firearm and start attacks on government supporters. He discussed the situation with his superiors and it was decided to supply him with a "doctored 9 mm Colt ... ... a limpet mine and training in its activation from Ninela. They needed the mine to launch a pre-emptive attack on an IFP dominated area from which attacks had been launched on the area they resided in at the time. He confirmed that he and his late brother had gone to place the mine that had ... MR RICHARD: What I’m trying to understand is, is your answer that special operations had special types of targets against which acts of, attacks should be committed, such as strategic plants, engineering, mining, police, military? MS MOLOISANE: Now, you said these, I mean it had never happened in your township, that is such attacks had never been carried in your township. In which townships had they taken place? MR LAX: So you weren't involved in any other attacks on any other people on defending yourself and your community against any other people, in all the time from 1985 till 1990 and going on until you were arrested? Are you seriously telling us that? "My objectives were to undermine the former settler regime to use APLA offensive attacks and to secure and maintain the complete unit of the movement. Arms were given to my commander, Morapapa, and he is the one who knew what he did with them. I am yours, sincerely." ... attack, people will come into the ANC offices, our offices as MK were in the office. When there are incidents where people are reporting about attacks, most of that information was referred to us as MK in the MK office, within the ANC ... the area. His home and garage had been attacked and destroyed and that he had lost family members in violence. He saw the above vehicle during the attacks on his premises and thus believed that Sithole, who he knew as a friend of his uncle, was involved in the violence. ... ... of the commission of the crime referred to herein, members of the CDF were being attacked and killed by members and supporters of the ANC. These attacks were being carried out in retaliation for the Bisho massacre which occurred on the 7 September 1992. In the course of the ensuing conflict ... The Applicant said that he had obtained his own firearm because of the attacks by the IFP on his area and the need to defend his family. Yet he obtained the firearm and ammunition for it in 1989 and never used it against the IFP. He only used it in the "operations" that formed the gist of the ... MR GUMBI: As far as I am concerned, the commanders were working together and the commanders would give one another information on something that would happen, the attacks that would take place in the future. MR MABENA: On the 5th of November 1992, I was with my colleagues, patrolling in the township. We normally used to have our bases where we would leave certain people behind, who would take care of the situation in our absence, such as in attacks. ADV GCABASHE: Before you go to the other one, when you started telling us about these attacks, the first one you mentioned was at Khumalo Street, which was in early 1994, but I didn't get the rest of those facts down properly, you were going rather fast, because I have here that it was too early ... MR MHLAULI: Yes, in both attacks I was armed with an AK47 rifle. We planned the attack and Comrade Ngubane was also present during the first attack. After an incident whereby a comrade's house was burnt down, who was staying in the same street with Khumalo, we just decided to attack him to show ... |
