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right-wing attacksExplanation the time. The Committee is further satisfied that the Applicants had made a full disclosure of their respective role and participation in the above ... MR NTSEBEZA: Now you know that there were two forms of attack. The first attack was on the satellite camps. Now what role, if any, did you play in those attacks? Or let me put the question differently. Were the police aware from reports that an attack was imminent on those camps? MR JANTJIE: The information that we got from our informers was that there was a member of the ANC who was called Betty Boom and Betty Boom was one of the MK people who was supposed to come and launch attacks before Xmas in 1987, in South Africa. ADV STEENKAMP: Mr Scheepers can you tell us, do you know anything concerning the Wimpy attacks which happened on the 30th of July 1988, do you know of this incident? I do not possess the information that you require with regard to casualties sustained in such attacks or the involvement of the SAP in cross-border raids and suggest that you approach the relevant authorities in this regard. MR SIBEKO: Your election to become a Commander of the Self Defence Unit, was necessitated by the attacks that were made on Polla Park by the IFP members or people from Kalanyoni, is that correct? CHAIRPERSON: Just very briefly. Mr Phikwane, these attacks upon the members of the South African Defence Force, the people that you attacked, were they in motorised patrols or vehicles or were they on foot patrols? 1.16 two hand grenade attacks on policemen in Pretoria townships on 9 May 1985; The Applicants applied for amnesty for attacks by explosives on the Mzimhlope Hostel and the Dube hostel, alternatively the Jabulani hostel in Soweto. ... by means of gang rape. Jenny Irish, coordinator of the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM), has shown that during the early 1990s, the victims of attacks by groups of armed men have often been women, children and the elderly: ... MR NGUBANE: The question that I had asked you, when you say that the police assisted Inkatha, were there any instances when the police would physically accompany Inkatha in the attacks that were directed at you? Mr Mokgonyana said that during this meeting he overheard a discussion of attacks on policemen and he himself was not aware of any names or a specific attack. This contradicts the order from Toka to execute an attack on Kulele's home and Mr Toka authorised this attack. MR ROSSOUW: Did he also mention to you that Mr Mabotha was involved with attacks on policemen? CHAIRPERSON: Yes, but most of the attacks the objective was to kill people, but that also necessitated some sort of planning. What Ms van der Westhuizen wants to know is, did you people when you set off, when you got those firearms, did you have any plan in mind how you would go about killing ... ... during the period of 1986 to 1988, she was in charge of various local and external trained ANC terrorists who amongst others, were responsible for attacks on Lieutenant Radjo and Zukela and Warrant Officer Zukela, is that ... ... you back to just before your husband was murdered. You spoke of two different people - they may be the same person - who came to warn you of these attacks, who came to say, "You must get rid of these young boys, otherwise you will be attacked". Do you know who those people are? Could you ... MR BOOYENS: We have already, thanks to my colleague Mr Jansen, heard that shortly before the death of Mr Kondile there was also an explosion in Port Elizabeth so that these bomb attacks had already taken place there? MR RILEY: Did you not launch any further attacks after that? MR HATTINGH: And then you certainly must have known that they were involved in attacks which were described at that stage as acts of terrorism? had made contact with a certain group known as the Kabalalas while in Lusaka. This was a gangster group and they were prepared to assist him in attacks on ANC targets. He reports that he, together with four (4) or five (5) people had one evening gone to a farm in Lusaka where they shot ... |