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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 841 to 860 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 Next Page•Last PageHere 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... MR WASSERMAN: The amount of MK activities in Natal and the expose of MK's activities in Natal in the form of bomb attacks, assassinations on SAP members and personnel and people that were not sympathetic to the ANC, and members of the SAP had a profound effect on me. MR MALAN: And you brought in order to make it available to people to, in terms of police, continue attacks? MR PRINSLOO: At that stage, was there a rather high or low intensity of attacks by the ANC/SACP alliance on the Republic? MR VAN DEN BERG: Thank you Mr Chairperson. The power stations, those attacks, was it before or after or during the time that Ms Simelane was in detention? 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? 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 ... ... 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 ... to assist APLA in it's attacks on these farms. MR NYAWUZA: Mr Dlamini, was Aubrey Mabola involved in the attacks on the comrades? MR MBELO: The purpose of this infiltration was to actually establish who they were and what were they doing. I had to establish as to whether they were doing all the attacks that were in Crossroads. 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 ... 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 ... |
