 |
News | Sport | TV | Radio | Education | TV Licenses | Contact Us |
|
News | Sport | TV | Radio | Education | TV Licenses | Contact Us |
right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 901 to 920 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 Next Page•Last PageThe 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. "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? 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... of Umkhonto weSizwe, who, by his own acknowledgements were responsible for the cold-blooded murders of elderly Whites, women and children and attacks on them and on our security force personnel." of the house was present but there were also other people from the hostel, people who were using the house as their base and they would launch their attacks from the house in the evenings and during the day our observation noted that the house was always locked and the gates locked, with curtains ... REVD XUNDU: I am asking this question to both of you because the situation is similar. You said that the Councillors are the ones that were organising these attacks on people. Is there - what is the situation between yourselves and the Councillors now? MR RAMPONE:: Yes, there were houses that were being burned down, but I didn't know about the attacks on the police, because I stayed at the hospital for a while. ... discussions with Powell concerned the need for members of the IFP to be given military training in order to render the IFP less vulnerable to attacks by militarily trained ANC cadres. Pursuant to these discussions, it was agreed that Applicant would furnish Powell with arms and ... MR HATTINGH: Very well. On the evening which was selected for the attacks, were you present in the area? MS VAN DER WALT: And during the year of 1986 the terrorist attacks increased tremendously. ... all future editions. Then they detained and banned the two co-editors and finally the premises and equipment of SASCO National were destroyed in attacks by persons ... Then in 1985 the stop that was owned by community councillor Kleinbooi Jacobs was burnt down, and that brought the group that we’ve already heard about from Mr Simakadane and there attacks on people. So that the anger swept back and forth between the groups of people in Phillipstown. The ANC supporters who resided in Boipatong organised regular patrols of the streets. The object of these patrols was to prevent attacks from IFP supporters. On 28 January 1993 the 1st Applicant participated in one such patrol. The patrol consisted of a large number of persons. He was an ANC member who returned from exile in 1992 when he experienced harassment from the police. Although he was residing at Zola, he participated in the Self Defence Unit (SDU) in Meadowlands where the community was under more immediate threat of attacks. ... those problems to them that, as it transpired, we are operating under threats at Port St Johns. Now we fear that at some stage we will come across attacks as it normally happens in other areas of South Africa, we were afraid we would be attacked. That's why we wouldn't hesitate. After we got ... MR BOOYENS: Well they say - let me perhaps not enter where angels fear to tread, let's just talk about violence, places being arson'd, people being killed, stone throwing attacks on the police? |
