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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 PageADV LAMEY: And there was questions about attacks on police houses? also attacks on the houses of Councillor Thiba and a Security Policemen. On June 16 a commemoration service was held in the Huhudi Community Hall. After the service, while the crowd was making its way home a Community Councillor, Steven Mathloko, allegedly drives his bakkie into this crowd, badly ... He was a member of the local Self-Defence Unit (SDU) at Thokoza and was issued a firearm to help protect the residents from political attacks raging in the area during 1994. ANC). Mfayela pointed out the taxi owner’s house to the applicant and told him that after he killed him he must take the taxi as it will be used in attacks on ANC supporters. The applicant together with Nsimbi Sishi, Nsini Ndokweni and Zeblon Mbambo then proceed to Mr Gumede's homestead. The ... ... was a lot of tension between the ANC, the police and the IFP. There was war going on. The IFP as well as the police were carrying out sporadic attacks on the members of the community to create a state of unrest. The community had no means of protecting ... ... about through direct evidence and also through cross-examination, all three applicants have fully disclosed the relevant facts, material to the two attacks. I further wish to go on to say that from the very evidence that was adduced today in this hearing, it became very clear that no personal ... 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. The general policy was to drive white people from land because it did not belong to them. The occupants of land were legitimate targets. These attacks would also be used as springboards for the struggle. In doing this, APLA was divided into a repossession unit and a combat unit. The ... MR KUNY: There was two attempts on Leratodi Ikaneng, an alleged, one instance he was shot and another instance his throat was cut. Do you have knowledge, hear-say or otherwise of these attacks on him? Questioned about his own motive the Applicant replied that he wanted to stop attacks and the murder of farmers and aged people. He believed that the murders were committed by political activists and that were motivated by what was said by political leaders and slogans that they sang and that it ... he wanted to kill the deceased inter alia, so as to intimidate ANC people into joining the IFP, because the deceased was brave and lead assaults and attacks on IFP supporters, because the deceased had told him he had made a vow to kill him (the applicant) and he was scared of ... as the enemy by the township residents. In 1991 the Self Defence Unit was formed in Kathlehong Township. It was to patrol the township and prevent attacks by the enemy. Membership of the SDU was not limited to the supporters of the ANC nut was open to all parties but the IFP. Hence the members ... ... to do with NUM. The activities of the victims and their group included harassing political activists within the applicant's group; for example the attacks on the house of Ms Mary-Agness Khunoane who was an active member of the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL). Many activists ... MR MSANI: I will use Zulu. Revenge attacks were against the policy of the ANC and the UDF. MR BOOYENS: So if one looks at attacks - people who were so-called enemies of the then government who were killed and there are a large number of them - I’m not saying that you were involved in all of them, not at all, but was there ever anyone else who would have been interested in eliminating ... ... I left matric, I cannot stay out of a night-club. I have been stabbed, I have stabbed people. I have ended up in hospital after assaults on me, attacks that you cannot believe. My whole body full of stitches, and in the process, I have also injured people in a violent way, ... DR RANDERA: So were there also attacks on houses of councillors and policemen at the time, and police women? I know it is a long time ago, but you can take your time. ... in your possession to defend yourself. Wouldn't you have thought that explosives is not something that one defends with, but something that one attacks with. You did say they tortured you, they asked for names of your friends and other people, they wanted you to ... word camping in this context refers to the practice of calling all the young men in an area together for the purposes of defending the area from attacks by opposing group/s.) In his testimony, Mbhele said he thought he was going to abduct a prominent ANC member. When questioned about ... ... Although studies of political violence do not highlight men's gender experience of their torture, studies or ordinary prisoners reveal systematic attacks on their masculinity. An interesting hypothesis suggests that sexual torture of men aims to induce sexual perversity and to abolish ... |