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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 PageMR SIBEKO: Now Sir, when all this happened were you in a position to sit down, strategise and organise yourselves as the community? That is when the attacks were launched, directed to your section, did you have any time to sit down and strategise properly? MR ROSLEE: I cannot remember specifics except that at that stage we were doing, busy with lots of investigations with regards to terrorist activities, terrorist attacks that had taken place, and that he had come to our attention during those investigations. MR MDLULI: No one had given us the authority to go fetch those firearms but we were forced by the situation that prevailed, that is we felt we had to render assistance to ANC structures who were unarmed, defenceless and were suffering attacks from armed people such as Inkatha and KwaZulu Police. CHAIRPERSON: That it would seem that different units were launching attacks on the same day on the same sort of targets, the instructions would have come from above? MR ROUX: Did you realise at this particular stage after the attacks and after you became aware, that it had been Hechter and Pretorius and the other members of the task force, so to speak, that you were guilty of defeating the ends of justice in that you had not reported it? ... that the decision to bomb the hall in the ELC was prompted by information received from intelligence that the KTY were involved in terrorist attacks, that they planned to kill election candidates and that they planned to start a fire in Khayalitsha is not only unsubstantiated but is also ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... agents that had infiltrated the military structures of the African National Congress ("ANC") in exile. It was necessary to launch such staged attacks in order to maintain the front of these agents who constituted an important source of intelligence to the Security Police. The attack in ... ... who were expected to participate in the elections on the voting day stayed away. The elections were a complete failure. In addition to the attacks their unit had distributed pamphlets in the township and urged people not to ... ... Not just ordinary people, only those who were assisting the government to harass our people in the townships. We were actually focusing on the attacks. We first looked at whether such a person took part in assisting the ... MR MATTHEWS: During weekends they provided training on a farm. They taught us how to shoot with the home-made shot guns. These were things that I had already learnt in the Defence Force. But Mr Meiring once again showed us these things as well as how to launch attacks. MR 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 CRAUSE: They were all involved in Special Operations, they were responsible for the Church Street bomb as well as many other serious bomb attacks in the Republic of South Africa. MR MAKWETHU: Major depression. I have panic attacks, I cannot sleep well, that never happened in my life, treated badly by young children because some of them were younger than me. ... Pretoria that were perpetrated by third force elements forced the need to ensure the protection of the communities or else to make sure that those attacks do not happen again and we were the only ones, the soldiers of uMkhonto weSizwe who could or rather who were told to play the role of ... ... still be heard, to please not consider this in isolation, but also to bear in mind that some of our previous enemies and operators also launched attacks on their own initiatives. Unfortunately it was an unconventional struggle and in such a struggle there isn't always control right down to ... MR VISSER: And then Col de Kock in his criminal trial had mentioned that members of the CCB were also there executing attacks on members in Lesotho, did you know anything of this? |