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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 Page"... as already indicated over many years, the liberation movements, regarded armed attacks on members of the Security Forces, being so-called legitimate hard targets, as morally acceptable. This was to result in many Policemen being killed or injured whilst engaged in combating ordinary crime and ... ... received a request from the SDU at Inanda in KwaZulu Natal to send members from Phola Park to Inanda to protect the ANC and the community from attacks by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ... incident was the result of vigilante action. Indeed what was found thereafter resembled a picture normally associated with the results of vigilante attacks at that ... In April 1988 there were at least five documented cases of political attacks on police including the attack on Gregory Edmund Beck and three other policemen. MR NIEUWOUDT: It lead to total unrest, the burning of all third tier government buildings, council members were burnt by means of the necklace method, attacks on policemen and several policemen were also killed by means of the necklace method. And all government institutions were totally destroyed. ... to five. They came back after a while. They said, "Ma Nkosezwe, Nkosezwe's mum." They said, "You go to the bus stop. I hear there is some attacks." They left again. They passed my shack and they went to the third shack from my shack. There were all sorts of assegais in that house. I ... ... he held these on behalf of the SDU. It is well known that SUDs were established to help defend the residents of Thokoza from political attacks. The confrontation at the time was between members of the African National Congress ("ANC") and members of the Inkatha Freedom Party ... Accordingly amnesty is GRANTED to all the applicants listed above for any offences or delicts directly associated with or flowing from the arson attacks on Khanya Hose in Pretoria on 12 October 1988. ... which comprised himself, the other two Applicants and the late Coline Williams. His tasks as the Commander of this unit was to plan co-ordinated attacks. The blast at the Bonteheuwel Rent Office occurred simultaneously with two other blasts in the Peninsula that night. It was aimed at ... MR PRINSLOO: And, Mr de Kock, at that stage, were there many attacks which were launched by the ANC from Swaziland? ... explosives in his vehicle, did you gain the impression that he was particularly angry at the situation in South Africa, the emergency, the various attacks by Security Forces on black civilian populations and so forth, or did you not get that ... Shiceka went further, sadly, to say that there had in the past been attacks on white people; he mentioned this to refute the suggestion that the applicant acted on their own and that they were prompted by a feeling of racism. ... his matric. He testified about being involved in the burning of the clinic. His co-applicant, Mr Motsamai, applied for amnesty in regard to attacks on the house as well as the ... ... be really in furtherance of that ongoing conflict with the opposing forces, because it seems as if all of this was aimed at somehow eliminating the attacks, that were coming from the opposing ... MR VISSER: One of the attacks which specifically was directed by the ANC/SACP alliance was to place the government in a bad light, specifically internationally? MR MASEKO: The reason was that we had political differences. For instance when we held meetings, they would come attack us, shoot at us and our meeting would be disrupted. In that way attacks then started taking place between the two organisations. ... in political violence after the unbanning of the organisations as the parties now started arguing with each other about who will now take over, attacks on the police had drastically increased. We know that the Panel of this Committee has already investigated the murder of the house that had ... ... by general Ignatius Coetzee, the 4th applicant to quell the activities of Soyco, whose members were, according to intelligence reports, involved in attacks on policemen, councillors, in arson and riots, in intimidation activities and in crash military training courses. They were joined by ... ... true, and I would like to add that to my statement, that not only did two of my men die in this period but that I was also subjected to handgrenade attacks and AK47 gunfire, and not a single shot was fired by my ... "The attack was by members of the UDF and its supporters. These attacks started in the Eastern Cape and in Soweto." |