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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 921 to 940 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 43 •44 •45 •46 •47 •48 •49 •50 •51 Next Page•Last Page"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 ... 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. depot in Bophuthatswana. And it was a matter of there having been constant attacks and to remember "I was a member of the security police. The security police protected the government of the day against attacks and acts of terror from the ANC/PAC terrorist side. 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. ... 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 ... 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. 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? 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." MR SWANEPOEL: I want to know from you, if you knew Sibongele well and you were involved in two attacks in the space of one month at the same premises on this person, why don't you disclose her name in your application? Is it perhaps because when you filled out this application you did not have ... MR SIBEKO: The people who vacated those houses, did they leave those houses as a result of specific attacks or they left their houses because there was that general violence taking place? MR MKUKWANA: Yes they continued with the attacks. ... They were waiting for weapons to come in. What happened there was that the police decided that there was no way in which they could prevent the attacks from occurring. A plan was then made and then that plan entailed that a hand grenade, Russian hand grenades, were taken and the fuse delay ... We were always in Mr Gumede's company and we looked after him, because he had no-one to protect him. In that way we always wondered how he survived attacks on him, that is why we were always in his company, to accompany him wherever he ... MR DEHAL: You say that about this time when you dealt with Belgium, Sishle etc, you were an ordinary MK member. To the best of your knowledge Sishle gave instructions to carry out these attacks in Durban? MR MSANI: I will use Zulu. Revenge attacks were against the policy of the ANC and the UDF. This resulted in attacks in some cases on certain targets with no directly apparent connection to the apartheid State - see ANC statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, August 1996, page 52 to 53. The Applicant said that he had obtained his own firearm because of the attacks by the IFP on his area and the need to defend his family. Yet he obtained the firearm and ammunition for it in 1989 and never used it against the IFP. He only used it in the "operations" that formed the gist of the ... They could have blown up the prison, the could have poisoned him, put poison in his soup for example. My instruction was to determine which chemical and biological weapons could be used against him and to protect him against such attacks. ... and a comrade, Willy Maditsi, again managed to infiltrate the RSA through Swaziland towards the end of 1989 to prepare underground bases for future attacks on the RSA government. The Applicant, who was born on the farm Uitkyk near Bochum in the Pietersburg district, decided to operate in that ... |