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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 PageThe cross-border operations and reprisal attacks were seldom questioned, yet in spite of all lots of young men could not cope with the pressure during the training and operational duty and took to all sorts of ways to get out of the army. Most common was to develop problems at home. A young man ... some people were attacked with pangas and assegais, as well as traditional weapons. And the community tried to get together in order to prevent the attacks, but it was very difficult because we were not armed and we were fighting against people who were armed with traditional weapons as well as ... ... I also had to flee my home, then go into hiding. Therefore the reason we went to rob the shop was because we needed firearms. Were it not for the attacks we suffered we would have had no reason to do ... MR PRINSLOO: Very well. But were you aware that there were many differences between ANC and IFP in Piet Retief and that there were attacks? Unfortunately I do not have the documents before me, but I think the incident of Mr Msibi was in 1991, and thereafter several incidents took place, during ... Here you have information that there is going to be the bleakest Christmas we have known, there are going to be attacks, your Commissioner of Police knows about this, Coetzee said yes, he knew about the threat, he goes on holiday to Port Edward, he is a phone call away and van der Merwe, who is ... MR JOUBERT: Okay. Would each and every attack that happened, would that have been reported to you personally or would you have only got to know of certain of the attacks or certain of the issues and would others have gone to other superior people? ... of July. But on that day that your husband was killed, thirteen other people were killed and sixteen were injured, two seriously. Again in random attacks, involved Sebokeng and Everton. Kitiwe Kheswa of course is dead and therefore cannot tell us anything about the circumstances in which so ... ... 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? ... 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 ... 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. 4. How many individuals benefited from the State President's Fund For Victims of Terrorist Attacks or other such funds? Can you provide us with a list of beneficiaries as well as with the details of compensation of all forms awarded to them? ... of Mr Jansen behind. The crowd proceeded to a nearby school where petrol bombs were manufactured which were then subsequently used in further attacks upon government vehicles moving in the nearby Lansdowne ... MR 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? ... were shot and killed by gunmen who ambushed the vehicle. Three of those were his children. He claimed that the persons responsible for these attacks were ANC people who were trying to get him and his people out of the area. Although the applicants were not instructed by their leaders to ... 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, ... ... I am saying this was politically motivated because there was this animosity between the IFP and the ANC at the time. The ANC people were launching attacks on trains, many of my fellow brothers died in trains. We were making donations and contributions on a daily basis, sending corpses of our ... We talk about the identification of what the ANC termed legitimate targets in paragraph 25, the creation of no-go areas, in paragraph 26, and their attacks on government infrastructural targets during the sabotage phase in paragraph 27, which later became directed at persons, Chairperson, ... MR PRINSLOO: Were any of them political, the attacks on your house? |