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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 PageMS MAKHUBELE IN ARGUMENT: With regard to the first and the second incident, that's the incident of Phadi and the IFP attacks on IFP, I do not think - I think he has made a full disclosure and unless the Committee wants me to address on a specific issue, I believe he qualifies. ... such documentary proof. I find it hard to reconcile that if the applicants had played an active role in the community, to safeguard them against attacks from the IFP, that they couldn't bring one single witness to corroborate that evidence, which would have given this Committee an easy task to ... ... in 1963 it led to the Rivonia Trial with all it's implications and thereafter this country saw a spate of increased sabotage and terrorist attacks all over the ... MR MKWANAZI: It was expected of me to be a member of the IFP as I've run away from the township, afraid of the attacks from the comrades. CHAIRPERSON: But you were charged with some other attacks including these ones that are referred to in Exhibit A? What I think should be put to him - I don't propose to put all the attacks on PAC people, but page 76, paragraph 1.9 and onwards, about the meetings, that the PAC apparently state that a meeting was arranged on the 1st of January 1991, to discuss the problems facing Munsieville. The meeting was ... MR HLONGWANE: It was staying ...(indistinct) and be on the lookout for the attackers because they would carry out attacks and I would also be involved in making the community aware and warning them of the attackers if they approach. ... and even emptied night soil buckets in front of their cafe, to persuade them to resign from the council, but they ignored the request. The attacks on the deceased and Edward Phehlane was planned by the Self Defence Unit of which the applicant was a leader. They also intended to kill ... It is common cause and knowledge, that policemen were at the time targets of various political attacks. MR BOOYENS: And in this war? Can you briefly state, were you involved in any attacks? I do not aspire to communistic or political ideals of any sort but as individual human beings we all share a tremendous sense of loss of our loved ones. The process of transition to democracy was irreversible at this point in time when the attacks took place. MR CRONIN: Well, as I’m saying, in many townships I believe that they saw them as their line of defence in the face of some horrific attacks but in other cases the communities themselves were - and our own structures, were deeply concerned about the role that some self-defence units were playing ... MR BRINK: Was the purpose of training as members of Self Defence Units to protect your local community against attacks, incursions by hostile forces from the outside? ... occasions they were harassed and attacked by certain people within the township. But he was not able to explain to us how it came about that the attacks which the hostel dwellers perpetrated on the residents of this township - how it was that they were so brutal in their nature, and so ... We must be mad. So it maybe I survived their attacks then and I'll die under my own Government because Ramarighera and Manage is still in charge of the people, if I need protection, who must provide that protection? MR WILLIAMS: Wasn't this march or these placards after the bomb attacks? there extensive evidence was covered about how Stratcom worked, how the Security Police worked, how Vlakplaas was the operational base for all these attacks. Hence you find in this incident that my reading of the documentation before me is that when a decision was made, Vlakplaas was approached ... MR VISSER: And were there already acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks during the early '70's? MR BERGER: And even if you hadn't attended that meeting, somebody would have said to you; by the Themba Khosa was here today, talking about the attacks on us, am I right? MR KOOPEDI: I see, is it correct that you are also applying for amnesty for having planned an executed all these attacks, is that correct? |