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right-wing attacksExplanation 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. 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 ... ... training in Zimbabwe in 1990. The first operation I was involved in was in 1992, I was involved in three to four other operations and mostly farm attacks. I was involved in the Ficksburg townhouses attack and the affidavit of Oupa Lerato Kgotlhe has been read to me. I understand the contents ... 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? This activity of violent confrontation tool many forms including attacks by members of the oppressed people's against apartheid and so forth. ... to a Mr Nkosi but he deserted it because of violence and it was subsequently occupied by the IFP who used it as their base from where they launched attacks against the community. The late Thabo Sibeko, who was the commander of Tambo/Slovo section at the time, issued an order that the house ... MR SIBEKO: Now you indicated that as a result of those attacks or the two incidents that you have just referred to, you decided to join the unit, were you at any stage or did you at any stage carry any weapon whatsoever to that effect? ... in Pretoria where the Peace of Vereeniging was concluded in 1902. On this terrain the Vierkleur was raised as well. As a result of this and other attacks, the applicant on the 17th of September 1990, was arrested and charged with the theft of weapons, sabotage and other ... MR SINGH: Same thing, basically, this. With attacks and our targets as well. Is same people. applicant states that he was arrested immediately after having purchased the firearm and that he purchased it in order to protect his community from attacks by supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party and other organisations who were not in favour of the general elections which were to take place ... ... that - far from being a successful raid on trained liberation forces - many innocents unconnected with the conflict had been killed in these attacks. So, to some extent the balance was restored, though I doubt that complete balance was achieved. Of course, it must be remembered that it was ... JUDGE MOTATA: And you as an MK member, wore two hats in this instance to assist COSAS and at the same time, drive the SDUs against the attacks of the IFP? 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 ... envisaged in the long term there would have been - someone would have been killed because we planned eventually in the long term to launch terrorist attacks against targets in the country. That was part of the planning from the base in Namibia, that was the whole basic plan as well to get the ... ... for the record that we did try so that people do not perceive the process as being an opportunity only for those people who were victims of Witdoek ... MS SOOKA: There are also allegations that when the attacks stopped that these people were picked up by the Caspers as well, has that been confirmed by people you know? Cape Town and were already being used in the townships where the attack rate on SDU houses by unknown persons escalated. During the course of these attacks, many members of the SDU and of SANCO were injured and houses were burnt. He in fact heard that he was on the top list of SDU members to be ... |