Sharpeville Six

(i) Supplying an AK47 rifle and ammunition to ANC structures in Sharpeville during or about 1993.

... is a road little travelled. Ms Burton seems to forget that the majority of victims of apartheid were blacks and civilians, whether in Sharpeville, Langa or Uitenhage, black civilians died. Nobody batted an eyelid because they were black. The truth is the blacks have not been seen ...

M OLIPHANT: It was in 1990 on the 11th of May. The students were gathered together with their leaders and the aim of that gathering was to march to the court. We wanted to complain against the youth who was caught on the 21st of March when we were celebrating the Sharpeville Day.

... case that was a common purpose case, just to demonstrate something on the judges. The most famous of the common purpose cases are obviously the Sharpeville Six and the Upington 14 and I have dealt with these in my submission, but I want to look briefly at the Queenstown Six, less known in our ...

... the plight of these people who were sentenced to death by this regime and many, many of them were saved, and one can highlight the example of the Sharpeville six, which received a great deal of international attention. There were judges as well who did not impose the death penalty and they ...

... Mama. Do not be disturbed. When I leave this country look at the people who died, the many children who died and many people who died in Sharpeville. I will be like them if I can stay here and he said I will go to Zambia. Maybe I can meet my sister and then I just kept ...

Paragraph 24, it was about his activities. Sharpeville Day, 21st March, paragraph 28 in this Exhibit,

MR MADONSELA: I was not quite sure whether he stayed at Sharpeville, or Simondale, one of the two, but yes, I knew him.

MR BERGER: From the 12th of January 1992 until June 1992, there was a lot of violence in the Vaal, Sharpeville, Sebokeng, but not Boipatong. Do you know of anyone who was killed, any IFP member who was killed in Boipatong or by residents of Boipatong after Mr Bongani Mbatha was killed and until ...

... Xolani and you are also going to give some explanation connected to this incident which is a full picture of what happened in Langa in Cape Town in Sharpeville and even here in Uitenhage. We therefore welcome you before this Commission. Just before you say anything, I would like to highlight ...

Then Mr Chairman in 1960 there was the uprising which took place at Sharpeville with again many dead and even more injured. During May 1960 when I was serving in the Kimberley regiment, it was obvious that things were even more serious than most people realised at the time. When the regiment was ...

MR BOOYENS: You also have knowledge of the 1961 Sharpeville incident?

... tell us and I can see here you were a member of the Youth League in 1950, and in 1957 you were in the forefront in the struggle, and during the Sharpeville massacre, you were also locked in for 60 days, and I think you are one of the people who have been very loyal to the struggle despite of ...

... to the mere participation in the political struggle or political opposition to the then Government policies round about 1961 after the so called Sharpeville incident, uMkhonto weSizwe was formed and it was emphasised that there should always be supremacy of the politics over the narrow ...

... that he was not a silly boy, he was just like any other kid. I think it was in September, it was 1976 he had gone with his friends, they were from Sharpeville in Vereeniging. They went to Johannesburg. When they got to Johannesburg he went to see his other friends. He even - of black power. ...

"It was known to all members of the team that the ANC would be holding, I think, a Sharpeville Day Remembrance rally at Trafalgar Square as from 9 a.m. that Sunday morning so there was no possibility of anybody being on the premises."

... of course not peace at any price and having to take up arms, that decision took place after decades of a non-violent struggle which ended with the Sharpeville Massacre where the leadership of this movement saw that the possibilities of peaceful change were not possible, that the regime would not ...

During 1992 and 1993, the applicant was a member of the self Defence Unit in or about Sharpeville.

MR BERGER: So as far as you were concerned you could quite equally have attacked Bophelong, Sharpeville, Sebokeng, any of those townships you could have attacked?

COMMISSIONER: Again, if you can just - if we can go back to that time, what was the atmosphere in Sharpeville and Sebokeng, in the townships generally? Why was the army