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Sharpeville SixExplanation said no I don't know anything regarding that. Suddenly just after he got into the house taking a shower getting ready to go and attend a funeral at Sharpeville Ketisi's gangsters came in driving in their cars. I should think the cars were about six. They had red scarves on their head. They ... Now in March 1960 - I am just going to go through a little bit of background so we put the whole thing in the proper context. In March 1960 I think it was, after the Sharpeville massacres, the African National Congress and the PAC were actually banned. ... By the early 1960s when I was at the University of Cape Town, studying physiotherapy I had come to the painful realization that the poverty, that Sharpeville and detention without trial were ways in which my own people were trying to claw their way into white privilege in our country. I never ... Commerce of Cape Town, 1959, 1960. And I've got here the dates which I've just reaffirmed from my diaries that on 21st March in '60, there were the Sharpeville and Langa riots, Langa affairs. On the 24th March, I was to have chaired a luncheon with Dr Norville, who was then the, whatever he was ... Paragraph 24, it was about his activities. Sharpeville Day, 21st March, paragraph 28 in this Exhibit, Sharpeville, ask the women what happened there. They were there to be counted, there when the saracens came and their bodies are counted among those who fell. Soweto, June 1976, many young girls were caught up in the throes of that episode, a sad one for our country. Many were never found, many ... ... of the nature, causes and extent of gross violations of human rights committed during the period from the 1st March 1960", that is to include the Sharpeville Massacre of 21st March 1960, "to the 10th May 1994", the inauguration of the first democratically elected President, i.e. Nelson ... ... 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 ... explaining why we had to take up arms in 1961 make that point perfectly clear that the centuries of colonial repression followed by apartheid were naked, violent assaults on the people of this country, culminating in the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. That's why we resorted to armed struggle. 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 ... 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. ... ... and also in the Transvaal, the then Transvaal, the main activities was the start of the rent boycotts were started in the Vaal, Sebokeng and Sharpeville townships and then it spread to Soweto and also Alexandra then came into the picture during 1986. And also during 1995 there was the ... say to somebody let's do this, somebody will say I don't care about that. As far as I am concerned, the memorial services, like during the issue of Sharpeville, I appreciate it, but it is in our area I feel people cannot support that. That's why I have decided to approach you as ... 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? And I'm just sorry that it had to be your mother and your father. Much as I think we are also sorry that we lost our people in Boipatong, in Sharpeville, the Pebco 3, the twins at the Umtata Massacre - so if you can wear my jacket I can wear yours. ... for those people who have been killed whether black and white from, if I may quote the nearest incidents which are still fresh from 1961-60 - Sharpeville Massacre, you come to the ....[inaudible] massacre, you come to the case of the Mklanga's as you have indicated, that's your feeling - ... ... Kohlwe, Valley Gooney and Ndobo as well. I was just detained for three to nine months. I was kept in the cell because we had just returned from the Sharpeville day of commemoration. They said that we were there to see the so-called terrorists. ... ... the nation of South Africa, the big report of the Truth Commission, telling all about what's happened in South Africa in 30 years since the time of Sharpeville 'till the election that brought the new South Africa to ... I remember in 1985 with the Sharpeville Six issue I was a woman belonging to a church organisation. We were kneeling with our knees, praying for those kids, because we've already heard that they were going to be hanged and God listened to our prayers because at a later stage we heard that they ... |