Sharpeville Six

MRS RADEBE: In 1992 at 4000 Sharpeville we were asleep at 2 o'clock in the morning and the windows were shattered and the doors were breaking. Then we decided to wake up. When I was in the passage I saw these four young men. It was myself, Tabo Mosebe and Kenneth Nto. I wanted to open the door. ...

MR HLONGWANE: I greet the Commission. My story is quite long and so much that in the 1960 affairs I wouldn't be able to give you the dates, it's quite long. As you see this is my last born. It's quite long. But then the reason that got me into jail it was the Sharpeville affairs.

Sharpeville commemorations. So it was just one of them. I do not think it was the day, it was one of those

MR MKWANAZI: No we could not move free anywhere, not only Boipatong, Sebokeng included, Sharpeville and Boepalong.

report was very black. We had seen Sharpeville, what had happened in Sharpeville. We were aware of the mood of the students in Soweto. We were aware of the dangers that were involved in a possible confrontation between the students, high school students in Soweto and the police. We were aware ...

Just before that, on the Monday before that march on Thursday, March 21st, which was Sharpeville day of course, quite ironic that they chose that day to deport her, I went down to Mmabatho to meet the Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief Victor Suping, who is now the chairperson of the house of ...

... one of them losing his life and apparently others were injured. The unit comprised of myself, Solly, the commander and Boysi. We were staying in Sharpeville at the time. We were deployed in the area by the director of special operations Sipho Bulalani Kloma who was also deputy director of ...

... like to speak to a focus but there would seem to me to have been three distinct periods of exile in our recent history. We talk often about the Sharpeville generation and this is the spate of exiles who were thrown out in the aftermath of the political repression that followed Sharpeville. ...

COMMISSIONER: We welcome Jabulani today. You have come to tell us about the killing of one of your other sons, Sifiso Mabaso, who was killed on Sharpeville day in 1992. After you've taken the oath Mrs Gcabashe will help you with your evidence. Can you stand up and take the oath.

And he talks about two people who told him - I'll summarise this for you, about the residents of Boipatong being protected by people from Sharpeville but he says that in return for this protection these people from Sharpeville demanded money from the people of Boipatong. And then I'll read to you ...

MR LEVINE: Did you know at the stage of the London bomb, of the planned Sharpeville ceremony later that day?

MR BERGER: Why did you say in your application that it was a Sharpeville rally?

... experience in exile in the period since June 1958 when we formed a boycott movement, renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement immediately after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 and in that capacity I served the movement until ...

MR MAHARAJ: Because the history of apartheid goes back to a consistent pattern of killing civilians deliberately. Sharpeville was one such incident where practically all the people killed had bullet wounds where the bullet entered the back of the body and none of those people were military ...

Tragically, Sharpeville and the Poqo uprising, amongst others, signalled a frightening trend and development. On the other hand Herren Volkanism gained the upper hand and brought even more racial intolerance and polarisation.

MR VAN RENSBURG: Yes, I think in the whole country, the 21st of March was Sharpeville Day if I remember correctly.

home I was made to sit down. The next day the police arrived, they picked me. They took us to Sharpeville. They were asking us questions. Five times they came to fetch us. They picked us up on the Tuesday, they came again and again and again. And the last time and we were just telling them ...

... the, that for us was an encouragement, but I must say, coming from a situation where one had read a bit of history and one knew about events like Sharpeville at that time and it is something that weighed very heavily on my mind, especially the possibility that that could happen. I had a very ...

... and sometimes chastisement and sometimes direction from our parents. I remember very, very vaguely at the time of the 1960's when, you know, the Sharpeville Massacre happened. There were books in the house that for instance my mother would warn, especially Ben, who seemed to have quite a ...

I would like to have your comment on that and also your comment on the relationship that ANGLO had with you after Sharpeville, 1960?