Sharpeville Six

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.

... question the government. There wasn't the same kind of keenness to push it on the black side, because resistance had been crushed, literally, post-Sharpeville, so there wasn't much happening on the news front then, but I think there was a new wave of black consciousness following the American ...

MR BERGER: You spoke yesterday in your evidence about an incident in Sharpeville where you were surrounded and accused of being a police informer. It was at a time when you were with Mr Mbatha. Do you remember that?

... and just war. Further, Umkhonto we Sizwe was a means to channel the revolutionary violence the oppressed were calling for, especially after the Sharpeville massacre: Some (spontaneous actions of the people) result from Government provocation, the peoples patience becomes exhausted, and the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

MS MAYA: Thank you Mr Chairperson. Sthembiso you are going to talk about what happened to you in March 1990 when you were on your back to the Sharpeville Day rally. Please tell us what happened.

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 BERGER: You were born in Sharpeville in 1951, is that correct?

... and severe ill-treatment and all these gross human rights violations should have been committed within a period starting from 1960 with the Sharpeville massacre extending right up to the 10th of May 1994. So, since the last time we were here for the hearings in Pretoria and in this ...

MR VISSER: May I interrupt you General. It was just pointed out to me that in the second sentence of paragraph 5.8 the date 21st of March is probably Sharpeville Day?

... that broke a windscreen, that the date is fixed by the person whose windscreen was broken as the 21st of March, for a very good reason, that it was Sharpeville Day and that she remembered it and she had been to a meeting, when coming away from that meeting, an unknown person threw a stone and ...

On the other week when we are in Sharpeville - sorry, in Sebokeng, the ex-councillors like you, came out as a body. They were saying what are you doing with us who are rejected by the community and we are rejected even by the present Government.

MR MOLAOA: Sharpeville.