Sharpeville Six

... 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 ...

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

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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

"The intention of this operation was also to commemorate Sharpeville Day. As far as I am aware, there were no injuries or deceased as a result of this operation."

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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

... I'll give you the exact dates. Bongani Mbatha was killed on the 12th of January 1992 in Boipatong. Then there was all sorts of violence in Sharpeville, Sebokeng, Everton and then on the 13th of June, Mr David Mbele was killed and on the 14th of June, Mr B L Khumalo was killed. So from ...

this squatter camp was a breeding ground for most of the problems in the Vaal Triangle and that many of the activists and wanted people of Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Everton and those surrounding areas were in this squatter camp, hid in this squatter camp. Your Honour, my motive was that with, I ...

MR IKANENG: I went to Sharpeville.

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

... If you don't understand that, you can ask anyone. 11 months after it was formed, it was banned, in 1960, that was on the 21st of March in Sharpeville, people ...

out such a strong case where, here was Bopape who suddenly died under the hands of the Security Police while being questioned, a few days before the Sharpeville commemorations, June 16th commemorations, I’m sorry, and it was just not politically on to allow the normal course of the law to take its ...

... to have become the start of the revolution, everything happened in 1976, but in fact the time period covered by the Commission goes back to 1960 in Sharpeville, obviously and this is something that happened. I mean this is based on an experience in 1964. It's entitled "The Greys" which in those ...

... 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 ...