Sharpeville Six

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 ...

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 ...

MR IKANENG: I went to Sharpeville.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

Having considered the application, amnesty is hereby GRANTED to Applicant in respect of the unlawful possession of arms and ammunition on or about 19 November 1992 at or near Sharpeville, Gauteng.

... 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. ...

I will never, never forget 1976. I had never seen such brutality. Yes I have seen the Sharpeville massacre. It happened one day. The next day everybody went to work as if nothing has happened. But June 16 you kill one you kill all. Thank you.

... 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 - ...

... who are on death row and, fortunately, we also had a woman who was on death row, Theresa, sharing her experiences. She was one of the, so called, Sharpeville Six who were sentenced to death and I think the TRC was very fortunate to have those two people, a man and a woman, highlighting their ...

MR BERGER: And would it be correct to say they came from the townships of Sebokeng, Sharpeville and surrounding townships around Kwamadala?

... be appearing is that here was a struggle between the community and the IFP. Yesterday even when we listened to a witness from the 1960 killing at Sharpeville one of the ladies clearly said that when they were going to work they were told that if you don't go to the police station and ...

MR JANSEN: And for purposes of the record, if you could confirm that in the later half of 1984, from September onwards, there was a serious political unrest, firstly in Sharpeville and then in the Vaal Triangle and this circled right throughout the country from there, is that correct?

MR BERGER: Do I understand you correctly that you would have attacked the other townships like Sebokeng or Sharpeville, but Boipatong was chosen because it was the closest to Kwamadala.

... for the journey. What is more, he remembers the date as being the 21st March 1984 (being the day on which the traditional commemoration of the "Sharpeville Massacre" takes place) when he was party to damaging the motor vehicle of Miss Janet Cherry. It is common cause that her car was in fact ...

MR MOTI: I was with two cadres, one from the Vaal Triangle, Seboke and the other one was - ja around Bokeni in Sharpeville, so they came there, they took me there. They took me from Soweto, we went there.

... what was going on because she was not aware of the subject matter and made quite a few what I would see as obvious mistakes in the sense that when Sharpeville was mentioned, she wrote "Saru", so it made no sense. Quite often she wrote instead of "police", a word that Mr Williamson used a lot, ...

... 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 ...