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Sharpeville SixExplanation MR IKANENG: I went to Sharpeville. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... MR MADONSELA: I was not quite sure whether he stayed at Sharpeville, or Simondale, one of the two, but yes, I knew him. 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 ... M OLIPHANT: It was in 1990 on the 11th of May. The students were gathered together with their leaders and the aim of that gathering was to march to the court. We wanted to complain against the youth who was caught on the 21st of March when we were celebrating the Sharpeville Day. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... MR RICHARD: But Bopalong is near Sebokeng, Sharpeville, they're all in the same area? 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 ... MR BOOYENS: You also have knowledge of the 1961 Sharpeville incident? ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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. ... |