Sharpeville Six

comrades. It happened that one day these comrades took a bakkie from a white woman and they killed her. One of the comrades took a van and went to Sharpeville, and he was accosted by the police. They told him that they were looking for the van, and he pointed a place where they all stayed, ...

MR McPHERSON: According to our information we knew of a Sharpeville meeting that was to be held elsewhere and we believed that all the ANC people would be actively involved in this meeting and nobody would be in the building.

Here the finer details of the operation was discussed. It was decided that the device should be placed on a Saturday night, the 14/15th of March around midnight, as there was to be a Sharpeville rally on the following Sunday and no one would be at the office.

... 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 ...

MR BERGER: So as far as you were concerned you could quite equally have attacked Bophelong, Sharpeville, Sebokeng, any of those townships you could have attacked?

MR BIZOS: We can determine the date and if the owner was Janet Cherry, because that was the 21st of March. It was Sharpeville day. Can you remember whether that was the date or not?

All of that started on the 2nd of September 1984 when Sharpeville exploded.

... 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, ...

"It was known to all members of the team that the ANC would be holding, I think, a Sharpeville Day Remembrance rally at Trafalgar Square as from 9 a.m. that Sunday morning so there was no possibility of anybody being on the premises."

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.

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

... 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 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 ...

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 ...

MS JACOBS: I lost my sight in 1990 on the 21st of March which was the commemoration for Sharpeville shooting.

... Xolani and you are also going to give some explanation connected to this incident which is a full picture of what happened in Langa in Cape Town in Sharpeville and even here in Uitenhage. We therefore welcome you before this Commission. Just before you say anything, I would like to highlight ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.