Sharpeville Six

MS PLAATJIES: He was working in Sharpeville.

MR MAGUBANE: In 1991, my parents' house was destroyed, their house was burnt in Sharpeville. I don't know why. People came to look for me and I was not inside. That is why I took part in the attack in Boipatong.

... and 64 of that total are still to be corroborated. Of this total we have 102 statements from Sebokeng, 24 from Boipatong, 8 from Bopelong, 44 from Sharpeville, 17 from Everton, 18 from Vereeniging, 28 from Orange Farm, 4 from Meyerton, 3 from Sasolburg and 2 from Vanderbijlpark and 1 from ...

MR BERGER: Is it correct, Mr Kubeka, Mr Magubane, I beg your pardon, that after your parents' house in Sharpeville was burnt, they moved to Boipatong and they were living in Boipatong in June of 1992?

MR NOSENGA: We proceeded right through the same street. There is one main taxi route, and we proceeded towards the hostel. We proceeded towards the mixed sex hostel, and we proceeded towards Sharkville or Sharpeville where there is a clump of trees and we got out of the township.

... had been superseded by popularly elected peasants committees. The struggle in the urban areas had also reached a high-water mark The massacres at Sharpeville and Langa in 1960, the slaughter of a peasant demonstration at Ngquza Hill in Pondoland in 1960..." ...

MR VISSER: And here you’re referring to Langa and Sharpeville where many people were killed and wounded?

COMMISSIONER: ... who were involved came to be known as the Sharpeville Six and Mr Khumalo, I welcome you this afternoon. MR DUMA JOSHUA KHUMALO: Good afternoon, sir.

... roads, airports etc. You would have. Secondly, but even if you had not a single one, then clashes occurred in the Republic of South Africa. Sharpeville was not due to a, did not take place in the independent black state, it took place in South Africa, in South ...

MR STRYDOM: According to the application you were born in Sharpeville, is that correct?

"On the 15th of March 1992, an attack took place at Chiefs Place Tavern in Sharpeville. Two woman were killed and several injured"

people were paying R8,50 rents and Sharpeville was only

MR NTHO: I was at Mrs Radebe's house in Sharpeville.

MISS JOY SEROKE: I greet you, Mr Ramohoase. We welcome you on this day. You are here to tell us the events of 1960 in Sharpeville when people where killed at the police station in Sharpeville. When I look at your statement I see that at that time you were 33 years of age, is that true?

MR TOPI DOMINIC TLADI: In September 1984, it was on the 3rd, in Sharpeville we were having an operation clean up. Just when we finished cleaning up we decided to go and have some lunch. Just before we went home we stood at the corner of the street together with my friends. We were talking and as ...

MR NOSENGA: Yes, people whose homes were burnt down would go to Kwamadala Hostel. Most of us were from Sebokeng, Everton and Sharpeville.

At Theunissen there was a lady called Spanas, a certain sister called Ma Dibuka, Spanas Dibuka. Her husband owned a shoe shop. Then this woman went to school. The husband, this man, went to school. On that time at the school they were celebrating Sharpeville Day.

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?

... 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 ...

... 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 ...