Table Mountain bus attacks

Explanation
A series of public vehicle ambushes in the Table Mountain area, near Pietermaritzburg, in early March 1993. On 2 March 1993 , masked men wearing army uniforms and armed with AK47 and .303 rifles opened fire on a vehicle carrying IFP supporters from Mboyi to school in Maqongqo in the Table Mountain area. Six pupils were killed and seven others injured. Three of the deceased were children of the local IFP chairman. Three ANC members from the area were arrested and charged. On 5 March 1993 , armed IFP supporters ambushed a taxi in the Table Mountain area, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of the six IFP-supporting pupils on 2 March 1993. On 8 March 1993 , armed IFP supporters ambushed a bus in Swayimane, Table Mountain area. The bus was taking 80 ANC supporters to attend the court appearance in Pietermaritzburg of three men implicated in the 5 March ambush in the same area. Three men and a woman were killed and at least 16 people injured in the attack on the bus.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims

Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pietermaritzburg (20 November 1996)

... to start on the Sunday, which is the 25th of March, which is the day of the IFP rally in Durban. Now, realising the potential for trouble with the buses going through Edendale valley, I decided to monitor the situation, and I left Hilton where I live at about 7 o'clock in the morning. I ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Pietermaritzburg, Day 1 (29 November 1999)

... in 1987. At that time there were different political organisations existing in the area. There were two organisations the ANC and the IFP in the Table Mountain area and at that time two men were killed. It was later discovered the people who had killed those men or one of those men had been ...

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Decision (26 May 1998)

... during an incident which occurred on 5th March 1993. On that day the two applicants and one other person, who's name was given as Siphiwe Zondi, ambushed a minibus and raked its occupants with automatic weapons. As a result of this attack the deceased and the other occupants of the minibus were ...

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Decision

The applicant testified that he was a member of the ANC living at Maqongqo, commonly known as Table Mountain. He joined the ANC in 1987 and was involved in numerous attacks and counter attacks during the period 1987 to 1993 in the ongoing war between the IFP and the ANC.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pietermaritzburg, Day 1

Two days latter massive attacks started in the Pietermaritzburg region on non-Inkatha areas in Vulindlela, Edendale, Ashdown, Imbali, Mphopomeni and Table Mountain. This so-called seven days war was a further graphic illustration of the Security Forces allowing participants in political violence ...

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