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Three Million gang

Explanation
A vigilante group, operating with police support, formed to counter the activities of the UDF and the ANC in the Kroonstad area, OFS. They conducted frequent random attacks on perceived political activists between 1984 and 1993.

when police opened fire on the group. In Kroonstad, ANC SDU members Roland Petrus and Macheba Thulo applied for amnesty for the killing of notorious Three Million Gang members George Ramasimong and Seabata Ntema. The episode concludes with footage from the June 16, 1976 student uprising in Soweto ...
... from 2 to 4 July. Segments include incidents of repression, death in exile and terror spread by vigilante mobs like the Eagles in Brandfort and the Three Million Gang in Kroonstad. The remainder of the episode comprises an introduction to filmmaker Jann Turner, daughter of Dr Richard Turner - who ...
A further problem in the Free State in the eighties was the existence of gangs like the Eagles in Brandfort and the Three Million Gang in Kroonstad. These gangs were devised and trained by the military. // In 1990, it was on a Friday when he died. He was at work. He was killed by the Three Million ...
Three Million Gang leader, George Ramasimong’s killer applies for amnesty
can describe it as hell. Nobody felt safe, even just to walk to his toilet at night. // I am aware of a number of charges that were laid against the Three Million Gang. Those that I know of would be attempted murder, in some cases murder, in some cases arson where houses of people were set alight ...
... are the questions the Amnesty Committee was faced with in Kroonstad this week. We’ll tell you the story of the rise and fall of Kroonstad’s Three Million Gang. From Queenstown we bring you a report of two blood baths in that town’s recent history, and of course Gauteng saw a special ...
For years the people of Maokeng, the township outside Kroonstad in the Free State were terrorised by a brutal gang, called the Three Million Gang. The authorities, for their own reasons, turned a blind eye. And then the community dealt with it in their own brutal way.
... the community. It was a group of hooligans who were attacking people and they got my husband and stabbed him to death. When we got there we got the Three Million Gang. I saw him; he had been attacked by the Three Million Gang. When I tried to tell him the blood splattered on my face. I asked him ...
Roland Petrus is one of five ANC self defence unit members who are in prison for the murders of members of the Three Million Gang. This week, they asked the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty. Macheba Thulo was commander of the SDU. // I’m applying for amnesty concerning the killing ...
You had the Three Million Gang in the Free State, which played a particular role, which was very destabilizing to organisations there. You had the Black Cats in Ermelo, which even from the hearings in Nelspruit last week, it was very clear you have someone saying ‘I was paid by the police to kill ...
 
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