Umkhonto we Sizwe

3. Non-combat support for sanctioned military operations carried out by operatives of Umkhonto we Sizwe's Special Operations Unit during or about the period September 1988 until December 1989.

The salient aspects of Applicant's testimony were briefly as follows. During 1992 he was recruited into the SDU by a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK") and the ANC, one Senamela, who gave the 12 members of the SDU a crash-course in military warfare. Applicant was appointed as commander of the SDU ...

... and it further became common cause that at all relevant times, this applicant was both a member of the African National Congress and a member of Umkhonto we ...

left the manuscript with him. When De Kock read the manuscript, it appeared to have been an autobiography of how the writer, ostensibly a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK") came to join the struggle against the apartheid State. It was about the size of an A4 or A8 paper and it was quite clear ...

MR CURRIN: You stopped your schooling in 1977 as a direct result of the Soweto riots and you then went into exile and joined the African National Congress and UmKhonto we Sizwe. Is that correct?

affected, this did not impact so much on them. By the way, two of them I took them to Zambia at the ANC headquarters, and they joined the soldiers, Umkhonto we Sizwe. My children were part of MK. I in person I took them to Zambia to join the MK. You know, even if I was young I was going to go ...

MS MTSWENI: He wanted to fight for the nation or for the freedom of the people, because he was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe as well as a member of the ANC.

... all committed in Mdantsane in 1993. The Applicant was a member of the African National Congress ("ANC") and a trained cadre of its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK"). It is in this capacity that the offences were committed by the Applicant. The deceased was a member of the Ciskei Police ...

... of assault, and did not exclude women on the basis of their sex. Thenjiwe Mtintso, a former journalist, member of SASO and later a commander in Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), described her experience of detention and interrogation as one of constant physical assault and abuse of her womanhood. ...

... Police were responsible for. What it involved was giving to young Comrades, grenades that people pretended to be from the underground, from Umkhonto we Sizwe, giving these youths these hand grenades which were, which were booby trapped, so that when you pulled the pin out the ...

"There was a meeting because our people were dying. They were being killed by the ANC people and Umkhonto we Sizwe. Dlamini said this problem must be reported to Buthelezi."

... you and to them is only to accept the bona fides of the members of the South African Defence Force involved. I hold no brief to speak on behalf of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK"), but am prepared to accept that, as an organization, it also acted bona fide in the furtherance of its ideals, irrespective ...

... clear, and it was not challenged, that the first two applicants as well as being members of the UDF were also members of the organisation known as Umkhonto we Sizwe and had received certain training of a military nature. ...

... individual applications as well as the viva voce evidence given by the first applicant. The latter told the Committee that he was working for the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) underground operations since 1987 until it was disbanded. On a certain day he was approached by a person he only knows as ...

early part of the year at a time that he actually cannot remember precisely, but reasonably early in the year, he had had contact with the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, Mr Chris Hani. In that contact, of which there were several, he had received an order which related to a general order. Now this ...

Siphiwe Nyanda (the 1st Applicant), Solly Zacharia Shoke (the 2nd Applicant) and Malekolle Johannes Rasegatla (the 3rd Applicant) were all members of the African National Congress ("the ANC") and Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK").

MR NGUBANE: Were those people that made statements in terms of Section 29, Umkhonto We Sizwe people?

Is it correct that Mzizi helped many people, as well as Mr Mxenge, the attorney? --- So that they would recruit the youth to go to Umkhonto we Sizwe. Now, that caused him to be harassed, that is where we are going to start, that is from 1979, tell us what happened and tell us what were the ...

MRS BOIKHUTSO: Yes, he told me that he is a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe and he could die any time or be arrested or he can leave the country. That is what he told me and it was in the evening when he told me that and he left the following day. He said to me, please take care of my children ...

... that. It so happened that I said right next to Akipi of the ANC, opposite his cell. I was very older than this guy opposite me. He was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe. He taught me politics. If I hadn't met him I wouldn't have survived that life. You know he was an orphan, which was the most ...