Umkhonto we Sizwe

I have been in the underground structures of Umkhonto we Sizwe from 1987 until its disbandment. Some time in late 1989, I was approached by comrades Shakes, that is the deceased in this case, who told me that he thought that it would be appropriate to extend our structures and establish an ...

A whole spectrum of community organizations, political organizations, trade unions were organized and immobilized into an effective force. More young people were recruited in this period for the liberation forces and Umkhonto we Sizwe.

... Can I explain? The time you are referring to is a time when I was just being released from Robben Island. I wished to get contact with the MK - Umkhonto we Sizwe - outside the country. I couldn't. I tried and tried and I finally got successful. I found them and I told them that I have ...

MR ZEELIE: The suspects were primarily members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe of the ANC, and to a lesser extent members of the PAC.

CHAIRPERSON: "I did not tell De Ru I was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, I did not tell him anything, he never asked me", but you have now been relying on what she told De Ru.

I say this with the conviction of my experience in the SANDF over the period since 1993, when the top echelons of the SADF and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) came face to face in the search for a new dispensation which could bring hope, peace and prosperity to our beloved country. Their combined vision of ...

... conduct was so clearly non-violent. Should we have taken the risk at all? Although I have a military background as a member, a commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, our approach on the march was motivated by a Ghanaian spirit of civil disobedience. Not that that was something new and ...

... no reason. It's just thathe feels that he is going to stay wherever he stays right now, because sometimeshe is working. He is working for the Umkhonto we Sizwe, so he decided to staywhere he stays right ...

MR KLOPPERS: Today if I look back to the entire situation I am absolutely certain that they were members of the ANC SACP Alliance because I saw the funerals of one of them on television, I saw the casket being carried by Umkhonto we Sizwe members.

MR ENGELBRECHT: As far as I was concerned, it was the ANC, Umkhonto se Sizwe, and the parties who wanted to undermine the government.

... many priests have belonged to it - many religious people of many faiths have belonged to the ANC. The ANC was also identified almost entirely with Umkhonto we Sizwe - in other words the only picture which was given to the South African public was of an organisation with only one goal - violence, ...

Was he also a member of the Military Wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe?

... 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 ...

"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."

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

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.

MR MAKHUBALO: We wanted to skip the country, we wanted to affiliate to Umkhonto We Sizwe.

MR BLACK: You say he introduced you as a member of the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe, and did he instruct you and others to form a self defence unit, a SDU?