Umkhonto we Sizwe

... any responsibility for his death? In his autobiography, Joe Slovo said of Hlapane's death: "In 1983 he was executed for his treachery by a unit of Umkhonto we Sizwe." (Joe Slovo, "The Unfinished Autobiography", p. 158) ...

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?

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

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 ...

... and I didn't want to stay long in case somebody notices me, so I walked out. As I was walking out I met a certain lady who was also a member of Umkhonto e'Sizwe, she was just going into the building, and she saw me and for some reason I thought she looked frightened, but at that time it just ...

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 ...

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.

... 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, ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... with the ANC underground operatives and carried on to do what we wanted to do, you know, and that happened. It was some of the first operatives of Umkhonto we Sizwe that were sent in that we were able to connect with. This was about October, November in 1976, but by that time we had also ...

"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."

... 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. ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... the big submission, we interviewed Tenjiwe Mtinso who describes her treatment by junior, more junior officials, by more junior members of Umkhonto we Sizwe who threatened her with rape. She is a senior ...

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 ...