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 ...

... 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.

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.

... under the impression that all of the persons who would participate in the intended robbery would be armed and be militarily trained members of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK"), the military wing of the ANC.  He was accordingly quite happy to authorise an operation in terms of which the would-be ...

... 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 ...

The first and second applicants were members of the ANC and its military wing Umkhonto We Sizwe at the time of the bombing. Their avowed aim was to cause as many fatalities as possible amongst members of the South African Police congregated in and around the Johannesburg Magistrate Court premises.

... against their former comrades.  Before his defection, he had a close relationship with the two elder brothers of Musi who served with him in Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK"), the military wing of the ANC, in exile.  After Mfalapitsa joined the SAP, he and Musi established contact.  Musi was a ...

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 ...

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

The applicant a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, left the Republic of South Africa on the 14th of April 1995 with a view to undergoing military training.

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

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?

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.