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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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?

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 ...

The applicant is a former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("MK"), the military wing of the African National Congress ("the ANC"). He is presently a high ranking officer of the South African National Defence Force. He is seeking amnesty for a wide range of incidents, namely, conspiring to attack ...

... 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 ...

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

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

MR WILLS: And have you ever had, have you ever been a member of Umkhonto We Sizwe or had any training, military training?