Umkhonto we Sizwe

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.

... 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 ...

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?

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

... 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 ...

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").

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 ...

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

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

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 ...

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 ...

... 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. ...

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 ...