Umkhonto we Sizwe

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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").

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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?

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

"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."

... 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 ...