Umkhonto we Sizwe

8. At a secret meeting in June 1961 the ANC decided to establish an armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - Spear of the Nation. They purchased a small farm, called Lilliesleaf, from which to conduct "operations", while Mr Mandela visited several countries to gain support for their campaign ...

It is clear that the applicant's acts were done in furtherance of the aims of Umkhonto we Sizwe and that they were associated with a political objective committed in the course of the conflicts of the past.

REVD FINCA: You just discovered that he was killed in New Brighton in 1987? You didn't even know whether he is a soldier, Umkhonto We Sizwe soldier?

MR THULU: In Afrikaans it is TIEN MANNEKRAG. In our language,cadres, it is TALENTED MEMBERS OF UMKHONTO we SIZWE.

May I just go a little bit behind 1974? My first arrest took place in 1964. It was for a few hours at the Berea Police Station. In 1965 I joined Umkhonto we Sizwe and I led a major student demonstration in Stanger and also I ran the underground structure for the ANC in Stanger and I was also ...

REVD FINCA: Mr Njobo, you said that Ngalo was the soldier of Umkhonto We Sizwe. Do you remember his first name?

At that time now it was in the Nobowa rural areas. He was doing the underground work in the country which was now during 1979. He was sent by the Umkhonto we Sizwe command from Lesotho. We spoke with him, but I did not know he was Gwazo Twalo. When I met him I did not know him at all. This ...

... commencing in March of 1993, I was actively and directly engaged in the initiation of multilateral talks between the South African Defence Force, Umkhonto we Sizwe and the other statutory and non-statutory military forces in South ...

... African Defence Force as a conscript and then in the Active Citizen Force. The bulk of my military training has been as a commander in the former Umkhonto we Sizwe. I was, as I said earlier, a colonel in the South African Army and I have now civilianised in the Ministry of Defence. So that's ...

Yes, what? Were you to identify ANC cadres, in other words people - ANC Umkhonto we Sizwe members trained outside and then coming into the country? --- Yes, those were the ones that were to be - that were identifying people, not me. I was accompanying them.

a civil case against the former minister of law and order, Mr Hernus Kriel, where the Courts ruled in favour of the plaintiff and awarded the former Umkhonto we Sizwe commander a sum of R180 000 for illegal detention and torture in custody of the Vaal Triangle security police. Now what I am ...

CHAIRPERSON: May I ask, are you saying you were never told that there had been this successful raid on an ANC base, I think we can call it, where 13 of the leading members of Umkhonto we Sizwe had been killed?

... presented itself, to act against her. After these incidents, applicant fled the country and received military training under the auspices of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress. He subsequently returned to the country and was deployed on Umkhonto weSizwe ...

... Congress was close to me and Congress had to come straight to me. In 1985 there was a directive from the ANC in exile that certain units from the Umkhonto we Sizwe would not be trained outside the country, but they would be trained inside the country and so we realised that we were going to be ...

According to the information which you - you received he was involved in the ANC’s Military Wing - the MK - Umkhonto we Sizwe. So he was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe?

All the applicants testified that at the time of the incident they were members of the African National congress as well as of its military wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. they formed part of a unit of Umkhonto We Sizwe which was deployed particularly for the assassination of persons engaged in the ...

... be saying. I would like to take you through the period when you actually joined the ANC and in your statement you said you became the Commander of Umkhonto e'Sizwe, can you just take us through that period ...

3. Non-combat support for sanctioned military operations carried out by operatives of Umkhonto we Sizwe's Special Operations Unit during or about the period September 1988 until December 1989.

MR SANDI: Was he also a member of 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 ...