Umkhonto we Sizwe

Umkhonto we Sizwe fights to liberate our people from racial discrimination, national oppression and exploitation. The common enemy is the racist minority which identifies with and gives aid to the National Party regime, the creator and driving force of apartheid. Our programme is the Freedom ...

... that my ID document was applied for. So, I stayed in South Africa up until 1992, July where, finally, I was appointed as the Regional Commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe in the Northern Cape. I assumed office up until 1994, that is June, when I was appointed as a Major in the National Defence Force, ...

1.6 At present, in the light of the Groote Schuur and Pretoria Minutes, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) alone cannot undertake the task of our people's defence, although this is a right we need to forcefully demand and struggle for.

MR PRETORIUS: Honourable Commission, we updated the lists of the different machinery of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Transvaal machinery, the rural machinery, special operations and so forth. I don't have all that information in front of me, those are the lists we updated.

... apartheidwould no longer be able to be maintained and that a democracywould be the end of the Boers. He also mentioned that the SecurityPolice and Umkhonto we Sizwe were the toys of the politicians. ...

MR KHUMALO: Yes, I was practically involved as Commander of the Self Defence Units and also as a disciplinary cadre of Umkhonto we Sizwe. I was trying to ensure that there is safety for the people. I was personally present, I also fired shots.

Afrikaner by Inkatha gunman, Toti Zulu, who was later arrested and convicted, but released on appeal. Possibly in retaliation for Afrikaner's death Umkhonto we Sizwe later assassinated the Inkatha member Jerome Mncwabe, who many believed had given the order for Afrikaner to be ...

borders of South Africa and that man is no longer with us now. So that is none other than the late ANC military genius, Comrade Chris, who has been Umkhonto-we-Sizwe army commissar and second in command of the entire ANC army. I would be pleased if I get the Truth Commission, because it was ...

... the name of Moffet. According to my thoughts I think they were their bodyguards, because Makhebula went to Mozambique to be trained as a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe. He used to come to my place, and whenever he was there we used to trust and believe that our parents were safe, but when he tells ...

released after one night into the custody of the Refugee Committee in Botswana. Later we learned that they had joined the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we ...

MR WILLS: Is it correct that you eventually joined Umkhonto we Sizwe?

We requested them to refer the matter to the Department of Umkhonto we Sizwe in the offices of the ANC. I am sure that they did so. They reported what I just told you about Costello.

You've told us earlier that you had yourself been a member of Umkhonto We Sizwe and had received military training while you were a member of this organisation? --- That is correct.

... establishmentof revolutionary themes for the ensuing years. Themes included1979 the Year of the Spear; 1985 the Year of the Cadre; 1986 theYear of Umkhonto u'Sizwe, the People's Army; 1987 the Year ofAdvance to People's Power; 1988 the Year of United Action forPeople's Power; 1989 the Year of ...

Rev B FINCA: Were they APLA soldiers or did they belong to 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.

MR DLAMINI: When I was still young I joined the Azanian Student Movement. From there on I joined COSAS. After a while in 1985 I joined Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC.

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?

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 ...