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unbanningExplanation MR NKOSI: When the violence erupted there I was already an ANC member. I've been an ANC member since its unbanning in 1990. We formed an organisation of ANC in our residential area because all other organisations were making themselves known and visible to the public, so we felt we should make ... MR PRINSLOO: Before the unbanning of these parties in 1990 or the talk thereof, what were your sentiments and the sentiments of your family? ADV BIZOS: Yes. Please turn to page 362. The last paragraph, after the unbanning of the ANC, PAC and SACP on February 1992, we became very concerned. And then you give the reasons for the concern. With the unbanning of the ANC, the release of the ANC leadership from prison and the return of exiles, many changes took place. A range of new structures had to be set up to meet the challenge of negotiations and the return of exiles. Tokyo Sexwale was tasked with attempting to take care of the ... ... no longer openly commendable and blameless. That is what is meant, Mr Chairman. The hunters becoming the hunted, where the fact that now with the unbanning we were more or less open game from the people that were in exiled. Their organisations that were exiled were now able to come home and to ... We are looking at an incident which happened in 1990, in April 1990, subsequent to the unbanning of the liberation movements. I wish to point out that from the submission which Gen Van der Merwe has made in October 1996 and the statistics which has been listed in that submission, one will see for ... According to the applicant he was the chief Marshall of the area at that stage. Previously he was a member of the UDF but joined the ANC after its unbanning. They formed a self-protection unit and he acted as leader. According to his evidence they had to discipline criminals in the area because ... MS MAYA: Since you knew that your brother was in the ANC did you attempt at all, after the unbanning of the organisation, to try and establish where your brother was and what happened to him? ... institutions, universities, technikons etc. Sasco is a latter day organisation in the sense that it was formed either in 1990 or 1991 after the unbanning of the ANC and it's constituent components that formed and amalgamated into Sasco was Nusas and Azaso. Now this then brings us back into ... MS VAN DER WALT: What was the AWB's attitude regarding the unbanning of the ANC/SACP? It should be realised also that in the Nineties, the PAC itself had another development as a result of the unbanning. We had parallel structures also in the organisation. We should take note that there was this internal structure which initially became PERM, and it is this internal structure that ... In the period of 1990 and following the unbanning of the ANC, a spiral of violence in fact flared throughout the Reef townships, Cosatu on numerous occasions warned the police of intended attacks on its offices and personnel, no action was taken until to this day, we are still to see a successful ... ... stayed until during 1990. Fortunately then the country was - the government of the day then, the de Klerk government, they announced that they are unbanning the ANC, then immediately I was instructed to come back quickly into the country, so that we help in preparing the coalition so that when ... MR NDLUNGWANE: Well basically immediately after the unbanning of the African National Congress, there was this scourge of violence and those MK comrades who were back at the time, met at certain instances to discuss about the situation and a decision was then taken that people should be armed and ... ... or were not sure who gave the instruction, if at all there were instructions given. Like I said Sir I did ask after that meeting again, after the unbanning of the ANC at some stage I asked again, I asked of Mr Mbeki and he said "we still don't know". I can't recall the date but that was after ... unknown, the fact that applicant himself never attended any political meetings, bearing in mind that the incident took place in 1992, long after the unbanning of political parties. All the evidence pointed towards the probability that this was a criminal offence for personal ... ... Police members killed. This is an indication, I submit that even after, this instant happened after the release of Nelson Mandela as well as the unbanning of the ANC, as well as other evidence of Mr Van der Merwe already made before the Amnesty Committee, that there was very much still during ... You've said in your statement that after the unbanning of the ANC, and when the exiles came home, you were sort of expecting him to come. Do we understand from that that you had thought that maybe he went into exile? --- I had that in mind. I thought he had skipped the country. I always ... MR PRINSLOO: And the policy, before the unbanning of the ANC, that of separate development, apartheid as it was known, did you support that policy? ... between the applicant's group on the one hand, and that of the deceased on the other hand. they differed on strategies, particularly after the unbanning of political organisations in 1990. The deceased's group did not want SAYCO to simply convert into ANCYL. When the applicant's group ... |
