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unbanningExplanation MR PRINSLOO: Before the unbanning of these parties in 1990 or the talk thereof, what were your sentiments and the sentiments of your family? 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 ... ... adjectives to describe what is possibly a parallel with reality, let me bring us back to the reality as I know it. As early as 1989 prior to the unbanning of the African National Congress and the release of the leaders there became a movement at that time to associate my client with criminal ... MR HATTINGH: So once again here we have a case where so-called political activists attached to the ANC, had been arrested after the unbanning of the ANC, is that correctc? ... 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 ... Support Committee that use to play a valuable role in giving support to parents and, you know, relatives of people in detention, but with the unbanning of organisations after 1990 many of those support structures went because funds for non-Governmental organisations who could do those things were ... On the 2nd of February, while F W de Klerk was unbanning the ANC, the PAC, and all other organisations, the war broke out in Maqonqo. Frontal assaults by large impis from KwaNyavu and local impis loyal to Maphumulo. The police moved in to disperse them and contained the situation temporarily. A ... MR HATTINGH: After the unbanning of the ANC, Mr Holtzhausen, did your task change in the sense that you received an order to focus on the prevention of crime or regular crime as such? MR BOOI: Yes. Actually after the unbanning of the ANC all the units which were based inside the country in particular in the Western Cape where the negotiations were taking place, Groote Schuur, we were given further mission to protect the leadership from prison and to protect those leadership who ... ... short space of time between one attack and the next. Initially he reported to Junior in Botswana but later to Happy Letlapa Mpahlela who, with the unbanning of the liberation organisations, was able to return to South Africa as part of the APLA High Command. He does not know the present ... ADV PRIOR: What I'm saying is, Mr Sandi, is that after the release of Mr Mandela in 1991, or 1990, soon thereafter there was an unbanning of all political parties that were previously unbanned, which included the PAC and which included, well obviously the organs, but whether APLA continued with ... ... from the mother. By then already the families had been to Shell House to inquire with the ANC, that was even before I arrived in 1991, on the unbanning of the ANC. They started making inquiries and out of those inquiries, they inquired with us who were in exile. Nomasonto's elder brother ... ... of the Pietermaritzburg Municipality, but were excised. At the time Edendale and Ashdown were very much UDF supporting - ANC supporting since its unbanning in February, just a month earlier. Imbali had - was becoming UDF, although there were still strong pockets of Inkatha supporters there. ... ... 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 ... MR DLAMINI: Around this time, it was either before or just after the unbanning of the ANC but I had just been released from prison and I had a new commander, Kevin Mosebedi. We were involved in many operations for instance training people and sometimes I would transport weapons to different areas ... ... gangs in the Eastern Transvaal. After SAYCO was dissolved, he was elected to the National Executive of the ANC Youth League in 1990. After the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, he was elected as its general secretary in the Eastern Transvaal. He represented the Eastern Transvaal region in ... MR MALAN: But it was after the unbanning of the ANC, I would assume, it wasn't 1990, somewhere? differ, we do regard each other as being part of the liberation family. We of course endorsed the Harare Declaration at that conference. After the unbanning and with the beginning of the negotiations we then attempted to form and we did form what was referred to as the Patriotic Front. There ... I felt that it was urgent because it felt to me as if the whole political situation was moving towards a new phase, wherein the National Party was taking a stand quite openly regarding the unbanning of the ANC, et cetera, and we saw that period as a large-scale threat. |
