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... them to violent acts”. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT THE GOAL OF THE ‘POLLSMOOR MARCH’ WAS SYMBOLIC IN NATURE, NAMELY TO DELIVER A MESSAGE TO MR MANDELA AND DEMAND HIS RELEASE. MANY OF THE GROUPS OF MARCHERS WERE LED BY CLERICS, STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. THE ACTIONS OF THE SECURITY ...

... assigned to work with former Koevoet member Colonel Jan Daniel Potgieter at the Soweto Intelligence Unit, and apparently became involved with the Mandela United Football Club. It is not clear whether this was part of his work as an askari. At some stage, Mabotha’s loyalty was questioned and, ...

number of protest actions in what came to be known as the ‘Boland War’. 463 On 11 April 1990, exactly one month after the release of Mr Nelson Mandela from prison, about 120 people in Robertson were treated for multiple injuries after police, without warning, started shooting tear gas and ...

... that proposed targets of MK included administration board buildings and policemen. The trial led to sentences of life imprisonment for Mr Nelson Mandela and a number of other ANC leaders. 37 Over the next three years, MK carried out a widespread campaign of sabotage of government buildings ...

... At the time, Mxenge was the instructing attorney for the accused in the Pietermaritzburg UDF treason trial and secretary/treasurer for the Release Mandela Committee (RMC). 254 The Commission received various accounts of who was responsible for this assassination. In a statement to the ...

... the elections of 1994, the first elections of this country, the honourable President of the African National Congress, your organisation, President Mandela and other respectable leaders, they were passing information that people should not resort to violence, that was the policy of the ANC, ...

... RABOTAPI, Granny RABOTAPI, Lineo Patricia RABOTAPI, Thabeng Samuel RABOTAPI, Thokoane John RABULA, Michael RADAMBA, Mubvathi Samuel RADEBE THOLO, Winnie RADEBE, Alfred Molefi RADEBE, Alison RADEBE, Alpha Bonga RADEBE, Anthony Mdeni RADEBE, Bathobile Princess RADEBE, Bongani Solomon RADEBE, Buti ...

... to find it a violator of g ross human rights. The PAC made this point again after the Commission had handed over its Final Report to President Mandela in October 1998. 36. The second issue raised by the PAC was that of ‘legal equivalence’. This echoed objections raised by the ANC that ...

APPENDIX: THE ‘THIRD FORCE’ 1. In its Final Report to President Mandela in 1998, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (the Commission) made reference to the ‘Third Force’ in its discussions on the subject of ‘Political Violence in the era of Negotiations and Transition, ...

... Seven senior members of MK are arrested at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia on 11 July 1963. The Rivonia Treason Trial of ten people including Nelson Mandela follows. Most are sentenced to life imprisonment. The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) is founded. 1964 The Armaments Board, the ...

... and political target. The CP regard e d him as ‘enemy number one’ of the Afrikaner nation and the likely successor as P resident to Mr Nelson Mandela. 54. Against this background, Derby-Lewis and Walus started to plan the assassination of Hani in about February 1993. Their objective was to ...

Clashes in the workplace 328 In July 1990, not long after the release of Nelson Mandela, workers at the Durnacol mines, Dannhauser, went on strike over a wage demand. The subsequent industrial unrest at the mines developed along Zulu–Xhosa ethnic lines. 329 The mine employed mainly Zulu ...

... did, remembering the many people who died on Sam Ntuli’s memorial service , these were old people who were shot simply because they were wearing Mandela T- shirts . CHAIR P E R S O N: One last aspect I want to cover with you. It is perhaps a sensitive issue, but I need to know what your ...

... It is this contemporary history - which began in 1960 when the Sharpville disaster took place and ended with the wonderful inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the first democratically-elected President of the Republic of South Africa - it is this history with which we have had to come to terms. ...

... to South Africa having been labelled a spy. His name does not appear in the ANC records submitted to the Commission. 177 Mr Daliwonga Fikile Mandela [CT01044/OUT] joined MK in 1978. In 1983 he was detained at the ANC ‘Green House’ in Lusaka, suspected of being a spy because his father ...

... South Africans feeling that they can never be expected, even indirectly, to accept responsibility for them. In the words of President Nelson Mandela: All of us, as a nation that has newly found itself, share in the shame at the capacity of human beings of any race or language group to be ...

South Africa a local ally against the Soviet Union. Examples include the role of the CIA in providing information which led to the capture of Nelson Mandela in 1962, as well as training given to General van den Bergh prior to the creation of BOSS. 64 Counter-insurgency spoke of ‘national ...

... of the ANC had collapsed and formal opposition politics were at their most subdued. 30 After the Rivonia trial (1963–64) in which Mr Nelson Mandela and other members of the MK high command were tried, an attempt was made to reconstitute the high command, but all its members were ...

... NIS and SAS took place only in 1991 at the time of the controversy surrounding the destruction of the sound recording of the meeting between Nelson Mandela and PW Botha. Thereafter top management explicitly adopted the position that NIS records were exempt from the Act’s operation. This ...

... was thrust on the nation with the widely publicised disclosure in 1991 that the NIS had destroyed the sound recording of the meeting between Nelson Mandela and PW Botha held in 1989. SAS challenged the legality of the destruction on the grounds that the Director of Archives had not authorised it. ...