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Thulani Dlamini and Zakele Cyril Mbatha were arrested shortly after the murder; charged, tried and sentenced for the killing of Dr Asvat. Mbatha and Dlamini testified that Winnie gave them the gun with which they killed Asvat.

When Mrs Mandela says take him away. That is the end. When they say take him away. That is to kill.

I think he’s dead….Mrs. Mandela.

The attempted Pollsmoor march to free Mandela on 28 August 1985 ended in mayhem and murder. It was a turning point which unleashed sustained upheaval in the region. Charles Maroti was one of those who went to release Mandela from Pollsmoor. On his return to Gugulethu he was shot and killed while ...

Winnie’s sting was now in full flow. Football club members were sent to abduct the youths from Verryn’s church on the 29th of December 1988. With the others, he was hustled through the house to rooms here in Winnie’s back courtyard. Among the youths was the 14 year old activist Stompie ...

Tonight the BBC is broadcasting a documentary narrated by Bridgland which also contains allegations that Mrs. Mandela participated in the killing of Stompie Seipei. The documentary will later be broadcast internationally. Because of its global exposure we feel it is in the public interest to show ...

You go along with that? // Yes, I agree with that fully.

... Soweto we hear Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala?s parents? testimonies on the abduction of their children in 1988 ? implicating Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the Mandela United Football Club. We also hear testimony from Thami Zulu?s parents on his death in ANC custody in Lusaka and the ...

Winnie and the football club were now under close scrutiny. In mid February 1989 the police raided Winnie’s house and arrested Jerry Richardson, her chief bodyguard, for the murder of Stompie Moketsi. Richardson was tried, found guilty and sentenced to death commuted to life imprisonment.

I think one of the difficulties, if we must say this quite openly, is that at that point I really did not believe that Mrs. Mandela acknowledged or accepted the UDF leadership, the MDM leadership at that point. I did not believe that she would … I mean for example you would hear that Mrs. Mandela ...

Anyone who believes in the evidence led by Jerry Richardson I have a serious problem with.

They said it was on the 29th of December in 1988 when Stompie was taken from the Methodist Church. Together with his friends they were taken to Mrs. Winnie Mandela’s house. They said to me they don’t know, they are still searching for Stompie; they don’t know whether he is alive or dead. And ...

... and mistrust. There was horrific black on black violence, alleged informers were hacked or burnt to death. It was in these anarchic times that Winnie recruited young men for her bodyguard. The football club appeared glamorous but was in fact a mafia ruling by violence and ...

... Paul Erasmus told the Commission that during the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a disinformation and dirty tricks campaign against Madikizela-Mandela. // Using the existing intelligence STRATCOM network I turned a massive information or negative propaganda on a wide variety of matters. As a ...

I had a very close relationship with Dr Asvat. He was not only my doctor when I was in Brandfort, he visited me frequently.

I have never believed that she was guilty of assaulting anyone and the judgement of the court has confirmed that position.

Winnie said she visited Dr Asvat with Katiza on the 29th of December 1988, before driving to Brandfort. But this medical card from the visit was stamped the 30th of December. People who could have confirmed the card’s accuracy and importance were not subpoenaed. One was Dr Asvat’s brother ...

And you stated that Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela started hitting you with open hands, with fists and also with a sjambok. Can you confirm that? // It was just claps, open hands only. // These incidents occurred on the 29th of December. Are you saying that Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela was present at this ...

Without the medical certificate police would not act against Paul Verryn and without a police investigation Winnie could not discredit him. // Well it was as if there was a quite specific plan to eliminate me, if not my physical person certainly to eliminate any cause for me to carry on being. So, ...

After the announcement of the extension of the deadline general Constand Viljoen announced that he will be applying and thanked President Mandela.