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... were killed.b The abduction from Swaziland and subsequent torture of ANC member Dayan ‘Joe’ Pillay on 19 May 1981.c The killing of seven COSAS activists and the injuring of eight people on the East Rand on 26 June 1985 in a Security Branch operation code-named Operation Zero ...

... Cobra and, according to de Kock, involved the elimination of fifteen to sixteen student leaders of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and the South African National Students’ Congress (SANSCO). GIVEN THE FACT THAT THE AMNESTY APPLICATIONS IN REGARD TO ALL OF THESE SO-CALLED ...

... and associations floundered as a result of severe repression. 409 Mr Matome Cornelius (Ronnie) Sekhaulelo [JB03711/03NWRUS], a nineteenyear-old COSAS activist, and Mr Mahase Rampone [JB02751/03NWRUS] were two of the students killed by Bophuthatswana Police during student protests in February ...

never fully integrated into the township community. KATO, on the other hand, won the loyalty of the youth by providing discounts for students. Thus, COSAS students became targets of the GDTA, particularly after some of its members were attacked. 667 On 3 March 1990, after approximately seven ...

... political activist in the Eastern Cape from the age of seventeen. His activities centred on his objection to Bantu Education. His participation in COSAS brought upon him the wrath of the regime. He was detained numerous times and subjected to severe forms of torture. He was shot in the arm and ...

1980–1981 school boycotts 92 After the founding of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and the Azanian Student’s Organisation (AZASO) in 1979, school protests became more organisationally directed. Across the country, up to 100 000 children in coloured and African schools and ...

... who are given sentences from five to eleven years’ imprisonment. (The Appellate Division overturns the convictions at the end of 1989.) Eight COSAS activists are killed by grenades booby-trapped by the security forces in Operation Zero-Zero at Tsakane in June. The Cradock Four — UDF ...

He was later taken to Sasolburg police station where he was forced to make a statement and again tortured [KZN/JRW/058/PS]. The case of Sam Totolo COSAS activist Sam Nqaba Totolo was detained on numerous occasions during 1984. He was tortured in detention and poisoned with chemicals injected ...

... the SADF intelligen[ce] services in conducting such courses in schools was to teach them tactics and strategies of suppressing student bodies like COSAS and SRCs at school and to replace them with the prefect system. Some of the teachers who were in favour of the prefect system were recruited by ...

... He was held in solitary confinement at Sentela police station. Police claimed he had hanged himself. d Congress of South African Students (COSAS) activist Sipho Mutsi [KZN/ZJ/115/BL] was detained and died on 14 May 1985 in Odendaalsrus, Orange Free State after being severely beaten. e ...

... started to emerge in the Eastern Cape, such as the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) and the Congress of South African Students (COSAS). It was also at about this time that the ANC began to infiltrate units of trained guerrillas back into the Eastern Cape. Political trials ...

... statements relating to these clashes. Political intolerance between the PAC-aligned Pan Africanist Student Organisation (PASO) and the ANC-aligned COSAS appears to have been a motivating factor in the violence of this period. 323 Political intolerance between ANC and PAC members also became ...

... The first major attacks by large groups of men took place in August 1985 in response to large-scale unrest in the Durban area, initiated by a COSAS schools boycott. Shabalala himself allegedly led a 300-strong group that attacked the memorial service for assassinated Victoria Mxenge in ...

... inquests where nobody was found responsible … the inquest of Ernest Dipali when he was found hanging in his cell, the inquest of Sipho Motsi, a COSAS [Congress of South African Students] leader who was arrested and found dead a few hours later. d Attorneys who failed to accept an unpopular ...

... McFadden were killed. The second was Operation Zero Zero, an entrapment operation which led to the deaths of eight and severe injuries to seven COSAS youths. 170. In 1983, during Cronje’s term of office, another veteran of the Rhodesian and S WA/Namibian wars, Captain Eugene de Kock, was ...

... Page 250 Paragraph 348: The name ‘Mr Nkosi Thenjekwayo’ in line 2 should read ‘Mr Nkosinathi Thenjwayo’. Page 258 Move subheading ‘COSAS students Hoseo Lengosane, Joseph Mazibuko …’ to paragraph 387 on page 259. Page 269 Replace subheading ‘Skorpion’ with ‘Oupa Ronald ...

... and provision of firearms, ammunition and explosives. 133. On 25 May 1993, the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) and the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) organised a march to the Bophuthatswana Consulate in Kimberley in the Northern Cape to hand over memoranda of protest to the Consulate and the ...

... missing is Luyanda Eric Mose [EC0953/96/ELN]. On 31 October 1983, Luyanda, a seventeen-year-old member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), disappeared after leaving his Mdantsane home to buy bread and the local newspaper. After his disappearance, the police continued to look for ...

... were in possession of weapons and wished to avoid arrest or were being pursued by police. 150. Mr Wilson Mokotjo Sebiloane [AM1701/96], a former COSAS activist, left South Africa to join the ANC in 1986. On 25 May 1991, one month after his return fro m exile, his vehicle was pulled over by the ...

... feel like human beings”. 211 A few weeks later a similar incident took place in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, close to Despatch. Seventeen-year-old COSAS activist Khayalethu Melvin Swartbooi [EC0175/96UIT] was killed. Swartbooi’s mother, Ms Meyi Mabel Swartbooi, told the Commission: On 2 May ...