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... to political violence. The Afrikaner Volksfront is launched in May by 21 right-wing groups who demand self-determination in a federal state. Winnie Mandela’s conviction on kidnapping charges is upheld on appeal but her conviction on accessory to assault is overturned in June. The ...

The report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was presented to President Nelson Mandela on 29 October 1998. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Chairperson Dr Alex Boraine Vice-Chairperson Ms Mary Burton Revd Bongani Finca Ms Sisi Khampepe Mr Richard Lyster Mr Wynand Malan* Ms Hlengiwe ...

... in repressive activities, such as pointing out activists, launching arson and petrol bomb attacks on activists’ homes (including that of Ms Winnie Mandela), and disrupting political meetings. 598 Amnesty applicant Nelson Mphithizeli Ngo [AM2422/96] states directly that a number of ...

... [JB00189/01GTSOW] and Kuki Zwane [JB05784/01GTSOW] in Soweto in November and December 1988. The three were last known to be in the custody of the Mandela United Football Club and/or Ms Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. 12 Pretoria–Wi t waters r a n d – Ve reen i ging ...

... before being charged. Many convicted activists from the province were sent to Robben Island to serve their sentences. 44 In May 1977, Ms Winnie Mandela’s banning order restricting her to Orlando, Soweto, was changed to an order restricting her to Brandfort in the Orange Free State. ...

... was singing a song ‘God we praise you’, and they put a hose-pipe into my mouth, they said “You are singing nonsense, why don’t you sing the Mandela song, we want to listen to that … “ I said to them, “I do not have an idea of what you are talking about, I can’t even sing those ...

... and the rules, written or unwritten, governing the contest for power in South Africa. In July 1989, President PW Botha formally received Mr Nelson Mandela to tea at the Tuynhuys, signalling the beginning of open negotiations. In September 1989 Mr FW de Klerk became president of South Africa, and ...

1989, a large group of women in KwaMakhutha met with the Umlazi station commander to complain about the KwaMakhutha KZP. The Killing of Raphael and Winnie Mkhize Two UDF activists, Mr Raphael and Ms Winnie Mkhize [KZN/NN/022/DN], were killed in an attack on their KwaMakhutha home in the early ...

... by the powerless against other oppressed groups. Bishop Peter Storey expressed this succinctly in a Commission hearing into the activities of the Mandela United Football Club: The primary cancer … will always be the apartheid oppression, but the secondary infection has touched many of ...

unarmed occupants, allegedly to foil a planned armed robbery. The leader of the group , Mr Tiisetso Leballo, a former driver of Ms Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was later apprehended, interrogated and then shot dead. The applicants, who were denied amnesty, claimed that they believed the planned ...

... African army intelligence (GS2) project which sought to generate disinformation about MK, and a strategic communications project which targeted Ms Winnie Mandela. The running of high-level sources such as Mr Sifiso Nkabinde and Mr David Ntombela, who were deeply implicated in violence in the ...

... death to the person that he wants to destroy’. 263. The February 1990 lifting of the ban on the liberation movements and the release of Mr Nelson Mandela precipitated an extensive mobilisation of youth, who embarked on a number of activities to express their opposition to the old order in ...

... community meetings convened by youth organisations to discuss concerns such as health facilities, education and rent increases. At the time, Ms Winnie Mandela (see above) had become an important mobilising agent for ‘comrades’ in the area. In one incident, ‘comrades’ who had gathered ...

... Despite the crude and hopelessly imprecise wording of these definitions, the Act was imposed with vigour and determination. 28 President Nelson Mandela wrote: Where was one was allowed to live and work could rest on such absurd distinctions as the curl of one’s hair or the size of one’s ...

... Mangaung was burnt down by unknown police officers because his father had helped the families of political activists [KZN/SMB/013/BL]. In 1987, Ms Winnie Mandela’s house in Brandfort was gutted in an arson attack, along with the clinic on the same premises (see above). 103 Statements ...

... he goes and forgets. He forgets, now and then he forgets. You must always remind him. That’s the trouble we’re having with him. 28 Ms Nobuthi Winnie Ncaca’s sixteen-year-old son, Mawethu, was shot and killed by the police in Cradock in 1986. Since his death, Ms Ncaca has been suffering ...

... Violence stemming from the unbanning of the ANC 261 A number of incidents of violence occurred during celebrations to mark the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. These incidents were more common in KwaZulu areas than in Natal. Incidents directly related to Mr Mandela’s release were ...

... Can you imagine the outcry if the Commission had put a National Party member through the kind of nine-day gruelling hearing to which Ms Madikizela-Mandela was subjected? 42 We have been accused, too, of an ANC bias for refusing to hold public hearings over the gross violations that allegedly ...

... list of members of the ANC security department alleged to be responsible for ill-treatment of detainees was submitted to ANC president Mr Nelson Mandela. 116 On 2 December 1992, Amnesty International published a report of its own research into human rights violations by the ANC in exile. It ...

... in terms of building reconstruction, I mean in terms of building reconciliation, because I don’t believe reconciliation can only come through Mandela or Thabo Mbeki’s speeches. I believe that people on the ground, who experienced those things, must be able to be given opportunities, like ...