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... we were not nurses, we had to handle this blood, but anyway we managed, you know. 144 The earliest known incidents of ‘drive-by’ shootings occurred shortly after the June uprising. The Commission received reports of a “green Chevrolet” occupied by uniformed white men who drove around ...

1991 leading to the death of three people and the injury of more than fifty others. The World Trade Centre where negotiations were taking place was occupied by members of the right-wing in 1993. Members of the AWB invaded Bophuthatswana in support of the homeland administration in 1994, and ...

Torture of children and youth 61 Torture usually occurred at the hands of the security forces whilst children and youth were in detention. Types of abuse reported by children included food and sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, beating, kicking, enforced physical exercise, being kept naked ...

... of conflict, an ISU base was set up nearby and there were continuous ISU patrols in the settlement. As the ‘Greens’ were in the minority and occupied a small area in the heart of the settlement almost completely surrounded by the ‘Reds’, the ISU tended to position itself on the border ...

Features of the conflict 191. Spontaneous violence by crowds continued occured during this period, making political control extremely difficult. Many incidents reported to the Commission took place at the hands of large groups of people engaged in collective action. C rowds had a spontaneity and ...

... her release from detention, Ms Ngubane’s husband, a reverend, claimed that she was “crazy”, and began to beat her. The lack of “peace” between herself and her husband ended in divorce. 116 Ms Deborah Matshoba, too, lost her husband because of her political involvement. Her husband ...

... hearings and venues for statement taking, workshops, briefings and amnesty and section 29 hearings. 1 Later redeployed to the Amnesty Committee. Accommodation, resources and equipment 17 The regional office was based in Durban and, despite some initial difficulty in finding suitable premises ...

... a broad investigation of record destruction by SADF structures. However, the team was only finally constituted in December 1997, after several unsuccessful attempts by the Commission to initiate the enquiry. As indicated earlier, by the time the SANDF finally offered its co-operation, much time ...

‘Bhuye’. The four were held in a widespread crackdown on the ANC by the Swaziland government in the weeks following the signing of the Nkomati Accord. 347 In the months following the Accord, at least five other ANC/MK members were killed in shoot-outs with the Swazi police and there is ...

... widowed and had her home burnt down, impacted on her childre n ’s experiences while growing up. 17.Mrs Gishi’s son, Bonisile, who accompanied his dying father to hospital, must have been affected by this event and his mother’s shooting that same day. The daughters in the family ...

230 The association of the MDM with commission of gross violations of human rights can be divided into two broad areas. First, violations occurred as a result of organised non-violent confrontations with the state, termed ‘mass action’. This includes mass protests such as marches, stay aways ...

... reported having being tortured and assaulted and forced to carry out hard labour. For close on seven years, they had been denied family visits and access to lawyers. THE ABDUCTION OF ANGOLAN CITIZENS AND SOUTH WEST AFRICAN REFUGEES FROM ANGOLAN SOIL, THEIR TORTURE AT THE OSHAKATI MILITARY BASE ...

Vigilantes in Ciskei 260 Over the years, the Ciskei authorities used vigilantes on several occasions. Haysom records the first use of vigilantes in Ciskei as being during 1974, when the vigilantes known as the ‘Green Berets’, who were members of the ruling Ciskei National Independence Party ...

... the AmaAfrika movement became his political vehicles. In addition, he was associated with various welfare bodies such as the Black Crisis Centre (BCC), Save the Child, and the African Person’s Concerned Committee (APCC). During the early 1990s he was again associated with initiatives such as ...

... on Bongolethu township followed this killing. Hundreds of residents were arrested in a dawn raid on 29 November 1985 and assembled in rows on the soccer field. Masked individuals selected a group of less than a hundred, who were then transferred to the Oudtshoorn police station and locked into ...

... and, where appropriate, making a finding conferring victim status on the disappeared. This will enable the families of the disappeared to access reparation. In addition to finalising findings, the task team should compile a p p ropriate recommendations to bring closure to these issues at ...

... at the synagogue, Burger’s house and Vrye Weekblad. This was the first time that right-wingers had been charged with terrorism. None of the accused were granted bail, and Veenendal, Barker and Archer went on hunger strike. 351 In July, twenty-seven people were injured when a bomb ...

... by local IFP members, including a Mr Gumede, councillor to his father. The dead man was the rightful heir and was killed in order to prevent his succession to the chieftainship, to clear the way for an IFP-supporting brother, Mr Booi Mzimela. 227. In February 1992, Gumede and his people struck ...

Steyn investigation, while the Commission acknowledges former President de Klerk’s reasons for believing that an SADF appointee would have better access to and knowledge of the area he was investigating, to all intents and purposes this appointment meant that the SADF was investigating itself. ...

... to demonstrate the Commission’s independence and lack of bias because we are concerned that its work and report should gain the widest possible acceptance. This could well prove to be a futile exercise if those who think that the best way of responding to a report they suspect is going to be ...