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Midlands Region Executive member Shakes Cele and ANC official John Jeffries. Cele sustained slight wounds while Jeffries escaped without injuries. According to Daluxolo Luthuli [AM4018/96]: “On a Saturday afternoon after the assassination of Reggie Hadebe from Pietermaritzburg there was an IFP ...

people in the Mandini and Eshowe areas. Prominent Inkatha-aligned officials supplied ongoing direction and logistic (weapons, ammunition, vehicles, accommodation, finance and so on support) to the operatives. A number of hit lists were compiled at meetings with the IFP leaders. The hit squad’s ...

... force personnel, and the secrecy in which they operated, created conditions for summary executions and killings for which they did not have to account. Usually, inquests into deaths were not held in operational areas. When they were, they were usually brief and inadequate, and responsibility ...

... his information on to his runners, whom he names as Mr Alec West (NIS) and Mr Alan Trowsdale (DMI). 300 All attempts by the Commission to gain access to Woods and other agents gaoled in Zimbabwe were blocked by the Zimbabwe government. IN REGARD TO THE MURDER OF MR AMON MWANZA, THE ...

... of Koevoet. Several members of Vlakplaas applied for amnesty for the transport of weapons from Namibia to Vlakplaas. It would appear that this occurred on the orders of Brigadier Schoon on at least four occasions during the mid- to late 1980s. The weapons came from the stores of Koevoet as ...

first time at the Commission’s Caprivi hearing. Their Counsel argued on their behalf: Members of other Amnesty Committees that have sat, have on occasion refused amnesty where clearly those were cases where someone’s been convicted of something, they try and dress it up in political clothes ...

and Transkei. The Transkei had been under constant military rule since Major-General Bantu Holomisa’s second coup on 31 December 1987, the first successful coup in a South African homeland. In Ciskei, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo took over on 4 March 1990, shortly after the national unbannings, riding ...

... OF THE IFP FROM THE BRUNTVILLE HOSTEL, CONSTITUTING GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, FOR WHICH UNKNOWN INKATHA-SUPPORTING HOSTELDWELLERS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 319 Violence continued throughout the following year. The Attack on the Majola Family The chairperson of the Bruntville ANC, Mr Derek ...

THE TRAINEES DID IN FACT ENGAGE IN UNLAWFUL ACTS INCLUDING KILLING. SUCH ACTS CONSTITUTE GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, FOR WHICH WARBER IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 42 Black Local Authorities Act No 102 of 1982 The Case of Vusumuzo Khambule The vice-president of the Imbali Youth Organisation during ...

between “perpetrators and victims” on the one hand and “beneficiaries and victims” on the other, deserves careful attention.19 99 The BMF accused white business of violating human rights in specific ways. White business supported and did not oppose the location of black residential areas ...

... two. In October 1991, seven serving and former members of the SAP stood trial on eleven counts of murder and eight of attempted murder. The accused were Captain Brian Mitchell, Station Commander at the New Hanover police station at the time of the massacre, Sergeant Neville Rose and ...

... on 12 September, following his detention in Port Elizabeth. Widespread protests around the country follow. Numerous other deaths in detention occur during 1977 and in subsequent years. Conscription to military service is increased to two years; citizen force duty to thirty days a year for ...

... Africa announces its withdrawal from Angola. (The agreement is never fully implemented, as South Africa never entirely withdraws). The Nkomati Accord is signed in March between Mozambique and South Africa. The Accord represents a non-aggression pact in which both sides pledge to cease hostile ...

... for it. However, an investigation led to the trial and conviction of senior members of the SAP Security Branch, including Mr Gideon Nieuwoudt. The accused held that they had killed their colleagues because of a case of fraud involving the Council of Churches. Armed activity by liberation ...

... Mandla Abdningo NENE, Mathombi Norah NENE, Michael Sipho NENE, Mqanjelwa Mathews NENE, Nelisiwe NENE, Ngenbeni Minah Makhanyile NENE, Nomusa Rebecca NENE, Pius NENE, Sipho NENE, Steven NENE, Thandiwe Augustinah NENE, Theresa Lindi NENE, Vusumuzi Jacob Hezekia NENGOVHELA, Shonisani Maria ...

... Phillip Willie MAKGALE, Christopher Ntshimane MAKGALEMELE, Agnes MAKGALEMELE, Anna MAKGALEMELE, Isaac MAKGALEMELE, Mmaphefo Sinah MAKGALEMELE, Rebecca MAKGALEMELE, William MAKGANYE, Snowball MAKGATA, Nixon Nkwane MAKGATHO, Edward Tsaitsai MAKGATHO, Rufus Ramaboya MAKGATI, Mathibe Philemon ...