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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 ...

THE DEATH OF GEORGE AND LINDY PHAHLE AND JOSEPH MALAZA 12. This is the story Hilda Phahle told the Commission about the South African Defence Force (SADF) raid on Gaborone in 1985:5 3 I will start from ‘is hulle dood, morsdood? ’5 4 These are the words of the SADF members after killing our ...

The Langa massacre: 21 March 1985 170 In March 1985, tensions in Uitenhage townships reached boiling point. Between 8 and 10 March, police reported twenty-three incidents of arson and eighteen of stone-throwing, causing damage estimated at R220 000. The Minister of Law and Order, Mr Louis le ...

Forced recruitment 391 The Commission heard that during the 1990s, with violence now endemic in many communities, men were often required to attend night ‘camps’, to participate in patrols and to attend all political gatherings convened by the party in whose stronghold they resided. People ...

■ APPENDIX 3 DONATIONS RECEIVED BY THE TRUTH & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION UP TO MAY 1997 Danish Government R490 000.00 Dedicated to various forms of research Government of Sweden Contribution to salary of Special Advisor to the Vice-Chair R1 527 280.00 Contribution to salary of ...

Hostel Violence 314 In the early 1990s, Inkatha undertook a vigorous recruitment drive in township hostels. Until that time, relations between hostel-dwellers and township residents had been cordial. However, this changed after February 1990 when township residents tended to join the unbanned ...

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TAKING THESE MATTERS FURTHER 99. The Commission recommends that the state implement the Commission’s recommendations regarding disappearances. The recommendations are as follows: Recommendation 1: Establishing a special task team 100. A task team should be established ...

Mr Stanford Thembile Dilato [CT00390]. A group monitoring the boycott in Colesberg saw Ms Dilato buying meat. She was confronted and her meat was taken from her and trampled. She laid charges with the police, who began searching for those responsible. These events served to identify Ms Dilato as a ...

... Mr Daluxolo Luthuli [AM4075/96], grandson of Chief Albert Luthuli, was trained in the Caprivi by members of the SADF. He applied for amnesty for twenty-one incidents of murder and attempted murder in KwaZulu/Natal and admitted to giving orders to ten other applicants who were involved in a total ...

326 Mr Thabang Reginald Mopeloa [JB01527/03NW] of Leboleng township in the Western Transvaal told the Commission of his detention and torture. On 17 June 1986, youth had gathered to sing freedom songs. As they were singing, there was a blackout in the township. They heard families shouting and ...

... an Airforce base in the Secunda area in the Transvaal, was attacked and robbed on the night of the 23 April 1994. A police guard, Sergeant Steven Frederich Terblanche, was shot dead and robbed of his firearm. BWB member Mr Okkert Anthonie de Meillon [AM4570/97] and AW B members Mr Edmund ...

Abductions, Disappearances and Missing Persons ■ INTRODUCTION 1. On 14 October 1986, activist Moss Morudu [JB00520/02PS] went missing from his home in Mamelodi in Pretoria. Shortly thereafter, his family received a telephone call from an unknown person who said that Mr Morudu was where ‘he ...

227 Mr Solomon Mahlangu, a twenty-year-old standard nine pupil who fled South Africa in February 1976 and Mr Monty Motaung formed one of the first MK units from the new generation of Soweto recruits to be infiltrated back into South Africa. They killed Mr Rupert Kessner and Mr Kenneth Wolfendale ...

Resistance and revolutionary groupings Umkhonto weSizwe 212 In the wake of the Soweto protests and the intensified repression that followed, hundreds of students began secretly leaving the country. The largest exodus appears to have begun in October 1976, when students fled to Botswana, Lesotho ...

226. Mr Celinhlanhla Zenith Mzimela [AM0435/96], the son of an ailing IFP-supporting chief, was an ANC supporter. In 1990, one of his brothers, also an ANC supporter, was killed by local IFP members, including a Mr Gumede, councillor to his father. The dead man was the rightful heir and was killed ...

Deaths in detention 51 Abdullay Jassat’s description of his torture provides a clue as to what may have happened to thirty-two-year-old Mr Suliman Saloojee who died in detention in September 1964, two months after being detained under the ninety-day detention law. Suliman Saloojee, the fourth ...

... that many of the victims of the ongoing confrontation with the police (which continued for nearly two years after 16 June 1976) were ordinary residents going about their daily business. The police appeared to pursue a policy of generalised intimidation which continued until early 1978. Among the ...

173 Ms Deborah Matshoba, an executive member of SASO, was detained in 1976. Six weeks after her release from detention, she was re-detained under section 6 of the Terrorism Act. She told the Commission’s special hearing on women that she was immediately taken to the female prison in ...

■ APPENDIX 1: THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH51 I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgement this oath and this covenant: To hold him who has taught me this art as ...

police are trained in anti-‘terrorist’ techniques by the SAP and deployed in Namibia. Bophuthatswana, Ciskei and Lebowa are granted self-government status. Conscription is extended from nine to twelve months, followed by a nineteen-day annual call-up for five years. The Black People’s ...