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D’ATH, George

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A photographer and journalist who was hacked and stabbed to death by Witdoeke vigilantes in Nyanga, Cape Town, on 10 June 1986, during the mass destruction of UDF-supporting squatter camps carried out by the vigilantes, acting with the tacit approval and aid of the security forces. Mr D’Ath was the first journalist to be killed in the political conflict in South Africa.

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105 Ms Lita Nombango Mazibuko had a long tale of her suffering at the hands of ANC colleagues while in exile. Ms Mazibuko was responsible for assisting people to cross the border illegally. In 1988, after one of her comrades had been killed, she became “regarded as an enemy and as a spy”. She ...
HAAI, Lerato Virginia HAAS, Tembile Wilmot HABANA, Sandile Dennis Shabi HABIYA, Nokuthula Hazel HABIYA, Ntombijenkosi Thandiwe HADEBE, Alias HADEBE, Anna HADEBE, Bekwenze Absolom HADEBE, Bertina HADEBE, David Zamfana HADEBE, Elias HADEBE, Eugene Mlungisi HADEBE, Fanny Richard HADEBE, Hamilton ...
345 At approximately 18h00 that evening General Erasmus arrived at John Vorster Square to tell the waiting policemen what plans had been made. He had discussed the matter with the commissioner of police, who had suggested that a fake escape be arranged. Brigadier Visser of the Eastern Transvaal ...
60 When the Commission moved into an area, an initial workshop was held to bring people together in order to find out how they could assist. Groups that were interested in supporting the work of the Commission helped logistics officers set up pre-hearing meetings and organisations volunteered to ...
54 Hearings were scheduled to fit into the national schedule that allocated one week per month to each region to avoid competition for the media, commissioners’ time and other resources. Some hearings (in the south-west Cape, West Coast and central Karoo) were cancelled because there were not ...
EBRAHIM, Ebrahim Ismail EDELSTEIN, Melville Leornard EDWARDS, Johanna Catharina Aletta ELESE, De Poutch ELESE, Joyce-Ndinisa ELESE, Tinie ELLIAS, Sophie ENGELBRECHT, Johannes Petrus George ENKELA, Qoltle Ben Kadafie ERASMUS, Martha Johanna ERASMUS, Niklaus ERASMUS, Stephen Mthuthuzeli ERNEST, ...
Resistance to homeland incorporation 173 Rural community opposition was often characterised by complex constellations of state repression, ethnic tensions and resistance to incorporation into ethnically defined homelands. In a submission to the Amnesty Committee at Phokeng, Mr Brian Currin spoke ...
LABUSCHAGNE, Jeremy LADLOKOVA, Mzolisi Pilton LAKABE, Thomas Pule LAKEYI, Meanwell LALA, Thomazile Solomon LALI, Zwelitsha LAMANI, Edward Madonela LAMOLA, Piet Molatlhegi LAMULA, Bongani Petros LAMULA, Zibonele Jahannes LANDE, Kolisile Christopher LANDE, Nkosana LANDINGWE, Danile Julius LANDINGWE, ...
■ APPENDIX: DEATHS IN DETENTION10 DATE NAME PLACE ATTRIBUTED CAUSE 1.9.63 Bellington Mampe Worcester Undisclosed 5.9.63 ‘Looksmart’ Ngudle Pretoria ‘Suicide by hanging’ 24.1.64 James Tyitya Port Elizabeth ‘Suicide by hanging’ 9.9.64 Suliman Saloojee ...
Volume THREE Chapter FIVE Regional ProfileWestern Cape ■ OVERVIEW OF THE REGION 1 The region referred to as the western Cape for the purposes of this report comprises the western part of the old Cape Province – that is, the areas now covered by the Western Cape and Northern Cape ...
... 644 Train violence began in July 1990 with a series of attacks on commuters travelling on the Johannesburg–Soweto line that left one person dead and approximately thirty injured. Shortly after the initial outbreak of violence in Sebokeng, Soweto commuters were attacked on trains by armed ...
Ethnic and territorial polarisation 627 A crucial component of the escalation of conflict in many townships was the emphasis on ethnic and political boundaries through territorial control of particular areas. Thus, at the beginning of the conflict between township and hostel residents, most ...
656 Three large scale attacks also took place in 1992. In one attack on 13 November 1992, Mr Lazarus Shabangu [JB00354/01ERKWA] of Daveyton and his fellow passengers, the majority of whom were women, became the victim of an attack on train commuters by unidentified men. A group of about fifteen ...
185 At the inquest on the death of Mr Bonaventure Malaza, state pathologist Professor Taljaard gave evidence that the post mortem results were consistent with hanging by a belt. The lawyer for the Malaza family, Mr Cullabine, questioned the state pathologist about other injuries not directly ...
290 During these years, protests over rents coalesced with student protests about a range of educational issues. Following the January 1984 protests and clashes with the police in Atteridgeville near Pretoria, student leaders were suspended and schools in the townships closed down by the ...
Political trials 64 Political trials similar to the famous Treason Trial of 1956 continued throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During 1963 and 1964, a spate of trials effectively removed and imprisoned much of the leadership of the PAC, ANC, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the ARM, ...
614 During March 1991, twenty-four people were killed and fifteen injured at Meadowlands hostel in Soweto. After this initial clash, violence continued unabated well into the next year. In April, conflict between ANC and IFP supporters at Nancefield hostel left fifty-five people injured. Police ...
What went wrong? “We made mistakes.” 28 Different parties to the conflict admitted that there were errors, mistakes and unintended consequences. Several parties contended that violence occurred precisely because of the grey areas that developed. 29 At one of the hearings on children and ...
116 At the special hearing on children and youth in Johannesburg, Mr George Ndlozi gave testimony on the activities of young people involved in self-defence units (SDUs) on the East Rand during the early 1990s. He insisted that “far from being a bunch of undisciplined comrades or the lost ...
Hearings 45 In order to reach as many people as possible and to involve local communities and organisations, the regional office held as many hearings as it could. These covered the Peninsula, Boland, Southern Cape, Karoo, Northern Cape and West Coast. Decentralised hearings were also held in ...
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