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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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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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
■ 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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Human Rights Violations since 2 February 1990 308 One of the earlier known cases of orders given for violence, was that of Piet ‘Skiet’ Rudolph of the Orde Boerevolk who advised – on an internationally distributed video recording in 1990 – that people should ...
The Trust Feed Massacre In the early hours of 3 December 1988, gunmen opened fire on a house in the Trust Feed community, near New Hanover, killing eleven people and wounding two. In October 1991, seven serving and former members of the SAP stood trial on eleven counts of murder and eight of ...
1986 The attempted incorporation of Moutse into KwaNdebele leads to widespread resistance and violence accompanying the emergence of a pro-incorporation vigilante grouping, Mbokodo. Reverend Mzwandile Maqina establishes AmaAfrika in Uitenhage following his expulsion from AZAPO in ...
1987 In the Natal ‘Midlands War’, increased inter-organisational conflict and violence break out between Inkatha and UDF youth organisations (resulting in large-scale deaths and social upheaval from 1987 to 1990). Inkatha-aligned vigilante gangs, such as the AmaSinyora in ...
Civil conflict 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 ...
Deaths in custody 80 The Commission conducted investigations into the deaths in custody of several ANC and PAC members, including Mr Aaron Khoza of the PAC and Mr Hoosen Haffajee, Mr Bayempini Mzizi and Mr Joseph Mdluli of the ANC. An investigation into these and other cases was hampered by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Further complaint by former SADF members 112 On 6 February 1998, the Commission received a document from Generals Malan, Viljoen, Geldenhuys and Liebenberg, Major General Marais and Warrant Officer Holliday. This contained an assessment of the treatment of the former SADF by the Commission with ...
Southern Cape 459 Street protests and confrontations with police took place in Mossel Bay in July 1993. Two people were shot dead during the conflict, including Mr Garth Kuilders [CT00355]. Mr Simon Karelse [CT00356] was shot and wounded. These incidents of violence were investigated by the ...
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